Remem­ber last sum­mer when we told you about some fam­i­lies that were robbed while they were away attend­ing funer­als? Now there’s a group in Grayson County that’s doing some­thing to fight back. WDRB TV says about 20 peo­ple have got­ten together, call­ing them­selves Look­ing Out For Each Other. He vol­un­teers go through back­ground checks, then when requested, they’ll sit in your dri­ve­way while you’re at a funeral and watch your house. All the funeral homes in Grayson County are let­ting griev­ing fam­i­lies know the ser­vice is avail­able. Three men were arrested in con­nec­tion with bur­glar­ies that hap­pened while fam­i­lies were away. One fam­ily was from Grayson County, the other was in Hardin County.

The state Court of Appeals is expected to decide soon if the Bul­litt County health depart­ment had the right to ban smok­ing last year in pub­lic places. The depart­ment made the move over the objec­tions of eight Bul­litt cities, which suc­cess­fully sued the depart­ment to end the ban last year. The Courier Jour­nal says the health depart­ment had been oper­at­ing on a law from 1954. That law says they have the author­ity to pro­tect the health of the peo­ple. The cities say the depart­ment over­stepped its bounds.

A new study is being done to fig­ure out what kind and how much office space is needed for a new county gov­ern­ment build­ing. The News Enter­prise says Hardin Fis­cal Court has hired ICON Engi­neer­ing & Inspec­tion Ser­vices of Eliz­a­beth­town for the job. The com­pany is get­ting paid $19,800 and should be fin­ished with the study in four weeks. They’re expected to do a sur­vey of county employ­ees to find out what they need for office, equip­ment and stor­age space. ICON is also going to pro­duce some sketch lay­outs of the pro­posal. County offi­cials haven’t said yet where the new build­ing would be, but there’s been talk of using prop­erty near Ring and Rineyville Roads.

Bard­stown Mayor Bill Sheck­les has another title now. He’s been elected to serve as sec­ond vice pres­i­dent of the Ken­tucky League of Cities. The League is work­ing to bring cities together on chal­lenges of main­tain­ing pub­lic ser­vices, espe­cially in light of all the belt tight­en­ing they’ve been through since the reces­sion hit.

The case of an Eliz­a­beth­town man accused of hit­ting his wife with a tower fan and a hand­gun goes to the Hardin County Grand Jury. 43 year old Michael Odom is reported to be a for­mer police offi­cer who hadn’t been liv­ing in the area very long. He was arrested after police responded to reports of a domes­tic dis­pute and they found his wife suf­fer­ing from mul­ti­ple head injuries. The News Enter­prise says Odom’s attor­ney, pub­lic defender David Stew­art, requested the judge not find prob­a­ble cause in the case as there was no sub­stan­tial risk of death or seri­ous phys­i­cal injury. His bond has been set at $50,000.

An Eliz­a­beth­town mother is charged with second-degree crim­i­nal child abuse. The News Enter­prise says police charge she swung at her boyfriend dur­ing a domes­tic dis­pute but acci­den­tally hit her child. 20 year old Karyssa Foutch and Aaron Pogue of Rad­cliff were both arrested. Police charge Pogue was hold­ing the child when Foutch attempted to strike him in the head. The child suf­fered a bruise.

A Buf­falo man is fac­ing more than 20 charges after he alleged led police on a wild ride. 34 year old Jef­frey Pur­dum was reported to be dri­ving at a high rate of speed on Ky. 61. The LaRue County Her­ald says the truck was weav­ing in and out of traf­fic and cross­ing the cen­ter line when police spot­ted him. One cruiser threw on the lights and siren and started to chase him when Pur­dum wouldn’t stop. That offi­cer radioed ahead to police in Mount Sher­man for back up. Purdum’s truck is reported to have got­ten up to 110 miles an hour. Con­sta­ble Tim Ford tried to maneu­ver in front of the truck, but that’s when Pur­dum hit the police car. Purdum’s pickup con­tin­ued into Green County. After trav­el­ing on Hwy. 88 for four miles, the truck appar­ently ran out of gas. That’s when he took off on foot. A civil­ian called police then got into a strug­gle with Pur­dum. Police showed up and finally sub­dued him. He’s now in the LaRue County Deten­tion Cen­ter. His bond has been set at $50,000 cash.

Things may be get­ting a lit­tle messy this week­end at the Brown Pusey House in down­town Eliz­a­beth­town. They’re invit­ing all the kids to come by and carve and paint pump­kins, and some very brave vol­un­teers are avail­able to help the kids with the carv­ing. It costs $3 a per­son, and that price gets you a pump­kin, games, face paint­ing, goodie bags and snacks. They’ve been doing this for about a ten years now, and each year usu­ally sees about 100 pump­kins get­ting turned into jack-o-lanterns. For more infor­ma­tion, head to:

Eliz­a­beth­town is prepar­ing to be haunted this week­end, with the Night­mare on the Square. It starts off with a scav­enger hunt Sat­ur­day at 6p.m. Then they’ll have the Ghost Walk, Cof­fin Race, Pump­kin Drop and much more. For details, head to:

http://www.nightmareonthesquare.com/Nightmare-on-the-Square.asp

A Bul­litt County vet­eri­nar­ian has been arrested. Wave 3 TV says Dr. Pamela Johnsen is accused of tak­ing $170,000 from her mother’s bank account, then giv­ing it to a man she met online. Detec­tives and co-workers of Dr. Pamela Johnsen believe she got caught up in an inter­na­tional scam, wire trans­fer­ring money over­seas to the man. Police say she didn’t actu­ally think she was steal­ing, just bor­row­ing the money from her mother. She was taken into cus­tody at her office at Johnsen Vet­eri­nary Ser­vices. That’s a clinic she owns in Mount Wash­ing­ton. Her office man­ager says the man had told Johnsen that he owned a busi­ness, but it was in trou­ble and he needed help. He had also promised to marry her. But the two report­edly never actu­ally talked on the phone. It was all text and face­book mes­sages. The web­site where they met? Marrymesugardaddy.com.