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Satisfy your sweet tooth while giving girls the vital skills they need to succeed in life. Local Girl Scouts will soon be out selling cookies to the general public. Girls will start taking orders Jan. 1 and booth sales are set to begin Feb. 23.

Each box costs $3.50.

Deputy Russell McCoy and K-9 Andy assisted with a Greater Hardin County Drug Task Force arrest Dec. 16. Andy “hit on” a tractor trailer at a traffic stop on Bardstown Road, north of Elizabethtown.

Officers found a substance believed to be crystal meth inside.

The driver, Benjamin Hugh Roberts, 53, of New Glendale Road, Elizabethtown, was charged with possession of controlled substance and convicted felon in possession of a handgun.

A Hodgenville teen, facing more than a decade imprisonment if convicted as charged in October with aiding a Motel 6 methamphetamine cook, broke into tears of joy Wednesday after a sentencing deal offered her a break from jail.

Jessica Miller, 18, was arrested with three people in their 20s on Oct. 10 after Greater Hardin County Narcotics Task Force agents say someone tipped them off to an active meth lab inside a first floor bathroom of an Elizabethtown Motel 6.

Got work?

If so, count your blessings, because, according to the latest unemployment rates, about 1.2 million jobs have disappeared across the nation.

The nation’s unemployment rate hit a 14-year high in October at 6.5 percent and set a new high in November at 6.7 percent, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. Kentucky’s unemployment rate hit 6.8 percent in October, then jumped to 7 percent in November.