Today's News

LaRue County Adult and Family Education was one of 31 adult education programs audited by State Auditor Crit Luallen for last fiscal year. The adult education programs have been funded by the Council on Postsecondary Education since 2000. Last year’s grants totaled $11.6 million. This was the fourth year the state auditor’s office was requested to audit CPE’s grant recipients.

A Hodgenville man is in fair condition in a Louisville hospital after crashing the motorcycle he was driving.

About noon Tuesday, Sept. 15, Donald Marshall, 47, of Kerrick Lane, was driving a 1998 Harley Davidson motorcycle on North Lincoln Boulevard near Lincoln Village Apartments. According to Police Chief John Cottrill, Marshall’s motorcycle rear-ended a 2005 Mercury passenger car driven by James R. Daughtery, 69, of Bardstown Road.

“Witnesses said speed was a factor,” Cottrill said.

Good Shepherds Mission Store

The Good Shepherd Mission Store in Magnolia is accepting donations, of food, clothing, household items, money or anything they can sell. All proceeds go to the Shepherd’s Pie Food Pantry at Magnolia Cumberland Presbyterian Church for the needy. For more information, call 324-4968.

LaRue County Senior Citizens Center

An Upton man has been sentenced to 15 years after pleading guilty to manufacturing and trafficking methamphetamine.

Barry Cottrell, 52, was charged with the crimes after a social worker visited his home on Wonderland Road in August 2008 and reported a possible meth lab to the LaRue County Sheriff’s Department. The social worker was trying to locate a Hart County child when she made the discovery.

When officers arrived, they found components and ingredients used to manufacture the illegal drug strewn about the yard.