01/24/2012--The Breckinridge County Project Development Board met Tuesday night and, among other things, heard an update on the construction progress of the new Justice Center. Richard Mitchell, of Codell Construction, told the board the target date for completion of the building is the week of March 12th, at which time furniture for the structure will be received and installation will
01/23/2012--The regular meeting of Breckinridge Fiscal Court was held Monday night.
Each year, the court budgets a cash donation to the operation of all three of the county’s incorporated city’s ball parks. Last night it was Irvington’s turn, as Roger Spitzer and Tom Frymire accepted a check for $5000. Spitzer told the court the funds would go a long way
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NEW HAVEN, Connecticut (Reuters) - A judge ordered Joshua Komisarjevsky to be executed this summer for the 2007 murders of a mother and her two daughters during a brutal home invasion in Connecticut, saying on Friday that he committed a crime of "unimaginable horror." Judge Jon Blue told Komisarjevsky, 31, that he alone was to blame for his new address on death row after the triple murders of Jennifer Hawke-Petit, 48, and her daughters Hayley Petit, 17, and Michaela Petit, 11, and beating of husband and father Dr. William Petit Jr. ...
Top Army general backs plan to cut 80,000 troops
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Army's top general on Friday endorsed plans to reduce the size of his force by 80,000 soldiers over the next six years, pledging a steady drawdown that would take care of troops and their families rather than "running our nation's Army off a cliff." General Ray Odierno, the Army chief of staff, said the drawdown would begin this year and take place mainly through attrition. It would include withdrawal of two heavy infantry brigades from Europe, one in 2013 and another in 2014, both of which would be removed from the force rather than relocating to the United States. ...
SEATTLE (Reuters) - A serial thief nicknamed the "Barefoot Bandit" was sentenced on Friday in Seattle to 6-1/2 years in prison for his guilty plea to federal charges stemming from a sensational, two-year crime spree as a sometimes-shoeless teenage runaway. The federal judge also ordered that Colton Harris-Moore, 20, who read a statement in court apologizing for his crimes with "acceptance, humility and remorse," serve his federal sentence concurrently with a state term he received in December of more than seven years. ...
Special election set for June 12 to fill Giffords' seat
PHOENIX (Reuters) - Arizona Governor Jan Brewer on Friday ordered a special general election to be held on June 12 to fill a congressional seat vacated by Tucson Democrat Gabrielle Giffords, who resigned to focus on recovering from a gunshot wound to the head. The Republican governor also set an April 17 primary to choose the candidates who will vie to replace Giffords in what has proved to be a highly competitive district in southern Arizona. ...
Secret Service probes bullet-ridden Obama image on Facebook
PHOENIX (Reuters) - The U.S. Secret Service is investigating the origins of a photo on an Arizona police officer's Facebook page that shows a group of armed youths posing in the desert with what appears to be a bullet-ridden image of President Barack Obama on a T-shirt. Max Milien, a Secret Service spokesman, said on Friday that the agency was looking into the picture taken of seven youths, four of them toting guns, that turned up on the Facebook page of Sergeant Pat Shearer of the Peoria, Arizona, police department. ...
Officials vow to replace Kentucky bridge hit by cargo ship
(Reuters) - Officials in western Kentucky vowed on Friday to quickly rebuild or replace a bridge over the Tennessee River after a cargo ship that carries military rocket parts slammed into it, destroying the main truss. The two-lane bridge was empty when the 312-foot-long Delta Mariner plowed into it Thursday night, tearing a 300-foot-wide gap in the structure, state transportation officials said. The ship's crew escaped injury. The coast guard said the ship was not carrying hazardous cargo at the time of the accident. ...
Country star Merle Haggard home from hospital
NASHVILLE, Tenn (Reuters) - Country music singer Merle Haggard was resting at home in Northern California on Friday after a long stint in a Georgia hospital, his publicist Tresa Redburn said. Haggard, 74, was hospitalized on January 17 for treatment of double-pneumonia. While in the hospital in Macon, Georgia, doctors discovered a number of other conditions for which Haggard needed treatment. Redburn said Haggard flew home Thursday and she had no update on his condition Friday. ...
Crime sweep nets five accused New York mob members
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Five accused mobsters from two of New York City's organized crime families were arrested on Friday on multiple charges including racketeering and extortion, federal law enforcement officials said. Vincent Badalamenti, known as Vinny TV and described as a member of the Bonanno crime family's "administration," was the highest-ranking mafia member arrested in the sweep. He was apprehended at his home on New York City's Staten Island, said Loretta Lynch, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York. ...
CINCINNATI (Reuters) - Part of a casino under construction in downtown Cincinnati collapsed on Friday as workers poured concrete, injuring 10 people, none critically, in the second construction accident at an Ohio casino project in the past six weeks. Workers were pouring concrete on the second story of the planned Horseshoe casino when part of the floor collapsed onto the floor below. The cause was undetermined, fire and casino officials said. Ten workers were transported to hospitals with injuries ranging from bumps and bruises to possible fractures, Cincinnati Fire Chief Richard Braun said. ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Friday expanded its main foreclosure prevention program and pushed to open it up to loans backed by mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, a move that could meet resistance from their regulator. In a joint announcement, the Treasury and Housing and Urban Development departments proposed using money from the Home Affordable Modification Program to provide incentives for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to reduce loan principal. Government-controlled Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac own or guarantee about half of all U.S. ...
Special election set for June 12 to fill Giffords' seat
PHOENIX (Reuters) - Arizona Governor Jan Brewer on Friday ordered a special general election to be held on June 12 to fill the congressional seat vacated by Tucson Democrat Gabrielle Giffords, who resigned to focus on recovering from her gunshot wound of last year. The Republican governor also set an April 17 primary to choose the candidates who will vie to replace Giffords in what has proved to be a highly competitive district in southern Arizona. (Reporting by David Schwartz; Writing by Steve Gorman; Editing by Paul Thomasch)
Santa Fe, N.M., to have nation's highest minimum wage
SANTA FE, New Mexico (Reuters) - When Santa Fe's minimum wage rises to $10.29 an hour on March 1, the New Mexico capital will have the highest local wage requirement in the country, according to the National Employment Law Project. Santa Fe, a high desert oasis where the well-heeled buy second homes and tourists flock for art galleries and world-class opera, will surpass San Francisco, which requires workers to be paid at least $10.24 an hour. Santa Fe's increase from $9.85 an hour stems from a city ordinance that ties wage requirements to a consumer price index for the western United States. ...
U.S. to deport Taiwan envoy who abused Filipina maids
(Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge ordered the deportation on Friday of a high-ranking official from Taiwan who pleaded guilty last year to human trafficking charges for abusing her two Filipina maids, the U.S. attorney's office said. Hsien-Hsien Liu, the 64-year-old director general of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Kansas City, Missouri, was arrested in November and charged with fraud in foreign labor contracting in connection with her treatment of the two maids. ...
ANN ARBOR, Michigan (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, appearing before thousands of cheering students at the University of Michigan, touted his plan on Friday to reward colleges that keep their tuition under control with more federal aid as he makes school affordability a top election-year priority. Obama, seeking to reform federal aid for students to pay spiraling college costs, unveiled fresh details of a proposal to make higher education affordable for more families that he first announced on Tuesday in his State of the Union address. ...
KANSAS CITY, Kansas (Reuters) - While some avid travelers seek exotic ports or ancient cities, Larry Hornbaker's ambition is to drive 25 miles of dirt roads in every county in the U.S. state of Kansas. He has company on the back roads. Some 1,500 members of the Kansas Explorers Club long to see every corner of the state and patronize struggling small towns, many of which are fighting a losing battle against population decline. "Our mission is to sustain and preserve rural culture," club founder Marci Penner said. "Our explorers know the difference they can make. ...
PALM HARBOR, Florida (Reuters) - There's one small-government idea that Republican presidential candidates are reluctant to discuss in this retiree-heavy state: their plans to rein in health care costs for the elderly. Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney, front-runners for the Republican nomination to face Democratic President Barack Obama on November 6, both support reforms to the Medicare government health insurance program for the elderly that could help set federal spending on a sustainable course. ...
New Hampshire principal saves autistic boy from icy river
(Reuters) - A New Hampshire elementary school principal rescued an autistic boy from a frozen river after he fell through the ice while running away from school at the end of a recess, authorities said on Friday. Principal Gwen Rhodes chased the student through woods near Gonic School on the outskirts of Rochester, New Hampshire, after he ran away on Wednesday following an outdoor recess, Lieutenant Dennis Dube of the Rochester Fire Department said. The boy walked most of the way across the frozen Cocheco River before falling through a section of thin ice, he said. ...
(Reuters) - U.S. health regulators detained three shipments of Brazilian orange juice and six from Canada that tested positive for the fungicide carbendazim, which is illegal in the United States. Two other Brazilian juice shipments tested positive for the fungicide, but the companies decided not to import the juice into the country, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Friday. Orange juice futures climbed almost 3 percent in reaction to the FDA testing results, which had been widely expected. ...
Occupy protesters barred from camping in DC squares
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The National Park Service will bar Occupy DC protesters from camping in the two parks where have been living since October, in a blow to one of the highest-profile chapters of the movement denouncing economic inequality. The Occupy DC protesters must stop camping in McPherson Square and Freedom Plaza, both a few blocks from the White House, starting at about noon on Monday, the Park Service said on Friday. ...
KANSAS CITY, Kansas (Reuters) - While some avid travelers seek exotic ports or ancient cities, Larry Hornbaker's ambition is to drive 25 miles of dirt roads in every county in Kansas. He has company on the back roads. Some 1,500 members of the Kansas Explorers Club long to see every corner of the state and patronize struggling small towns, many of which are fighting a losing battle against population decline. "Our mission is to sustain and preserve rural culture," Club founder Marci Penner said. "Our explorers know the difference they can make. ...
New Look For Cats The UK Wildcats will sport a new look when they play Tennessee on Tuesday. Compare it with the look of the '46 Cats.
