(04/22/2014)- The Cloverport City Council approved final adoption of an amendment to the city's nuisance ordinance during their regular monthly meeting on Monday (04/21) night. City Attorney Charles Mattingly said the measure includes buildings and structures to other area covered by the ordinance. The panel also received a nuisance complaint regarding falling bricks from a building. A notice...
(04/21/2014)- Kentucky U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell was in Breckinridge County on Saturday (04/19) night, meeting with local Republicans and speaking at the county GOP’s Lincoln Day Dinner. Speaking with WXBC’s Lee Bramlett, he expressed confidence he would be the party’s nominee and was already looking to the November General Election...
(04/18/2014)- Cloverport Schools have finalized the calendar for the rest of the year: Superintendent Charles Proffitt told the Board of Education during their monthly meeting Thursday (04/17) night they took the two options approved during last month's meeting to staff, who selected adding 32 minutes to the school day, which will put the last day for students at May 26th, and the final day...
(04/18/2014)- An altercation Wednesday (04/16) evening at the Maplewood Mobile Home Park in Hardinsburg left a woman injured and a man facing charges over the incident.
According to Hardinsburg Police Officer Brent Flood, units were summoned to a location in the park around 5:45 Wednesday afternoon with a report of someone shot. Flood said 18-year-old Cory Oster and 18-year-old Destiny Chill...
(04/17/2014)- United Way of Central Kentucky officially wrapped up it's annual fundraising campaign, raising over one-point-two million dollars to benefit human service agencies in it's five-county service area (which includes Breckinridge). A number of local fundraising efforts contributed to the total, including over six-thousand dollars from Breckinridge County Schools, with over....
A month after deadly landslide, Obama tours disaster site
One month after a deadly landslide buried a community in Washington state, President Barack Obama got a firsthand look at the devastation and met with survivors and emergency workers still searching for bodies. Teri Okita reports.
Oops! NYPD Twitter outreach is epic fail
Department asks public to tweet photos of themselves with police officers, but get flooded with photos of apparent police brutality instead
Five former cheerleaders sue Buffalo Bills
Former Buffalo Jills say they were forced to work hundreds of hours for free, subjected to groping and sexual comments, and made to take a "jiggle test" by the boss
Colleges opening food pantries to ease student hunger
As living and education costs rise, some students are battling a hunger crisis. Food pantries are typically associated with the poor and homeless. But there's a growing trend of colleges that are opening food pantries for students in need. Jericka Duncan reports.
1964: When the world flocked to Flushing
With the theme "Peace Through Understanding" the 1964 World's Fair attracted over 51 million to Flushing Meadows Corona Park
1964 World's Fair: Space taxi's rendezvous in orbit
The Hall of Science at the 1964 New York World's Fair featured a full-scale simulation of a rendezvous between a space lab and a space taxi, which demonstrated how supplies and crew members could be transported and exchanged.
Georgia’s same-sex marriage ban facing lawsuit
Voters in Georgia overwhelmingly chose a constitutional ban on same-sex marriages in 2004; gay rights group launches legal challenge that has been successful elsewhere
Woman donates "Ruby" to Corvette Museum
Lynda Patterson donated her 40th Anniversary Corvette, "Ruby" to the Corvette Museum where a sinkhole recently swallowed up 8 cars. "Ruby" had belonged to Lynda and her husband Mike who died from a brain tumor in 2012.
