02/04/2012---Lady Tigers Senior Julie Whitfill set the all-time scoring record for Breckinridge County High School Basketball last night when she hit a 15-footer in the 3rd quarter in a game against Owensboro Catholic.
Whitfill ended the night with 25 points on her way to breaking the career scoring record at Breck County High School previously held by Theodora Brown. You can watch a video of Julie's
02/06/12 BRECKINRIDGE COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER OPENS
A large crowd was in attendance Monday morning at the official opening of the Breckinridge County Senior Citizen Center on Fairgrounds Road. Senior Citizen Center coordinator Tancy Morris and Breckinridge County Judge Executive Maurice Lucas cut the red ribbon in front of the building to mark the occasion.
Texas Man Kicked Out of $16 Foreclosed McMansion He Claimed Was His
Ga. court overturns assisted suicide restrictions
Georgia's top court struck down a state law that restricted assisted suicides, siding on Monday with four members of a suicide group who said the law violated their free speech rights.
For decades, tourists visiting this popular Adirondack village could gape at the skeletons of soldiers from nearby French and Indian War sites. Then in 1993, a somber reburial ceremony was held to finally put the remains to rest.
(Reuters) - An "intentional" house explosion on Sunday near Tacoma, Washington killed the husband and two sons of a Utah woman missing since December 2009, fire department officials said. The explosion happened shortly after a Child Protective Services worker dropped off the two children of Josh Powell for a supervised visit in Puyallup, Washington. Powell then prevented the worker from entering the house, according to Graham Fire and Rescue Deputy Chief Gary Franz. ...
U.S. court to rule Tuesday on California gay marriage
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court will rule on Tuesday on the constitutionality of California's Proposition 8 ban on same-sex marriage, the court said. The ruling on California's same-sex marriage ban, passed by voters in 2008, could set national policy, if the Supreme Court takes the case. Both sides have indicated they will appeal if they lose the case in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. About 40 U.S. states have outlawed same-sex marriage, but the issue has been decided on a state-by-state basis. (Reporting By Dan Levine and Peter Henderson; Editing by Sandra Maler)
HALLSVILLE, Missouri (Reuters) - Dan Pugh wishes he had a bigger tractor and his wife Laura worries about their chickens in the winter weather. But as new farmers putting down roots in rural Missouri, the Pughs are counting on more rewards than regrets in trading their city lives for the country. A better quality of food and life are among the factors that caused Dan, 47, to leave a career in sales last year and move Laura, 48, and their two young children to 50-acres of rolling pastureland they call Honey Creek Farm. ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein, one of Wall Street's most powerful figures, has become the first major business leader to join a national media campaign in support of same-sex marriage. Gay rights advocacy group Human Rights Campaign published a video on Sunday in which 57-year-old Blankfein, who has headed investment bank Goldman Sachs since 2006, asks viewers to join a "majority of Americans who support marriage equality. ...
(Reuters) - Television network NBC and the NFL apologized for a rude gesture flipped by British hip hop star M.I.A during her halftime performance at Sunday's Super Bowl, but the Parents Television Council called for further action. The 36-year-old rapper joined Madonna on stage with U.S. rapper Nicki Minaj and was performing the cheerleader themed "Give Me All Your Luvin'," off Madonna's latest album when M.I.A. extended her middle finger in a fleeting obscene gesture while facing the camera. NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said in a statement that was NBC was to blame for a technical failure. ...
Powerful Pennsylvania lawmaker found guilty of corruption
HARRISBURG, Pa (Reuters) - State Representative H. William DeWeese, one of Pennsylvania's longest-serving and most influential lawmakers, was found guilty on Monday of theft and criminal conspiracy stemming from his use of state employees to campaign for him for free. DeWeese, 61, faces the possibility of 38 years in prison when he is sentenced on April 24. His case stems from a larger scandal in 2006 called "Bonusgate" that has led to 20 convictions or guilty pleas of Republican and Democratic lawmakers and staff who paid and received taxpayer-funded bonuses for campaign work. ...
Four Illinois men killed in fiery wrong-way crash
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Four Chicago-area men were killed Monday in a fiery crash when a wrong-way driver on Interstate 80 smashed into another car. Alcohol is believed to have played a part in the early morning collision near the Chicago suburb of Hazel Crest, according to Illinois State Police spokeswoman Monique Bond. Witnesses saw a 1996 Infiniti travelling at a high rate of speed get onto I-80, going eastbound in the westbound lanes, she said. The car, which contained four men, hit a 1999 Ford wagon head-on and both cars were engulfed in flames, Bond said. ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. police officers cleared tents from an "Occupy" protest site in downtown Washington on Sunday, but demonstrators said even without the camp they would continue to fight for economic equality and other issues. About two dozen protesters in Freedom Plaza, just blocks from the White House, watched calmly as the National Park police and sanitation workers in hazmat suits dismantled protesters' tents, packed bedding and personal belongings into plastic bags and cardboard boxes, citing violations of rules against living in the park. ...
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Is what is good for Chrysler good for America? The auto maker courted controversy and won kudos for a two-minute Super Bowl advertisement that was less a car sales pitch than a political message in a presidential election year. Rugged Hollywood icon Clint Eastwood proclaimed it was "Halftime in America" in the spot that did not mention a Chrysler car or truck but intoned that the automaker's successful turnaround could be used as an example for the United States as it struggles with high unemployment and a slow economic growth rate. ...
U.S. targets food stamp fraud as election looms
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Stung by election-year criticism of a program used by one in seven Americans, administrators of U.S. food stamp benefits are intensifying efforts to combat fraud and protect the $75.3 billion plan from the budget axe. Enrollment in the food aid program that helps the poor, elderly and disabled is running at record high levels, with 46.1 million people now participating. High joblessness, persistent woes in the housing market and a tepid economic recovery have driven more that 14 million people to sign up for the benefits since U.S. ...
Man pardoned by Barbour charged with DUI weeks before
STARKVILLE, Miss (Reuters) - Former Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour was not aware that a man who received a pardon in January had been charged with driving while intoxicated for a fourth time just weeks before Barbour granted the pardon, his spokeswoman said on Sunday. Harry Bostick was arrested on October 7, 2011 and later charged in a felony DUI in an accident in Pontotoc County that led to the death of an 18-year-old woman, court records show. He was not charged with murder. Barbour's pardon of Bostick related to three previous DUIs that had resulted in a felony conviction. ...
Small Super Bowl protest for anti-union law
INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - A small group of about 50 activists marched to Lucas Oil Stadium where the Super Bowl will be played later on Sunday to peacefully protest Indiana's new anti-union "right-to-work" law. Indiana on Wednesday became the 23rd state in the nation and the first in the U.S. industrial heartland to adopt a law allowing workers to avoid paying union dues at unionized businesses. Supporters led by Indiana's Republican Governor Mitch Daniels have said it was necessary to attract jobs to the state. ...
INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - An NFL season that began under a dark cloud was heading towards a brilliant finish as the Super Bowl party raged under sunny skies on Sunday with the New England Patriot and New York Giants preparing for the opening kickoff. Once known as Naptown, Indianapolis has shed its sleepy image and proven to be a worthy Super Bowl host as close to one million fans, many wearing Giants, Patriots and Colts jerseys, filled the downtown area during a week of partying. ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Among the slick, million-dollar ads for the likes of Pepsi and Honda during the Super Bowl this Sunday, viewers in Washington will see a far more modest spot. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino will be sitting on a couch touting an issue most politicians avoid like the plague: gun control. The two mayors, whose local teams face off in the big game, are making the pitch for Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG), the organization they co-founded in 2006. ...
Catholics urged to write Congress on birth control rule
CHICAGO (Reuters) - American Catholic clergy called on the faithful to write Congress to protest new birth control rules from President Barack Obama's administration, stepping up a campaign that began a week ago with denunciations from the pulpit at Masses across the country. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, posted an "Urgent Action Alert" over the weekend calling on Catholics to write to their U.S. lawmakers protesting the rule. ...
