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In their first full year serving five counties, CASA of the Heartland Executive Director Michelle Kail says the organization and its volunteers put in the effort to meet growing demands. “Within that year, we were able to serve 312 children with 108 CASA volunteers, and we had several case closures throughout the year, kiddos who were able to achieve permanency, so we had some really great successes,” Kail said. Part of that […]

Funding approved by the state for railroad safety and infrastructure improvements includes work on rail lines in area counties. During Thursday’s Team Kentucky Update, Governor Andy Beshear announced the awarding of nearly $3 million in grant funds to railroads and local governments, financing nine projects in seven counties. According to a release from the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, among the announced grant awards is $1.6 million in Rail Crossing Improvement Grants. These improvements […]

The Elizabethtown Police Department is actively investigating two weekend incidents. During a press conference at the EPD Sunday, EPD Public Affairs Officer Chris Denham said officers responded to the parking lot of the Elizabethtown Lowe’s shortly after 2:30 a.m. on January 11 after receiving a call that a female had been shot in the chest. Upon arrival, officers found 21-year-old Bryan Harbison of McDaniels administering CPR to a female victim. The […]

Employees impacted by the announced closing of BlueOval SK are encouraged to attend the regional in-person job and career fair being hosted by the Hardin County Chamber of Commerce, the Elizabethtown/Hardin County Industrial Foundation, the Lincoln Trail Area Development District, and the Kentucky Career Center. The job fair will be held on Thursday, January 22 at the Pritchard Community Center. Two sessions will be available: from 9 a.m. to noon […]

November unemployment in Kentucky held steady from numbers seen in September. The Kentucky Center for Statistics says the state unemployment average for November was 4.7 percent. That is unchanged from the month of September, and down .7 percent from the November 2024 average of 5.4 percent. Kentucky’s unemployment average for November came in just above the national unemployment rate, which the U.S. Department of Labor reported at 4.6 percent. The Kentucky Education […]

Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear says Kentuckians are facing serious new challenges, but the state of the commonwealth remains strong, and that comes from leaders focusing on moving the state “not right, not left, but forward for everyone.” “We’ve done this by recognizing the most important things to our people,” Beshear said. “They’re not partisan. They’re not even bipartisan. They are nonpartisan. A good job, affordable health care, safe roads and […]

A Nelson County woman will serve 20 years in federal prison after her conviction on charges related to the sexual exploitation of children. Kathlen Flener was found guilty of two counts of Sexual Exploitation of a Child and one count of Distribution of Child Pornography. The U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Western District of Kentucky says Flener used an online social media app “to distribute two sexually-explicit images of the minor victims […]

The Kentucky State Police is investigating an officer-involved shooting in Nelson County. According to KSP Post Four, the preliminary investigation by the KSP Critical Incident Response Team indicates that an employee of the Nelson County Humane Society called 911 Wednesday afternoon “after an individual became disorderly inside the premises and threatened them with a firearm.” The individual, identified as 80-year-old Norman Perkins of New Haven, left the premises and began […]

McDonald’s restaurants are recognizing the crew members who have played a role in building the “Mcdonald’s Experience” in local communities with their inaugural One in Eight Day. “Across the U.S., one in eight Americans have had work experience at McDonald’s in their lifetime, so McDonald’s corporate is pushing out January 8, 1/8/26, just to show appreciation to current career members and management teams, and then former employees that worked at […]