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  • Eddie Montgomery, ex-wife owe $12.7M on failed restaurant

    By Todd Kleffman
    The Advocate-Messenger
    The hits keep coming for local country music star Eddie Montomery, but not on the music charts.
    A lawsuit filed in Boyle Circuit Court by Central Bank and Trust Co. of Lexington claims Montgomery and his ex-wife Tracy Nunan owe nearly $12.7 million over the failed Eddie Montgomery Steak House in Harrodsburg.

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  • News briefs: 10-2-13

    Reward offered for the recovery of cheerleading bag, backpack
    Parents of middle school student Taylor Ferry are looking for any information regarding the theft of Taylor’s cheerleading bag and backpack allegedly taken during last Friday’s homecoming football game.

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  • Crouch sustains head, shoulder injuries in wreck

    A Lawrenceburg man is recovering after suffering a severe head injury last Thursday morning in a one-car wreck on Rice Road.
    Nick Crouch, 25, sustained head and shoulder injuries when the vehicle he was driving left the road and struck a tree around 6 a.m. near his home on Rice Road.
    “He had a pretty traumatic head injury,” his brother-in-law David Cartinhour said Monday afternoon by phone. “He also fractured his right shoulder. He’s doing pretty good and is up and around but he will be in the hospital for a while.”

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  • Scores move district into top 25 in state

    Newly released state test results reported significant improvements for the district — moving Anderson County into the top 25 percent of districts across the state for its overall score — while highlighting work that still needs to be done on science, social studies and the ACT.
    Although the goal this year was to make the top 20 percent, administrators say they’re pleased with the 2012 test score results released by the Kentucky Department of Education last Friday.

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  • Be afraid. Be very, very afraid

    Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees, Leatherface, Michael Myers and a incredibly scary looking clown named Captain Spaulding are spending October in Lawrenceburg and are bent on scaring the be-jeepers out of as many people as possible.
    Jason and his other ghoulish Hollywood pals won’t be wandering the streets of Lawrenceburg killing teenagers who wander off the beaten path, or in Freddy’s case fall asleep, but they will be hanging out at Eagle Lake throughout October to help raise money for Shop With a Cop.

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  • Thousands here must sign up for Obamacare

    Obamacare, the federal law that forces individuals purchase health insurance, went into effect Tuesday when the state’s insurance exchanges opened for business.
    Officially called President Obama’s Affordable Care Act, the law was passed in 2009 and requires individuals who have no health insurance or whose health insurance does not comply to purchase it or face financial penalties from the Internal Revenue Service.

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  • Two living in tent indicted on burglary, trespassing charges

    Curtis Coleman, 37, and Shannon Coleman, 38, of 113 Ballard St., Lawrenceburg were indicted Sept. 10 by an Anderson County Grand Jury on charges that include second degree burglary, possession of burglary tools and third-degree criminal trespass.  Shannon Coleman was also indicted for alcohol intoxication in a public place.
    Their indictment stems from an incident July 31 when they allegedly entered “a dwelling located at 117 Ballard St. with intent to commit a crime,” according to court documents.

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  • ‘Duck Dynasty’ stars to appear in Lexington

    For the Frankfort Christian Academy, it’s being called a “miracle.”
    For folks smitten with Uncle Si, Phil, Willie and the rest of the Robertson clan from the smash hit TV show “Duck Dynasty,” getting a chance to see several of the show’s stars Saturday in Lexington may not be a miracle, but it’s pretty darn close.

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  • Public library takes next step in expansion process

    For library board trustees, planning for the future of the Anderson Public Library includes spending up to $15,000 to conduct a feasibility study.
    The library board voted unanimously to select Lexington architecture firm Brandstetter Carroll Inc. to start work on a feasibility study, with trustees signing off on spending up to $15,000 on the study.

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  • Poker run raises $5,000 for Bobby Best

    Bobby Best is one of those people you can’t keep indoors, his son Robbie Best said Saturday.
    Robbie, waiting for kickstands to go up at Cummins Irish Pub during the Bobby Best Poker Run fundraiser last Saturday morning, said his dad had another surgery last Friday night, but was recovering well enough to be moved out of the ICU into a progressive care unit.
     “Like usual, kicking and fighting, trying to get out of there,” Robbie said.

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