Today's News

Police seized an estimated $50,000 worth of stolen items and cracked the case of stolen saddles from a stable in Harrodsburg when they executed a search warrant Monday afternoon on Wildcat Road.
The items were seized at 1044 Wildcat Road at a residence owned by John Crutcher.
Det. Bryan Taylor of the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office said Crutcher was already in the Carroll County Jail on burglary and other charges stemming from his arrest in Trimble County, and that no charges based on what was discovered Monday are pending further investigation.

Buoyed by a show of support from local organized labor and the fact that their effort to secure property easements in Anderson County is nearly halfway complete, officials with the companies proposing the Bluegrass Pipeline answered a host of questions from concerned residents during a public hearing Monday night.

The woman charged with tying up her 3-year-old granddaughter had the date to enter what is expected to be a guilty plea moved from Tuesday to Jan. 7.
Carolyn Case is expected to change her not guilty plea to guilty after verbally agreeing to an undisclosed plea offer from the Commonwealth’s Attorney’s office.
No reason was give as to why the date was changed, other than that Case was not on the Circuit Court docket Tuesday morning.

David Ruggles, 1st District Magistrate and chair of the fiscal court’s solid waste committee, spent last Wednesday looking at other people’s trash in Meade County.
More than four months have passed since the fiscal court ended curbside recycling in Anderson County, but Ruggles’ attention to the county’s recycling program hasn’t waned.