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  • Skydiving teddy bears provide courage for sick children

    Nothing’s braver than a teddy bear.
    A teddy bear that jumped from an airplane at about 9,500 feet, that is.
    Lawrenceburg resident Troy Woods, a statewide record-holding skydiver and jumping instructor at the Jumping for Fun Parachute Center, has jumped from planes for charity before.
    Last year Woods broke the state record (80 jumps in one day) while he raised funds for a boy battling leukemia.
    On June 1 he will strap stuffed teddy bears to his chest as a fundraiser for Kentucky Children’s Hospital with the help of his daughter, Christina.

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  • ‘Heels,’ ‘faces’ and fans

    He’s flying.
    A two-second superman in black and purple pleather pants, Jimmy Lamb slams his body into a wrestler roughly twice his size and at least 20 years younger.
    Chris Majors, his 22-year-old, 305-pound opponent, crashes to the floor of the ring.
    Majors doesn’t move.
    The referee smacks his palm against the mat once, twice —
    It’s unclear if anyone could possibly count the rest over the crowd’s shouts as Jimmy Lamb defeats one of the hated princes of King Hustle’s Court.

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  • Tractor-trailer crashes into Graefenburg Road home

     

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  • School board OKs $200,000 property tax increase

     By Meaghan Downs
    News staff
    The Anderson County Board of Education unanimously approved its proposed budget Monday night calling for a 4 percent revenue increase, about $200,000 more in anticipated property tax revenue for the upcoming fiscal year.
    School board chairman James Sargent said the budgeted 4 percent revenue increase does not mean the board will ultimately decide to raise tax rates.

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  • Suit accuses library of ‘unlawful taking’

    The Anderson Public Library is accused of “unlawful taking” and “complete disregard of the law” in a class action suit filed Friday that seeks hundreds of thousands — if not millions — of dollars in refunds to taxpayers.
    The suit, filed by Lawrenceburg resident Harold Todd in Anderson County Circuit Court on behalf of taxpayers, mirrors three suits filed against libraries in Kenton, Campbell and Boone counties.

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  • Memorial Day to be observed Sunday

    The American Legion Auxiliary invites the community for a Memorial and Healing Field service on Sunday, May 26 at 3 p.m. at the Healing Field in Lawrenceburg.
    The ceremony is being hosted by the American Legion Auxiliary Unit 34, the American Legion Post 34 and the Department of Kentucky Auxiliary in remembrance of fallen service men and women and for all who have served, according to an Auxiliary press release.

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  • ‘Ice’ bust lands three behind bars

    An “extreme amount” of crystal methamphetamine intended for sale in Lawrenceburg never hit the streets after three Georgia residents were stopped for speeding last Friday evening.
    Police searched the vehicle and discovered nearly 3.5 ounces of the potent drug with a street value of $15,000, according to Lawrenceburg Detective Jeremy Cornish.
    “It was quite a lick,” Cornish said Monday afternoon. “It’s the biggest bust of my career.”

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  • Grand jury indicts eight suspected meth ‘smurfs’

    Eight people were indicted earlier this month by the Anderson County Grand Jury after being charged as “smurfs,” the term used to describe those who supply cold pills and other items to those involved in manufacturing methamphetamine.
    Their indictments come nearly a year after they were allegedly caught supplying cold pills for $50 per box to a man later convicted of cooking meth.
    Indicted on one count each of unlawful distribution of a methamphetamine precursor are:

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  • Annual ceremony honors fallen Lawrenceburg troopers

    Kentucky State Troopers, particularly those who die in the line of duty, are never forgotten.
    Two Lawrenceburg troopers were honored last Wednesday in an annual ceremony that included several of their family members, along with representatives from the state police, sheriff’s office and city police.
    Troopers Harold J. Toll and Bobby McCoun were honored in separate ceremonies that included prayers, scripture and song in two local cemeteries.

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  • SUV wrecks after nearly hitting jail van
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