Today's News

What do you get when you mix huge four-wheel drive pickups, a giant mud pit and unbridled enthusiasm?
If you guessed a merrier Christmas for less fortunate children in Lawrenceburg, you’re correct.
Saturday’s mud bog in the county park did exactly what organizer Deputy Tony Likins hoped: it raised money for the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office’s Shop With a Cop program, as well as funds to send local children to the Kentucky Sheriff’s Association’s Boys and Girls Camp this summer.

The family of Frances Renee Mobley has waited since last September to tell her murderer exactly what they think of him, and this week they’ll almost certainly get their chance.
Gary Bancroft will be sentenced to 70 years in prison Thursday afternoon in Anderson Circuit Court, but first he will be forced to listen to what will be highly emotional statements family members of the woman whose throat he slashed, stuffed into a trash bag and hid in the bathroom of his Bardstown Road trailer last September.

A Harrodsburg man apparently shot and killed himself last Thursday evening while sitting in his pickup truck in the Anderson County High School parking lot.
Paul Jenkins, 49, died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, according to Anderson County Coroner Mark Tussey.
Jenkins was pronounced dead around 6:30 p.m., Tussey said, and his body was transported to the medical examiner’s office in Frankfort for an autopsy that was conducted Friday morning.

The man who last year forced another man to eat his own beard could be headed for prison.
Troy Holt, 48, already on probation for the beard-eating incident, has since been convicted of violating a domestic violence order. He has also apparently failed to make $570 in court-ordered restitution to Willisburg Road Harvey Westmoreland, the man forced to eat his beard.