Today's News

It took John Calipari all of 15 seconds to assure the Big Blue Nation that he knew exactly where he is and exactly what he is doing.

“Is Hazel Keightley here? I asked that she and Karen come,” he said almost immediately into his first remarks as Kentucky’s basketball coach last Wednesday.

No explanation was necessary. Coach Cal was reaching out to a Kentucky fan base hanging on to the hope that the new guy in town really understood what Wildcat basketball was about.

A fired county employee claims in a lawsuit filed last week that co-workers gave her a sex toy, exposed her to pornography, harassed her and that she witnessed sloppy accounting practices.

Lea Beasmore, a former administrative assistant who was fired March 2, is suing Judge-Executive Steve Cornish personally and in his position as judge, along with the fiscal court for an undisclosed amount of money.

The storm held off long enough for lightning to strike last Thursday.

And this thunderbolt did the damage in one of the best softball rivalries in Kentucky.

With the bases loaded and two out in the bottom of the second inning, Anderson County’s Courtney Turpin got around on a 3-2 pitch from Shelby County’s Haleigh LeCompte, driving it well over the left-field fence and setting off a wild celebration at home plate.

We’ve all seen and heard it before — a fairly attractive woman walking down the street trying not to pay attention to the whistles, inappropriate phrases and cat calls being rained upon her for whatever reason.

Unfortunately, my friends and I have been victims of these cat-callers more than once. Yes, dear readers, even here in Lawrenceburg.

Just the other day, I walked out in front of our office on Main Street to meet a friend for lunch. I had no sooner walked out our front door in my dress and heels, when someone whistled in my direction.