Today's News

No language is filled with more cliches and hyperbole than coach-speak.

You know the routine.

Writer asks coach about next week's game.

Coach's reply is "They are a very good football team," or if he is looking at an incredibly weak-sister next up on the schedule, it's "They are about to explode on someone."

I learned years ago that when a football coach says, "They are a good football team," the translation into real English is, "They are the next team on our schedule."

Summer brought us a rare hatch of ear-piercing cicadas.

There’s nothing rare about what fall is likely to bring: an invasion of quieter, but no less pesky, ladybugs.

Tommy Yankey, Anderson Extension agent for agriculture, issued a warning last week that ladybugs — actually Asian lady beetles — are likely to begin invading homes all across Anderson County as the weather continues to cool.

Lost amid the buzz over Obama vs. McCain and Denny vs. Stratton is the fact that for the first time in a generation Harold Ritchey won't preside over Tuesday's election results.

Ritchey, the beloved county clerk who passed away this summer while jogging on Broadway, was Anderson County's Rock of Gibraltar when it came to election night, and Tuesday just won't be the same without him.

As enamored of his job as he was, Ritchey always seemed to love election night more than any other duty he so flawlessly performed.

Jewish Hospital Shelbyville has now been added to the list of parties being sued by a Waddy man who says his penis was amputated by mistake last fall.

Phillip Seaton, 61, and his wife, Deborah, filed suit Oct. 7 in Shelby County Circuit Court against the hospital where the surgery was performed last October.

Seaton previously filed suit against the doctor who performed the surgery, Dr. John Patterson, the anesthesiologist, Dr. Oliver James, as well as Commonwealth Urology, PSC, in Frankfort, which employs Patterson.