Today's News

As of Tuesday morning, the jury trial for a church keyboardist accused of obtaining a false commercial driver’s license is scheduled to begin early next week.

Lance Roe, a licensed funeral director at Gash Memorial Chapel and organist at First Baptist Church, is charged with complicity to commit unlawful access to a computer, a Class C felony, and second-degree criminal possession of a forged instrument, a Class D felony.

A former youth minister at a local church has been indicted on 13 counts of rape, sodomy and sexual abuse, according to a news release issued by Kentucky State Police.

Gordon Lunceford, 47, who now lives in Richmond, was indicted by an Anderson County Grand Jury and is accused of abusing at least two victims.

According to the indictment, Lunceford, who also has served as a youth minister in Franklin and Madison counties, committed the acts over the course of several months in 1992.

Last week, we received a letter to the editor from “a disillusioned student at ACHS” — those are his or her words, not mine.

I say his or her because this brief, five-word description is all the identifying information we received.

The Kentucky Mountain Saddle Horse Association will host a horse show July 10 and 11 at the fairgrounds in Lawrenceburg, the association announced in a news release.

Friday night’s show will include conformation and under saddle classes and will be begin at 5 p.m. Saturday’s show will start at 1 p.m. and will include trail obstacle classes where horses and riders negotiate obstacles like gates, tarpaulins, mailboxes, cones and bridges. Saturday’s line up will also include more under saddle classes and at the end of the evening, the championship classes.