Friday, Jan. 17, 2014, 1:10 a.m. — Icy roads led to three non-injury accidents Thursday evening about 11 p.m. on KY 245 at the Bullitt County line. The Nelson County Sheriff’s Office and the Bardstown Fire Department were called at 11 p.m. Thursday on Weller Loop for a two-vehicle accident involving a rollover and possible […]
Friday, Jan. 17, 2014, 12:40 a.m. — The Bardstown Fire Department responded to an active fire alarm at Bardstown High School, 400 North Fifth St., at 10:30 Thursday night. When fire units arrived, they were met by staff who advised the alarm was coming from a janitor’s closet. The source of the alarm was a […]
Friday, Jan. 17, 2014, 12:04 a.m. — A 22-year-old man who dashed out of Wal-mart at 12:05 p.m. Thursday without paying for the clothes he was wearing had less than 15 minutes of freedom in which to enjoy his new threads. Several nearby police officers arrived at the store minutes after the call was broadcast […]
Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014, 11:30 p.m. — Nelson County EMS and police responded to the 100 block of Valleyview Drive Thursday morning about 11:20 for a report of a possible suicide attempt. Police arrived and found the victim, a 43-year-old man, unconscious but breathing after an apparent overdose on prescription medication. EMS transported the man […]
STAFF REPORT Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014, 4:45 p.m. — A bipartisan bill that would allow Kentucky voters to restore voting rights to more than 180,000 nonviolent felons across the Commonwealth has passed its first hurdle this legislative session. House Bill 70, sponsored by Rep. Jesse Crenshaw, D-Lexington, and House Minority Leader Jeff Hoover, R-Jamestown, cleared […]
STAFF REPORT Thursday, Jan. 16, 2013, 4:23 p.m. — Ben Irvin Road resident Bobby Settles filed today to run for the office of magistrate in the county’s 4th District. Settles is the first Democrat to file for 4th District magistrate in the May primary. Settles ran as a Democrat four years ago and lost in […]
STAFF REPORT Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014 — J. T. Fulkerson of Cox’s Creek has entered the race for Nelson County sheriff as a Republican. Fulkerson is the second candidate to file for the office. The other candidate for sheriff is Democrat Ed Mattingly who filed his candidacy paperwork last November. The filing deadline for the […]
Sally Carol Myers, 74, of Lebanon, died Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2014, at Spring View Hospital in Lebanon. She was born Aug. 13, 1939, in Marion County. She was a retired caregiver and was a member of St. Augustine Catholic Church. She was preceded in death by her parents, Mose Evans and Mary Louise Thomas Beard; […]
Margaret Dean Hafendorfer, 95, of Bardstown, formerly of Owensboro, died Jan. 16, 2014, at her home. The Owensboro native was born Jan. 24, 1919. She was the daughter of the late Roy Dean and Louella Napier Ellis. Her career as a bookkeeper involved working both at Johnson Packing Company and Southern States Petroleum in Owensboro […]
STAFF REPORT Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014, 12:03 a.m. — John David “Jack” Seay of Bardstown has filed to keep his seat as circuit judge in the state’s 10th Judicial Circuit that includes Nelson, LaRue and Hart counties. Seay’s candidacy paperwork was received by the Secretary of State’s Office on Wednesday. FILING DEADLINE APPROACHING. With the deadline […]
