Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014, 11 p.m. – Tuesday’s “Brooks & Company” will be an “Open Lines Tuesday,” giving listeners an opportunity to sound-off on the issues they wish to discuss. Among today’s topics: “skimming” and the question, “How safe is your debit card or credit card?”; snow removal in the wake of the recent snow/sleet/ice; the […]
Editor’s Note: The Nelson County Gazette believes the public has a right to know who has been arrested by local officials and lodged in the Nelson County Jail. The information below is a compiled list of daily booking logs from the jail. The bookings state the person(s) arrested and the charge(s) against them. This information is […]
Katherine Ann “Kathy” Beck Sallee, 60, of Upton, died Sunday, Jan. 12, 2014, at Hardin Memorial Hospital on Sunday January 12, 2014. She was born April 25, 1953, in Louisville and was a Baptist by faith. She was preceded her mother, Bernice Edwards; her grandparents, who raised her, Callis and Zelery Beck; and one sister, […]
STAFF REPORT Monday, Jan. 13, 2014, 11:45 a.m. — The Associated Press is reporting that Jim Beam and Maker’s Mark brands have agreed to be acquired by Japan’s Suntory Holdings Ltd. for $13.62 billion. Suntory will pay $83.50 per share, a 25 percent premium to Beam’s Friday closing price of $66.97. The companies put the […]
STAFF REPORT Monday, Jan. 11, 2014, 11 a.m. — A Bardstown man was arrested Sunday night after a police investigation of a stabbing at a residence at 136 Ashberry Dr. Police responded to a reported domestic incident and stabbing at 6:22 Sunday evening on Ashberry Drive. Officers found the victim, Michael Humphrey, at the scene with […]
Monday, Jan. 13, 2014, 2 a.m. — A Nelson County Sheriff’s Deputy ended up with his cruiser stuck in a cornfield Monday night about 11 p.m. after he pursued a 2000 Chevy pickup truck that fled from him in the New Hope area. One passenger bailed out of the truck as it was traveling on […]
Monday, Jan. 13, 2014, 1:45 a.m. — Bardstown Police and Nelson County EMS responded to an apartment in the 100 block of Ashberry Drive for a report of a stabbing Monday evening about 6:25 in connection with a possible domestic incident. Police investigating the incident were assisted by the department’s crime scene technician. The 38-year-old […]
Monday, Jan. 13, 2014, 1:40 a.m. — A 24-year-old man was injured Monday evening about 6 p.m. in a single-vehicle accident in the 7400 block of Boston Road. The victim was the unrestrained driver of the vehicle that ran off the roadway. The man was transported by Nelson County EMS to Flaget Memorial Hospital complaining […]
By JIM WATERS Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions Sunday, Jan. 12, 2014, 7 p.m. — The classic main theme from Sergio Leone’s spaghetti western “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly” serves as appropriate background music while perusing this column about the first week of the 2014 session of the Kentucky General Assembly. The Good: […]
By MARK BALLARD Guest columnist Saturday, Jan. 11, 2014, 9 p.m. — As state after state moves toward disarming law-abiding citizens, we all need to look at the Second Amendment, it’s meaning, and why the Founding Fathers put it into the Constitution. The Second Amendment of the United States Constitution reads, “A well regulated Militia, being […]
