Wednesday, September 27, 2000
Kentucky news briefs
Edgewood to show off fire headquarters
EDGEWOOD — The Edgewood Fire/Emergency Medical Services will kick off Fire Prevention Month with an open house from 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday at fire headquarters, 381 Dudley Road.
Firefighters will be part of “The Great Escape,” a program designed to teach families about the importance of having a residential fire escape plan.
In addition, there will be demonstrations, fire and life safety information, refreshments, puppet safety shows, and a fire safety house.
“The Great Escape” is a nationwide program credited with saving 58 lives, including those of 35 children.
Tenn. denies appeal for 5 in killings
The Tennessee Supreme Court has denied appeal requests from five young Kentuckians who gunned down a Jehovah's Witnesses family in Greene County, Tenn.
Crystall Sturgill, Jason Bryant, Joseph Risner, Natasha Cornett and Edward Mullins had asked the state's highest court to hear their case after the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed their sentences in March.
Karen Howell, whose life sentence without parole also was affirmed by the appeals court, did not petition the court with the other five.
All six, ranging in age from 14 to 20 at the time of the murders, are from the eastern Kentucky mountains. They were convicted in the 1997 shooting deaths of Vidar and Delfina Lillelid and their 6-year-old daughter Tabitha.
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Shed collapse kills airman, hurts another
FORT CAMPBELL — One airman was killed and another injured after a picnic shed collapsed at the Campbell Army Airfield.
Air Force Master Sgt. Stephen Friedman, 38, of San Antonio, Texas, was killed Monday. Master Sgt. Friedman was assigned to the 621st Air Mobility Operations Group, based at McGuire Air Force Base, N.J., the Army said. The 621st operations group provides support services for Campbell Army Airfield.
Master Sgt. Friedman, an air transport craftsman, had been assigned to Fort Campbell for about one year. He had been selected for promotion to senior master sergeant, the Army said.
The injured airman, Air Force Tech. Sgt. James Johnson, suffered only minor injuries, the Army said.
Patton now leads governors group
Southern governors ended their three-day conference in Little Rock, Ark., on Tuesday with a pledge to press for more research dollars in the year ahead for Southern universities.
“That is the wellspring from which new knowledge for the new economy will emerge,” said Kentucky Gov. Paul Patton, who assumed chairmanship of the Southern Governors Association.
Mr. Patton said his goal over the next year would be to focus on the importance of research and development in a technology-driven economy. That includes looking at how states can encourage more investment from both public and private sources.
“We're only getting about one-half as much as the rest of the nation in per capita for re search and development,” Mr. Patton said. “What we're trying to do this next year is ... get more of the research and development dollars that will fuel the ideas and the businesses of the new economy.”
He highlighted the Human Genome Project, an international effort to explore the DNA in human cells and understand the fundamental mechanisms of life, possibly leading to precise new ways to prevent, diagnose and treat disease.
Earlier Tuesday, officials from the Federal Reserve Bank's Center for the Study of Rural America urged governors to consider new policies for rural areas that go beyond the South's traditional agricultural base.
“Agriculture policies, though still important for rural America, simply can't be the complete answer anymore,” said Mark R. Drabenstott, the center's vice president and director.
Baby found in garbage bag dies
LAWRENCEBURG, Ky. — Police found a newborn baby boy in a garbage bag at an Anderson County home Tuesday. He was pronounced dead shortly after he was taken to Frankfort Regional Hospital.
The infant's mother had been staying at the home where the child was found, said Anderson County Sheriff Jim Evans.
Police are questioning the mother, but no one has been charged, Sheriff Evans said. The woman's name has not been released, though Sheriff Evans said she was 19 or 20 years old.
An autopsy, tentatively scheduled for today, should reveal the child's cause of death, Sheriff Evans said.
The baby was found at around 10 a.m. EDT, inside a bag stuffed in a clothes hamper.
$23 parking boost riles high school users
SHEPHERDSVILLE — Parents and students at Bullitt Central High School are upset over a $23 increase in student parking rates from last year.
Students now pay $25 for a pass that used to cost $2.
The school had been leasing a gravel parking lot, but the property owners decided to do something else with the land. The school lost 70 spaces. The school wasn't informed of that move until a few weeks before school started.
Kim Brewer, a teacher's assistant at Bullitt Central, submitted a petition to the school board from 54 people that asks for more parking spots.
Principal Ron Dunlevy says the new fee is to help limit the number of parking requests. He said school officials plan to make lot improvements, which will likely include adding new spaces.
Boys face minimal time in assault case
OWENSBORO — Three young boys charged with sexually assaulting an 8-year-old girl last weekend face a minimal amount of time in custody because they are so young.
Police have released little information on the boys, ages 7, 10 and 11. They have said only that the alleged incident occurred in April.
The 7-year-old faces the harshest allegations; he is charged with first-degree sodomy and first-degree sexual abuse. The other two boys face charges linked to aiding the 7-year-old.
If convicted, the most time they face is three years in a juvenile detention facility.
Children in Kentucky must be at least 14 years old before they can be tried as adults.
Millions owed in restitution
Options growing for Alzheimer's patients, their families
Researchers making progress
Study: Kids need improved sex ed
Tipper urges unions to 'carry the message'
Facility strains budget
Ohio sees slight uptick in poverty
SAMPLES: Rooting without rudeness
Students learn art of politics
Breast cancer crusader
Medicine to profit UC
KIESEWETTER: Channel 25 needs cable visibility
:Online day care grows up
Theater review
African American chamber wants $100,000 back again
Changes urged in testing kids
Children's to profit
City asked to pay bills of developer
Going on TV lands Ohioan in jail
Hamilton officer's program helps out 'the good kids'
Kid voters learn art of politics
Kidnap suspect in court
Killer sentenced to 15 to life
Little Miami schools have new boss
Old St. Mary's Church to open boys school
Patton visits today
Rains exceed average for September
Relatives, Humane Society fight over will
Smaller Middletown Schools to get by on slimmer budget
Three-hour standoff ends peacefully in Hamilton
Twenty cats fit to be adopted
Warren to pull plug faster on delinquent water bills
Weekend rains exceed average for September
Xenia declared a disaster area
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