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A Campbellsville man has been indicted on charges alleging he failed to comply with the terms of the state's sex offender registration.

Richard "Ricky" D. Johnson, 37, of 10 Purcell Court or 112 Layton Drive was indicted last Tuesday by a Taylor County grand jury.

On the Kentucky sex offender registration Web site, Johnson's address is listed as 807 Gidget Trail.

Using the Taylor County Friends of Scouting dinner as a backdrop, University of Louisville President Dr. James Ramsey said that Kentucky's economy is "doing OK."

"We're not in a recession," he said.

Ramsey, whose academic focus is in economics, bases his observation on the number of people working. It's a simple approach, he says. The more than 13,000 new jobs in the past 12 months doesn't indicate a boom, according to Ramsey, but it indicates that Kentucky may not be suffering as badly as some other states.

There's a bond among heart patients, according to Ed McGuire. But those who participate in Taylor Regional Hospital's cardiac rehabilitation program and others like it have more in common than heart ailments. They have survival.

"There seems to be a tendency for the victims to become morose, to become pessimistic and feel sorry for themselves," McGuire said. "What rehab does, they take you out there and they walk you through [various exercises]. They push you just a little bit more each time and that builds your confidence. That is what gets you over the hump.

Those facing drug-related charges now have another alternative to paying their debt to society behind prison bars.

Taylor, Green, Marion and Washington counties now offer a court program designed specifically to address drug addiction.

A new Drug Court to serve adults in the four-county area began in mid-January with two participants, according to a press release from the Administrative Office of the Courts, the operational arm of the Kentucky Court of Justice.