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The Kentucky State Police kicked off its fourth annual “Cram the Cruiser” food drive recently.  Food collection sites have been established at all 16 posts throughout the state and at the agency’s headquarters in Frankfort. Taylor County’s post is Post 15 in Columbia. The campaign extends through Dec. 13 and is designed to collect non-perishable food items for needy families.
 KSP spokesman Trooper Paul Blanton said the agency collected more than 100,000 pounds of food during last year’s campaign.

Campbellsville Country Club isn't selling alcohol just yet, but plans to do so are moving forward.

Gary Neat, who serves as the new president of the club's nine-member board, says his goal is to begin selling alcohol by spring.

"That's just a pipe dream really," he said.

The first step to making that goal a reality, however, is soliciting for bids to remodel the club's restaurant. Neat said those bids will play a large part in board members deciding how they will implement selling alcohol at the club.

Had he lived, they say America might have been different.

But on a sunny afternoon in Dallas, the nation's excitement for the New Frontier and hopes of changing the world were suddenly replaced with feelings of intense grief, confusion and fear.

In the second year of his first presidential term, John F. Kennedy was shot and killed on Nov. 22, 1963.

Friday marked the 50th anniversary of Kennedy's assassination.