Today's News

District Civil Filed

08-C-452, filed 10/6/08; Hardin Memorial Hospital v. Lora Bland of Lebanon Avenue in Campbellsville. Plaintiff alleges defendant owes for services rendered, $1,158, interest and court costs.

08-C-455, filed 10/8/08; Elizabethtown Hearing Aid Center Inc. v. Tommy Ray and Judy Clark of South Village Green Street in Campbellsville. Plaintiff alleges defendants owe for services rendered, $647, interest and court costs.

For weeks and weeks, OK ... make that months and months, we've been inundated with advertisements and speeches and photo ops from our national election candidates.

Well, we're down to the wire now. And history will be made - we will elect either a black President or a female Vice President.

But all of the hullabaloo of the past months aside, when you walk into the voting booth and close the curtain, it's important to ask yourself a few honest questions:

- When I choose a candidate, am I truly voting for the candidate I believe will do the best job?

The Martin Luther King Jr. State Commission is now accepting nominations for the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Citizenship Award.

"This award will be given to an individual who possesses the unique qualities of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.," said Delquan Dorsey, executive director of the Governor's Office of Minority Empowerment. "Dr. King represented a true leader and crusader for American Civil Rights."

A Campbellsville man has been sentenced to serve 60 days in jail and five years' probation for assaulting a police officer.

Gregory Dewayne Thompson, 28, of 102 Lowell Ave. appeared before Taylor Circuit Court Judge Doughlas M. George on Tuesday, Oct. 21 for formal sentencing in a case from July 2007.

In August, Thompson pleaded guilty to resisting arrest, second-degree assault, menacing and third-degree terroristic threatening. A charge of third-degree assault was dismissed.