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This is the first of a two-part series on accidents on city and county roads. Part one covers roads in the county. Part two will look at roads in the city.

Are roads in Shelby County dangerous?

Bob Elmore sighed as he recalled watching an ambulance carry off a woman who flipped her car and landed upside down in his yard last week.

"Usually, they get my yard going the other way," he said. "Usually, coming north, they'll misjudge that curve and they're going too fast. There's been at least a half dozen wrecks and I've been here for about 14 years. It's dangerous."

A third member of the Chandler family is now up on charges related to robbery.

Two out of three of them are charged in connection with bank robbery.

Carol Chandler, 26, appeared in Shelby District Court on Friday for a preliminary hearing on charges of second-degree robbery.

Chandler was arrested July 28 in connection with the robbery of the Peoples Bank in Spencer County, along with Charles Norton, 37.

Shelby County librarians are hoping that a new reading program will promote literacy locally and give the community a common story to discuss.

Pam Federspiel, director of the library, said the library's "One Book, One Community" program is an effort to encourage the entire community to read the same book, at the same time.

Federspiel said books have a strange power of bringing people together and giving them a shared experience and story.

Business and community leaders from across the state will converge in Shelbyville on Thursday and Friday for a conference on Kentucky's economic development and the state's equine industry.

Every year Leadership Kentucky, a non-profit educational organization, selects a group of business and community leaders from across the state to participate in a series of informational meetings. Once a month for seven months, the participants travel to various locations across the state to gain insight into the complex issues that are facing the state.