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A Henry County woman was injured Tuesday afternoon when she crashed her vehicle, crossing into oncoming traffic and flipping her car upside down.

Carolyn S. Beverly, 54, of Wallace Road in Lockport, Ky., lost control of her Chevy Tracker after falling asleep at the wheel, according to Shelby County Deputy Sheriff Riley Kennedy.

"She was headed west but after she flipped the car, she ended up facing east, upside down," he said, pointing to the smashed Tracker which rested against a guardrail on Frankfort Road.

Kennedy said Beverly was lucky.

The Kentucky League of Cities Insurance Services recently awarded the City of Simpsonville a $3,000 grant that the city will use to buy Tasers for its police force.

The city will also update the police policies and procedures manual to better protect the public, Simpsonville Mayor Steve Eden said in a press release.

"We are committed to upgrading our police department in order to offer the best protection to our citizens," Eden said. "This grant along with our recent addition of a fourth officer is a positive step in providing those services."

It's no secret that credit card companies can be annoyingly persistent on the phone. Josie Mack said her 86-year-old mother Frances Beckley was being called at least once a week by the same caller. Each time the woman on the other end said she could lower the interest rate on Beckley's credit card then relentlessly tried to verify her card information.

The red flag was the fact that Beckley doesn't own a credit card.

Johnny Lewis is only 21 years old, but he is already well on his way to wowing the culinary world.

Lewis began his career the day after graduating from the French Culinary Institute in Manhattan three years ago, going to work for the American Gill on Staten Island. A few months later, he landed a job as a line cook at the prestigious Tavern on the Green in Central Park in New York City, where he achieved the status of sous-chef within a year and a half.