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Today's News

  • Christmas dinner and awards night at the park

    The Shelbyville/Shelby County Parks & Recreation held its annual board Christmas dinner and awards night on Dec. 13.

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  • Titans struggle with turnovers, but Brian Stone sparks turnaround

    The Collins boys’ basketball team had a rough start to Christmas vacation but rebounded for back-to-back victories.

    The Titans lost three consecutive games – at Covington Holy Cross on Dec. 17 then back-to-back games to Spring Hill (Tenn.) and Doss last Tuesday and Wednesday in the Citizens First Holiday Classic at Bowling Green.

    However Collins bounced back to win its final two games in Bowling Green, beating Silver Thorne (Canada), 73-38, and Owensboro, 62-50, last Wednesday.

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  • ‘Most disappointing’ loss for Rockets

    The second and fourth quarters were troublesome for the Shelby County boys’ basketball team in the third-place game of the Capital City Invitational in Frankfort.

    Henry County outscored the Rockets, 50-34, in those periods on its way to an 85-73 victory last Thursday night in the Western Hills’ tournament.

    “It was probably the most disappointing game I’ve had since I’ve been at Shelby County,” Coach Rick Parsons said.

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  • Rockets finish year on winning note

    The Shelby County girls’ basketball team closed out the calendar year in style.

    The Rockets won their second consecutive game and fifth of the young season, beating Moore, 49-39, last Thursday in the third-place game of Waggener’s Lady Cats Holiday Invitational.

    “Overall, I'd say it was our best effort to date,” said Shelby County Coach Mike Sowers, whose team is off until it hosts Spencer County on Tuesday. “We played a very complete game, especially on the defensive end.”

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  • EARLIER: Questions about merger involving JHS lingering

    While citizens and hospital personnel alike wait for a decision from Gov. Steve Beshear on whether to allow the proposed merger among Jewish Hospital & St. Mary's HealthCare – the parent of Jewish Hospital Shelbyville – University Hospital in Louisville and Lexington-based St. Joseph Health System, which is owned by Catholic Health Initiatives of Denver, much of the debate has surrounded the changes that would occur at UofL’s hospital.

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  • Legislature 2012: Shelby faces big changes in districts

    With the release of the U.S. census last year, states across the nation are reworking congressional and state legislative and judicial boundaries.

    Each state is charged with redrawing those lines every 10 years to coincide with the federal mandate and population growth.

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  • The greatest story ever reported

    And in the same country, two editors were keeping track over the newsroom by night.

    And, lo, an angel of the Lord came before them, and the glory of the Lord shown round about them.

    But they weren’t afraid, because they knew this was Fred, a neighbor in St. Peter’s Loving Arms Apartments.

    “I have glad tidings of great joy,” he said. “Which shall be unto all people.”

    They shook their heads.

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  • What we think: Lots of progress occurred in 2011

    When we first sat down to measure Shelby County’s success against the goals we had set for it last January, we were expecting to be disappointed. Had we really accomplished anything on our list other than getting a commitment from state highway officials to do an early remedy for the dangerous Exit 32, eastbound from KY 55 onto Interstate 64?

    That was stellar work, to be sure, but we also know that there could be difficulty designating the dollars required to accommodate a project we were told could begin next year. Does that tinge this tout?

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  • Vet's aide coaches man into saving dog from choking

    If dogs can have heroes, then “Angel,” a small white West Highland terrier, has two of them – her owner and her vet, who worked together recently to save her from certain death.

    Terry Kays said that he had just given Angel a dog treat when he noticed that the other dog he had was starting to run around nervously.

    “I looked, and Angel was just sort of gagging,” he said. “I looked in her mouth and didn’t see anything. So I called my wife, Pat, to ask her what to do, and I couldn’t get hold of her.”

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  • Christmas Day miracle: Brain-dead beating victim moves

    Dennisse Escareno’s family members had said they were praying for a Christmas miracle to prove doctors were wrong about her being brain dead.

    And right on schedule, on Christmas Day, they got that miracle.

    Escareno, 24, who had been viciously beaten and left by the side of the road, moved her fingers and toes, her roommate Melody Riddle said Tuesday.

    “We went up to see her on Christmas Day, and Krissi took the kids,” she said.

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