Today's News

Yolanda Bradford knows painfully too well the look on homeowners' faces when they are facing foreclosure.

Bradford, a non-profit financial consultant, said people who come into her office with a stack of late mortgage payments often don't have any hope of saving their home.

"They think there is no way to save their home, so many just walk away and let their house fall into foreclosure," she said.

Bradford has seen the number of homeowners who walk away without first pursuing all of their options steadily increase in Shelby County.

A member of the Shelby County Board of Education has been appointed to a task force that will scrutinize the state's testing system.

Brenda Jackson, the current school board chairperson, is one of 22 state education, legislative, and civic leaders who have been charged with the task of reviewing the Commonwealth Accountability Testing System (CATS) and giving recommendations for improvements.

Sen. Gary Tapp and Rep. Brad Montell have received the call from the governor to head back to Frankfort in order to pull a patch job on the state's failing pension plan.

With the fiscal year winding down, the legislature will have to move fast.

Gov. Steve Beshear issued the call for a special session at a press conference yesterday afternoon. The only item on the session's agenda is addressing the $26.6 billion shortfall in the state's pension fund.

The legislature will go into session Monday, June 23.

Despite costing the school district an added $168,000 in transportation costs, the two-tiered start times for local public schools will be back for a second round next year.

Last year, the Shelby County School Board decided to stagger the times that elementary, middle, and high schools start in order to increase the district's options for transporting students to school. Currently elementary schools start at 7:40 a.m., the high school starts at 8:40 a.m. and the middle schools start at 8:55 a.m. Previously all schools started at the same time.