Today's News

An ambulance en route to the hospital with a patient collided with a car Monday afternoon on Taylorsville Road.

The accident occurred on Taylorsville Road just north of the interstate entrance/exit ramps when an ambulance traveling to Jewish Hospital Shelbyville with a patient collided with a car.

According to Sheriff's deputy Riley Kennedy, the car pulled out in front of the ambulance at the intersection of Tayorsville and Old Brunerstown roads.

“I guess they just didn't see it,” he said.

If President Barack Obama tries to follow all of the advice of local leaders, he will indeed be a busy man -- and perhaps a miracle worker.

When asked what advice they would give Obama, local leaders said he needs to stimulate the economy but not increase the budget deficit and not raise taxes. He needs to keep us safe and take the war to terrorists. He needs to review federal education legislation and help local schools, businesses and farmers, they said. And be his own man, unswayed by the extreme elements within his party.

Deborah Jordan is on cloud 10.

She is three days away from leading a group from Shelbyville to the inauguration of president-elect Barack Obama, and she says she “can hardly wait to on the bus.”

Jordan, president of the local NAACP, said the inauguration of the first African American U.S. president is one of the most historic events in her lifetime.

She said she wouldn't dare miss it.

"I just can't express how excited I am," she said.

A Louisville company is hoping to increase the amount of public transportation locally by establishing an intercity bus route that transverses the state -- including stops in Shelby County.

Miller Transportation, a bus provider located in Louisville, has joined a national network of buses in order to provide a regularly scheduled bus service for the general public that allows for transit from here to virtually anywhere.