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Today's News

  • EARLIER: Shelby teen found drowned in Clear Creek

    A teenager who was last seen planning a night of fun at the Shelby County Fair was found facedown in a creek Monday morning by a railroad employee.

    Family members of Jackleen Lane, 15, of Bagdad told WAVE-Ch. 3 that when the teen told her brother, Josh Lane, of her plans to attend the fair on Saturday night that was the last conversation anyone had with her.

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  • Shelby County crime 2012: Heroin is a new concern

    New laws designed to stymie the illegal sale and consumption of prescription drugs and methamphetamines in Kentucky have developed a deadly and terrifying side effect: Heroin, the opiate of choice for many in the American drug culture of the 1960s and 1970s, has returned to the streets and in 2012 claimed two lives in Shelby County.

    “It was last year that we started seeing more heroin activity here, and we have actually had a couple of fatalities from heroin overdoses in Shelbyville,” Shelbyville Police Chief Danny Goodwin said.

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  • Shelby County crime 2012: Physical crimes on the rise

    Despite a deadly knifing, gun-wielding attackers and gruesome sexual crimes that stole the headlines in 2012, assaults – and primarily domestic assaults – shoved up the number of violent crimes in Shelby County.
    There were 130 assaults booked last year by the three law enforcement agencies serving Shelby County, a 31 percent increase from the 99 of 2011, and they included several with guns and even one charge of a man pistol-whipping his girl friend.

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  • Shelby County Crime 2012: A special report: Fatal accidents decline

    Fewer people died on Shelby County’s roads in 2012 than they had the previous year, and despite a slight increase in the number of collisions last year, fewer people were driving impaired.
    There were four deadly accidents, claiming six lives on Shelby’s roads in 2012, a 55 percent decrease in deadly accidents (from nine to four). The number of deaths were down by 33 percent, from 9 to 6, because one accident claimed three lives.

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  • Spending Your Tax Dollars: 2 health agencies under single leader

    Shelby’s public health taxing district sends about three-fourths of its tax revenue to another the regional health agency in which it participates, with both entities being managed by the same person.

    Renee Blair, has been executive director of the Shelby County Health Department and the North Central District Health Districtfor 25 years, is not a member of the county’s health taxing district board, but she serves in that same dual capacity in three other counties within the district’s jurisdiction.

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  • Spending Your Tax Dollars: Shelby County Health District

    What is Shelby County Health District’s area of control?

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  • Spending Your Tax Dollars: Tourism, KIPDA don’t get your money

    The Kentucky Auditor’s Office is trying to redefine the thousands of special taxing districts that litter the commonwealth’s counties.

    In July, legislation that was designed to make the districts more transparent and open to the public went into effect. The goal was to shine a light on the billions being spent by these entities that are largely filled by appointed personnel who don’t need approval to get tax or spend.

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  • Spending Your Tax Dollars: A huge investment in dirt and water

    In the past 5 years – and for many years before that – more than $1 million of your tax dollars have been left lying in the dirt or submerged under water.

    But, if you listen to federal officials, the Soil Conservation District, the county’s oldest special taxing district, stands out in longevity and in importance.

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  • Spending Your Tax Dollars: Soil Conservation Board

    What is the soil conservation district’s area of control?

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  • Spending Your Tax Dollars: Extension board has low taxes, high impact

    In all 50 states, and almost every county in each of those 50 states, there is a cooperative extension service, aimed at educating and assisting counties in the areas of agriculture, home, family, the environment and more.

    And Shelby County is no different. With research, oversight, and some funding provided by the University of Kentucky, the Shelby County Cooperative Extension Office provides a variety of services, information and educational programs to county citizens for little to no charge.

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