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On May 21, 1944, Navy Landing Ship Tanks (LST) 779 was launched by Dravo shipbuilders into the Ohio River at Pittsburgh. The ship came down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to New Orleans, where she was commissioned, and went through the Panama Canal and sailed to Pearl Harbor, where on Dec. 7, 1941, the Japanese had bombed the ships in the harbor and damaged and sunk several of them. Many U.S. sailors had given their lives.

I was heartened to hear members of the Shelbyville City Council may make adult-provided or adult-present minors' use of illegal substances a city as well as a county and state penalty (“Adult hosts of teen parties may be fined,” May 20). This I hope you will pass.

However, I encourage you to change the minimum fine to $1000 for the first offense, with multiples of that for later offenses. Here is why.

LOUISVILLE – Gabby Karas was double trouble Friday.

Karas, an eighth-grader at Collins High School, claimed a pair of titles in the Class AA meet at the KHSAA Track & Field State Championships, winning the 1,600- and 3,200-meter runs at the University of Louisville’s Owsley Frazier Cardinal Park.

“Gabby was terrific,” Titans Coach Jerry Lucas said.

Thanks to Karas’ victories Collins' girls’ team finished 11th.

Samantha Manna, a 2013 graduate of Christian Academy of Louisville, has received the Grace University Christian High School Scholarship. The scholarship is awarded to two students who demonstrate strong leadership skills, good academic standing and are motivated to complete their college degree in Grace University’s distinctly Christian environment.