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This Memorial Day there is one more family in Shelby County family that will remember a beloved son they never again will see but will hold in their hearts forever.

Sean Cassedy, 31, a Marine who served three tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan and was horribly wounded, came home to a hero’s welcome in Bagdad in 2003.

He survived the battlefield, but he could not overcome a battle raging inside him, spawned by memories of those bloody and awful days in combat in the Middle East.

Two children were transported to Jewish Hospital Shelbyville on Monday afternoon after a 2-vehicle crash on Taylorsville Road.

A pickup truck, driven by Jeffrey S. Sweasy, 47, of Bardstown rear-ended a passenger car in heavy traffic shortly before 4:30 p.m. near the Interstate 64 interchange.

Combat is the primary challenge of a Marine, but there are many days when fighting is far from the primary agenda.

In the first days of a 30-year career in the U.S. Marine Corps, I was dispatched to the Marine Officers Basic School at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, my first trip east from my home in Washington state.

I got a chance to learn much, and for five years I recorded these memories in a journal that now is part of the Filson Historical Society.

Shelby County farmers anticipating more rain in the coming days are scurrying to get out their corn and soybean crops already delayed by an extremely wet streak.

Some were working late into the night and early morning to plant corn and try to clear one crop and place the other.
Farmer Ray Tucker posted on his Facebook page Thursday that he had planted corn until 3 a.m. and was planning to get at soybeans starting at 5.