CYNTHIANA / HARRISON
The Cynthiana-Harrison County Parks and Recreation office is now accepting signups for youth baseball and softball; notices should be coming home with students from the Harrison County elementary schools detailing changes in a few of the leagues. The deadline for signups is February 28th. Signups can be done from 2-5 Monday thru Friday and 10-noon on Saturday at the Cynthiana City Hall gymnasium.
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The First Church of God in Cynthiana recently donated 18 blankets to Harrison Memorial Hospital for the Project Linus project. Project Linus is a group of individuals who provide blankets to children through local fire departments, hospitals, health departments and more. Since 2009, the group has donated more than 500 blankets for pediatric patients at HMH. The project is named after the adorable security blanket-toting character from the Peanuts comic strip. The mission of Project Linus is to provide love, a sense of security, warmth and comfort to children who are seriously ill, traumatized or otherwise in need through the gifts of handmade blankets and afghans created by volunteer blanketeers.
For more information about Project Linus, contact Christy Hall (administration) at chall@hmhosp.org or 235-3554
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KENTUCKY
A threatening message kept many Eastern Kentucky University students and staff members home on Wednesday; but in the end, it ended up being a quiet day at EKU with lots of extra security on hand.
Even as the day came to a close, wrapping up nine days of tension following the discovery of the threat, many still are trying to figure out why someone would make the threat in the first place.
Police have not yet identified who wrote the threat in the bathroom stall.
http://www.wkyt.com/home/headlines/Strong-police-presence-sees-EKU-through–291609061.html
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A state Senate panel has approved a proposal to move Kentucky’s election for governor to even-numbered years.
Kentucky is one of the few states that elects its governor and other statewide constitutional officers in odd-numbered years. State Sen. Chris McDaniel, a Republican candidate for lieutenant governor in November, said moving the election would save local taxpayers $3.5 million every four years.
But Democratic state Sen. Dorsey Ridley of Henderson said the added expense of the elections is the cost of democracy. He said having the election for governor separate from a presidential or congressional campaigns gives the race more attention and prestige.
The Senate State and Local Government Committee has passed similar bills the past two years that ultimately failed.
http://wuky.org/post/bill-move-governors-election-advances-senate
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The Republican state Senate has advanced a bill that would likely accelerate the death of Kentucky’s traditional landline service after a similar proposal seemed to falter in the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives.
Supporters were optimistic the bill would get a vote in the House after it easily cleared a committee last week. But since then House members piled on eight amendments, a sign the body is far from a consensus.
The bill wouldn’t require telephone companies to maintain traditional landline service in areas that have more than 15,000 households. AT&T of Kentucky President Hood Harris vowed no one with an existing landline would lose service.
Opponents say the state is moving too fast, arguing alternative services are not reliable for home security systems and medical monitoring devices.
http://wuky.org/post/senate-advances-phone-deregulation-bill
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NATION
Tickets in North Carolina, Puerto Rico and Texas matched all six numbers last night, to split a $564.1 million Powerball jackpot. Should the winners select the lump sum option, each would get a one-third share of $381,138,450.16 before taxes. The jackpot was the third-largest in Powerball history and the fifth-largest U.S. lottery prize. The jackpot now goes back to $40 million. The winning numbers in Wednesday’s drawing were: 11, 13, 25, 39, 54 and the Powerball 19.
Sue Dooley, senior drawing manager for the Multi-State Lottery Association, says the Puerto Rico ticket was the first Powerball jackpot winner ever sold outside the continental United States. Puerto Rico joined Powerball less than a year ago.
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ENTERTAINMENT
60 Minutes correspondent Bob Simon was killed in a car crash in New York City on Wednesday evening. Simon was travelling in a livery cab that sideswiped a Mercedes-Benz that had come to a stop at a red light on 12th Avenue near West 30th Street around 6:45pm, and then slammed into the median. The CBS reporter, 73, was unconscious with head and torso injuries when he was rushed to St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital in the city where he was later pronounced dead. Police on the scene had to cut off the top of the Lincoln to free Simon and the driver. The driver of the Lincoln, a 44-year-old man, suffered two broken legs and a broken arm and was taken to Bellevue Hospital where he is in stable condition. The driver of the Mercedes claims the accident was the fault of the livery cab driver. The accident is under investigation.
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THIS DAY IN HISTORY
- 1502 – Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal, on his second voyage to India.
- 1554 – A year after claiming the throne of England for nine days, Lady Jane Grey is beheaded for treason.
- 1689 – The Convention Parliament declares that the flight to France in 1688 by James II, the last Roman Catholic British monarch, constitutes an abdication.
- 1733 – Englishman James Oglethorpe founds Georgia, the 13th colony of the Thirteen Colonies, and its first city at Savannah (known as Georgia Day).
- 1825 – The Creek cede the last of their lands in Georgia to the United States government by the Treaty of Indian Springs, and migrate west.
- 1851 – Edward Hargraves announces that he has found gold in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia, starting the Australian gold rushes.
- 1855 – Michigan State University is established.
- 1909 – The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded.
- 1914 – In Washington, D.C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
- 1924 – George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue received its premiere in a concert titled “An Experiment in Modern Music,” in Aeolian Hall, New York, by Paul Whiteman and his band, with Gershwin playing the piano.
- 1934 – The Austrian Civil War begins.
- 1935 – USS Macon, one of the two largest helium-filled airships ever created, crashes into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California and sinks.
- 1946 – World War II: Operation Deadlight ends after scuttling 121 of 154 captured U-boats.
- 1946 – African American United States Army veteran Isaac Woodard is severely beaten by a South Carolina police officer to the point where he loses his vision in both eyes. The incident later galvanizes the Civil Rights Movement and partially inspires Orson Welles’ film Touch of Evil.
- 1947 – The largest observed iron meteorite until that time creates an impact crater in Sikhote-Alin, in the Soviet Union.
- 1947 – Christian Dior unveils a “New Look”, helping Paris regain its position as the capital of the fashion world.
- 1961 – Soviet Union launches Venera 1 towards Venus.
- 1963 – Construction begins on the Gateway Arch in St. Louis.
- 1990 – Carmen Lawrence becomes the first female Premier in Australian history when she becomes Premier of Western Australia.
- 1994 – Four men break into the National Gallery of Norway and steal Edvard Munch’s iconic painting The Scream.
- 1999 – United States President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial.
- 2001 – NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touches down in the “saddle” region of 433 Eros, becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
- 2002 – The trial of Slobodan Milošević, the former President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, begins at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands. He dies four years later before its conclusion.
- 2004 – The city of San Francisco, California begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in response to a directive from Mayor Gavin Newsom.
- 2009 – Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashes into a house in Clarence Center, New York while on approach to Buffalo Niagara International Airport, killing all on board and one on the ground.
“Morning News – 02/12/15” was originally published on J. Palmer
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