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  • Area tops in income growth

    The area has captured the top ranking in personal income percentage growth in 2010.

    The Elizabethtown Metropolitan Statistical Area earned the top spot with 10.1 percent growth for last year compared to 2009, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic Analysis.

    That’s the greatest percent growth of the nation’s 366 metropolitan statistical areas.

    That has meant more consumer spending, job creation and economic prosperity in the area, Judge-Executive Harry Berry said.

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  • RPD Citizens Police Academy seeks applicants

    The Radcliff Police Department is accepting applications for its Citizens Police Academy.

    Deadline for applications is Sept. 12. Applications can be found online at Radcliff.org or picked up at Radcliff City Hall or Radcliff Police Department.

    For information, call RPD public information officer Bryce Shumate at (270) 351-4714.

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  • Hail to the chief: Tracy Schiller acclimates to E’town

    Chief Tracy Schiller stood in the middle of the Elizabethtown Police Department seal on the gray tile floor of the South Mulberry Street headquarters. As a photographer climbed on top of a chair, Schiller placed his hand on top of his bare head.

    “How’s my part?” he joked.

    Just more than two weeks have passed since city council approved Schiller, 58, to succeed former Chief Ruben Gardner.

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  • RPD arrests suspect in conjunction with A/C thefts

    Radcliff Police Department apprehended a suspect Monday night in conjunction with a string air-conditioning unit thefts in the city.

    Jeremiah Lynch, 32, of Radcliff is charged with six counts of theft by unlawful taking of more than $300 as well as multiple charges in Breckinridge and Jefferson counties.

    After receiving information about Lynch from an outside law-enforcement agency, RPD officers discovered Breckinridge and Jefferson counties had bench warrants out for the accused, RPD spokesman Bryce Shumate said.

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  • Fund-raisers planned for former resident battling cancer

    A pair of events the next two Fridays will be held to have family and friends enjoy time together and at the same time help a former resident offset the costs of her ongoing fight against cancer.

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  • Radcliff to place new regulations on adult entertainment

    Radcliff City Council is looking to implement an adult entertainment ordinance ahead of a vote to expand alcohol sales to wet status in early October.

    The ordinance as proposed would prohibit the sale of alcohol in sexually oriented businesses and regulate where adult entertainment could develop in the city.

    Radcliff’s ordinance roughly mirrors laws enacted in Louisville that withstood the scrutiny of the Kentucky Supreme Court, City Attorney Michael Pike said.

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  • West Point men win standoff against snake

    Adam Hendley stood still Wednesday with his car door open listening to a rustling through the grass two feet away from him.

    He was sure it was a snake. Then, he caught sight of the tell-tale rattler on the end of the slithering animal’s body.

    “I was kind of shocked, really,” he said. “I was a little concerned.”

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  • CORRECTED: Man pleads guilty to sexual abuse of a minor

    Detective Kelly Slone is passionate about all the cases she works. But the conclusion in a case of an Elizabethtown man accused of raping a girl younger than 12 had a jolting impact on the Elizabethtown police veteran.

    Edward Calli, 33, pleaded guilty to three counts of first-degree sexual abuse. The charges were amended from first-degree rape.

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  • Radcliff considering scrap metal ordinance

    mfinley@thenewsenterprise.com
    With a rash of copper thefts confounding local investigators, Radcliff Police Chief Jeff Cross on Monday encouraged city officials to adopt an ordinance that would monitor local junk, secondhand and scrap metal dealers to give the department more leverage when approaching those businesses.

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