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  • Innovation wanted: Buck$ for Bright Ideas rewards entrepreneurs

    Budding entrepreneurs could find the aid they need to further their business concepts this spring.

    The Central Region Innovation and Commercialization Center has launched its Buck$ for Bright Ideas contest, looking for strong concepts that could develop into successful businesses. The center is working with other innovation centers in the state, including eMerging Ventures Center for Innovation and the Lincoln Trail Innovation Center.

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  • Black Oak Arkansas to open for the Kentucky Headhunters

    An opening act for the Kentucky Headhunter’s June show in Elizabethtown has been confirmed.

    Elizabethtown City Councilman Kenny Lewis on Monday said southern rockers Black Oak Arkansas featuring Jim “Dandy” Mangrum on lead vocals will open for the country rock veterans June 3 at Freeman Lake Park. The show has been merged into the Kentucky Heartland Festival this year.

    Lewis said tickets will go on sale for the show April 25 and will cost $10 in advance or $15 at the gate. Ticket locations have not yet been released.

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  • Population growth eases housing industry woes

    Times have been tough in recent years for construction companies and contractors, but population growth in Hardin County has eased the pain for some.

    There is some question about whether the county has seen enough of the right kinds of development to appeal to new residents.

    The U.S. Census Bureau reported on Thursday a 12.1 percent jump in Hardin County’s population between 2000 and spring of 2010. That increase only caught the beginning of the growth that officials say changes at Fort Knox have brought to the area.

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  • Children testify as Burke trial opens

    Awakened by sounds of breaking glass, gunfire and shouting, two children described a Rineyville home transformed into a scene of blood and death during testimony Monday to open a double murder trial.

    After brief competency hearings in Hardin Circuit Court, the two sons of Tracy Burke declared under oath that Brent Burke was in their home the night of the shootings. Their mother, Burke’s estranged wife, and her former mother-in-law, Karen Comer, were shot to death Sept. 11, 2007, at 397 Waterfowl Loop.

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  • Grimes: New blood needed in Frankfort

    Alison Lundergan Grimes is locked in a battle for Kentucky secretary of state, but she’s used to fighting.

    Born prematurely, Grimes from the womb had to fight to survive. One of five girls, she had to pick her battles and understand the personalities of her sisters to realize when to break through the chatter and speak.

    “I grew up fighting like a lot of good Democrats do,” she said.

    Grimes made a stop Monday in Hardin County where she met with local officials and visited Fort Knox.

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  • RPD searching for missing woman

    Radcliff police are looking for a woman who has been missing since early Sunday morning.

    Gwendolyn S. Payne, 49, was last seen at her residence on Elm Road.

    Payne, who works at McDonalds in the Radcliff Walmart, did not show up for work Sunday and Monday.

    Payne, who was last seen at 12:30 a.m. Sunday, has no known medical issues, according to an RPD news release and is 5-foot-2 and weighs 103 pounds.

    Police spokesman Bryce Shumate said at this point foul play is not suspected in her disappearance.

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  • Fire claims barn, animals of local 4-H family

    The Williams family was getting ready to leave for church Sunday morning at Our Lady of Mercy in Hodgenville.

    Orry, a freshman at Central Hardin High School, was opening the garage door of the family’s Elizabethtown home when he saw smoke wafting up from the barn several yards away.

    The barn contained animals that he and his sister, Briann, a seventh-grader at East Hardin Middle School, had raised for 4-H. They had cared for many of the animals since birth.

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  • 3/1 soldier dies in Afghanistan

    A second member of the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, Task Force Duke based at Fort Knox has died from injuries suffered while serving in Afghanistan.

    U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Mecolus C. McDaniel, 33, of Fort Hood, Texas, was a cavalry scout assigned to Troop A, 6th Squadron, 4th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, Task Force Duke.

    McDaniel died Saturday from wounds suffered when insurgents attacked his unit with an improvised explosive device and small arms fire in Khowst Province, Afghanistan.

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  • Child testifies that he saw Brent Burke shoot 'Momma Tracy'

    The double murder trial of U.S. Army Sgt. Brent Burke opened Monday morning with testimony from his son that he saw his father kill Tracy Burke.

    On the stand wearing a vest, white shirt and a tie, Burke's son, Ian, said on the night of the shooting in Rineyville in September 2007, he was in bed, woke up and "Brent shot Momma Tracy.''

    The child was 4 at the time of the shooting death of Tracy Burke and her former mother-in-law, Karen Comer at Comer's home.

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