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Search and rescue efforts helped authorities in West Point find an Elizabethtown man who is part of a newly formed volunteer search and rescue team.

Elizabethtown resident Drew Holmberg was reported to West Point police as missing and possibly injured at about 1:30 a.m. Thursday after he and his brother were fishing in the Ohio River area, West Point Police Chief Butch Curl said.

A convenience store next to the railroad track on Radcliff's northern edge has a millionaire among its customers.

Smitty's sold a Powerball ticket that came one number short of winning the national jackpot, according to the Kentucky Lottery Commission.

Howard "Smitty" Ford, who has operated the store for the last nine years, said he doesn't have any idea who won the prize.

The lottery corporation encourages the ticket holder to sign the back of the ticket immediately. The winner has 180 days to claim the prize.

Hardin County Animal Control is ready to adopt out a 6-month-old dog that broke its leg earlier this month when police say the canine’s owner caused it to fall 5 feet.

Athena, a brown Chihuahua mix, wears a thick, red cast on her front left leg, but animal control officials said you wouldn’t know it by her energy level.

“If you set her down, she’s nothing but a blur,” kennel technician Kathy Alberts said Wednesday.

Carol Rogers can eat about half of a double buck burger, a staple of Sonora’s Bucksnort Café.

The burger includes two oversized beef patties totaling nearly a pound of meat, multiple types of cheese, bacon and other additions, she said.

“You name it, it’s on there,” she said. “It’s about six inches tall. It’s a big one.”

Participants in a burger eating competition Friday at the Sonora Veterans Memorial Park can tackle the monster burgers while promoting the park.