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Today's News

  • Our precious loss: Bus safety improved after crash

    Twenty-five years ago, 15-year-old Quinton Higgins spent about a month in Kosair Children’s Hospital after suffering lung damage and second- and third-degree burns  in the fiery bus crash.

    Today, Higgins drives a Hardin County Schools bus.

    The differences between the bus he drives every school day and the repurposed 1977 Ford B-700 school bus he was in that night in 1988 are like “night and day,” Higgins said.

    “It’s just a totally different bus today,” he said.

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  • Our precious loss: DUI statutes toughened, judicial tolerance lowered

    If a Kentucky resident was found driving under the influence on intoxicants in 1988, there was no mandatory jail time or alcohol and drug education. According to officials, license suspension was significantly reduced or waived if an offender sought treatment.

    Locally, one out of five motorists who were presumed to be under the influence of alcohol in 1988 received lesser charges than a DUI, according to The News-Enterprise archives.

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  • Photo: Making hay while the sun shines
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  • Former teacher arrested on indictment warrant

    A former J.T. Alton Middle School teacher facing 30 charges related to exchanging sexually charged text messages with a student was arrested Mother’s Day at his Rineyville home.

    Anthony D. Durrant, 46, was indicted Thursday into Hardin Circuit Court, and on Sunday, Kentucky State Police trooper served the former social studies teacher an indictment warrant at his Labrador Way residence.

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  • Seven women indicted since April on benefits fraud charges

    Over the last four weeks, at least seven Hardin County women have been indicted for fraudulently obtaining thousands of dollars in public benefits through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

    In April, Elizabethtown woman Joyce McCarthy, 48, was indicted for misrepresentation or failure to report a change to obtain public assistance benefits. Three weeks later, five more women — Angela Marie Varner, Amanda McQuillen, Deidre McCray, Chariti May and Stephanie L. Skirvin — were indicted on the same charge.

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  • Safety is legacy of bus tragedy

    ISSUE: Reactions to the bus crash

    OUR VIEW: Lasting legacy of safety improvements

    Signs standing on the shoulders of Interstate 71 in rural Carroll County mark the site of one of our country’s most deadly bus disasters. Flowers, crosses, messages and other items can be seen around this sign, left as tokens to honor the lives lost on this stretch of highway.

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  • Siblings welcome Michelle Elizabeth Hoffie

    Shayne Aaron Hoffie and Caleb Joseph Hoffie announce the birth of a sister, Michelle Elizabeth Hoffie, on April 13, 2013. She weighed 6 pounds, 4 ounces and was 19 inches long.

    Parents are Jerome and Carla Michelle Hoffie.

    Maternal grandparents are Joe and Glenda Dohn. Paternal grandparents are Bob and Patty Hoffie.

    Maternal great-grandparents are Dixie Pearman and the late John “J.T.” Peraman and Fred and Nan Dohn. Paternal great-grandparents are Ken and Betty Hoffie and the late Elaine Linstead Hoffie and the late Gervis and Cora Keel.

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  • Merritt – Sanders

    Kenneth and Connie Merritt of Eastview announce the engagement and forthcoming marriage of their daughter, Alyssa Ann Merritt, to Jordan Craig Sanders, son of Doug and Gloria Sanders of Glendale.

    The bride-to-be is a 2012 graduate of Brown Mackie College. She is employed as a certified occupational therapist assistant.

    The prospective groom is a 2013 graduate of Western Kentucky University with a bachelor’s degree in environmental health science. He is employed by Veolia Water.

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  • Harts celebrate 50th anniversary

    Jack and Karen McCracken Hart of Radcliff, will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary from 2 to 4 p.m. May 25, 2013, at Radcliff United Methodist Church.

    They were married May 25, 1963, at Radcliff United Methodist Church.

    Mrs. Hart is a charter member of Radcliff United Methodist Church.

    Mr. Hart is owner of Jack Hart’s Body Shop and is a member Radcliff United Methodist Church.

    They have three children, Steve Hart and Kaye Nunn, both of Elizabethtown, and Buddy Hart of Rineyville; eight grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.

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  • Gaeschkes celebrate 50th anniversary

    Anthony John Gaeschke and Veronica Choon-ja Kwan Gaeschke of Cincinnati, formerly of Radcliff, will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary at 11:30 a.m. May 12, 2013, at Camp Carlson Campgrounds.

    They were married in 1963 in Seoul, Korea.

    Mr. Gaeschke is a longtime member of St. Christopher Catholic Church, served in the U.S. Army from 1960 to 1980 and worked for civil service from 1981 to 2010, where he retired in 2010.

    Mrs. Gaeschke also is a longtime member of St. Christopher Catholic Church and was employed at Fort Knox for many years.

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