Today's News

A high wing mono plane (a two or four seat plane) made an emergency landing around 11 a.m. today in a soybean field just off Joe Prather Highway.

Vine Grove Police Chief Steve Manning said he believed there were two passengers on the plane. There were no injuries. Manning said the pilot of the plane reported that it was running rough and had to make a quick landing. The plane was able to make a relatively smooth landing in the field.

The plane took off from the Vine Grove Airport

Martha Ann ‘Marty’ Beeler

Martha Ann “Marty” Beeler, 72, of Lebanon Junction, died Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008, at Hardin Memorial Hospital in Elizabethtown.

She was a native of Louisville and was the former Martha Ann Thompson. She was a former field desk clerk for Davis Brothers Travel Plaza in Lebanon Junction and a member of St. Benedict Catholic Church in Lebanon Junction.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Dennis Lee Beeler.

By BOB WHITE

bwhite@thenewsenterprise.com

UPTON – A Hart County man burned in and then blamed for an early morning apartment explosion may not face criminal charges relating to methamphetamine production and wanton endangerment as investigators initially believed.

William Rucker, a 45-year-old truck driver living at the Murrieltown Road apartment building that exploded and burned Aug. 3, had been cooking methamphetamine in his bedroom when the explosion occurred, Kentucky State Police said.

By Dr. Linda Thomas-Glover

Guest columnist

In today’s economy, good jobs may be hard to find. However, never has it been more important to prepare adequately for your future.

For more than 40 years, Central Kentuckians have turned to Elizabethtown Community and Technical College to help prepare them for rewarding careers that increase their earning power and improve the quality of life for themselves and their families.