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Lee Todd, Joker Phillips, band greet freshmen moving into UK dorms

August 20, 2010, 9:54 am
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Thousands of students began streaming onto the University of Kentucky campus Friday, as the university kicked off "Move-In" day in preparation for the start of the 2010 fall semester.

President Lee Todd and his wife, Patsy Todd, greeted parents and first-year students, who were moving into rooms at the Blanding and Kirwan tower dormitories at UK's south campus.

UK football coach Joker Phillips and members of the football team turned out to help with heavy lifting as students hauled mountains of luggage and supplies into their rooms. Members of UK's marching band provided plenty of loud music and enthusiasm, and about 1,000 volunteers pitched to help direct traffic and move furniture.

About 3,500 freshmen were expected to move into dormitories Friday, followed by about 500 more on Saturday.

Todd said Friday that the freshman class is being held to about 4,000 this year, in part of because of tight finances that have limited the hiring of instructors. On the other hand, he said, that has allowed UK to be more discriminating in accepting new students, so the academic quality of this year's freshman group promises to be high.
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Sailor from Kentucky killed in Afghanistan

August 20, 2010, 10:02 am
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The Defense Department says a Navy SEAL from Eastern Kentucky has been killed in Afghanistan.

A statement on Friday says 33-year-old Chief Petty Officer Collin Thomas of Morehead died Aug. 18 during a combat operation. The statement says he was assigned to a SEAL team on the East coast.

Gov. Steve Beshear said Friday that flags at state office buildings will be lowered to half-staff on the day that Thomas is interred.
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For some anorexics and their families, non-traditional Maudsley' approach brings recovery

August 20, 2010, 10:10 am
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When her parents told her that she had to eat her dinner, Holly Zimmerman burst into hysterical tears and screams. Then, after several hours, the once docile third-grader leaped from her seat and tried to stab them with a fork.

"This is a little 9-year-old, and the devil was coming out of her because we were making her eat," Orlando, Fla., mom Lauren Zimmerman says, recalling the time her home became a battlefield because of a new, no-compromise policy of three meals and three snacks a day.

At age 7, Holly started to show symptoms of anorexia nervosa, which, in addition to self-starvation, can also involve purging and over-exercise. She hid snacks, squirreled away food in her mouth, and sniffed grains of rice, putting them down uneaten. But four weeks after her parents implemented the new rules, Holly stopped complaining and started eating.

Holly's family was using an obscure, family-based treatment known as the Maudsley approach. Developed in the 1980s at Maudsley Hospital in South London, the method has demonstrated empirical success combating a condition that affects approximately 10 million females and 1 million males in the United States. The American Psychological Association reports that the mortality rate for anorexic patients is 10 percent - one of the highest of all psychiatric disorders.

"The cornerstone of the Maudsley approach is what we call an agnostic view of the illness, which means we don't know what causes anorexia and frankly we don't care," says psychologist Dr. Sarah Ravin, one of South Florida's few Maudsley practitioners. "This is very different from traditional treatment, which focuses first and foremost on what caused this illness."
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Voting begins at 3 today on new name for Newtown Pike extension

August 20, 2010, 10:13 am
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People will have a chance to vote on a new name for the Newtown Pike extension starting at 3 p.m. today by going to the city's Web site and clicking on Newtown Pike Extension.

Several weeks ago, the city asked residents to submit possible names for the new street, and more than 560 names were suggested.

This list was winnowed down to five: Bolivar Street, Equestrian Boulevard, Mary Todd Lincoln Boulevard, Millennium Road and Oliver Lewis Way.

Voting will continue until 3 p.m. Aug. 27.

To vote, go to Lexingtonky.gov and click on "Newtown Extension Name it!"
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Defense attorney wrangles with witness who heard doctor's wife's screams

August 20, 2010, 10:33 am
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DANVILLE - A witness broke down Friday as she recalled the day that Isabel Hall was struck by a pontoon boat piloted by her husband, Dr. Steven Hall.

The witness, Tara Silbersdorf, was among a group of Illinois residents who were vacationing on Herrington Lake on May 29, 2009. Steven Hall, a Harrodsburg physician, is charged with murder. He maintains his wife's death was an accident.

Silbersdorf said she heard Isabel Hall screaming "help me. Please help me. He's trying to kill me." Hall was swimming in front of her husband's boat.

During a testy cross examination by defense attorney Steve Romines, Silbersdorf said, "Sir, this has been a very hard experience for me."

Romines, pointing at Steven Hall at the defense table, responded, "How do you think it has been for that man?"
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Cedarwood Drive in Oakwood subdivision will keep its name

August 20, 2010, 10:53 am
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The name of Cedarwood Drive in the Oakwood subdivision will not be changed after all, the city's addressing committee decided Friday.

Earlier this summer, the committee had proposed changing the street name because there is another Cedarwood Drive. Oakwood residents reacted angrily when told that their street name might be changed.

The two Cedarwood Drives are in adjoining subdivisions, separated by a 5-foot berm. Cedarwood Drive in the Oakwood neighborhood opened in 1964. Cedarwood Drive in Coldstream subdivision opened less than 10 years ago.

The addressing committee had earlier proposed one of two options to the Oakwood neighbors: either remove the berm connect the two sections of the street, or rename Cedarwood in the Oakwood subdivision because it has fewer houses than the portion in Coldstream.

However, Ann Bolling, an Oakwood resident for 41 years, told the addressing committee the first option would not work because Urban County County voted in August 1999 to retain the berm.
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Proposal advances to rename street after fallen police officer Durman

August 20, 2010, 10:53 am
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The city's addressing committee reconsidered an earlier refusal to rename a small street in Lexington after police Officer Bryan J. Durman, who died in the line of duty April 29.

On Friday, members voted on the issue for the second time and approved allowing the proposed change to go before the Urban County Council. The council must consider the change before it is made, but Mayor Jim Newberry issued a release last month saying he supports renaming Hilo Street to Durman Drive and would "work with council and administrative agencies to make that happen."

Hilo Street is a small street with no addresses that connects Industry Road to Goodwin Drive. It is near the police's Central Sector roll-call building, where Durman reported to work.

Enhanced 911 dispatcher Amy Ross, who proposed the idea, said Durman travelled the road daily. She said Friday that having Durman Drive close to roll call will help his coworkers remember his sacrifice and the dangers they face on the job.

At its July meeting for several reasons, the council decided for several reasons not to rename the street. The reasons included that the change was not a public safety issue and that there were no precedents for renaming streets after fallen public servants. Streets have not been named after firefighter Brenda Cowan, who was shot while responding to a domestic-violence call in 2004, or Deputy Joe Angelucci, who was killed while serving a warrant in 1988.
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Adult website operator among Rand Paul donors

August 20, 2010, 11:10 am
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Republican Rand Paul's Senate campaign isn't saying whether it will return money from a California donor who runs an adult website featuring photos of scantily clad and nude women.

Federal Election Commission records show that Cyan Banister, founder of the site Zivity.com along with her husband, contributed $4,800 to Paul earlier this year.

Banister told The Associated Press in an e-mail Thursday that she sees Paul's limited government views as appealing, and said she likes his "strong values that resonate with mine."

Martin Cothran, policy analyst for the conservative Family Foundation of Kentucky, says a lot of Kentuckians would have a problem with a candidate accepting money from what he calls "organizations that are tearing down our culture."

Paul's campaign said the candidate condemns pornography and considers it degrading to women, but won't say whether it will return the donation.
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MSHA: program aimed at trimming citation backlog

August 20, 2010, 11:10 am
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Federal regulators say they're going to try meeting with mine operators accused of breaking health and safety rules earlier in the appeals process in hopes of reducing a backlog of 89,000 citations.

The pilot program announced Friday by the Mine Safety and Health Administration starts Aug. 31 and runs through November in three of the agency's districts. The agency says it chose offices that cover coal companies in Pennsylvania and Kentucky and metal and non-metal mines in Alabama to test the approach.

MSHA says it has been meeting with mine operators after they've been fined and contested citations. The pilot program will move those meetings to before penalties are assessed and operators have contested citations.

Congress recently appropriated $22 million to address the backlog.
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Forest Service plans to remove damaged LBL trees

August 20, 2010, 11:16 am
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Federal forest managers at Land Between the Lakes want to remove hardwood trees that were significantly damaged in the 2009 ice storm.

The U.S. Forest Service is seeking public comment on a plan to cut damaged trees at two places in the recreation area. The aim is to improve wildlife habitat.

LBL forester Dennis Wilson told The Paducah Sun the plan calls for removing about 40 percent of the hardwood trees in the areas.

"The best overall trees - the most desirable oaks for mast production - will be retained," Wilson said. "The key is the amount of the canopy of each tree that was broken out by the ice. Those that got as much as 60 percent of the canopy broken out will never have good mast production again."

Mast is the term used for nuts, berries and seeds that wildlife feed upon.
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Man taken to UK Hospital after Frankfort shooting

August 20, 2010, 12:03 pm
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No charges had been filed Friday morning in a Frankfort shooting that sent one man to the hospital.

Frankfort police officers received a call at 2:14 a.m. that shots had been fired inside a home on Douglas Avenue in east Frankfort, Maj. Fred Deaton said.

Responding officers found a 39-year-old man who had been shot in the abdomen inside the home. He was taken to University of Kentucky Chandler Hospital in Lexington. His condition was not available Friday morning.

Three others were inside the home, Deaton said: a 53-year-old man, a 30-year-old woman and a 10-year-old girl.

Police have not released any names.
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Police: Alcohol involved in Lexington crash that sent six to hospital

August 20, 2010, 12:13 pm
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Lexington police are investigating a two-vehicle crash that sent six people to the hospital Friday morning.

About 5:40 a.m., police were called to Harrodsburg Road near Cheryl Lane, where a Dodge truck and a Jeep Cherokee had collided, Lexington police spokeswoman Sherelle Roberts said.

The truck was turning left into the parking lot of Southside Technical Center when the Jeep apparently crashed into it.

The Jeep's driver and four passengers, all between 17 and 19 years old, were thought to have been drinking, Roberts said. The driver of the Jeep has been charged with driving under the influence. The five, plus the driver of the truck, were taken to the hospital.

Roberts said none of the injuries appeared to be life-threatening. No names have been released.
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$5,000 reward for information about shooting of carrier

August 20, 2010, 1:43 pm
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The Lexington Herald-Leader announced Friday that it is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the persons involved in the shooting of Don Silvestri, a contract carrier.

Silvestri was delivering papers on Monday, May 31, at 4 a.m. when he was shot in the neck on Greenwood Avenue near New Circle Road in northwest Lexington. He is recovering, but unable to work as a carrier. He now works for the company with which the Herald-Leader contracts for outside sales at kiosks.

Lexington police have been investigating but have not named any suspects.

"We take any act of violence against our carriers with the utmost seriousness," said Herald-Leader Publisher Timothy M. Kelly. "We have been cooperating with the Lexington police department throughout the investigation and feel now is the right time to offer this reward."

Anyone with information about this case should call Lt. James Curless at 859-258-3743.
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Kentucky won't budge on death drugs

August 20, 2010, 2:15 pm
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A Kentucky judge on Friday expressed concern about the state's refusal to consider using one drug instead of three to execute condemned inmates, even though state law allows either method.

Franklin Circuit Judge Phillip Shepherd said during a hearing in Frankfort that he may order Kentucky corrections officials to explain why the state is sticking with three drugs and apparently hasn't explored other options.

Kentucky's law allows lethal injection to be carried out by "injection of a substance or a combination of substances." But the procedure adopted in May is a three-drug protocol, without an option for using a single drug.

The hearing came in a challenge brought by two death row inmates who say Ohio's use of a single drug to execute eight inmates since December shows there's a safer way to carry out executions.

The hearing sought to reopen the landmark case brought by Kentucky death row inmates Ralph Baze and Thomas Clyde Bowling, who challenged lethal injection as cruel and unusual punishment. The U.S. Supreme Court upheld Kentucky's use of the three-drug protocol in 2008.
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Vine Street closed at South Limestone because of water main leak

August 20, 2010, 4:13 pm
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Lexington police closed a portion of Vine Street in front of the Transit Center Garage on Friday afternoon because of an apparent water-main break, city officials said.

Vine was closed at the intersection of South Limestone. It reopens at the intersection of Quality and Vine streets, according to the mayor's office.

Kentucky American Water spokeswoman Susan Lancho said crews might have the break fixed by 11 p.m. Friday. She said she did not know what caused the break.
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Federal government gives Kentuckians more than $11 million after July storms

August 20, 2010, 5:28 pm
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The federal government has approved more than $11 million in grants and loans for Kentuckians affected by July's severe storms, flooding and mudslides, according to a release from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

The money approved for residents in Carter, Lewis, Madison, Mason, Pike and Rowan counties includes more than $7.8 million in housing assistance grants from the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Individuals and Households Program for temporary housing and home repairs.

The assistance also includes more than $2.8 million in U.S. Small Business Administration low-interest disaster home loans and more than $648,000 for assistance with other needs such as medical, dental and funeral expenses.
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Fort Hood shooting revealed multiple military security lapses

August 20, 2010, 5:30 pm
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WASHINGTON The November 2009 shootings of more than 40 people by an Army psychiatrist at Fort Hood, Texas, revealed a wide range of security lapses at U.S. military bases, including a failure to consider the possibility that a threat might come from an "insider," according to a Pentagon report released Friday.

The 23-page document makes 47 different recommendations on how to improve security in the aftermath of the attack, which left 13 people dead.

The report provides scant information, however, on how the security lapses contributed to the Fort Hood shootings. Pentagon officials continue to refuse to release the actual report of an independent panel into the shootings.

Among the recommendations:

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Police round up 24 in Lawrence County on drug charges

August 20, 2010, 7:00 pm
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Police on Friday began arresting 24 people charged with illegally selling prescription drugs in Lawrence County.

By mid-afternoon, police had arrested 17 of the two dozen people for whom they had warrants, according to news release from Operation UNITE, which took part in the investigation with the Lawrence County Sheriff's Office and Louisa Police Department.

Most of the trafficking charges involved sales of the drugs oxycodone and Suboxone, said Dan Smoot, director of UNITE's drug task force.

Those arrested were jailed in the Big Sandy Regional Detention Center.
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Richmond nurse's aide is sentenced in nursing home abuse case

August 20, 2010, 7:40 pm
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A former nurse's aide at Richmond Health and Rehabilitation Complex (Madison Manor) nursing home was sentenced Thursday for neglecting to feed a patient in 2008, Attorney General Jack Conway said.

Conway's office prosecuted Amanda Sallee, of Richmond, who pleaded guilty in March in Madison Circuit Court to charges of wanton abuse and neglect of an adult.

Sallee was sentenced to one year in prison. The sentence will be diverted for a period of five years if she maintains good behavior and does not work with vulnerable adults or children; in the health care industry; or for a Medicaid or Medicare provider.

She must also perform 100 hours of community service and cooperate fully in further investigations involving Madison Manor Nursing Home.

Sallee is the third nurse's aide convicted of abusing resident Armeda Thomas.
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Family not satisfied with state's investigations of nursing home injury

August 20, 2010, 10:48 pm
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In January 2009, 88-year-old Irene Hendrix was found in a pool of blood at Cambridge Place Nursing Home in Lexington behind a closed door in a room that stored equipment.

Bones in Hendrix's face were broken, there was bleeding in her brain, she had a 4-centimeter laceration on her forehead, a cut on her lip and a swollen eye, according to state documents. Hendrix, who has Alzheimer's, was in a hospital for three weeks and nearly died, according to her daughter.

Nursing home staff told investigators that Hendrix fell, according to state records, but reports from three state agencies contain discrepancies and reach no conclusion about what caused her injuries.

Investigators closed the case without prosecuting it or issuing a Type A citation that indicates a resident's life or safety has been endangered because of violations of state regulations.

Last week, Scott Owens, an attorney representing Hendrix in a 2009 lawsuit against the nursing home, asked Attorney General Jack Conway's office to reopen the investigation. Hendrix's case, Owens said, is an example of an investigation at a Kentucky nursing home that "simply didn't go deep enough."
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