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High school football highlights, Aug. 20, 2010

August 21, 2010, 12:48 am
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Make it 42 wins in a row against state competition for Highlands.

The three-time defending Class 5A state champs totaled 433 yards of offense and rolled past visiting Manual 45-14 in the high school football season opener Friday night.

Highlands (1-0) scored two touchdowns in a span of 27 seconds in the second quarter to blow open the game. Patrick Towles hit Daniel Gold with a 20-yard touchdown pass to make it 14-0. After Austin Abner intercepted a Manual pass, it took Highlands two plays to score again, this time on a 1-yard Corey Compton run.

East Jessamine 45, Spencer County 20: Quarterback David Powers accounted for four touchdowns for host East Jessamine (1-0), including a 46-yard pass and a 76-yard run in the first quarter. Cameron Thomas added two TD runs, including a 31-yarder in the fourth quarter.

Madison Central 27, North Laurel 13: After a scoreless first half, host Madison Central scored three touchdowns to take a 20-0 lead and hand Bert Browne a win in his coaching debut. Darian Cox had two short touchdown runs, and Jamez Chenault had a 70-yard TD run.
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Timing of ACL injury tough for UK senior Smith

August 21, 2010, 12:48 am
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It was a move Amber Smith had made thousands of times before.

The Kentucky point guard was leading a fast break. She went in for a layup and stepped right and then switched quickly to her left.

Her left knee didn't comply.

"It just kind of gave out on me," she said.

Smith laid on the floor in familiar, blinding pain.
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Tates Creek rallies late to best Lafayette

August 21, 2010, 12:48 am
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The inaugural Roy Walton Bowl could not have honored its namesake any better.

In a back-and-forth football game between two teams that Walton once coached, Tates Creek held on to beat Lafayette 32-27 Friday night.

An emotional Commodores Coach Mike Harmon presented the game ball to Roy's widow, Norma Walton, after the victory.

"This is very special," said Harmon, who played for Walton at Tates Creek in the late 1980s. "To see Norma and Coach Walton's daughters out here means so much.

"It was special, too, the way these two teams played their guts out and gave everything they had in his honor."
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Clark County whips Bryan Station

August 21, 2010, 12:48 am
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WINCHESTER Pokey Harris ran for four touchdowns and intercepted a pass Friday night to lead Clark County to a 46-18 rout of visiting Bryan Station in the first high school football game of the season for both teams.

If there was any doubt about the Cardinals' ability to focus under duress, there needn't have been.

Clark County receiver and defensive back Mykal Barnes has been at the University of Kentucky Chandler Hospital since being seriously injured in a car wreck Sunday night.

The mid-field logo for Friday's game was a simple "MB" in support of Barnes, and a moment of silence was observed for him. The concession-stand wall was adorned with a banner, his picture set between the phrases "Stay Strong Mykal" and "Please Keep Him In Your Prayers." Placards with "8" Barnes' uniform number were distributed. The "MB" and "8" also were on helmet decals worn by the Cardinals.

"We're so proud of them because of the situation we were in this past week," Coach Paul Columbia said. "They got focused after a day off Monday. We told them 'we've got to play with maximum effort for Mykal. We've got to play with emotion, but you can't let the emotion make you forget how to do your job.' "
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Witnesses describe circumstances of doctor's wife's death

August 21, 2010, 12:49 am
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DANVILLE Dr. Steven Hall told four witnesses who heard a woman's screams that nothing was wrong immediately after he struck his wife with a pontoon boat, a jury heard Friday in the Harrodsburg physician's murder trial.

"Mr. Hall was standing on the front of the boat," said Danny Merriman, one of four Illinois residents on a rental pontoon boat that pulled up beside the Hall boat. "He waved and smiled like everybody else does."

Someone from the Merriman group asked Hall, "Is everything OK?"

"He said, 'Everything is fine,'" Merriman testified.

Hall, 48, is accused of murder in the death of his wife, Isabel Hall, 49. He has maintained her death was the result of an accident.
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Cedarwood Drive in Oakwood subdivision will keep its name

August 21, 2010, 12:49 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 connecting 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 that the first option would not work because the Urban County Council voted in August 1999 to retain the berm.
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Voting under way for new name of Newtown Pike extension

August 21, 2010, 12:49 am
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Lexingtonians may vote on a name for the Newtown Pike extension by going to the city's Web site.

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

The city's addressing committee Friday cut the list to five finalists:

Bolivar Street

Equestrian Boulevard
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Public has no right to see city fraud allegations, attorney general rules

August 21, 2010, 12:49 am
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The public has no right to see fraud allegations at the center of an investigation in Lexington government, according to an opinion from the state Office of the Attorney General.

The opinion released Friday said the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government did not violate the state's Open Records Act by denying the Lexington Herald-Leader's request for the documents because they are an auditor's work papers, excluded from public inspection even after a final audit report is released.

The Herald-Leader had appealed to the attorney general an April 29 denial of its request for the records by LFUCG's internal audit division. Attorney General Jack Conway's office interprets the state's open-records and open-meetings laws.

Assistant Attorney General Amye Bensenhaver concluded that the allegations belong to the city's outside auditor, Mountjoy Chilton Medley. The attorney general's office had previously ruled in 1978 that the public does not have a right to see work papers of the state auditor.

The Herald-Leader argued that the papers belonged to LFUCG, which hired Mountjoy, and that work papers were no longer excluded after the audit was complete.
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Proposal advances to rename street after fallen police officer Durman

August 21, 2010, 12:49 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 changing 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 department'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 the roll-call building will help his co-workers remember his sacrifice and the dangers they face on the job.

At its July meeting, 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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Lee Todd, Joker Phillips, band greet freshmen moving into UK dorms

August 21, 2010, 12:49 am
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Thousands of students streamed onto the University of Kentucky campus Friday, as UK kicked off "Move-In" day before the start of the 2010 fall semester.

President Lee T. Todd Jr. and his wife, Patsy, greeted parents and first-year students, who arrived by car to move into rooms at the Blanding and Kirwan towers dormitories on 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 in to direct traffic, answer questions and move furnishings.

About 3,500 freshmen moved into dormitories Friday, to be followed by about 500 more on Saturday.

Todd said that the freshman class is being held to about 4,000 this year, in part because of tight finances that 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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In 'Made You Look!,' two artists draw attention to storm drains

August 21, 2010, 4:45 am
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The heat wave in Lexington this summer has been brutal for everyone. But it has been particularly rough on two local artists.

Blake Snyder Eames and Claudia Kane Michler have faced an array of difficulties while working on their public art project, Made You Look! , one of the recipients of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government's EcoArt grants. They've spent the past few weeks painting designs on several concrete storm drains downtown.

"It's been terrible weather, and we're constantly in the sun," Michler said, moments after a turning car barely cleared her work area on the hot asphalt.

The car's driver stopped beside the curb to chat with Michler and admire the progress on the ladybugs that she and Eames had painted on the storm sewer at High Street and Stone Avenue.

"Really, the cars are the biggest obstacle" because drivers cannot easily see them working down on the ground, Michler said.
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Rebecca St. James is proving she has more to offer

August 21, 2010, 5:41 am
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"Christian pop artist" no longer adequately describes Rebecca St. James or the event she is bringing to Crossroads Christian Church on Sunday.

People with a little memory of Christian rock know St. James was the young Australian whose hit albums in the late 1990s and early 2000s, including Pray and Transform, helped bring a modern sensibility to music often regarded as about 10 years behind the pop charts. But in the past decade, she has released only two albums of new, original material while adding author, actress and speaker to her r sum .

Sunday's "SHE" conference combines three of those: It will feature St. James singing with fellow Christian music icon Evie Tornquist, and both of them speaking at an event designed to empower women and girls. The conference is based on two of St. James' best-selling books, SHE (which stands for safe, healthy and empowered) and SHE Teen.

"It's rare to have a girls' night out for mothers and daughters," St. James says from Los Angeles, where she now lives. "A lot of girls that come treat it as a night to dress up and enjoy being together, and really, it is a night of encouragement and music and sharing."

St. James says she particularly enjoys sharing the stage with Tornquist, who was known simply as Evie to many Christian music fans in the 1970s and '80s.
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Scouting the Cats: Trevathan taking charge at LB

August 21, 2010, 6:07 am
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Technically, Danny Trevathan was a starter at weak-side linebacker for Kentucky last year. But since the Cats spent so much time in the nickel defense, UK Coach Joker Phillips estimated Trevathan was in for only 30 percent of the plays.

On top of that, Trevathan played nearly the entire season in a cast to protect a broken wrist.

Trevathan still managed to finish second on the team in tackles with 82, and he also had five stops behind the line of scrimmage.

So if Trevathan can produce like that as a part-time player with one hand, imagine what his numbers could look like now that he's healthy and will be on the field full-time.

Last year, Trevathan was the odd man out when the Cats went to the nickel emphasizing pass coverage with five defensive backs and only two linebackers giving way to Sam Maxwell and Micah Johnson. Trevathan, a third-year junior, is now the most experienced linebacker on the squad and will be asked to do much more.
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Muslims already pray on sacred 9/11 ground: the Pentagon

August 21, 2010, 6:22 am
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WASHINGTON Inside the Pentagon 9/11 Memorial Chapel, a female Air Force sergeant unlaced her combat boots, set them under the pews and slipped her black veil around her hair and over her camouflaged uniform.

The men pushed back the altar for Christian services to make room for their large green prayer rugs; then moved the podium from one side of the room to the other so that the congregation would be facing Mecca.

Allahu Akhbar, called out Ali Mohammed, a contractor who works at the Pentagon, raising his hands to his face as he chanted the call to prayer. Allahu Akhbar.

While politicians across the country in an election year may be debating the appropriateness of building a Muslim center, including a mosque, two blocks from the World Trade Center site in New York, there s no such debate at the Pentagon.

Instead, roughly 400 worshipers attend Muslim prayer services every week in the chapel, a non-denominational facility built over the rubble left behind when American Airlines Flight 77 slammed into the Pentagon.
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Campaign Watchdog: DNC statement on Rand Paul 'mostly false'

August 21, 2010, 6:30 am
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Each week, the Herald-Leader will fact-check statements made by candidates and their surrogates in the campaigns for Lexington mayor, the 6th Congressional District and U.S. Senate.

U.S. Senate

The statement: "Rand Paul declined to say whether he would have supported the Civil Rights Act of 1964, taking issue with a key piece that prohibits private businesses from refusing to serve people based on their race."

-- Democratic National Committee in an Aug. 16, 2010, news release

The ruling: Mostly false
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Meg Whitman says she would defend Proposition 8

August 21, 2010, 8:22 am
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SAN DIEGO Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman said Friday that she would defend voter-approved Proposition 8, which prohibits same-sex marriage, if she becomes governor next year.

The announcement, made just hours before she addressed the California Republican Party convention here, put the Republican candidate at odds with both Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Jerry Brown, Whitman's Democratic rival in the governor's race. Both Schwarzenegger and Brown have refused to defend the law against court challenges.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has taken up the issue after Chief Judge Vaughn Walker of the U.S. District Court of Northern California declared the measure unconstitutional earlier this month.

Previously, Whitman had supported only letting the case work its way through the courts before allowing same-sex couples to marry.

Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/2010/08/21/2973069/meg-whitman-says-she-would-defend.html#ixzz0xFneF03a
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Man killed by falling tree

August 21, 2010, 8:57 am
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Authorities say a 72-year-old Pulaski County man was killed when he was struck by a falling tree.

Deputy Coroner Jim McWhorter said Norman Mounce was visiting a friend on a farm in the Nancy area around 2 p.m. Friday when the tree suddenly fell and one of its branches struck Mounce in the back of the head.

Mounce was pronounced dead at the scene about an hour later.

McWhorter said the operation of heavy machinery on the site, coupled with the week's rains, may have softened up the ground enough to cause the tree to fall.
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Ky. program looks to reform juvenile arsonists

August 21, 2010, 9:17 am
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A program in Winchester relies on the premise that a young arsonist doesn't necessarily grow up to become an old arsonist.

The diversion program, sparked by a run of fires started by juveniles three years ago, is called FIRE-CHIPS, which stands for Firesetter Children and Injury Prevention System. The Winchester Sun reports it allows first-time offenders to avoid charges if they complete certain educational requirements.

"The biggest thing is psychologists have found out juveniles that set fires have underlying issues," said Lt. Rob Carmichael of the Winchester Fire Department. "We felt ... this might be a program to have in place if we have a juvenile with the potential to be a serial arsonist."

Organizers got some inspiration for the idea from a national training course on witness interrogation, in which they spent half a day interviewing juveniles convicted of arson.

Carmichael said the program is tailored to youngsters based on their age and risk level for setting future fires, which can range from curiosity to extreme risk. In the most severe cases, juveniles must go through counseling before starting the program.
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Obama challenges GOP, McConnell on campaign finance ruling

August 21, 2010, 12:31 pm
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President Barack Obama says Republicans should join him in opposing a Supreme Court ruling that vastly increased how much corporations and unions can spend on campaign ads.

Instead, the GOP wants to "keep the public in the dark" about who's behind the expenditures, Obama charged in his weekly radio and Internet address, released Saturday as he vacationed on Martha's Vineyard.

"You'd think that reducing corporate and even foreign influence over our elections wouldn't be a partisan issue," said Obama. "But the Republican leaders in Congress said no. In fact,they used their power to block the issue from even coming up for a vote.

"This can only mean that the leaders of the other party want to keep the public in the dark," said the president. "They don't want you to know which interests are paying for the ads. The only people who don't want to disclose the truth are people with something to hide."

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., scoffed at the president's message.
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Advocacy group files lawsuit against Ky. agency

August 21, 2010, 12:36 pm
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An advocacy group seeking records relating to the deaths of disabled adults who died in state care has filed suit against the Cabinet for Health and Family Services.

The Courier-Journal reports the Council on Developmental Disabilities filed suit Thursday in Franklin Circuit Court.

The move came after the cabinet denied the group access to records about investigations and follow-up activities related to the transfers of two disabled men to community homes and their deaths. Cabinet officials denied the request, saying such information is confidential.

The council's executive director, April DuVal, says the state agency should be "more transparent" when people are dying.

Cabinet spokeswoman Vikki Franklin declined to comment to the newspaper, citing the pending litigation.
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