Morning News - 01/08/15

CYNTHIANA / HARRISON

After leaving students and parents in temporary suspense, Harrison County school officials decided to cancel all classes for today--the decision was announced around 7:45pm, Wednesday evening. Initially, the school district had sent children home with word of a two-hour delay due to the extreme cold temperatures expected overnight and into today; parents were also notified via automated phone-call[1], SMS, and social media[2]. The final decision to keep the doors closed for Thursday was also announced via automated call[3], social media[4], and broadcast media. ---###---

1: https://www.google.com/voice/fm/17913502392931005457/AHwOX_B75DneBdJTsdTs3xoJo1L3YforXc7T_B7rMhxGmdT59LootHnz56A34eXEH-HRpCZEzWlATRIvEGe80A30AuOYxowQD7i5C5m5rHq6JHe2THcFEVk8BFKLeRIFPVun_HfgDHXhVVL7WZTBQDRZkzkcrOnY6Q

2: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10152499247681607&id=296254501606

3: https://www.google.com/voice/fm/17913502392931005457/AHwOX_DsFtKJmCdpki4100YKP1TZB5Iok9IbQ2Mi7HeFAA04ifWZH5KbRIyHnUdD-M4-VUbZip_XTGVrhsPWUmnIR_OwTHH4LjNrIPUfb9CS85adcnBkFyM10vcyBJikcBY_F977qSBPA43yjjWGtQTyBe28eeOltg

4: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10152499715471607&id=296254501606

HARRISON COUNTY SPORTS Fillies Basketball: - The freshman game that had been scheduled last night at Mason Co was cancelled in relation to yesterday's cold weather. Likewise, the JV/Varsity games set for this evening at home vs Augusta have been cancelled and rescheduled for Feb. 3 at 6:00 and 7:30.

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Breds Freshman Basketball: Harrison Co will host the 2015 38th District Freshman Basketball Tournament on Sat, Jan 24. The Breds will play Nicholas Co in the High School Gym at 10:00 am. Pendleton Co will play Robertson Co at 10:00 am in the Middle School Gym. The winners will play in the High School Gym at 11:30.

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Fillies Freshman Basketball: The Fillies Freshman basketball team will play at Nicholas Co on Jan 24 at 11:30 for the 38th District Freshman Championship.

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KENTUCKY

Gov. Steve Beshear delivered his final State of the Commonwealth address Wednesday night in front of a joint session of the Kentucky General Assembly. In his address, Beshear introduced an aggressive agenda that includes a statewide smoking ban, requiring more children to ride in booster seats and protecting heroin users who seek help from minor drug charges. This is the last year of Beshear's second and final term as Kentucky's governor.

http://wuky.org/post/beshear-deliver-his-final-state-commonwealth-speech

https://web.archive.org/web/20150515112335/http://www.wkyt.com/home/headlines/287857321.html[5] ---###---

5: https://web.archive.org/web/20150515112335/http://www.wkyt.com/home/headlines/287857321.html

A Bourbon County man was shot in the leg Tuesday evening in Lexington, and was found in the Speedway parking lot across from the UK Chandler Medical Center. According to information released to the media, the man had agreed to meet with someone with whom he'd had numerous disagreements with in the past.

"They were going to meet up on Paris Pike in Fayette County and evidently settle their disagreements," Lexington Police spokesperson Sherelle Roberts told the Lexington Herald-Leader. "Evidently, when they met up to settle this once and for all, they got into a fistfight that led to the shooting."

Lexington Police contacted the alleged shooting suspect, who denied having seen or shot the man. Police are continuing to investigate the case; as of Wednesday afternoon no charges had been filed.

http://www.kentucky.com/2015/01/07/3628767_bourbon-county-man-shot-in-leg.html[6] ---###---

6: https://web.archive.org/web/20150110053434/http://www.kentucky.com:80/2015/01/07/3628767_bourbon-county-man-shot-in-leg.html?

NATION

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Kaitlin Walters; age 13. Last seen 12/30/14 in Wayne County, OH.[/caption]

The FBI has issued an alert for a missing girl out of Ohio. Kaitlin Walters, 13, was last seen on December 30, 2014 in Wayne County, Ohio. Walters is described as being 5'4" and 110 pounds with blonde hair and hazel eyes.

The Wayne County Sheriff's Office believes that Walters is with Walter Lee Dunn, 27, of Richmond, KY. According to reports, Richmond Police searched Dunn's home Tuesday, finding it had been abandoned. Dunn has also reportedly lived in Texas and Indiana. Dunn is described as being 6'1" and 150 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes.

Deputies believe Walters left on her own with Dunn.

The FBI in Knoxville report that Dunn's car was found in Knoxville on Wednesday, however the Kentucky license plate on the car had been removed.

Anyone with information on the whereabouts of these two individuals should call 911 or your local law enforcement agency.

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Walter Lee Dunn, 27, of Richmond, KY.[/caption]

https://web.archive.org/web/20150515143658/http://www.wkyt.com/home/headlines/Missing-Ohio-girl-believed-to-be-with-Richmond-man-287870751.html

http://www.wbir.com/story/news/crime/2015/01/07/car-connected-to-search-for-missing-teen-found-in-knoxville/21404163/

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Nashville, Illinois is saying goodbye to four of its own killed in a Kentucky plane crash.

Services were held yesterday for 14-year-old Sierra Wilder at Nashville's Campagna Funeral Home. Wilder died in the Friday crash near Paducah along with Nashville furniture store owner Marty Gutzler, wife Kim Gutzler and their 9-year-old daughter, Piper. The Gutzlers' other daughter, 7-year-old Sailor Gutzler, survived.

Private services for the Gutzlers are Friday.

The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating what caused the crash.

https://web.archive.org/web/20150515230905/http://www.wkyt.com/home/headlines/Illinois-town-to-bid-farewell-to-victims-of-Kentucky-crash-287760081.html[7] ---###---

7: https://web.archive.org/web/20150515230905/http://www.wkyt.com/home/headlines/Illinois-town-to-bid-farewell-to-victims-of-Kentucky-crash-287760081.html

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

1697 – Last execution for blasphemy in Britain; of Thomas Aikenhead[8], student, at Edinburgh.
1790 – George Washington[9] delivers the first State of the Union address[10] in New York, New York.
1815 – War of 1812[11]: Battle of New Orleans[12] – Andrew Jackson leads American forces in victory over the British.
1835 – The United States national debt is zero[13] for the only time.
1863 – American Civil War[14]: Second Battle of Springfield[15]
1867 – African American men are granted the right to vote in Washington, D.C.
1877 – Crazy Horse[16] and his warriors fight their last battle against the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain[17], Montana Territory.
1918 – President Woodrow Wilson[18] announces his "Fourteen Points[19]" for the aftermath of World War I.
1920 – The steel strike of 1919[20] ends in a complete failure for the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers[21] labor union.
1964 – President Lyndon B. Johnson[22] declares a "War on Poverty[23]" in the United States.
1973 – Watergate scandal[24]: The trial of seven men accused of illegal entry into Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate[25] begins.
1975 – Ella T. Grasso[26] becomes Governor of Connecticut, the first woman to serve as a Governor in the United States other than by succeeding her husband.
1982 – The break up of AT&T[27]: AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions.
1994 – Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov[28] on Soyuz TM-18[29] leaves for Mir[30]. He would stay on the space station until March 22, 1995, for a record 437 days in space.
2002 – President George W. Bush[31] signs into law the No Child Left Behind Act[32].
2011 – The attempted assassination of Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords[33] and subsequent shooting in Casas Adobes, Arizona at a Safeway grocery store, for which Jared Lee Loughner[34] is subsequently arrested, kills six people and wounds 13, including Giffords.