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Family Scholar House will be on hand during Thursday’s Jefferson Community and Technical College’s open house in Carrollton explaining assistance available for local students advancing their education.

The program, based in Louisville, will participate in the March 19 open house to hear directly from local students as Family Scholar House looks to begin a program here this summer.

A Worthville man was arrested Friday, March 13 for third-degree rape a class D felony and first degree sexual abuse, a Class C felony with victims under 12 years of age.

Mike W. Smith, 33, was arrested by Kentucky State Police Trooper Jason Brown and was housed in the Carroll County Detention Center on a $25,000 full cash bond.  

The arrest stems from two separate alleged incidents with two victims. The cases go back several years, according to the KSP citation.

New regulations handed down by the U.S. Department of Agriculture has left local counties scrambling to revise programs for collection and disposal of livestock carcasses.

For years, Trimble County meat and dairy producers have relied on Nation Brothers of Shelbyville, Ky., which was under contract with Fiscal Court to pick up dead livestock on county farms.

Twenty-four cents was enough to almost break Lola Perry.

She’d just gone to a Bedford grocery to replenish her food supplies after January’s ice storm, and after spending about $35 in food stamps there, she realized she’d forgotten tomatoes.

When she returned to the checkout, the clerk initially rejected Perry’s card and asked her to spend at least $5 for her electronic transaction. Perry was less than a quarter shy of that limit.