Today's News

By Terry DeMio

The Kentucky Enquirer

A solution to Northern Kentucky’s heroin epidemic won’t come cheap, a new study warns.

It will, in fact, cost at least $16 million over four years just to reduce and stabilize heroin usage, a report from the Leadership Team of the Northern Kentucky Heroin Impact and Response Workgroup states.

But the cost of doing nothing could be higher.

Carroll County Panther Tots hosted an event Nov. 7, in the high school parking lot and encouraged the children to dress as their favorite super heroes. Children enjoyed a variety of learning activities, including on the STEM bus, and the Carrollton Police Department and Carrollton Fire Department also were on hand.

One of the more persistent challenges facing our country is finding ways to reduce the number of people killed or injured in a traffic accident.

In one sense, we have come a long way.  Four decades ago, for example, the number of highway fatalities regularly topped 50,000 a year, but the figures for 2011 were the lowest the United States has seen since 1949, a testament to tougher laws, safer roads, more focused enforcement and better technology in the cars and trucks we drive.

First Baptist Church in Carrollton is again organizing Operation Christmas Child Shoebox locally, as part of the world’s largest Christmas project of it’s kind.

Organizers say the shoeboxes demonstrate God’s love in a tangible way to needy children in 88 different countries, including the Unites States. Last year they were able to reach 92.8 million children around the globe.