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Twenty nine years ago, a church youth group outing turned deadly as a pickup truck driven by a drunken driver crashed head-on with a school bus on Interstate 71 in Carroll County. 

“I got a picture of us playing AC/DC together out in my garage back in ’86 when we were 13 years old,” Chris Roberts told Rick Mathis. 

When the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security distributed nearly $3 million in grants to enhance public safety recently, Henry County received $100,000 to upgrade the emergency radio system, the most funding of all the 114 recipients from across the state.

By Kristen Lowry

KLowry@hclocal.com

As the top prosecutor for Henry, Trimble and Oldham counties, Courtney Baxter has found a way of dealing with the stress of the job that will keep her going for the long run.