Today's News

 Two summers ago my family and I turned my dad’s business trip from Michigan to Las Vegas into a ten-day vacation. My brother had to stay behind for work, so my parents and sister and I made the sixty-hour drive. Thirty hours one way is long enough to spend in the car with anyone, let alone your family, but we saved money by not flying, and rented a vehicle with decent gas mileage.

 Starting this week, hundreds of state legislators from across the country will begin visiting classrooms to kick off the 16th annual “America’s Legislators Back to School Program.”

Explaining that raising taxes was their least favorite part of the job, the Eminence Board of Education voted Sept. 4 to set the tax rate for 2014-2015 at 76.8 cents for real and personal property.

Failing to stick to conditions of his bond means a warrant has been issued for the arrest of a man charged with torturing two of his ex-girlfriend’s dogs to death.