News news 2008-07-27 Andanh.com

Wrapping up a week of fun Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:20:13 -0500
It was an awfully big corn dog for such a little girl.

Influx of Hispanics presents challenge Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:20:13 -0500
Area law enforcement agencies are increasingly reaching out to the region’s growing Hispanic community as they acknowledge many Hispanics are wary of contacting authorities, and that substantial language and cultural barriers persist.

Language a potential challenge on 911 calls Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:20:13 -0500
A major problem facing area communities is how to respond to issues when emergency dispatchers cannot communicate with callers.

Barren County Jailer arrested on sexual harassment charges Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:20:14 -0500
Hours after being arrested on sexual harassment charges, Barren County Jailer Leland Cox relinquished his duties Friday.

As gas prices rise, so does Greyhound use Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:20:14 -0500
Travis Parker was headed to Louisville on Thursday afternoon, preparing to spend a weekend there visiting family and friends.

High Street School reunites Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:20:15 -0500
Mary Shipley Sears used to walk past two high schools in Scottsville to get to the bus she took to come to school in Bowling Green. She’d leave home at about 7:15 a.m., then get back on the bus in Bowling Green to come home at about 4:30 p.m.

Economy forces many to rethink retirement plans Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:20:15 -0500
The stock market is fluctuating widely, the price of oil has skyrocketed, and worries about the Social Security system linger - these factors and others are causing many to rethink both the costs and time of retirement.

Schools facing significant ESS funding cuts Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:20:16 -0500
As the upcoming school year nears, services schools offered to students needing extra academic help could fall short as school administrators are faced with a significant cut to Extended School Services allocations.

Church leaders spend eight hours in sky lift Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:20:16 -0500
Photos by Miranda Pederson, Daily News, photo@bgdailynews.com

Indictments Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:20:16 -0500
The following people were indicted Wednesday by a Warren County grand jury:

Reasonable Doubt: Well-built bodies would work better Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:19:13 -0500
Abraham Lincoln would have even more trouble getting elected today than he did in 1860 and 1864, with the advent of television. He might commiserate with Richard Nixon - though he didn’t share Nixon’s faults of paranoia, vindictiveness and felonious intent, Lincoln would have the same problem now as Nixon had in his 1960 debate against John Kennedy. Nixon was sweaty and pasty, while Lincoln was famously homely. Even in the infancy of photography, he had to deflect gibes with humor. According to historian Paul F. Boller Jr., Lincoln personally retold an encounter with an opposing voter, who greeted him with the words “They tell me that you are a self-made man.” Lincoln, expecting a discussion of his career, said that was true. “Well, all I can say is, it was a damned bad job!” the man snapped back. I sympathize with Lincoln. It wasn’t really his fault. But his critic might have looked in the mirror: None of us is very well put together. A fundamental principle of biological evolution - yes, including humans, too - is that physical changes over many generations succeed or fail based on how well they let individuals, on average, compete in their home environments. But since environments are changing, too, and since each creature carries 3 billion years’ baggage of previous adaptations that have been superseded, pressed into a different function or warped into something different, each of us is less the finished product of a one-time design than a never-quite-there-yet model. That’s not something we tend to notice, or think much about, since we’re all eminently used to thinking of the human form as “normal.” Evolutionary change, however, works in far longer time-scales than are directly observable. A key clue isn’t how well our bodies work, but how badly, as the late paleontologist Stephen J. Gould described in “The Panda’s Thumb.” If our bodies were really planned out, meant specifically for human life and nothing else, then we could be designed a lot more intelligently. Disagree? One word: gills. We all had gill slits on our necks as fetuses, vestiges of aquatic ancestors. Why not keep them? On a planetary surface that’s 80 percent water, they’d be incredibly useful. Not only would our range expand tremendously, but hey - no drowning. Then there’s sleep. Our bodies need it to keep running at a high mammalian pitch, and our comparatively oversized brains need the unstructured down time to sort themselves out. That’s basic biology. But it conflicts with basic chronology. We spend a third of our lives not really living. Sleep does lots for our physical needs, but not much for anything else. If we’re purpose-built to spend our lives thinking, praying, working or anything else endorsed by religious belief, couldn’t there be a better allocation of time for actually doing it? How about something as simple as thicker skin? There’s plenty of natural precedent, so it’s obviously not impossible. Look at rhinos and sharks. But no matter how nice it would be to laugh at paper cuts, hide upholstery is a luxury feature the putative manufacturer left off our economy models. All these things make no practical sense - except when viewed as adaptive reactions to specific conditions, for which momentary benefits outweighed the disadvantages, at least for a period of time. Now many of our physical quirks are less useful, but humans still have them since there’s little pressure to favor people without them. My personal request for the next million years of evolution: better knees. They work much better and last longer if they bend the other way, as they do on many animals. Proponents of creationism will argue that our bodies’ sufficiency or insufficiency carries moral lessons, and so must be the way they are. While allegories can be concocted to fit some features, I challenge anyone to show a moral benefit from my arthritic knees that couldn’t be conveyed equally well in a less debilitating way. So-called “intelligent design” theorists, whom repeated careful examinations by the courts have shown to be preachers in lab coats rather than actual scientific researchers, seek to shift the field to the patchy fossil record, refusing to acknowledge just how extensive it is and instead claiming that any break in the found sequence is an unbridgeable gap. Where, they demand, are all the transitional fossils between species? The ones on top, like Michael Behe and William Dembski, really know better. They know that “species” is just an arbitrary description of one moment in time, and that many of the creatures they demand - between fish and land animals, between reptiles and mammals, early primates and humans - have turned up just where and when evolutionary theory predicted they would be found. This isn’t a secret; TalkOrigins.org describes dozens, and more have turned up since that list was written. These are rejected by diehard creationists as fast as they’re found - faster, because they’ve already decided not to be convinced by any physical evidence. Instead they seek to weasel out of discussing the physical evidence before them by finding a “God of the gaps.” Any fuzzy patch in a 3 billion-year chain is trumpeted as proof that here the hand of a designer has reached down and tinkered. But the unceasing demand for “transitional” fossils is really a red herring. Find and place a newly discovered creature in the middle of an evolutionary sequence, and a disingenuous creationist debater will say, “A-ha! But now there’s two gaps - one on each side! Your burden of proof has doubled (and if scientists fill those, I’ll say it’s quadrupled).” Why the furious flurry over fossils? No other branch of science stirs such vehement denial. But some did in the past, and opposition then was the prototype - the evolutionary ancestor, if you will - of creationist opposition today. It was founded on the fear that scientific advances, even if true, couldn’t be tolerated because they might destroy religious belief, and therefore the basis for morality and social order. It does cause an insoluble problem - for utterly literal belief in the factual accuracy of ancient religious writings, and for the erroneous corollary that any tiny error or omission renders the whole of such a book worthless. Does acceptance of the facts underlying evolution require disbelief in a god? Not necessarily. Of the unquestioning acceptance of the book of Genesis as a biology lesson, yes. I can put it no better than Bertrand Russell did in his “Unpopular Essays”: “If man was evolved by insensible gradations from lower forms of life, a number of things became very difficult to understand. At what moment in evolution did our ancestors acquire free will? At what stage in the long journey from the ameba did they begin to have immortal souls? When did they first become capable of the kinds of wickedness that would justify a benevolent Creator in sending them into eternal torment? Most people felt that such punishment would be hard on monkeys, in spite of their propensity for throwing coconuts at the heads of Europeans. But how about Pithecanthropus Erectus? Was it really he who ate the apple? Or was it Homo Pekiniensis?” This worries a lot of people. Unless we were literally mushed together out of dirt, the fundamental argument goes, why should we be good? I’ve always considered that a bit of a non sequitur. Worrying about the mechanics of spirituality is, I think, a mistake. Though the Bible and other religious texts have some connection to historical events, they’re not really the kinds of chronicles we think of today as objective history. They’re about why, not how; written to offer meanings and motivations. That discussion still has value, and always will. It didn’t end when Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler and Isaac Newton demonstrated - through theory, inference from observation, and argument - that the Earth wasn’t square, flat and stationary. Many religious figures denounced the Renaissance and Enlightenment thinkers out of fear, but in the long run it was their own reputations that were destroyed. It only damages the credibility of religion to shoehorn its insights into fields where they don’t apply. Seeking modern science from the Bible is like trying to derive morals from a math book - they’re just not talking about the same things.

Terry L. Collins Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:22:30 -0500
RUSSELLVILLE — Terry Lynn “Butch” Collins, 61, of Russellville died July 25, 2008, at his home. The Flint., Mich., native was born May 11, 1947. He was a retired materials manager for Logan Memorial Hospital, a U.S. Marine and Army veteran, having served in Vietnam, and was a member of Oak Grove Baptist Church and Russellville Masonic Lodge. He was a son of the late Omer Collins and Georgia G. Basore Collins. He was preceded in death by a sister, Clara Tackleberry; and a brother, Alfred Collins. Funeral is at 1 p.m. Monday at Young Funeral Home, Russellville chapel, with burial in Maple Grove Cemetery. Visitation as after 5 p.m. today at the funeral home. Survivors include his wife, Lizzie Collins; two sons, Steve Collins of Auburn and Paul Shoemake of Glasgow; two daughters, Susie White of Lewisburg and Sandy Norris of Russellville; a sister, Diana Williams of Elephant Butte, N.M.; eight grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

Willovene L. Creasy Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:22:31 -0500
Willovene Landers Creasy, 78, of Bowling Green died at 10:45 p.m. July 25, 2008, at a Scottsville nursing home. The Allen County native was born June 17, 1930. She was a retired assembly line worker for Holley Carburetor and a member of Friendship Community Church and Drake O.E.S. No. 508. She was a daughter of the late Felton Landers and Opal Oliver Landers. She was preceded in death by a grandchild, Christina Creasy. Funeral is at 10 a.m. Tuesday at J.C. Kirby & Son Funeral Home, Lovers Lane chapel, with burial in Martha’s Chapel Cemetery. Visitation is from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. Monday at the funeral home. Online condolences may be made at www.jckirbyandson.com. Survivors include her husband of 59 years, Bobby Creasy; a son, Danny Creasy of Bowling Green; a daughter, Linda Miller of Bowling Green; three sisters, Dorothy Tabor of Allen County, Frances Kirby of Alvaton and Jean England Reed of Arkansas; four grandchildren, Billy D. Miller and his wife, Angela, of Bowling Green, Robert Creasy of Texas, Cory Creasy of Kansas and Veronda Creasy of Kansas; and a great grandchild, Canyon Dial Miller of Bowling Green.

Elizabeth V. Curd Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:22:31 -0500
CAVE CITY — Elizabeth Veatrece Denham Curd of Cave City died July 25, 2008, at T.J. Samson Community Hospital in Glasgow. She grew up in Glasgow and made Cave City her home, where she was a member of Cave City Baptist Church and enjoyed the Cave City Women’s Club for many years. She was retired from Mammoth Cave National Park. She was a daughter of the late Tommy and Geneva Simmons Denham. She was preceded in death by a son, Kelly Trigg Curd; and three brothers, Byron and Basil Denham and Kenneth Lee. Funeral is at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Bob Hunt Funeral Chapel, with burial in Cave City Cemetery. Visitation is after 2 p.m. Monday at the funeral home. Survivors include her loving husband of 58 years, Daniel Trigg Curd III; two daughters, Allison Curd Burns and her husband, Bob, of Labelle, Fla., and Stacy Curd Graves and her husband, Dale, of Cave City; a daughter-in-law, Mitzi Curd Judd of Horse Cave; seven grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

Woodrow W. Doyle Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:22:31 -0500
CAVE CITY — Woodrow Wilson Doyle, 89, of Cave City died July 26, 2008, at T.J. Samson Community Hospital in Glasgow. The Edmonson County native was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II and a member of the Cave City Baptist Church. He was a son of the late Dennie and Opal Short Doyle. Graveside service is at 2 p.m. today at Cave City Cemetery. Visitation begins at 1 p.m. today at Bob Hunt Funeral Chapel. Survivors include his daughter, Sharon Lloyd of Nashville.

Thelma Russell Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:22:32 -0500
FRANKLIN — Thelma Russell, 94, of Franklin died July 26, 2008, at a Warren County nursing home. Funeral arrangements, which are incomplete, are under the direction of Crafton Funeral Home.

Pearl D. Tyree Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:22:32 -0500
MORGANTOWN — Pearl Duncan Tyree, 97, of Morgantown died July 25, 2008, at Greenview Regional Hospital. The Butler County native was retired from Kellwood Manufacturing and was the oldest member of Caneyfork Presbyterian Church. She was a daughter of the late Melburn D. Duncan and Cullie Ragland Duncan and wife of the late Raymond Tyree. She was preceded in death by two sisters, Bonnie Tyree and Zelma Henderson; and a brother, Veachel Duncan. Funeral is at 2 p.m. today at Caneyfork Presbyterian Church, with burial in Caneyfork Cemetery. Visitation is from 8 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. today at Smith Funeral Home. Survivors include a son, Dwight Tyree and his wife, Doris, of Bowling Green; a nephew, Kenneth Duncan and his wife, Barbara, of Morgantown; two great-nephews, Hal Duncan and his wife, Marcy, and their son, Andrew, of Russellville and Bo Duncan and his wife, Lora, of Morgantown; and several nieces, nephews, cousins and other relatives.

Border Patrol looks to beef up ranks Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:17:00 EST
More than 100 people attended a daylong event designed to recruit new Border Patrol agents.

Libertarians to decide on Landham candidacy Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:08:00 EST
The head of Kentucky's Libertarian Party said party leaders will decide soon whether Sonny Landham will run for U.S. Senate as a Libertarian after he made a series of anti-Arab and anti-Muslim remarks.

Police investigate shooting Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:05:00 EST
Louisville Metro Police are investigating a shooting after a person arrived at University Hospital with gunshot wounds late this afternoon.

New Corvette roars off assembly line Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:51:00 EST
The first Corvette ZR1, the fastest-ever model of the popular sports car, has rolled off the assembly line. The ZR1, with a supercharged 638-horsepower V-8 engine, has a top speed of 205 miles per hour and the ability to go from 0 to 60 mph in 3.4 seconds.

The best photos from Homearama Sat, 26 Jul 2008 12:04:00 EST
We've created a Best of Homearama photo gallery. Take a look at the latest in building and design trends.

Ryder Cup festival event shelved Sat, 26 Jul 2008 01:42:00 EST
A money shortage has canceled of one of the major community events planned in connection with September's Ryder Cup international golf competition in Louisville.

Crestwood man dies in motorcycle accident Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:22:00 EST
A Crestwood man has been identified as the victim of a motorcycle crash that shut down portions of the Watterson Expressway yesterday morning.

Suspect in hit-and-run identified Sat, 26 Jul 2008 12:44:00 EST
Police have identified the suspect in yesterday's fatal hit-and-run crash as Keneille D. Finch, 26, of Louisville. He has been charged with two counts of murder, one count of assault, fleeing and evading police and tampering with physical evidence. • Memorial planned for girls • Gallery: At the scene • Gallery: Victims mourned

Petrino defends history at U of L Sat, 26 Jul 2008 01:59:00 EST
Bobby Petrino is the Southeastern Conference's newest arrival, but he spent part of his first SEC Football Media Days discussing past departures. Yesterday the new Arkansas coach defended his tenure at the University of Louisville while remaining mostly mum on the subject of his departure from the NFL's Atlanta Falcons.

Years of effort led to Ford deal Sat, 26 Jul 2008 01:30:00 EST
After dozens of meetings and conference calls over the past 2½ years and an April visit to Michigan, Louisville Mayor Jerry Abramson can pinpoint the moment he knew that Thursday's news from Ford would be all good for the city. It was Thursday.

Louisville hotels prosper, bucking trend Sat, 26 Jul 2008 02:27:00 EST
At a time when high fuel prices and a weak economy are causing some national hotel chains to struggle, the Louisville market is having one of its best years in recent history. • More gas-related stories

High expectations for SEC coaches Sat, 26 Jul 2008 02:27:00 EST
Southeastern Conference football has never been content simply with being better. The need to be bigger is also written into the league's DNA. • Low poll-ranking doesn't faze Wildcats • Petrino defends history at U of L • Red and Blue Fans

Urban chic meets country charm Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:35:00 EST
When James and Jennifer Naive were contemplating their Pewee Valley dream home, they wanted it to be open and inviting.

Napa River has a new home Sat, 26 Jul 2008 01:11:00 EST
A month or so ago, Napa River Grill relocated to Westport Village after nine years at Dupont Circle. In its old digs, Napa River seemed as out of place as a sprig of parsley popping up through a sidewalk crack. Now the restaurant feels like a place that has finally found its natural context.

Nation's energy crisis is in the wrong hands Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:29:00 EST
Why do I have the feeling that the solution to our energy problems is in the hands of people who ride in limousines to work?

Chrysler to exit leasing business Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:16:00 EST
Chrysler LLC said yesterday that its financial arm will quit the auto-leasing business by the end of the month because economic conditions have made leasing more expensive than buying, for both consumers and Chrysler.

Good news, maybe Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:28:00 EST
Economic development must operate in two directions. The first is tactical -- taking care of the businesses that we have and recruiting new ones. The second is strategic -- developing the intellectual capital that's essential to success in the economy of the future.

Spades tourney part of western Louisville festival Sat, 26 Jul 2008 01:46:00 EST
There will be a barbecue, a volleyball tournament, gospel choirs and blues bands, arts and crafts exhibits and a 5K run at the West Louisville Metro Appreciation Festival today and tomorrow, which is expected to draw 35,000 people.

Festival promotes health, community Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:05:00 EST
The West Louisville Appreciation Festival features activities for all ages, including the Proud Heritage Family Reunion, the Grass Volleyball Challenge, Senior Citizens Bingo, arts and crafts exhibits, and local music and entertainment.

Grant money returned, man says Sat, 26 Jul 2008 01:32:00 EST
The director of a nonprofit agency tied to a $694,000 federal grant being investigated at the University of Louisville says he returned $250,000 in grant-related funds at the direction of former U of L education dean Robert Felner, who told him it was sent as a "mistake," according to an Illinois newspaper.

Lunsford ad targets McConnell's oil votes Sat, 26 Jul 2008 01:43:00 EST
A week after U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell released his first television attack ad in his re-election campaign, Democrat Bruce Lunsford returned fire yesterday, linking millions of dollars raised by McConnell to his votes in favor of the oil industry.

Group holding workshops on starting AIDS ministries Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:27:00 EST
The first Black Church Week of Prayer for the Healing of AIDS was organized nearly 20 years ago to spur churches to get involved in fighting the AIDS epidemic devastating the black community.

Floyd council rejects tax increase Sat, 26 Jul 2008 01:43:00 EST
Days after the Floyd County Council rejected a local income-tax increase, council President Larry McAllister predicted that could change next year.

Clark jail is named in honor of ex-sheriff Sat, 26 Jul 2008 01:46:00 EST
The Clark County Jail was dedicated yesterday to former Sheriff Michael L. Becher, who died last year at age 56.

State Budget Commitee approves Ivy Tech expansion Sat, 26 Jul 2008 01:44:00 EST
Plans for $16 million in construction and renovation at Ivy Tech Community College in Sellersburg won final approval from the State Budget Committee yesterday.

Mortgage brokers shun state exam Sat, 26 Jul 2008 01:43:00 EST
Indiana's secretary of state warned mortgage brokers earlier this month that they would lose their licenses if they didn't pass a state-required test by Aug. 5.

Soul Winner's Boot Camp draws hundreds Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:33:00 EST
There was praying -- lots of praying -- and weeping and speaking in tongues and people being baptized. Thursday night's opening rally for this weekend's Soul Winner's Boot Camp at New Albany's Greater Faith Church was, all in all, a pretty typical Pentecostal revival.

IU opening new cancer center Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:32:00 EST
Indiana University's new $150 million cancer center has traded cramped waiting rooms for spacious bamboo-lined areas intended to give patients a sense of tranquility.

Many bicycle stores see sales rise with gas prices Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:31:00 EST
Bicycle shops across Indiana are reporting a surge in business as motorists eager to cut down on gasoline expenses turn to pedaling their way to and from work.

Indy children's museum to add welcome center, expand skywalk Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:31:00 EST
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis hopes its makeover is fit for a king -- even if he has been dead for thousands of years.

Newspaper told to pay $1.5 million over stories Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:30:00 EST
The Tribune-Star of Terre Haute has been ordered to pay $1.5 million by a jury that found that a sheriff's deputy was defamed by stories in the newspaper.

Seized money's return ordered Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:24:00 EST
A judge has ordered a drug task force to return more than $25,000 that was seized from a drug suspect and spent in apparent violation of a court order.

Pool? Cool! Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:32:00 EST
As temperatures soar, the idea of diving into a sparkling swimming pool sounds mighty appealing. There's still time to add a backyard pool before summer's end.

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