Morning News – 02/05/15

CYNTHIANA / HARRISON

There will be no school today, Thursday, February 5, 2015.

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10152547522321607&id=296254501606

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Harrison Memorial Hospital has announced the date and topic for the next “Dinner with a Doc” series; Dr. Anjum Bux will speak on the topic of pain management on March 16, at 6:30pm. Anyone interested in attending the free dinner event must RSVP by calling 859.235.3510. The Dinner with a Doc series gives the public an opportunity to sit and have a Q&A session about varied health issues.

https://www.facebook.com/163143847064829/photos/a.169092956469918.33867.163143847064829/835764189802788/?type=1

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HARRISON COUNTY SPORTS

Breds Basketball:

• Thursday, 2-12-15 Harrison vs Mason Co at Home JV/Varsity 6/7:30
• Saturday, 2-14-15 Harrison vs Paris at Paris, F/JV/Var. 4:45/6/7:30

Fillies Basketball:

• Monday, 2-9-15 Harrison vs Estill Co at Estill JV/Var. 6/7:30
• Wednesday, 2-11-15 Harrison vs Woodford Co at Home JV/Varsity 6/7:30 SENIOR NIGHT
• Friday, 2-13-15 Harrison vs East Jessamine at Home JV/Varsity 6/7:30

Wrestling:

• Saturday, 2-14-15 Harrison at Region 8 Tournament – Belfry High School

Bowling:

• February 12 & 13 State Tournament at Eastland Lanes, Lexington Will have more info as we get closer to date.

Indoor Track:

• Saturday, 2-14-15 Harrison Co at Mason Co 10:00 AM

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KENTUCKY

Kentucky health officials overstated state and federal Medicaid expenses by more than $500 million, according to an audit released Wednesday. The report by Democratic Auditor Adam Edelen said the Cabinet for Health and Family Services did not adequately review its finances before reporting them to the state’s Finance and Administration Cabinet. While many errors were caught before the state issued its final report, several mistakes did get through, including overstating $500 million in state and federal expenses and overstating federal revenue by $424 million.

http://wuky.org/post/health-officials-overstated-medicaid-expenses-audit-finds

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Opponents to the Kentucky’s death penalty received help yesterday from a former death row inmate who was exonerated with DNA evidence. Kirk Bloodsworth, a Maryland man who spent more than eight years in prison until his release, visited the Kentucky Capitol, endorsing efforts to abolish the death penalty. Bloodsworth calls capital punishment a social injustice due to the potential that innocent people will be put to death. He says being confined in a tiny prison cell without parole is a better punishment.

Kentucky has executed three people since 1976. State official say there are 33 inmates on death row.

Bills introduced by Democratic Sen. Gerald Neal and Republican Rep. David Floyd would abolish the death penalty and replace it with life in prison without parole.

http://wuky.org/post/death-penalty-foes-press-case-lawmakers

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Rep. Johnny Bell of Glasgow has been added to an ongoing sexual harassment lawsuit in Franklin County. Franklin County Circuit Judge Thomas Wingate on Wednesday added Bell as a defendant in a case brought by Yolanda Costner against the Legislative Research Commission and former Democratic lawmaker John Arnold. Costner is seeking damages, stating the Legislative Research Commission did not prevent Arnold from sexually harassing her. Bell became Costner’s superior last month when he was elected House majority whip. Bell soon dismissed Costner, an action Costner said was to retaliate against her for filing the lawsuit.

http://wuky.org/post/lawmaker-who-fired-state-worker-added-harassment-lawsuit

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Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes joined the Kentucky Association of Food Banks and other elected officials in the Capitol Rotunda yesterday for the Rally to Solve Hunger. The Rally, part of the second annual Food Bank Day, raises awareness and knowledge about the fight against hunger in Kentucky.

“As many as one in six Kentuckians does not know where his or her next meal will come from, and the rate of food insecurity is even higher among children,” Grimes said. “These programs are important opportunities for Kentuckians to help make sure their most vulnerable neighbors have enough healthy food to eat.”

Grimes thanked the farmers who participate in the programs and Kentucky’s food banks for their tireless work to help eradicate hunger and food insecurity in the Commonwealth. “By working together and continuing to create and foster these kinds of partnerships, we can end hunger in Kentucky,” said Grimes.

http://kentucky.gov/Pages/Activity-Stream.aspx?viewMode=ViewDetailInNewPage&eventID=%7b838F5ECA-AFAE-4708-BB1B-832A675D9F78%7d&activityType=PressRelease

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A woman reported missing and presumed dead in Texas was found alive and well in Lexington Wednesday. Lexington police arrested Christina Rae Davidson, 42, after a traffic stop. Officers say when they ran her license, they discovered a warrant for her arrest relating to drug activity in Texas. Police say when officers contacted authorities in Texas to confirm her identity, they learned the suspect was reported as a missing person seven months ago, and was presumed dead.

Davidson is being held in the Fayette County Detention Center, pending her extradition to Texas. In addition to the preexisting warrant, she is also charged with possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.

https://web.archive.org/web/20151228052100/http://www.lex18.com/story/28025045/texas-woman-presumed-dead-found-alive-in-lexington

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MONEY

Verizon Wireless cut most of its data plan costs by $10 on Wednesday. A plan with one gigabyte of shared data will now start at $30 per month instead of $40, two gigabytes will start at $40 instead of $50, and so on. In the company’s release, it states that “existing customers can change their plans at any time by visiting MyVerizon.”

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• 1576 – Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours and rejoins the Protestant forces in the French Wars of Religion.
• 1631 – Roger Williams emigrates to Boston.
• 1778 – South Carolina becomes the second state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
• 1849 – University of Wisconsin–Madison’s first class meets at Madison Female Academy.
• 1852 – The New Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, one of the largest and oldest museums in the world, opens to the public.
• 1869 – The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the “Welcome Stranger”, is found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia.
• 1913 – Greek military aviators, Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis perform the first naval air mission in history, with a Farman MF.7 hydroplane.
• 1917 – The current constitution of Mexico is adopted, establishing a federal republic with powers separated into independent executive, legislative, and judicial branches.
• 1917 – The Congress of the United States passes the Immigration Act of 1917 over President Woodrow Wilson’s veto. Also known as the Asiatic Barred Zone Act, it forbade immigration from nearly all of south and southeast Asia.
• 1918 – Stephen W. Thompson shoots down a German airplane. It is the first aerial victory by the U.S. military.
• 1918 – SS Tuscania is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland; it is the first ship carrying American troops to Europe to be torpedoed and sunk.
• 1919 – Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D. W. Griffith launch United Artists.
• 1924 – The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal or the “BBC pips”.
• 1937 – United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposes a plan to enlarge the Supreme Court of the United States.
• 1941 – World War II: Allied forces begin the Battle of Keren to capture Keren, Eritrea.
• 1945 – World War II: General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila.
• 1958 – A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered.
• 1971 – Astronauts land on the moon in the Apollo 14 mission.
• 1972 – Bob Douglas becomes the first African American elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.
• 1976 – The 1976 swine flu outbreak begins at Fort Dix, NJ.
• 1985 – Ugo Vetere, then the mayor of Rome, and Chedli Klibi, then the mayor of Carthage meet in Tunis to sign a treaty of friendship officially ending the Third Punic War which lasted 2,131 years.
• 1988 – Manuel Noriega is indicted on drug smuggling and money laundering charges.
• 1994 – Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
• 1997 – The so-called Big Three banks in Switzerland announce the creation of a $71 million fund to aid Holocaust survivors and their families.
• 2008 – A major tornado outbreak across the Southern United States kills 57.