KENTUCKY
A Kentucky judge has granted a same-sex couple the right to divorce, despite the fact the state doesn’t recognize gay marriage. Lawyers argued that the women–Alysha Romero and Rebecca Sue Romero–should be able to divorce in Kentucky, where they live now, instead of having to move back to Massachusetts. Jefferson Family Court Judge Joseph O’Reilly said in his ruling that not allowing the divorce would violate a guarantee in the state constitution that all people should be treated as equals. The court’s ruling comes as the U.S. Supreme Court is considering whether to hear any gay marriage cases.
http://www.wkyt.com/home/headlines/Ky-judge-grants-divorce-to-same-sex-couple-288400461.html
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Grayson County deputies have said that a missing 13-year-old girl appears to be on a crime spree with her boyfriend. Cheyenne Phillips, 13, has been missing since Jan. 3, and is believed to be with her presumed boyfriend, Dalton Hayes, 18, according to police. Sheriff Norman Chaffins said the couple have evaded deputies, and now they’re accused of stealing two cars. Chaffins said the two stole a car and crashed it, and then ran from police and stole another car. The two are now believed to be in a red 2006 Toyota Tacoma. Authorities have said that a gun, without ammunition, was inside the car; Authorities have also said the two do not have any cash, so they’re worried about what measures the couple may take to get money. If you see the couple, you’re asked to call 911.
http://www.wkyt.com/home/headlines/Grayson-County–288376731.html
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Two Kenton County men have been arrested on child pornography charges. Kenneth Sundberg (47) and Alan Newberry (42) were both arrested by Attorney General Jack Conway’s Cybercrimes Unit in separate investigations. Both men were charged with four counts of possesion of material protraying a sexual performance by a minor.
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Cheryl Castle of Lowmansville is the first patient in Kentucky to receive surgery to treat her epileptic seizures, having the Neuropace RNS system implanted by a neurosurgery team at UK led by Dr. Craig Van Horne this past November. The device, which works similarly to a pacemaker, according to Dr. Horne, continuously monitors electrical activity in the brain, detecting abnormalities and delivering electrical stimulation to treat oncoming seizures. Doctors from UK Heathcare’s Kentucky Neuroscience Institute announced the procedure a success yesterday morning, following Castle’s reports of improved health and living conditions.
http://wuky.org/post/new-procedure-changing-lives
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A Bourbon County man suffered minor burns early this morning in a fire that destroyed a home along Winchester Road. Officials state that the homeowner and a friend woke up smelling smoke around 1:30 a.m. When the two got up to check it out, they discovered a small fire that was beginning to spread. By the time firefighters arrived on scene, the structure was fully engulfed in flames. The homeowner was transported to the hospital by EMS for burns; the friend was reportedly unharmed. Officials have not determined the cause of the fire, but say it may have started around the fireplace.
http://www.lex18.com/story/27845099/fire-injures-man-destroys-home-in-bourbon-county
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NATION
Facebook announced a partnership with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, yesterday, to send AMBER Alerts to the public via user’s News Feeds in order to help find missing children. The alerts will include photographs and other details about the missing child, and will be shown on Facebook’s mobile and desktop platforms.
http://newsroom.fb.com/news/2015/01/introducing-amber-alerts-on-facebook/
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ENTERTAINMENT
Amazon Studios has announced that they are in the process of delivering Woody Allen’s first-ever TV series. The veteran filmmaker is to write and direct all of the episodes of the half-hour series, which premieres on Amazon’s Prime Instant Video sometime in 2016. No other details about the series were disclosed.
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THIS DAY IN HISTORY
- 1784 – American Revolutionary War: Ratification Day, United States – Congress ratifies the Treaty of Paris with Great Britain.
- 1858 – Napoleon III of France escapes an assassination attempt.
- 1943 – World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill begin the Casablanca Conference to discuss strategy and study the next phase of the war.
- 1943 – World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to travel by airplane while in office when he travels from Miami to Morocco to meet with Winston Churchill.
- 1950 – The first prototype of the MiG-17 makes its maiden flight.
- 1952 – NBC’s long-running morning news program Today debuts, with host Dave Garroway.
- 1954 – The Hudson Motor Car Company merges with Nash-Kelvinator Corporation forming the American Motors Corporation.
- 1969 – An accidental explosion aboard the USS Enterprise near Hawaii kills 27 people.
- 1973 – Elvis Presley’s concert Aloha from Hawaii is broadcast live via satellite, and sets the record as the most watched broadcast by an individual entertainer in television history.
- 1975 – Teenage heiress Lesley Whittle is kidnapped by Donald Neilson, aka “the Black Panther”.
- 2005 – The Huygens probe lands on Saturn’s moon Titan.
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