Morning News – 01/28/15

CYNTHIANA / HARRISON

A Harrison County High School student was killed and another was injured in a Monday afternoon crash near Falmouth.  The driver, Bradlee Beagle (18) was taken to the Cincinnati hospital with chest injuries, while passenger Darin Williams (18) was flown to University of Cincinnati Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, Peoples said. The Lexington Herald-Leader reports that a hospital spokeswoman said there was no patient by that name Tuesday. Pendleton County Sheriff Craig Peoples stated that a vehicle had stopped in the roadway to allow for a dog to cross, when Beagle’s vehicle came up from behind; Beagle swerved to miss the stopped vehicle, his vehicle left the roadway, came back onto the road, went out of control and slid sideways. It then went over an embankment and rolled several times, Peoples said.

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KENTUCKY

The pairings for the 2015 Houchens Industries/KHSAA Girls’ Sweet Sixteen® and the 2015 Whitaker Bank/KHSAA Boys’ Sweet Sixteen® will be revealed on Thursday, Feb. 5 at 1 p.m. (ET) when the annual Draw Show is televised live by The CW Lexington. The Sweet 16® Draw Show will also be streamed live online at KHSAA.tv and WKYT.com.

The 2015 Houchens Industries/KHSAA Girls’ Sweet 16® will be held March 11-15 at E.A. Diddle Arena in Bowling Green, with the 2015 Whitaker Bank/KHSAA Boys’ Sweet 16® taking place March 18-22 at Rupp Arena in Lexington. Full-session ticket packages for the Boys’ and Girls’ Sweet 16® are available for $80 for upper arena seats and $124 for side/lower arena seats, and can be purchased online at the following link: https://web.archive.org/web/20171121071735/http://khsaa.org:80/payments/tickets/

Brackets with official times and pairings will be available on the KHSAA/Riherds.com Scoreboard and the KHSAA website on the basketball home page following the conclusion of the draw show.

01/27/15 – Sweet Sixteen® Draw Show Set For February 5th on CW Lexington, KHSAA.tv

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Former U.S. Senate candidate Matt Bevin has filed to run in the Republican primary for Kentucky governor. Bevin, a Louisville businessman, said in a statement Tuesday that his running mate, Jenean Hampton, would be the first black female lieutenant governor in Kentucky history. Hampton served in the U.S. military, including a tour of duty in Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War. The tea party-backed Bevin lost last year’s primary to incumbent Sen. Mitch McConnell. Candidates have until 4 p.m. to file for one of six statewide offices that are on the ballot in 2015.

http://wuky.org/post/tea-partier-matt-bevin-files-run-governor

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Alison Lundergan Grimes filed for re-election as Kentucky secretary of state, ending months of speculation about the former Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate’s political plans for 2015. Grimes spent more than $18 million in 2014 trying to unseat the now-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in a race that garnered her national attention.

https://web.archive.org/web/20150727163452/http://www.wkyt.com/home/headlines/Alison-Grimes-to-seek-re-election-as-secretary-of-state-289893571.html

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Former Morgan County Judge-Executive Tim Conley tearfully begged for mercy before being sentenced to more than seven years in prison on Tuesday, for collecting more than $100,000 in a kickback scheme that continued after his Appalachian county was hit by a tornado. U.S. District Judge Gregory F. Van Tatenhove sentenced Conley to seven years and three months in prison for soliciting and accepting the kickbacks from a bridge contractor. That was at the top of federal sentencing guidelines. Prosecutors urged a sentence of 11 years and four months.

The 2012 tornado killed six people in Morgan County. They were among 25 who died in an outbreak of twisters statewide.

http://wuky.org/post/conley-sentenced-slightly-more-seven-years-kentucky-tornado-kickback-scheme

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• 1547 – Henry VIII dies. His nine-year-old son, Edward VI becomes King, and the first Protestant ruler of England.
• 1813 – Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is first published in the United Kingdom.
• 1820 – A Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev discovers the Antarctic continent, approaching the Antarctic coast.
• 1855 – A locomotive on the Panama Canal Railway, runs from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean for the first time.
• 1887 – In a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, the world’s largest snowflakes are reported, 15 inches (38 cm) wide and 8 inches (20 cm) thick.
• 1896 – Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent becomes the first person to be convicted of speeding. He was fined 1 shilling, plus costs, for speeding at 8 mph (13 km/h), thus exceeding the contemporary speed limit of 2 mph (3.2 km/h).
• 1902 – The Carnegie Institution of Washington is founded in Washington, D.C. with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.
• 1915 – An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard as a branch of the United States Armed Forces.
• 1922 – Knickerbocker Storm, Washington D.C.’s biggest snowfall, causes the city’s greatest loss of life when the roof of the Knickerbocker Theatre collapses.
• 1938 – The World Land Speed Record on a public road is broken by Rudolf Caracciola in the Mercedes-Benz W195 at a speed of 432.7 kilometres per hour (268.9 mph).
• 1956 – Elvis Presley makes his first US television appearance
• 1958 – The Lego company patents the design of its Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced today.
• 1977 – The first day of the Great Lakes Blizzard of 1977 which dumps 10 feet (3.0 m) of snow in one-day in Upstate New York, with Buffalo, Syracuse, Watertown, and surrounding areas most affected.
• 1979 – CBS News Sunday Morning debuts with original host and cocreator Charles Kuralt.
• 1981 – Ronald Reagan lifts remaining domestic petroleum price and allocation controls in the United States helping to end the 1979 energy crisis and begin the 1980s oil glut.
• 1985 – Supergroup USA for Africa (United Support of Artists for Africa) records the hit single We Are the World, to help raise funds for Ethiopian famine relief.
• 1986 – Space Shuttle program: STS-51-L mission – Space Shuttle Challenger explodes after liftoff killing all seven astronauts on board.