Morning News – 01/15/15

HARRISON COUNTY SPORTS

Fillies Basketball:

• Monday, 1-19-15 HC vs Fleming Co at Fleming F/JV/Var 4:30
• Wednesday, 1-21-15 HC vs Robertson Co at Robertson Varsity only 7:00
• Thursday, 1-22-15 HC vs Montgomery Co at home Freshman 6:30
• Friday, 1-23-15 HC vs Mason Co at Mason JV/Var 6/7:30

Wrestling:

• Wednesday, 1-21-15 HC at Madison Central Duals Richmond
• Saturday,1-24-15 HC at Capital City Classic – Frankfort

Breds Basketball:

• Tuesday, 1-20-15 HC vs Brossart at Home F/ JV/Var 5/6/7:30
• Wednesday, 1-21-15 HC vs Pendleton Co at Home JV/Freshman 6/7:15
• Thursday, 1-22-15 HC vs Bracken Co away Freshman 6:30
• Saturday, 1-24-15 Boys Freshman District hosted by Harrison Co.
  • Games begin at 10:00
  • Championship game at 11:45

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KENTUCKY

Twenty-six Kentucky law enforcement agencies will be able to cross jurisdictional boundaries when conducting investigations under a program called BACKUPPS–Bluegrass and Central Kentucky Unified Police Protection System. BACKUPPS is a cooperative agreement between the agencies, based upon KRS 65.240. Included are sheriff’s offices in Bourbon, Boyle, Clark, Franklin, Grant, Mercer, Montgomery, Owen, Powell, Scott and Woodford counties and police in Clay City, Cynthiana, Danville, Frankfort, Georgetown, Harrodsburg, Lancaster, Mount Sterling, Nicholasville, Owenton, Paris, Stanton, Versailles, Winchester and the University of Kentucky.

https://web.archive.org/web/20150604002158/http://www.wkyt.com/home/headlines/Ky-law-enforcement-agencies-can-cross-boundaries-in-agreement-288654511.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20161222095655/http://kledispatches.ky.gov/Documents/0115_backupps.pdf

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Ciji L. Jefferson (28) of Sadieville plead guilty to complicity to second-degree burglary, yesterday, in Bourbon County. Jefferson was indicted last year for that charge in connection with the burglary and murder of Glenda Sue Jones on Feb. 4, 2010. The Scott County coroner said Jones died of blunt-force trauma. Jefferson had been scheduled to go on trial Jan. 21. Her indictment said that she told Nicholas Willinger that Jones had a large amount of money in her home on Double Culvert Road in Sadieville, and that Jones wouldn’t be home on a particular date. Jefferson accompanied Willinger to Jones’ house, and waited outside while Willinger went inside. Willinger’s indictment said he killed Jones by striking her in the head with a blunt object. Jefferson is scheduled to be sentenced March 10.

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Family members are offering a $5,000.00 reward for information on the deaths of Sandra Kay Melton (64) and Suzy Melton (35); the mother and daughter died inside their home in Perry County in 2013. The Meltons were shot, and left inside their home which was set ablaze by an unknown suspect. While police are still waiting on leads, family members still hold on to hope someone will step forward and help solve this case. Anyone with information regarding this case should call the Kentucky State Police post in Hazard at 606-435-6069.

https://web.archive.org/web/20150602051356/http://www.wkyt.com/home/headlines/family-of-women-killed-in-fire-offer-reward-for-information-186755601.html

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1541 – King Francis I of France gives Jean-François Roberval a commission to settle the province of New France (Canada) and provide for the spread of the “Holy Catholic faith”.
1559 – Elizabeth I is crowned Queen of England in Westminster Abbey, London, England.
1777 – American Revolutionary War: New Connecticut (present day Vermont) declares its independence.
1782 – Superintendent of Finance Robert Morris goes before the U.S. Congress to recommend establishment of a national mint and decimal coinage.
1815 – War of 1812: American frigate USS President, commanded by Commodore Stephen Decatur, is captured by a squadron of four British frigates.
1865 – American Civil War: Fort Fisher in North Carolina falls to the Union, thus cutting off the last major seaport of the Confederacy.
1870 – A political cartoon for the first time symbolizes the Democratic Party with a donkey (“A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion” by Thomas Nast for Harper’s Weekly).
1889 – The Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, is incorporated in Atlanta.
1892 – James Naismith publishes the rules of basketball.
1908 – The Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority becomes the first Greek-letter organization founded and established by African American college women.
1910 – Construction ends on the Buffalo Bill Dam in Wyoming, United States, which was the highest dam in the world at the time, at 325 ft (99 m).
1919 – Boston Molasses Disaster: A large molasses tank in Boston, Massachusetts, bursts and a wave of molasses rushes through the streets, killing 21 people and injuring 150 others.
1943 – The world’s largest office building, The Pentagon, is dedicated in Arlington, Virginia.
1947 – The brutalized corpse of Elizabeth Short (The “Black Dahlia”) is found in Los Angeles’ Leimert Park.
1967 – The first Super Bowl is played in Los Angeles. The Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs 35–10.
1969 – The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 5.
1973 – Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, President Richard Nixon announces the suspension of offensive action in North Vietnam.
1974 – Dennis Rader aka the BTK Killer kills his first victims by binding, torturing and murdering Joseph, Joseph II, Josephine and Julie Otero in their house.
1976 – Gerald Ford’s would-be assassin, Sara Jane Moore, is sentenced to life in prison.
1991 – The United Nations deadline for the withdrawal of Iraqi forces from occupied Kuwait expires, preparing the way for the start of Operation Desert Storm.
2001 – Wikipedia, a free Wiki content encyclopedia, goes online.
2005 – ESA’s SMART-1 lunar orbiter discovers elements such as calcium, aluminum, silicon, iron, and other surface elements on the Moon.
2007 – Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, former Iraqi intelligence chief and half-brother of Saddam Hussein, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, former chief judge of the Revolutionary Court, are executed by hanging in Iraq.
2009 – US Airways Flight 1549 makes an emergency landing in the Hudson River shortly after takeoff from LaGuardia Airport in New York, New York. All passengers and crew members survive.