Evansville Courier - The Gleaner

WICKLIFFE, Ky. (AP) -- A smoky fire in a paper mill storage building forced residents from their homes Friday and is likely to continue to burn for days, officials said.

MADISONVILLE -- Hopkins County will soon join the ranks of other Kentucky counties and cities that have banned smoking in most public places.

The Henderson County High School Notorious Steppaz, a step dance team, will hold a camp Oct. 20, Oct. 21 and Oct. 23 for students in preschool through high school.

Seven new homes will be featured in the Audubon Area Home Builders Association's 2008 Parade of Homes next weekend.

B.T. Wayne, one of the most successful coaches in the history of Henderson County High School, was quick to credit his long list of players and assistant coaches for being responsible for his induction into the Henderson County Sports Hall of Fame.

Henderson County plugged another weapon into its power running game and lit up Graves County in Friday's 41-13 win.

LEXINGTON -- Its defending conference player-of-the-week quarterback played so poorly he was benched. Its league-leading kicker missed four of five attempts. Its all-time leading receiver coughed up the ball twice in the first quarter.

I finally made it to Taffy, Ky.

"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."

Conservative Republicans regularly accuse liberal Democrats of trying to solve problems by throwing money at them. The Federal Reserve has been throwing billions into the banking system to stabilize the credit markets, and no one has been complaining about it.

Once upon a time, he was just a lonely dog with a bloody tail trying to make it through a thunderstorm.

The city of Henderson is backing off from the idea of rebuilding North Elm Street between the Municipal Golf Course and Watson Lane.

The Henderson City Commission had earlier OK'd seeking a firm to do design and engineering services on the project, and city staff tentatively settled on American Structurepoint of Indianapolis, which proposed to do that work for $792,500.

U.S. 60-West will be reduced to one lane at the Highland Creek Bridge on the Henderson-Union county line for up to one month starting Wednesday, the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet announced.

When Chris and Charly Pate began the renovation of their garage, they expected nothing more than the creation of a great playroom for their children.

The Henderson City-County Ethics Commission is dealing with its first complaint since it was formed 14 years ago -- but the object of the complaint maintains it's politically motivated. Henderson City Commission candidate Robert Pruitt filed the complaint against Commissioner Jim White. In a nutshell, Pruitt claims White should not have voted to approve the last two budgets of the Henderson Water Utility because White's employer -- Sherman Dixie Concrete Industries of Evansville -- sells concrete pipe to HWU.

He was so good at tinkering and fixing things that he got the nickname "MacGyver" when he was still a kid. Eventually, he would advance to working on the nuclear reactors of Navy ballistic missile submarines.

NEW YORK -- When financial panic sweeps Bedford Falls in the 1946 movie "It's a Wonderful Life," the villain, Mr. Potter, moves to snap up the Bailey Bros. Building and Loan, offering a fire-sale price of 50 cents on the dollar.

A Reed man is in satisfactory condition at Methodist Hospital after he hit a deer on his motorcycle, according to the Henderson County Sheriff's Office.