Today's News

By DAVE TAYLOR
The Trimble Banner
Coach Johnny Leep’s Trimble County Raiders led by a single digit on the scoreboard with about two minutes left to play but rallied behind a strong closing performance by junior forward Josh Rexroat to race to a 71-62 victory over visiting Fort Knox in the opening round of the Jim Hurst Holiday Classic Monday.

Lexington Herald Leader
Regulations issued last week by the Environmental Protection Agency for waste from coal-fired power plants are welcome but fall short of fully protecting the public.
Coal ash — the residue left over after coal is burned to produce electricity — contains varying amounts of carcinogenic and toxic metals such as arsenic, barium and lead.
Kentucky produces about 9 million tons a year of the waste, which is stored in ponds and landfills.

Although there is no doubt that we still have a long way to go to recover fully from the national recession that began seven years ago, there have been some encouraging signs in recent days.
Early last week, for example, the U.S. Commerce Department reported that the economy grew by five percent between July and September, the fastest quarterly uptick in a decade.

Staff Report
The Kentucky Chamber of Commerce has released a report on the state’s economic conditions, with detailed county-by-county employment data and summaries of the nine economic regions of the state. The study, conducted by Dr. Paul Coomes, the Chamber’s senior economic advisor, looks at the latest data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics on job and payroll growth since the bottom of the 2008-09 national recession. Download the full report at kychamber.com/2014economicdata.