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Kentucky Farm Bureau on Monday announced the recipients for the highest amount of post-secondary education scholarships in the KFB Education Foundation’s history.

KFB says the foundation awarded 601 Kentucky high school seniors more than $810,000 in scholarships on the state and county level. More than $3.9 million in funding has been awarded by the foundation since 1953.

Multiple area students were among the announced recipients.

On the statewide level, Naomi Mitchell of Bullitt County received the Beautification League of Louisville Scholarship, and Preston Meredith of Hardin County received a KFB Education Foundation Scholarship.

On the county level, four students from Breckinridge County, six students from Bullitt County, 11 students from Grayson County, 17 students from Hardin County, two students from Hart County, six students from LaRue County, two students from Meade County, and 20 students from Nelson County received scholarships.

KFB says scholarships are presented to students who are attending a Kentucky college or university and are pursuing degrees in agriculture or a related field as well as animal health and veterinary technology or a related field, or come from farm families, among other factors. Visit the Scholarships page on the KFB website for more information on scholarships and this year’s recipients.

The Kentucky State Police is investigating a fatal collision that occurred in Breckinridge County Saturday.

According to KSP Post Four, at around 5:10 p.m. CDT on July 26 Breckinridge County Dispatch requested troopers investigate a two-vehicle collision near the 13,000 block of KY 261.

The KSP says the preliminary investigation indicates 48-year-old Joseph Maynard of Owensboro was operating a truck heading south on KY 261 when for unknown reasons the vehicle crossed the center line, striking a northbound truck head-on and causing both vehicles to become engulfed in flames.

Maynard was pronounced dead at the scene by the Breckinridge County Coroner’s Office. Also pronounced dead at the scene by the coroner’s office were the operator of the northbound truck, 22-year-old Hunter Lyons, and a one-year-old juvenile in his vehicle. An adult female passenger in Lyons’s vehicle was flown from the scene to the University of Louisville Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

The KSP’s investigation of the collision is ongoing. The affected portion of KY 261 was closed for several hours for accident reconstruction.