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Local students among Kentucky Farm Bureau scholarship recipients

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More than 600 Kentucky high school seniors received more than $980,000 in scholarships from Kentucky Farm Bureau, the highest amount of post-secondary education scholarships the organization has ever awarded.

KFB says Farm Bureau scholarships are awarded on the state and county level. Statewide scholarships support students attending a Kentucky college, university, community college, or proprietary school and are pursuing a four-year degree in agriculture or a related field. 113 county Farm Bureaus awarded scholarships to local students.

On the statewide level, Joslyn Hinton from LaRue County received the Beautification League of Louisville Scholarship, and Nate Crumbley of Nelson County and Avery Dowell of Breckinridge County received the KFB Young Farmer Scholarship. 

Visit www.kyfb.com for a complete list of scholarship winners and for more information on the Kentucky Farm Bureau Scholarship Program.

Tornadoes confirmed from Tuesday severe weather

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The National Weather Service in Louisville has confirmed at least eight tornadoes touched down as part of the severe weather across the area Tuesday.

NWS Louisville Meteorologist John Bumgardner says one of the first touch downs was in Fort Knox.

“Looks like that one touched down around 4:03 p.m. and spun up pretty fast,” Bumgardner said. “It was kind of embedded in a line. We actually saw that one on radar, so we were able to call it a radar-confirmed tornado. We saw debris getting lofted.”

That tornado was classified as an EF1 with top speeds of 95 miles per hour.

A long-trek tornado made its way from Grayson County to Hart County, traveling more than 21 miles over 41 minutes. That tornado was classified as an EF2 and produced winds as high as 115 miles per hour.

If you have any storm damage, contact your county’s emergency management office.

Kentucky soldier killed in action in WWII returning home for burial

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A Kentucky soldier killed in action during World War II will be laid to rest in radcliff.

U.S. Army Private Mike R. McDowell enlisted in the Army from Kentucky, and served in Company B, 1st Battalion, 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), known as “Merrill’s Marauders”, in the China-Burma-India Theater. McDowell was declared killed in action during the Battle of Myitkyina in Burma in July of 1944. The U.S. Army Human Resources Command says limited records survived the battle and the details surrounding his loss are unknown, and he was declared non-recoverable in April 1952.

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency accounted for McDowell on January 29. He is survived by his third cousin, Judy Clark, and her husband Richard.

Visitation for Private McDowell will be Wednesday, July 29 from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. at the Chism Family Funeral Home in Vine Grove. He will then be laid to rest with full military honors at 10:30 a.m. in the Kentucky Veterans Cemetery Central. The public is invited to attend.

Human remains found in Breckinridge County belong to missing woman

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Human remains found in Breckinridge County last year have been identified as those of a missing Glen Dean woman.

The Breckinridge County Sheriff’s Office says remains found on March 9, 2025, in the Glen Dean area were identified through DNA analysis. The remains were confirmed to belong to 64-year-old Evelyn Blake, who was originally reported missing in July of 2024.

The sheriff’s office says Blake’s next of kin were immediately notified and the announcement was delayed one day to allow additional family members to be contacted. The sheriff’s office says the identification was achieved through the collaborative efforts of the sheriff’s office, the Breckinridge County Coroner’s Office, the Office of the Kentucky Medical Examiner, the Kentucky Forensic Laboratory, and the University of Tennessee’s Anthropological Research Facility.

The investigation into Blake’s cause of death is active and ongoing. Anybody with possible information is asked to contact the sheriff’s office at 270-756-2361. Tips may be made anonymously.

June unemployment in Lincoln Trail counties trends higher than month and year prior

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Unemployment rates in the Lincoln Trail District in June were higher than the previous month and a year prior.

The Kentucky Center for Statistics says unemployment rates increased in 116 counties, decreased in two, and stayed the same in two when comparing June 2026 with June 2025.

Hardin County’s unemployment rate for June came in at 6.3 percent. That is an increase from the May rate of 5.7 percent and from June 2025 when the rate was reported at 5.1 percent.

The unemployment average for the Lincoln Trail District in June was 6.1 percent. Grayson County posted the highest unemployment rate in the district at 7.1 percent. Washington County posted the lowest at 5.1 percent.

Learn more about how the unemployment rate is calculated and find more labor market information by visiting kystats.ky.gov.