AT LEAST THREE FOUND DEAD IN TRIGG FIRE
Kentucky State Police are currently conducting an investigation of a residential fire in the Roaring Springs community of Trigg County. A total of three people found deceased at the residence and another individual who was removed from the scene and transported for medical treatment whose condition is unknown at this time. The cause of the fire is still under investigation and cause of death still has not been determined. At this time all names are being withheld pending notification of next of kin.

TIRE AMNESTY PROGRAM BEGINS TODAY
In cooperation with the Division of Waste Management, the Calloway County Road Department on East Sycamore Street will host a Tire Amnesty program Thursday through Saturday from 8am-4pm. The program will give you a chance to dispose of waste tires at no charge. This includes tires on rims. The only tires not accepted are, foam filled, calcium filled, solid with pressed on rims, and off-road construction tires. Also, tires will not be accepted from retailers. You may call Alicia Tabers at the Environmental Planner's Office at 759-3549 for any additional information.

CALLOWAY BOARD MEETS TONIGHT
Tonight at 6 the Calloway County Board of Education will meet at Southeast Elementary school. There will be a presentation by the Calloway County Tennis Parents. Requested fundraisers, travel requests, and use of facilities are among items up for consent. There will be three community/business representatives selected for the planning committee. There will also be a reading of the 2007-2008 dropout report.

AUTHOR VISITING MSU
New York Times bestselling author Edward P. Jones will be on the campus of Murray State University participating in the Reading Series on Thursday, Oct. 30, at 7:30 p.m. The series is presented by The Wylder Center for the Literary Arts. Jones is the author of Lost in the City, The Known World and All Aunt’s Hagar’s Children. The event will take place in the Pogue Library Reading Room on campus at the corner of 15th Street and Olive Boulevard. It is free and open to the public. There will be a book signing and a reception following the reading.

CAMPAIGN CASH UPDATE
Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell reported more than four times as much campaign cash on hand as Democrat Bruce Lunsford heading into the stretch run toward Election Day. But the challenger's wealth loomed as a potential equalizer as he kept pumping millions into his upset bid. Lunsford remained his own biggest benefactor, putting $2.4 million of his money into his campaign during the three months ending Sept. 30, his campaign said Wednesday. Lunsford, who made a fortune in the health care industry, had self-contributed $5.5 million to his campaign through September. McConnell's campaign finance report showed the four-term incumbent had $5.7 million on hand at the end of September. Lunsford's campaign reported more than $1.2 million on hand.

UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BENEFITS AVAILABLE
More than $44 million in extended unemployment insurance benefits have been paid to 20,581 Kentuckians since the program began in July 2008 and more benefits will continue to be paid out, according to the Kentucky Office of Employment and Training Kentuckians who may be eligible for the additional jobless benefits are being notified by mail when they exhaust regular UI benefits, said Division of Unemployment Insurance Director Tony DeName. The weekly benefit amount for extended benefits will be the same as the person received for regular unemployment compensation during the original 26-week period. The maximum amount of benefits is $415 a week and depends on the person’s prior earnings. The extension will be available through March 22, 2009. For more information about the extended unemployment insurance benefits call the UI office at (502) 564-2900.

MSU PROFESSER BACK
Highly regarded in the field of environmental chemistry for his research involving chemical pollutants, Dr. Bommanna Loganathan is back in his lab at Murray State University after fulfilling his most recent research presentation at an International Symposium on Halogenated Environmental Pollutants (Dioxin 2008), held at the Birmingham Convention Center in Birmingham, England late this summer. Loganathan says research surrounding the toxins included in this study need to continue to better calculate the risk to humans who may consume fish contaminated by these substances, some of which are known to be cancer suspect agents.

CITY COMMISSIONER RESIGNS
Paducah City Commissioner Buz Smith announced Tuesday that he has accepted a job with the U.S. Department of Energy, will resign from the commission and withdraw his re-election bid three weeks before Election Day. Smith won’t be going away though as his job as a program analyst with DOE will involve working with community leaders and citizen groups on issues related to the environmental cleanup and economic development of the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant.

FIRE DESTROYS BARN
Authorities and rescue workers in Calloway County fought a tobacco barn fire Tuesday. 21 members of the Calloway County Fire Rescue responded to the fire just before noon. The fire resulted in a total loss of the barn in addition to a shed and more than five acres of tobacco.

DONELSON PLEADS GUILTY
A Paducah woman pleads guilty on a drug charge in U.S District Court in Paducah Wednesday. 30-year-old Deonna Donelson was charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine, marijuana and heroine, facing a maximum of 20 years, and one million dollars in fines.

RAPE SUSPECT IN CUSTODY
A Hendron man turned himself in at the McCracken County Sheriff's Department on Tuesday after investigators issued an arrest warrant charging him with rape. Chantez L. Jones, 26, is charged with raping a woman at gunpoint in September at her home. Emery said the woman knew Jones and identified him as her attacker.

ACROSS KENTUCKY
A record number or Kentuckians are registered to vote in the November election. Secretary of State Trey Grayson reports a total of more than two-point-nine-million citizens are on the voter rolls. Secretary Grayson says the election's focus is getting people to the polls on election day.

Financial problems are forcing some cutbacks at Pikeville College. College officials say they're cutting staff by 20 percent and putting a freeze on "non-essential spending" . The cuts will first be felt by staff, with elimination of 25 staff positions immediately. There will be faculty cuts, but because of contracts they will take longer to implement, officials say 15 faculty positions will be cut over the next year and a half. Officials say there will be no cuts at the Pikeville College School of Osteopathic Medicine.

Students, teachers and administrators are mourning the passage of a student at Grayson County Middle School . 13-year-old Keith Walker collapsed during basketball practice . First responders rushed him to a nearby hospital where he died. Officials say an autopsy reveals he died from cardiac arrest, but had not history of heart problems.

A judge read the charges, and an attorney for Randall Creek entered a "not guilty" plea on behalf of his client in Warren District Court. Officers returned Creek to Kentucky this week from Iowa where he had been arrested. In e-mails before he was captured, Creed admitted killing his former girlfriend Debbie Rediess in the driveway of her home on October 5.

Motorists are urged to beware of the deer. It's the mating season through December, that means a lot of deer on the move in Kentucky. Deer and vehicles don't mix but mix too often on Kentucky roadways. Transportation Cabinet officials say there were almost three-thousand deer-related accidents in Kentucky last year.