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Asphalt rehab projects awarded for 45 counties across Kentucky

From KYTC

FRANKFORT, KY – Governor Steve Beshear today announced that asphalt rehabilitation projects totaling more than $64 million have been awarded by the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet as the spring construction season continues.

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Juvenile charged with making threat against school

Martha Layne Collins High School

SHELBYVILLE, KY (WAVE) - An arrest has been made in a bomb threat that caused a Shelby County school building to be evacuated.

The threat was called in Monday to Martha Layne Collins High School.

The Shelby County Sheriff's Office said a juvenile was arrested Monday night for making the threat.

The juvenile is charged with terroristic threatening and is being held a detention center in Elizabethtown.

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Shelby Co. school evacuated, classes dismissed after threat

Martha Layne Collins High School in Shelby County was evacuated Monday after a security threat.

SHELBYVILLE, KY (WAVE) – A security threat prompted the evacuation of a high school in Shelbyville on Monday.

Staff members and students in grades 8 through 12 at Martha Layne Collins High School were evacuated to the football field after the threat was called in to the school's main office around noon, according to Duanne Puckett, Public Relations Coordinator for Shelby County Public Schools. Chief Deputy Gene Whitt with the Shelby County Sheriff's Office said school officials felt they were dealing with a bomb threat, but Whitt would not elaborate on the exact threat that was made.

Parents were notified by an automated OneCall Now message to pick up their children. Parents whose children drove to school were asked to call the Shelby County Central Office so an official release could be issued. Buses took the remaining children home.

Students had been taking state assessment tests when the disruption happened.

Oldham County man prepares to attend his 75th Kentucky Derby

Bill Camp

LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) - We all have our Kentucky Derby Day traditions. One Kentuckiana man's tradition involves only one thing: being at Churchill Downs.

This year, Bill Camp will attend his 75th Kentucky Derby. He said there is no other place he'd rather be on the first Saturday in May.

"We happen to live in this marvelous area and the Kentucky Derby is it," said Camp.

It was Camp's dad who took him to his first Derby.

"I was 9 years old and they didn't have a babysitter so I guess that's how I got there," Camp said. "I saw my first Derby on my dad's shoulders in 1934."    

Camp was hooked. His father didn't like the races so it wasn't until four years later, in 1938, that Bill made it back to Churchill Downs and the Run for the Roses. He's only missed two Derbies after that: once for college finals and the other time for World War II.

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Lane closures scheduled around Kentucky

Lane closures scheduled around Kentucky

From Kentucky Transportation Cabinet

LOUISVILLE, KY - No interstate lane closures for construction will be allowed on May 3-4 for the Kentucky Oaks and Derby.

Shipping and shopping at Churchill Downs

Shipping and shopping at Churchill Downs

From United States Postal Service

LOUISVILLE, KY — The Postal Service Mobile Unit will be in full operation at Churchill Downs in the Grandstand area from Thursday, May 2 through Saturday, May 5. 

Two Belles to battle for riverboat supremacy

Two Belles to battle for riverboat supremacy

From Kentucky Derby Festival Press Office

LOUISVILLE, KY - The Kentucky Derby Festival Great Steamboat Race on Wednesday, May 1, will feature two vessels, the Belle of Louisville and the Belle of Cincinnati vying for Ohio River supremacy. The same task and scoring system that was implemented four years ago will return this year.