Smokeless tobacco is just as dangerous as lighting up a cigarette and can be just as addictive. Brent Blevins with the Boyle County Health Department says it is a dangerous habit that has a price tag of health risks and financial costs.






Today is the Great American Spit Out... a day that suggests going dip-free for 24 hours. For more information on how to quit, call the Boyle County Health Department.

Kentucky could build casinos if a constitutional amendment passes muster. So far though, the bill has only cleared its first hurdle after the Senate State and Local Government Committee voted to send the casino bill to the full Senate. The vote in committee was 7 to 4. There was one tweak to the bill so that now no casino has to be built at a racetrack.

U.S. Rep. Brett Guthrie of Bowling Green now has a lot more territory to cover and more people to represent, since redistricting has given him Boyle, Garrard and Mercer counties. He was in Boyle County, taking a tour of the area, so that he knows what he's getting into.

The Arts Commission of Danville/Boyle County is looking for local artists interested in exhibiting at its next Gallery Hop Stop set for June 7th in downtown Danville. Ann Nichols says the hop allows local artists to sell their work without paying out a commission.






An Arts Commission membership is required, but you are not required to live in Boyle County. For more information, call 859-238-0063.

The details still have to be worked out, but stockholders in the Dix River County Club in Lincoln County will sell the place to Danny McQueen of Nicholasville and partner Steve Coleman of Lexington. They said they made the decision in a vote last Thursday, but that they still have to work out all the fine points.

Garrard County and Lancaster law enforcement raided a house on Sunday on Fall Lick Road and three people were arrested on weapons and drug related charges. Cops got a warrant and found an assault rifle, and an indoor marijuana grow operation. Police arrested 21 year old Ebony Black, and 26 year old Cody Morgan, both of Lancaster, and 28 year old Jeffery Moore of Stanford on the charges. While Black bonded out of the Lincoln County Regional Jail, Moore and Morgan were still in as of Tuesday.

Fifty people in attendance, some spoke for and some against Lancaster mayor Brenda Powers, and when it was over -- after shouting and yelling during a closed door session, the only thing decided was that there'd be another meeting on March 5. Powers and the council agreed to set Monday night's meeting to discuss how the city was being lead. Powers reiterated her stance in the middle of the discussion that she would not resign as mayor, saying the people put her there. Then there was an executive session, and a decision to meet again on the fifth, 7 p.m., city hall.

It took 16 rounds until the Lincoln County, county wide spelling bee came down to this...






But it would not be Erin Charland's day, instead, Tyler Bastin, a fifth Grader at Stanford Elementary School would triumph...






That was here on WPBK FM Tuesday morning. Tyler now goes on to the state
competition at Churchill Downs as part of the Derby Festival in April.

A Kentucky man has received a key to a city that's more than 1,000 miles away.






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Jack Strunk lives in Garrard County, but recently grabbed the attention of Laredo, Texas. He defended the border town on Youtube after a viral video first bashed the area and its people. Strunk, who lived in Laredo before moving back home to Kentucky, says he only posted the video because he thought it was right. Along with naming Monday for the Kentucky man, Laredo official also served up some of his favorite tex-mex food.

Kentucky State Police is looking for fifth grade artists to compete in the National Missing Children’s Day poster contest sponsored by the Department of Justice (DOJ) in Washington, DC.






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KSP will select a nominee from Kentucky. One poster from all state nominated entries will be selected as a winner. The artist of the national winning poster will win a free trip to Washington, D.C and participate in the National Missing Children’s Day Ceremony where they will receive an award and a U.S. Savings Bond. Poster entries must be submitted by March 2. For more information call 502-782-1781.