Bellewood News

An undercover Internet sex sting by Louisville Metro Police led to the arrests of eight men, including a worker at a children's home and a Jefferson County Public School employee.

Rebecca has been through a lot in her 18 years. Physically and sexually abused while growing up, witnessing her mother being beaten on a regular basis, thrown out of her house with her daughter at the age of 15.

Ernie has had a tough life. He became a ward of the state as an infant; his biological parents beat him, which resulted in numerous broken bones and other injuries.

As a young boy, Logan Bohannon was raised in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky where his father mined coal and Bohannon attended a one-room schoolhouse on Quicksand Creek.

The budget cuts outlined in Deborah Yetter and Stephanie Steitzer's Dec. 19 story, 'Kentucky human-services programs may face big cuts,' are alarming.

FINANCIAL SERVICES Yano K. Touma has been named senior vice president and director of business development at Hilliard Lyons, within the brokerage's Wealth Services area.