Valley Station News

Swannie Jett has only been on the job as director of the Bullitt County Health Department for a few weeks but already he's thinking about problems like bioterrorism and swine flu.

John Taylor, owner of Louisville Poker Tours, organizes Texas Hold 'Em tournaments at local bars and restaurants.

A round of overnight storms left much of the Metro area dealing with power outages and flooding.

In the midst of a study to consolidate the Louisville Postal Service's local branches, Valley Station residents and their councilman are rallying to keep their post office open.

A judge has reduced the bond for a teenager accused of killing another teen earlier this month.

Strong thunderstorms moved through the Louisville area Friday morning, knocking out power to more than 7,000 customers in the city and Southern Indiana.

Do guns have a place in church? You might be surprised at some peoples' answer. In fact a Valley Station church is asking members to bring their guns to a church event.

Diana Pickett has won school spelling bees since she was in fifth grade. In March, she won first place in the spelling competition at the Kentucky State Junior Beta Club Convention and was invited to compete in Florida at the group's national convention.

In a formal submission to the West Midland Region Rail Development Plan, Michael Fabricant has again stressed the need for disabled access facilities at Lichfield Trent Valley Railway station and the need to re-open for passenger traffic the Lichfield to Burton line.

Officials said Monday the Police & Fire Games, which brought more than 5,000 public servants from Hawaii to Wyoming to the Santa Clarita Valley, was a resounding success.

When her son and daughter-in-law were jailed last year on methamphetamine charges -- leaving their two children behind -- Patricia Schroer and her husband, Richard, both state-certified foster parents, tried to open their Valley Station home to the boys.

First, the victim was George Tiller in Kansas. Then it was Stephen Johns at the Holocaust museum in Washington.

When Brendan Soto and Omer Veladzic heard the theme of the Kentucky School Nutrition Association Art Contest - "Dancing with the Stars: Swing into Nutrition" - they envisioned dancing vegetables, and their posters were chosen as state winners.

A Valley Station man has been charged in the burglary of Sunnyside Baptist Church, the western Bullitt church that was destroyed by fire and rebuilt almost three years ago.

A Nanka Road home is one of the last places a Butler High School student was seen alive and what happened inside that home could hold the answers police are looking for.

In Valley Station, Ky., Pastor Ken Pagano of the New Bethel Church has instituted an "Open Carry Celebration." The church is now 'open' to 'carrying' firearms into the church's 'celebration.' Celebration of what? The only celebration I see is celebrating the hard-nosed, red-necked "American" ego.

In Valley Station, homicide detectives are investigating the death of a 15-year-old boy and they now have a person of interest.

While May started out fine, from the 5th to the 23rd, the weather was very unsettled and wet everywhere, Raineffects hydrologist Dave Stewart says.

When Kimberley stockman Charlie Yeeda was just 18, he helped drove cattle from Derby to Queensland.

Do guns have a place in church? You might be surprised at some peoples' answer. In fact a Valley Station church is asking members to bring their guns to a church event.