Kentucky High School Basketball News

In the gymnasium at Scott High School, there have been some battles going on between one of the greatest girls' basketball post players the area has produced and the next great one.

There's an understandable consensus that Holmes is the team to beat not only for the Ninth Region championship, but also for a second straight state championship, although if there's one team out there qualified to burst that bubble its Boone County and a major reason for that is senior point guard Mike Gabbard.

It was a bowl of soup that first tipped J. Michael Foster to the trouble that lay ahead for the Kentucky Association of Counties.

The Kentucky High School Athletic Association, which has conducted a 16-month investigation into the boys' basketball program at Rose Hill Christian in Ashland, won't take any final action on the matter until early December.

This year the annual Art and Craft show at Fern Creek Traditional High School is a little later in November than usual but it is still the first major holiday art and craft event in the Louisville Area.

Indiana University will sign just one player today, National Signing Day for college basketball.

Wildcats didn't pass Calipari's first driving test The University of Kentucky basketball team showed in its exhibition win over Campbellsville that it has a long way to go in executing coach John Calipari's "dribble-drive" offense.

Gov. Steve Beshear said Monday he appointed Republican Sen. Dan Kelly of Springfield Circuit Judge in the 11th Circuit "based on his qualifications." But he didn't deny he wants to see the balance in the Republican controlled Senate change at least enough to pass legislation to allow video lottery terminals at horse tracks.

Carol Bransford and Robin Whitesell, both longtime members of the Fulton Independent Board of Education, recently resigned their positions as Chair and Vice Chair.

Donovan Gibbs, a 6-7 forward from Louisville, committed to play basketball at IUPUI Sunday.

He has spent his time crouching in a coal mine and hobnobbing with LeBron James.

Clean out your closets and help the local economy. That's the mantra of area tourism officials this weekend when Kentuckians from Salem to Muldraugh stage a 200-mile yard sale.

MHS BOYS BASKETBALL to HOST TENDERLOIN SALE The MHS Boy's Basketball team will be having a tenderloin sale on Friday, September 4 in the parking lot of Sexton's Treasure Hunt .

Grant County Middle School will have a new leader for the 2009-2010 school year.

Grant County Middle School will have a new leader for the 2009-2010 school year.

Starting with nothing more than "a piece of wood and a pile of iron," Frank House of Ruddels Mills in Bourbon County can create a practical item that many observers would also contend is a work of art.

After 11 years of service to the Fulton Independent Board of Education, Carol Bransford tendered her resignation letter to the board July 14.

Carr Elementary and Fulton High schools have been declared emergency shelters/feeding stations, to be used by the Fulton County Operation Procedures .

Bishop Brossart hires Joshua Grooms as its girls' basketball coach, Holmes sets a boys' basketball tilt with Princeton, and Simon Kenton pitcher Kayla Morgan is named to the Kentucky Softball Coaches Association all-state team as an honorable mention.

Gov. Steve Beshear has tapped a lawyer who grew up in Williamstown to be his point person on gambling.