FRANKFORT — A state agency that oversees Kentucky’s re-sponse to weather disasters and other emergencies was slammed Tuesday by a team of auditors who found misuse of taxpayer money, intimidation of employ-ees and an overtly hostile work-place.

Auditor Adam Edelen said Tuesday that Kentucky Emer-gency Management may have misspent millions in recent years, some of it on alcohol, en-tertainment and door prizes at conferences.

The fi ndings, released at a Frankfort press conference, drew a hasty response from Gov. Steve Beshear, who called for improvements within the agency

that he has worked closely with through 11 federally declared weather disasters over the past years.

“The allegations in the audi-tor’s report are very serious, and we are reviewing each one care-fully,” he said. “There is no place in state government for threats or intimidation of workers, and we will consider all appropriate actions as we analyze the report.

“Beshear also said he expects

the agency “to take corrective ac-tion promptly to make sure ev-ery dollar is used appropriately.”

Edelen said his staffers who conducted the review found documents had been altered to hide inappropriate expenditures by the agency, headed by retired

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2. McCracken County teacher wins national award for innovative methods. 3A

4. GM makes plans to invest $167 million at Tennessee factory. 3C

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National Night Out, an event designed to increase cooperation with public safety and the com-munity, was held Tuesday night at Fountain Avenue. The night had many activities for kids, such as limbo, cornhole, hoop toss, color-ing and chess. Free refreshments were also offered. The most popu-lar event was when the fi re depart-ment turned on a hose and sprayed kids. The event was more than just fun and games. Paducah police

Capt. Mark Roberts, between play-ing basketball with some of the kids, said law enforcement hopes to have the same involvement in the Fountain Avenue area as it does with the rest of the city.

“We’re trying to increase the en-thusiasm and the partnership with the community,” he said.

Roberts said crime in the Foun-tain Avenue area has decreased in recent years due to police concen-tration.

Marian Abell, a member of the citizens police force, helped pro-

mote the event. She said kids sometimes have a negative view of offi cers.

“They’re here to help them,” she said. “A lot of times kids see police offi cers and it has to do with older siblings or moms and dads and it’s not such a good situation, but this lets them know that it’s not all bad. They’re here to help you and pro-tect you from the bad people.”

The fi re department was pres-ent with its fi re prevention station,

Event promotes cooperation with police, firefighters

BY NICHOLAS RESIDEnreside@paducahsun.com

The Paducah City Commis-sion meeting Tuesday night began in an unfamiliar way — down at the Ohio River over-

looking the city’s bump-out project as part of its riverfront development.

The meeting ended in a fa-

City approves project funds

BY ADAM SHULLashull@paducahsun.com

Auditor finds misuse, intimidation in agencyBY ROGER ALFORD

Associated Press

McCracken County Attorney Mike Murphy says that a video recording of a scuffl e between Disaster and Emergency Services Director Paul Carter and a tow truck driver did not provide enough evidence for prosecutors to charge either person.

However, a separate Fiscal Court investigation

Scuffle video footage proves inconclusive

BY MALLORY PANUSKAmpanuska@paducahsun.com

ALLIE DOUGLASS | The Sun

Paducah police officers Beau Green (left) and Cory Willenborg (right) plays basketball with local kids during the National Night Out event on Tuesday in the Fountain Avenue neighborhood. People from all over McCracken County came to participate along with thousands of different communities across the nation for the 30th annual event. The night from 5:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. was sponsored by the National Association of Town Watch, and locally by Midtown Alliance of Neighbors, Volunteers in Police Service and the Paducah Police Department.

Carter

ALLIE DOUGLASS | The Sun

Paducah City Commissioner Allan Rhodes asks a question dur-ing a question-and-answer session with other commissioners and City Engineer Rick Murphy on Tuesday near Schultz Park. The public was invited to participate and learn about the riverfront construction.

Associated Press

Kentucky Auditor Adam Edelen discusses a review of the state’s emergency management agency at a press conference Tuesday in Frankfort. The review found taxpayer money was spent on alcohol and entertainment, even a riverboat cruise.

National Night Out holds community activities

Residents offer opposition to river project’s rising costs

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“The findings raise concerns about waste and abuse that may have gone

undetected and jeopardize federal funding meant to prepare the commonwealth for

emergencies.”

Adam EdelenAuditor

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Disabled American Veterans, Miles Meredith Chapter 7 of Paducah, weekly Commander Cof-fee Call, 8 a.m. to noon. Service officer available.

Hearts 4 Babies, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Lone Oak First Baptist Church, 3601 Lone Oak Road. 443-2669.

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Parents and teachers at Far-ley Elementary School prepared Tuesday for the start of the year and remembered a teacher who devoted her life to students.

The back-to-school bash, an annual event that included an informational session for par-ents, free school supplies and fun activities for kids, was held from 4-7 p.m. Tuesday at the elementary school on Hus-band Road. The activities were expanded this year to honor longtime Farley kindergarten teacher Jeannie Cook, who lost her battle with cancer in March.

Cook taught at Farley El-ementary for 36 years before retiring in June 2010. Teachers and friends said her caring spirit is still felt throughout the hall-ways of the school and seen in small touches, such as the com-memorative Mrs. Cook’s trea-sure box fi lled with toys, games and candy and the memory wall dedicated to her former classes.

“Our teachers wanted to com-memorate the way they felt about her and the way she cared about her students,” Principal Paula Grubbs said. Marianna Romero, director of the Friends and Family Resource Center and event organizer, said Cook was the family resource center at Farley before the program existed as she provided any supplies kids needed to thrive in school. After her retirement, Cook remained involved in the school as a volunteer and com-mitted to her mission of helping kids learn, she said.

“She had a huge heart and was always thinking of the kids,” Romero said. “She did the best for students so they could have the best and do their best.”

McCracken Superintendent Nancy Waldrop agreed, adding: “We all remember a teacher who made us feel special, the one who knew us well and cared for us. Mrs. Cook was that teacher for so many young students.”

Romero said the event pro-

vides school supplies, back-packs, coupons for children’s haircuts and kids clothing through Southland Baptist Church and Reidland Baptist Church for parents who attend-ed one of two sessions led by Grubbs. The event also included dinner for families and balloons, face painting and entertainment for kindergarten to fi fth-grade students. The fi rst day for all McCracken County school stu-dents is this Friday.

“It’s important for parents to know what to expect from the beginning of the school year,” she said. “Parents, families and teachers all need to work togeth-er as a team to ensure student success.”

Contact Kathleen Fox, a Paducah Sun staff writer, at 270-575-8651 or follow @kath-leendfox on Twitter.

Event welcomes families back to schoolBY KATHLEEN FOXkfox@paducahsun.com

 KATHLEEN FOX | The Sun

Farley Elementary School Principal Paula Grubbs leads one of the two informational sessions for parents during the back to school bash event Tuesday. The activities, including school supply giveaways and entertainment for kids, were expanded this year to honor longtime Farley kinder-garten teacher Jeannie Cook, who lost a battle with cancer in March.

KATHLEEN FOX | The Sun

Families line up in front of Farley Elementary School for the back to school bash Tuesday. The activities, including school supply giveaways, informational sessions for parents and enter-tainment for kids, expanded this year to honor longtime Farley kindergarten teacher Jeannie Cook, who lost a battle with can-cer in March.

BriefsWKCTC offers student orientation

West Kentucky Community & Technical College will hold a final new student orien-tation from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday in the student center.

To attend the orientation, students need to register for fall classes no later than Friday. Students can register in the WKCTC advising center in the Anderson Building room 106 or by calling Amanda Scheidegger, WKCTC admissions intake counselor, at 270-534-3110.

Appointments are available by calling the advising center at 270-534-3408, from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday to Thurs-day and from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Friday. Students are encouraged to make an ap-pointment for registration.

Students who cannot attend the orienta-tion on Friday must complete the online orientation at www.westkentucky.kctcs.edu/Admissions/Orientation.aspx.

Applications for the fall semester are still being accepted at www.westkentucky.kctcs.edu/en/Admissions/Apply.aspx. Students submitting an online application

must also register for classes. Registra-tion will continue following new student orientation.

— Staff report

Tips lead to 2 drug arrests

Two men were arrested Monday and charged with drug offenses.

Joe Kent Elliott, 55, of Old Lovelaceville Road and Michael Reese, 43, of Metropolis, Ill., were arrested on charges including possession of methamphetamine. The McCracken County Sher-iff’s Department Drug Division received tips alleging that Elliott was involved in the sale of crystal meth, the sher-

iff’s department said in a news release.Detectives found Reese to be in posses-

sion of meth, Lortab and meth parapher-nalia around 5:45 p.m. Monday. He was charged with the three offenses and jailed.

Detectives then served a search warrant at 9:30 p.m. on Old Lovelaceville Road. They reportedly found Elliott in the drive-way. A search of the property uncovered meth, powder cocaine and other controlled substances hidden in magnetic contain-ers, according to the release. 

Detectives found three handguns and four long guns near the meth and cocaine,

police said. Detectives also seized amphet-amines, hydrocodone, Xanax, meth parapher-nalia, and money.

Elliott was charged with possession of methamphetamine, pos-session of cocaine, two counts of second-degree possession of a con-trolled substance, one count of third-degree

possession of a controlled substance, and possession of drug paraphernalia. The charges were firearm-enhanced, which car-ries a stiffer penalty, police said.

— Staff report

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A McCracken County teacher has received a na-tional award for his work with the school system’s Project Lead the Way pro-gram.

Brian Gill has been named one of the eight runners-up in the 2013 National Engineers Week Foundation’s Discover E Educator Awards.

He was recognized as one of the top 11 educators nationally to use innova-tive instruction methods to introduce students to engi-neering.

“Brian Gill brings college and career readiness to real life in his engineering classroom,” Superinten-dent Nancy Waldrop said. “Great teachers change lives. Most of us remember a teacher who made all the difference for us.”

Gill has taught with the Project Lead the Way (PLTW) program for four years, previously with Lone Oak High School and cur-rently with the McCracken County High School. PLTW provides science, tech-nology, engineering and mathematics curriculum in middle and high schools

nationally. McCracken County High School offers programs in pre-engineer-

ing and biomedical scienc-es. Students can earn three hours of college engineer-

ing credit after graduating the program.

“Students in our engi-neering program get to use the engineering knowledge they acquire in their core classes, as well as the engi-neering classroom and real world projects,” Gill said. “Project Lead the Way en-gineering provides a way for students to get practical and hands-on experience in engineering education so that they can go on to be successful college students and engineers to fi ll these high-paying positions.”

Full-time teachers from sixth grade through high school who are nominated by engineering students are eligible for the award. The three winners for the second annual award were selected by members of the National Engineers Week Foundation.

The foundation is a net-work of volunteers, pro-fessional societies, corpo-rations and government agencies that support en-gineering education on the high school level.

Contact Kathleen Fox, a Paducah Sun staff writer, at 270-575-8651 or follow @kathleendfox on Twitter.

Teacher wins national honorBY KATHLEEN FOXkfox@paducahsun.com

Photo contributed

Brian Gill, Project Lead the Way (PLTW) teacher, exam-ines several new features in the McCracken County High School PLTW classroom. Gill was named one of the top 11 engineering instructors nationwide by the 2013 National Engineers Week Foundation’s Discover E Educator Awards.

BriefMcCracken sheriff’s deputy collapses, dies

Chad Shaw, a McCracken County sheriff’s deputy, died Tuesday from undetermined causes. Sheriff Jon Hayden

said Shaw collapsed at about 6:15 p.m. while volunteering at Community Chris-tian Academy. Shaw was in uniform, helping faculty prepare for a meet and greet for the coming school year.

Hayden said Shaw was taken to Bap-tist Health Paducah and died a short time later. He was 47. Survivors include his wife, Margaret, and two children, Elizabeth, 8, and Rachel, 7. Hayden said Shaw served as a deputy in McCracken County since 2004, working for the Cal-loway County Sheriff’s Office prior to

that. Hayden described Shaw as a dedicated law enforce-ment official and thorough investigator. He said Shaw had received extra training in dealing with people with mental illness and victims of domestic violence.

“Anyone that knew him knew how seriously he took job, how thorough he was in doing his job,” Hayden said. He said Shaw frequently volunteered at Community Christian Academy, where his two children went to school. He helped the school with security and also as a carpenter, fixing a flight of stairs to be used for the meet and greet. Hayden said Shaw was also active with the Fraternal Order of Po-lice.

“He wasn’t afraid of hard work,” Hayden said. — Staff report

Grand Rivers marinas plan Aug. 17 holiday

Two Grand Rivers marinas will host National Marina Day on Aug. 17. Lighthouse Landing and Green Turtle Bay will host events. The celebrations last all day.

Live music and a fireworks show will be featured. Na-tional Marina Day has been celebrated since 2001 and is designed to promote boating as a community activity.

— Staff report

miliar way, with the com-mission back in City Hall approving more-than-budgeted costs — an extra $265,000 — to build the bump-out.

Commissioner Allan Rhodes offered the lone dissenting vote, as was the case in April when he vot-ed no to the original $4.4 million construction con-tract with MAC Construc-tion & Excavating Inc. of New Albany, Ind.

“The city has already spent some $1.2 million of our money to get the project started. Some will say we can’t stop now,” Rhodes read from a pre-pared statement. “But I say it’s time to douse the fi re, call the dogs, the hunting is over.”

He said no more city money should pay for the pilings and the entire riv-erfront project should be confi ned to what can be paid for with available grants.

Rick Murphy, city engi-neer, held a question-and-answer session at the riv-erfront before the regular commission meeting to explain the cost increases, and to take input from the public and commission-ers.

Commissioners Carol Gault, Rhodes and Mayor Gayle Kaler attended the Q&A session, while com-missioners Sandra Wilson and Richard Abraham did not.

Murphy said the lat-est cost increase for the bump-out comes from “bad soil” where workers are trying to drive pilings deep into the Ohio River bottom. The pilings will eventually support a gang-way, where the city plans to have a transient boat dock, a marina-service building and boat slips. Murphy said those struc-tures will allow for a ma-rina, but that the money

allotted so far for river-front construction doesn’t include marina construc-tion.

Murphy said a subcon-tractor tested the quality of the soil at several points along the river years ago when the riverfront proj-ect was fi rst envisioned to be about 500 feet up-stream. He said his de-partment did not have workers test the soil again after the riverfront proj-ect moved, a process that would have cost $38,000.

“Soil is not a perfect sci-ence,” Murphy said.

The riverside public meeting allowed for com-ments from residents, the more vocal of whom were against spending additional money on the bump-out project.

“We think we’re (city residents) spending too much money on this river project,” said Nancy Reh-berg, who attended with her husband, Conrad Re-hberg. “You have to have priorities, and we don’t have all this money to spend,” said Rehberg, who has lived with her husband in Paducah since 1961.

“It seems like they (city leaders) always jump in with both feet and when they get into it, if the costs

go up they just keep pour-ing it on,” said Joel Potts of Paducah.

“It’s as if they’re going to have this thing no matter what it costs,” Potts said. “Taxpayers shouldn’t be

paying for stuff like this.”Commissioners who

voted to pay the added costs referenced the long-term vision of the city and its downtown.

“Why are we doing what we’re doing on the river-front? It is to bring people downtown, to create activ-ity downtown,” Abraham said. “Folks who want to come and enjoy the river, boating and all of that. The ripple effect of that can be quite substantial for downtown business-es.”

Gault said a local busi-ness owner reminded her that the riverfront devel-opment is a long-term project that will impact the community for years to come. “It’s more than what you’re seeing today,” Gault said.

Wilson and Kaler also voiced support for the project. Wilson said sac-

rifi cing federal funding would send a bad mes-sage, including to hotel developers who are trying to open a hotel downtown.

Murphy said federal money will pay $10 mil-lion of the more than $11 million needed for every planned phase of river-front construction. A $2.9 million Housing and Ur-ban Development grant must be spent on the bump-out project by Sept. 30, or it will expire.

Kaler said businesses that opened downtown trusted that the city would support the downtown area.

A concurrent riverfront development project — a $2.5 million contract with Jim Smith Contracting Co., of Grand Rivers, to build a boat launch — is on time and should fi n-ish by December, Murphy said.

With no delays, the bump-out will settle and be ready for landscaping and other fi nishing touch-es by spring 2015, accord-ing to Murphy.

Contact Adam Shull, Sun business editor, at 270-575-8653 or follow @adamshull on Twitter.

PROJECT

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Rick Murphy, city engineer, leads a question-and-an-swer session with Paducah City Commission members about construction at the riverfront on Tuesday next to Schultz Park. The City Commission previously approved a $1.4 million contract, but the price has risen another $265,000, Murphy said.

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Barack Obama has been using federal agencies for political purposes since before he was elected president.

While he dismisses as “phony” the scandals surrounding his administration — including the IRS targeting of organizations that oppose his agenda — newly released emails reveal that the targeting of conservative groups extended beyond the IRS to the Federal Election Commission. The emails expose possibly illegal collusion between the two agencies.

It began before Obama’s first inauguration. In 2008, after the non-profit American Issue Project ran campaign advertisements opposing candidate Barack Obama’s liberal agenda, Obama’s attorney Bob Bauer filed a complaint with the FEC, asked the criminal division of the Justice Department to prosecute AIP and demanded to see the documents the group filed with the IRS.

In the first month after Obama was elected, the FEC contacted Lois Lerner at the IRS to obtain confidential information on the group. The FEC also sought information on the American Future Fund. The IRS supplied the information even though it is prohibited by law from doing so.

Lerner, the IRS official who invoked the Fifth Amendment before

a congressional committee investigating IRS misconduct, communicated directly with FEC officials regarding the groups. Lerner, who is currently on administrative leave, led the exempt organizations division of the IRS. Prior to that post,

she worked for the FEC. In both positions, she singled out conservative groups for particular scrutiny — some would say bullying.

American Issues Project “easily meets the test for being a 501(c)(4)

organization,” according to the Wall Street Journal, because it spends most of its money on education rather than political activity. But that didn’t prevent the FEC from conducting a multi-year investigation of the AIP, going so far as to alter the rules to justify accusing the group of violating campaign law.

The FEC’s own vice president, angry at the agency’s staff for acting unilaterally without commission approval, said the staff “could be seen as manipulating the timeline to reach the conclusion that AIP is a political committee ... Such after-the-fact determinations create the appearance of impropriety, whether or not such impropriety exists.”

The FEC staff and attorneys also colluded with the IRS in pursuing the American Future Fund, despite the fact that the six-member FEC voted unanimously to close that case.

The intricacies of these cases may make for dull reading, but the bottom line is that federal agencies that should be nonpartisan arbiters of the law have abused their power under the Obama administration to suppress the political activity of his opponents in a manner that could be described as “Nixonian.” Liberals who assert that these are manufactured scandals would be howling if the roles were reversed.

It is hard to read a news-paper or watch a television newscast without encounter-ing someone who has come up with a new “solution” to society’s “problems.” Some-times it seems as if there are more solutions than there are problems. On closer scrutiny, it turns out that many of to-day’s problems are a result of yesterday’s solutions.

San Francisco and New York are both plagued with large “homeless” populations today, largely as a result of previous housing “reforms” that made housing more ex-pensive, and severely limited how much housing, and of what kind, could be built.

The solution? Spend more of the taxpayers’ money mak-ing homelessness a viable lifestyle for more people.

Education is a fi eld with endless reforms, creating endless problems, requiring endless solutions. One of the invincible fallacies among educators is that all sorts of children can be educated in the same classroom. Not just children of different races, but children of different abilities, languages and values.

Isn’t it nice to think so? I suspect that even most con-servatives would prefer to live in the kind of world conjured up in the liberals’ imagina-tion, rather than in the kind of world we are in fact stuck with.

The result is that many very bright children are bored to the point of becoming behav-ior problems when the school work is slowed to a pace within the range of students who are slower learners.

By federal law, even chil-dren with severe mental or emotional problems must be “mainstreamed” into classes

for other students — often in disregard of how much this disrupts these classes and sacrifi ces the education of the other children.

Parents who complain about the effect of these “solu-tions” on their own children’s education are made to feel guilty for not being more “understanding” about the problems of handicapped students.

Nothing is easier for third party busybodies than being “understanding” and “com-passionate” at someone else’s expense — especially if the busybodies have their own children in private schools, as so many public school educa-tors do.

Whether in housing, educa-tion or innumerable other aspects of life, the key to busy-body politics, and its endlessly imposed “solutions,” is that third parties pay no price for being wrong.

This not only presents op-portunities for the busybodies to engage in moral preening, but also to fl atter themselves that they know better what is good for other people than these other people know for themselves.

Right now, there are people inside and outside of govern-ment who are proposing new restrictions on how you may or may not visit the national parks that your taxes sup-port. Among their proposals

is doing away with trash cans in these parks, so that visitors have to take their trash out with them.

Just how they would enforce this, when millions of people are visiting places like Yosemite or Yellowstone, is something the busybod-ies need not bother to think through — much less pay a price, when trash simply ac-cumulates in these parks after trash cans are removed.

Obamacare is perhaps the ultimate in busybody politics. People who have never even run a drugstore, much less a hospital, blithely prescribe what must be done by the en-tire medical system, from doc-tors to hospitals to producers of pharmaceutical drugs to health insurance companies.

This includes federal laws requiring the turning over of patients’ confi dential medical records to the federal govern-ment, where these records can be looked at by politicians, bureaucrats and whoever can hack into the government’s computers. Neither you nor your doctor has a right to keep this information confi dential.

What could lead anyone to believe that they have either the right or the omniscience to dictate to hundreds of millions of other people? Our educational system may have something to do with that, with its constant promotion of “self-esteem,” and especially its emphasis on developing “leaders.”

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfi lled unless they are telling other people what to do. The price of their self-indulgence is the sacrifi ce of our freedom. If we don’t de-fend ourselves against them, who will?

WASHINGTON — The most telling thing that happened as Congress scrambled to get out of town for its August recess was the vote that didn’t happen.

On Wednesday, House Republican lead-ers abruptly yanked a $44 billion trans-portation spending bill from fl oor debate. The purported reason was scheduling — a pile of proposed amendments that sup-posedly made it diffi cult to fi nish up in time.

In fact, lawmakers had already disposed of most of that pile. The more plausible reason: The votes weren’t there. The bill cut too much even for many Republicans to stomach — despite the fact that they had passed a budget requiring cuts of that size. When it came time to put their mouths (and votes) where the money wasn’t, lawmakers balked.

A bit of budget history: In the 2011 Budget Control Act, the deal that resolved the last debt-ceiling crisis, Congress and the administration agreed to tight caps on discretionary spending, reducing project-ed spending by about $900 billion over the next decade. The failure of the super-committee to come up with $1.2 trillion in additional savings triggered across-the-board cuts (sequestration).

To mitigate the damaging effects of the sequester on national security programs, House Republicans did some shifting

around. They replaced nearly $50 billion in defense and national security spending and, to make up the difference, sliced even more deeply into the domestic side.

Appropriators, both Democrats and Repub-licans, warned that this would be unworkable. The transportation bill, the fi rst fully domestic spending measure for fi scal year 2014 to get to the fl oor, proved them right.

Kentucky Republican Hal Rogers, whose unpleasant task as chairman of the House Appropriations Committee was to stay within the Procrustean limits, was unspar-ing in his assessment.

“With this action, the House has de-clined to proceed on the implementation of the very budget it adopted just three months ago,” Rogers said. “Thus, I believe that the House has made its choice: sequestration — and its unrealistic, ill-conceived discretionary cuts — must be brought to an end.”

House Republican leaders gamely vowed to take up the measure next month, but Rogers declared its prospects “bleak at best, given the vote count on passage that was apparent this afternoon.”

Indeed, the measure was beset on all sides. Some House Republicans are so extreme that no domestic spending bill can cut enough to satisfy them.

Others, the remaining band of what passes for mod-erates in the conservative House, could not stomach the cuts to programs such as Amtrak, infrastructure

grants for cities, and low-income housing.The lesson here is that it’s easy to spout

grand pronouncements about reining in runaway spending, far harder to choose precisely what to slash, especially after several lean years.

The size of the transportation spending bill has fallen from $67.9 billion in fi scal year 2010, the last time Democrats were in the House majority, to $55.5 billion in 2012, and $51.8 billion in 2013.

Once the sequester was triggered, the number fell even further, to $48.5 billion. Wringing another $4.4 billion out of the budget proved a cut too far.

This is a cautionary tale with bipartisan application. Democrats may have a more realistic assessment of how much can be cut, but even without the sequester, the discretionary spending caps will be diffi cult to translate from preaching into

practice.As the Congressional Budget Offi ce

has noted, with just those caps in place, discretionary spending would fall to 5.8 of the economy in 2023, lower than any share since the government began report-ing the data that way in 1962. The previ-ous low was 6.2 percent in 1999.

Will lawmakers in 2023 really be will-ing to take spending to the levels vowed by their predecessors a decade earlier? Would that be wise?

The House dysfunction had its depress-ing corollary in the Senate, where a brief outbreak of bipartisanship was inter-rupted, courtesy of Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. Democrat Patty Murray of Washington and Republican Susan Collins of Maine pieced together a $54 billion transportation spending mea-sure that won the support of six Republi-cans when it was approved by the Senate Appropriations Committee last week.

But by the time the bill limped to a cloture vote Thursday, Collins was the sole Republican vote in favor.

“Think very carefully about this vote,” Collins pleaded with her colleagues. “It will be so unfortunate if we go home to our constituents in August and are forced to tell them that we’re unable to do our job.”

Perhaps August will be chastening. The events of July do not offer much hope.

Edwin J. Paxton, Editor & Publisher, 1900-1961

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Transportation bill cautionary tale of Congress’ inability to cut spending

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Christine Swidorsky carries her son and the couple’s best man, Logan Stevenson, 2, down the aisle Saturday to her husband-to-be Sean Stevenson during the wed-ding ceremony in Jeannette, Pa. Swidorsky Stevenson says on her Facebook page that Logan died in her arms at 8:18 p.m. Monday at their home.

PITTSBURGH — A ter-minally ill 2-year-old west-ern Pennsylvania boy who served as his parents’ best man at their wedding last weekend has died, accord-ing to his mother’s Face-book page and a family friend.

Christine Swidorsky Ste-venson’s Facebook post said little Logan Steven-son died Monday night in her arms at the home she shared with the boy’s fa-ther, her new husband, Sean Stevenson. The cou-ple were wed Saturday at a ceremony at their home.

The boy, who had leuke-mia and other complica-tions, was dressed in a tan pinstripe suit and orange shirt for the wedding. His mother carried him on her shoulder, before he stood

and was held by his grand-mother, Debbie Stevenson, to witness the 12-minute ceremony.

A family spokeswoman, Sylvia Johnson of Young-wood, confi rmed Logan’s death for The Associated Press on Tuesday. She later released a brief statement from his parents saying: “Logan passed away at 8:18 yesterday evening, sur-rounded by his family and loved ones. He was very comfortable.”

The post indicates the boy’s breathing became labored before his mother called a hospice worker who told the couple he was dying.

“Sean and I held him all day he was comfortable with his medication then at 8:18 my son took his last breath in my arms,” his mother wrote.

Boy dies after serving as parents’ best man

BY JOE MANDAKAssociated Press

Former President George W. Bush success-fully underwent a heart procedure in Dallas on Tuesday after doctors dis-covered a blockage in an artery during his annual physical, Bush spokesman Freddy Ford said.

“At the recommenda-tion of his doctors, Presi-dent Bush agreed to have a stent placed to open the blockage,” Ford said. “The procedure was performed successfully this morning, without complication, at

T e x a s H e a l t h Presby-t e r i a n H o s p i -tal.”

Bush, 67, was expected to be dis-charged Wednes-

day and resume his nor-mal schedule Thursday.

The blockage was dis-covered Monday during Bush’s physical at the Coo-per Clinic in Dallas, where the nation’s 43rd presi-dent lives.

Bush was described as

being “in high spirits” and eager to return home.

“He is grateful to the skilled medical profes-sionals who have cared for him,” Ford said. “He thanks his family, friends, and fellow citizens for their prayers and well wishes. And he encourag-es us all to get our regular check-ups.”

Stents are mesh scaf-foldings that prop open arteries typically clogged by years of quiet choles-terol buildup. About half a million people have stents inserted in the U.S. each year, generally involving an overnight stay in the

hospital.Doctors usually guide

a narrow tube through a blood vessel near the groin up to the heart, infl ate a tiny balloon to fl atten the blockage and insert the stent. Sometimes, they in-sert it through an artery in the wrist to lower the risk of bleeding.

Doctors often recom-mend fi rst trying medi-cation to treat a clogged artery. More severe block-ages, particularly in sever-al arteries, may require by-pass surgery. Arteries can reclog, so patients often are put on heart-friendly diets or medication.

Bush undergoes stent procedureBY LAURAN

NEERGAARD AND MICHAEL GRACZYK

Associated Press

Bush

WASHINGTON — The map of closed American embassies — and those that remain open — in the Middle East and Af-rica provides a window into the Obama adminis-tration’s concern about a potentially imminent al-Qaida terrorist attack on overseas U.S. interests.

While diplomatic mis-sions across a broad swath of the Arab world are af-

fected, some, including in capitals that have been targets for extremists in the past, are not. And those chosen for closure in Africa and the Indian Ocean suggest that the fear may be as much about the vulnerability of certain embassies and staff and the range of increasingly mobile terrorists as it is about specifi c threats.

One apparently key fac-tor: How signifi cant is the security that is now in place?

A total of 19 U.S. embas-sies and consulates in 16 countries have been or-dered to close to the public until Saturday. They run along a jagged, east-to-south crescent from Libya through the Persian Gulf to Rwanda and include the

island nations of Mada-gascar and Mauritius. That’s fewer missions in fewer nations than were ordered closed this past Sunday in the administra-tion’s initial response to intelligence that al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula was gearing up for an at-tack.

The changes, coupled with the inclusions and omissions, show how the threat analysis has evolved.

US embassy closures reveal threat concernBY MATTHEW LEE

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On Tuesday, August 6, 2013, Lou Anne Hen-ry Cherry, 85, of West Paducah, went home to be with her Lord and Savior while a resident of Gaither Suites in Paducah, Ky.

She met with those gath-e r e d to the L o r d ’ s Name at the Co-lumbus Meeting Room in Colum-bus.

M r s . C h e r r y was a

retired school teacher for McCracken County school system, a talented home-maker, and taught piano lessons for many years.

Surviving her is her daughter, Sylvia Cherry Fleischauer and husband Karl Fleischauer of West Paducah.

Her beloved husband,

William “Bill” Cherry, of 56 years, preceded her in death. She was also pre-ceded in death by her par-ents, Bryan and Jennie Lee Henry of Selma, Ala-bama; her sister, Mary Lee Austin; and three broth-ers, Richard Henry, Bill “Son” Henry, and Patrick Henry.

A graveside service will be held at 3 p.m. Thurs-day, August 8, 2013, at Columbus-Belmont Park Cemetery with Daniel Mc-Clure offi ciating. There will be no visitation. Mil-ner & Orr Funeral Home of Bardwell is in charge of arrangements.

Expressions of sympa-thy may take the form of contributions to: the Co-lumbus Meeting Room, c/o Jimmy Cherry, 5390 State Route 1591, Arling-ton, KY 42021.

You may leave a mes-sage of sympathy and light a candle at www.milne-randorr.com.

Lou Anne Cherry

Mr. William Garland Baker, 83, of Symsonia, passed away Sunday, Au-gust 4, 2013, at 9:35 p.m. at Lourdes hospital.

Born Wednesday, De-cember 25, 1929, (Christ-mas day) in Symsonia, he

re t i red after 22 y e a r s of ser-vice as a welder f r o m T h r e e R i v e r s R o c k C o m -pany in S m i t h -

land. He was a member of Elva Baptist Church.

Surviving are three sons, Michael Baker of Wichita, Kan., Roger Watkins of Symsonia, and Richard Watkins of Ledbetter; four grandchildren; and 12 great-grandchildren; and one brother, Gaylon Baker of Milwaukee, Wis.

Mr. Baker was preceded in death by his wife, Lucy Ann (McManis) Baker; four brothers, George Bak-er, Ray Lee Baker, Nolvice Baker, Virgil Baker; and one sister, Pauline Cox. His parents were William Miles Baker and Lila Gail (Bell) Baker.

Funeral services will be held Thursday, August 8, 2013, at 1 p.m. in the Chapel of Collier Funeral Home. Bro. Mike Littrell and Bro. Joel Frizzell will offi ciate. Interment will follow the service in New Sand Hill Cemetery in Graves County.

Friends may visit with the family between the hours of 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. Wednesday, August 7, 2013, at Collier Funeral Home in Benton.

The family asks that memorial contributions be made to: Elva Baptist Church Building Fund, 2539 Oak Level-Elva Rd., Symsonia, KY 42082.

William Garland Baker

MAYFIELD — Mrs. Dean T. Cook, 81, of Mayfi eld died at 4:10 a.m. Tuesday,

Aug. 6, 2013, at E m e r i -tus As-s i s t e d Living in Murray.

S h e was a f o r m e r b o o k -k e e p e r for Truly

Pure Dairy and co-owner of Olive and Cook Furni-ture Store. She retired from Corell Accounting in Sara-sota, Fla.

Dean was a devout Chris-tian and attended Seven Oaks Church of Christ for 54 years.

Mrs. Cook is survived by her husband of 62 years, James L. Cook; two sisters, Wanda Sue Routen of May-fi eld and Beulah V. Beard of Paducah.

She was preceded in death by her birth parents, Owen Gross and Jennie Griffi th Gross; her foster parents, Virge and Beulah Tibbs; two brothers, James Gross and Gerald Gross.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 8, 2013, at Byrn Fu-neral Home in Mayfi eld.

Bro. Richard Youngblood will offi ciate. Interment will follow in Cuba Community Cemetery.

Visitation will be held from 5 p.m.-9 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2013, at the funeral home.

Dean T. CookCALVERT CITY —

Charles R. Robins, 54, of Calvert City died Wednes-day, July 31, 2013, at his home.

Mr. Robins was retired from the U.S. Navy.

Surviving are his wife, Sandra Robins of Benton; two sons, Dustin Rob-ins of Paducah and Blake Robins of Hickory; three daughters, Crystal Smith of Paducah, Brooke Rob-ins of Paducah and Briley

Robins of Hickory, and one sister, Nina Leitch of Cookeville, Tenn.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Howard and Gertrude Robins, and two broth-ers. Graveside services with military honors will be at 10 a.m. on Thursday, Aug. 8, 2013, at Oak Grove Cemetery in Paducah.

Lindsey Funeral Home of Paducah is in charge of arrangements.

Charles Robins

METROPOLIS, Ill. — Charles Edward “Skip” Hopson, 68, of Augusta, formerly of Metropolis, Ill., died the morning of Sunday, August 4, 2013.

S k i p was an e n t r e -preneur, and the C E O and co-o w n e r of Mil-w o r x Materi-als Inc., Decatur,

Ala. He was a graduate of Metropolis High School of 1962 and was class Saluta-torian, member of the golf team and quarterback of the football team. He was a graduate of University of Illinois where he earned a BS Degree in Ceramic En-gineering.

Skip fi rst moved to Au-gusta, Ga., and worked for Babcock and Wilcox in ceramics research and de-veloped many innovative products. He moved onto international sales which gave him the opportunity to travel throughout the world. Later he started Refractory Materials In-ternational in Birming-

ham, Ala.He is survived by his

wife, Daphne Garner Hopson of Augusta, Ga.; two children, Nancy Hop-son Maher of Washington, D.C., and Charles Grant Hopson of Decatur, Ala.; his father, Charles Rus-sell Hopson of Metropolis; one sister, Jan Hopson Vance of Roswell, Ga.; and his beloved dachshunds, Coco, Bonnie, and Rhett.

He was preceded by the passing of his mother, Marilyn Martin Hopson of Metropolis, Ill.

Services will be Friday, August 9, 2013, at 11 a.m. at Trinity Presbyterian Church in Metropolis with the Rev. Mark Dunn and the Rev. Dan Whitfi eld of-fi ciating. Burial will follow the service in Metropolis Memorial Gardens.

Friends may call Thurs-day evening from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. August 8, 2013, at Miller Funeral Home in Metropolis, Ill.

Thomas Poteet & Son Funeral Directors, 214 Davis Rd., Augusta, GA 30907 (706) 364-8484. Please sign the guest book at www.thomaspoteet.com. Miller Funeral Home in Metropolis is handling local arrangements.

Charles Hopson

Opal Virginia Bishop, 94, of Reidland, passed away at 9:30 p.m. Mon-day, August 5, 2013, at her residence. She was born in Obion County, Tenn. She

worked f o r M a g -n a v o x a n d worked w i t h her hus-b a n d and son at City Electric Compa-

ny. She was a member of Reidland Baptist Church. Opal enjoyed being a homemaker, spending time with family and plan-ning family gatherings.

She is survived by her daughter, Helen Evans and husband James of Reidland; sons, Ronnie Bishop and wife Teresa of Reidland and Carl H. Bishop Jr. and wife Sue of Reidland; 14 grandchil-

dren; six great-grandchil-dren; and several nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Carl H. Bishop Sr.; two in-fant sons; two sisters and six brothers. Her parents were Daniel Hosea Wag-ner and Bertha Wagner.

Funeral services will be 10 a.m. Friday, August 9, 2013, at Milner & Orr Fu-neral Home of Paducah with Dr. Larry Lewis offi -ciating. Burial will follow in Woodlawn Memorial Gardens.

Visitation will be 5 p.m. until 8 p.m. Thursday, August 8, 2013, at Milner & Orr Funeral Home of Paducah.

Expressions of sympa-thy may take the form of contributions to: Reidland Baptist Church, 5559 Re-idland Road, Paducah, Ky 42003.

You may leave a mes-sage of sympathy and light a candle at www.milne-randorr.com.

Opal Virginia Bishop

BENTON — Ethel (Walk-er) Yuchs, 83, of Benton died Tuesday, August 6, 2013, at the home of her son in Benton.

She was a retired elemen-tary school teacher and was also a chef. She was of the Baptist faith.

She is survived by two sons, Carrol “Gene” Jean-neret of Benton and Al-vin Jeanneret of Wichita, Kan.; one daughter, Fay Jeanneret of Phoenix; nine grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren, and four great-great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Don-ald Yuchs; her parents; four brothers, and four sisters.

A private family service will be held at a later date.

Collier Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Ethel Yuchs

MURRAY — Ann McCar-thy, 64, of Murray died at 11:40 p.m. Sunday, August 4, 2013, at Marshall County Hospital in Benton.

She is survived by one daughter, Shannon Mc-Carthy of Ferndale, Mich.; three sons, Sean McCarthy of Rochester, Mich., Mat-thew McCarthy of Chester-fi eld Township, Mich., and Mark McCarthy of Roches-ter, Mich., and one sister, Martha Lou Smith Maly of Benton.

She was preceded in death by one brother. Her parents were William Venson and Verline Fulton Smith.

Services will be at 3 p.m. Friday, August 9, 2013, at Collier Funeral Chapel in Benton.

Burial will be at Mt. Ol-ive Cemetery in Kirksey. Friends may call from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.

Ann McCarthy

SALEM — Margie Hosick Williams, 88, of Salem, died Monday, August 5, 2013, at her home. Arrangements were incomplete at Boyd Funeral Directors in Salem.

Margie Williams

MURRAY — Max Bran-don, 82, of Murray died Tuesday, August 6, 2013, at Lourdes hospital.

Arrangements were in-complete at J.H. Churchill Funeral Home.

Max Brandon

MURRAY — Margaret Mae “Mug” Waldrop, 94, of Murray died Tuesday, Au-gust 6, 2013, in Murray.

She served as the recep-tionist for Ezells Beauty School in Murray and was a member of University Church of Christ.

She is survived by two daughters, Jan Rayburn of Murray and Judy Overbey of Calvert City; four grand-children, and eight great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Hugh Wal-drop. Her parents were El-dridge Hamilton Swift and Etna (Butterworth) Swift.

Services will be at 1 p.m. Sunday, August 11, 2013, at J.H. Churchill Funeral Home with John Dale and Richard Youngblood offi ci-ating. Burial will follow in Murray Memorial Gardens. Visitation will be from 5 p.m.-8 p.m. Saturday, Au-gust 10, 2013, at the funeral home.

Expressions of sympathy can be made to the Angels Community Clinic, 1005 Poplar St., Murray, KY 42071.

 Margaret Waldrop

BENTON — Jerry Ron-ald East, 75, of Benton died Tuesday, August 6, 2013, at Lake Way Nursing and Re-habilitation in Benton.

Arrangements were in-complete at Collier Funeral Home in Benton.

Jerry East

Services for Hugh Antho-ny Gooden, 55, of Paducah will be at 2 p.m. Friday, Aug. 9, 2013, at Brown Fu-neral Home in Mayfi eld with Dennis Gray offi ciat-ing. Burial will be in Oak Rest Cemetery in Mayfi eld.

Mr. Gooden died at 5 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 1, 2013 at his home.

He was a construction worker and a member of Second Christian Church in Mayfi eld.

Surviving are four broth-ers, Larry Dale of Okla-homa City, Steven Gooden of Paducah, and Jerome Foxworth and Tyrone Fox-worth Sr., both of Antioch, Tenn., and several nieces, nephews and cousins.

He was preceded in death by one brother. His parents were Leon Gooden and Jea-nette Jackson Foxworth.

Friends may call after 10 a.m. Friday, Aug. 9, 2013, at Brown Funeral Home in Mayfi eld.

Hugh Gooden

Cook

Hopson

Bishop

Cherry

Baker

Funeral noticesPaid obituaries furnished to The Paducah Sun by mortuaries.

Associated PressCARSON CITY, Nev. — The

last remnants of a fortune of coins found packed in am-munition boxes in the garage of a recluse who died last summer was auctioned Tues-day for more than $3.1 mil-lion — but not before bidders got assurances they could re-turn any of the rare $20 gold

pieces that some collectors spotted as counterfeit.

Silver State Coin bought three of the six lots offered at the Carson City district court-house, a few blocks from the old U.S. Carson City mint. Silver State paid nearly $1.2 million for the most expen-sive lot that featured 880 $20 gold Saint Gaudens.

Gold coins of Nevada recluse sell at auction

FORT MEADE, Md. — Army Pfc. Bradley Man-ning’s possible sentence for disclosing classifi ed infor-mation through WikiLe-aks was trimmed from 136 years to 90 years Tuesday by a military judge who said some of his offenses were closely related.

The ruling was largely a victory for defense attor-neys, who had argued for an 80-year maximum. Still, the 25-year-old soldier could spend most, if not all, of his remaining years inside a

prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. The sentencing phase of Manning’s court-martial is in its second week.

He was convicted last week of 20 counts, including six Espionage Act violations, fi ve federal theft counts and a federal computer fraud charge for leaking more than 700,000 documents from a classifi ed government com-puter network while work-ing as an intelligence analyst in Iraq in 2010.

Manning says he leaked the material to expose wrongdoing by the military and U.S. diplomats. He con-

tends he selectively leaked material that wouldn’t harm service members or national security.

At his sentencing hearing, prosecutors are present-ing evidence that the leaks damaged U.S. interests. They have focused mainly on the impact of more than 250,000 State Depart-ment diplomatic cables that WikiLeaks began publishing in November 2010.

Maj. Gen. Michael Nagata testifi ed for the prosecution Tuesday that the leaked ca-bles had an impact on U.S. military operations. — AP

Manning’s max sentence cut to 90 yearsBY DAVID DISHNEAU

Associated Press

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a trailer turned into a fake home designed to teach kids about fi re safety. The station was equipped with a fake stove, fake fi replace and fake phone to teach kids how to dial 911. The trailer emitted fog to emulate a fi re, teach-ing kids how to escape.

Deputy Fire Marshal Joe Fowler said he compares the station to running fi re drills at schools.

“It’s not uncommon for children and their families to not have an (escape) plan,” Fowler said. Max Harmon, 6, from Paducah, said he learned a lot from the fi re prevention station.

“In there, I just crawled down the steps and when the fi reman came I crawled down the ladder,” he said.

Harmon said his favorite activity was the water hose.

Contact Nicholas Reside, a Paducah Sun staff writer, at 270-575-8667 or follow @NicholasReside on Twitter.

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into the matter continues, following a lengthy execu-tive session Monday that included interviews with Carter and two other DES staff members.

Video footage that a Paducah police cruiser captured during an early-morning car wreck on July 27 along Interstate 24 shows snippets of the re-ported scuffl e. Carter and tow truck driver Anthony Hess are shown in what appears to be a heated dis-cussion near the driver’s side door of Hess’ truck along the highway. The footage shows Hess shov-ing Carter, Carter return-ing and Hess pushing him again. Another vehicle parked between the cam-era angle and the tow truck blocks some of the other details, but Carter is seen advancing on Hess at one point. Hess fi nally retreats down a hill and calls for of-fi cers to assist him.

The entire situation lasts less than fi ve minutes, ac-cording to the video re-cording.

Murphy said that the video footage could not warrant charges because it was inconclusive.

“You can see things, but you can’t see depth,” he said. “You can see big body movements, but you can’t hear what was being said. You can see dramatic movements, but you can’t see subtle movements.”

He explained that police must have probable cause to bring misdemeanor charges — which is all that would have resulted from this situation — against a defendant. He said that offi cers regularly fi le doz-ens of incident reports in similar situations, many of which never result in charges. Murphy said that Carter’s position as a coun-ty department head shed more light on this specifi c incident, but that the lack of serious injuries or an of-fi cer eyewitness prevents the fi ling of formal charges.

“There is nothing un-usual about this case other than the high-profi le na-ture,” Murphy said. “We see cases like this 20 times a month. It’s a routine

bread and butter case as far as what happened.”

A complainant could also push for charges in this type of situation. Mur-phy said that Hess has not spoken to the county attor-ney’s offi ce about pressing charges but that he has up to a year to request them if he chooses. Murphy said that he met last week with an attorney representing Hess but no charges re-sulted.

According to an inci-dent report the police fi led, Hess claims that Carter and DES employee Don-nie Lanier approached him and confronted him about a DES jacket that Carter said Hess had not

returned. Hess told police that the conversation be-came heated and that Cart-er screamed threats at him, grabbed him by the neck and choked him. Police asked Carter to leave the scene after Hess called for offi cer assistance, accord-ing to the report, and Hess reportedly had red marks on his neck.

Carter initially told police that nothing hap-pened, the report said. He reportedly said later that the two men did engage in a scuffl e of sorts but that he did not choke Hess.

During a called Fiscal Court meeting on Monday night, commissioners sep-arately summoned Carter,

Lanier and another DES staff member into a closed session.

The session was called to discuss a personnel is-sue, which commissioners would not link to the inci-dent, and lasted nearly two hours.

Judge-Executive Van Newberry said Carter was placed on paid leave on Thursday, where he re-mains, but would not com-ment on why. Newberry told Carter and the group

of DES personnel who joined him at Monday’s meeting that the commis-sioners would not take action on anything that would concern them that night but that they may discuss some things at the court’s next meeting next Monday.

Contact Mallory Panuska, a Paducah Sun staff writ-er, at 270-575-8684 or follow @MalloryPanuska on Twitter.

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Deangelo Glore, 9, of Paducah plays a game of cornhole with Paducah police officer Nathan Jaimet (left) during the National Night Out event on Tuesday in the Fountain Avenue neighborhood. People from all over McCracken County came to participate along with thousands of different communities across the nation for the 30th annual event. The night from 5:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. was sponsored by the National Associa-tion of Town Watch, and locally by Midtown Alliance of Neighbors, Volunteers in Police Service and the Paducah Police Department.

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Kentucky National Guard Brig. Gen. John Helt-zel. Edelen said his team identifi ed as much as $5.6 million in questionable spending.

“The report paints a picture of agency lead-ership that does not be-lieve the rules apply to it,” Edelen said. “The fi nd-ings raise concerns about waste and abuse that may have gone undetected and jeopardize federal fund-ing meant to prepare the commonwealth for emer-gencies.”

Managers of the agency disputed the auditor’s fi ndings, which are be-ing turned over to the U.S. Offi ce of Homeland Security, the Kentucky attorney general’s offi ce and the Kentucky Execu-tive Branch Ethics Com-mission. In a written re-sponse, the agency said taxpayer money has not been misused and that no employees have been intimidated, though they do work in an intense en-vironment during natural disasters.

Edelen said current

and former employees re-ported threats of retalia-tion and intimidation that produced a hostile work environment and discour-aged them from identi-fying waste, fraud and abuse. He said the agency also has had signifi cant employee turnover, which has affected the stability of its day-to-day opera-tions.

Several employees re-ported being afraid to communicate with audi-tors on their offi ce phones, through email, or in per-son at their desks because they believed their phones and offi ces were bugged and their emails were be-ing read. Edelen said he found no evidence of that being true.

As auditors were wrap-ping up the exam, Edelen said some of the employ-ees told the team that they were threatened with re-taliation for talking with his staff, which, if true, would be a violation of the state’s whistle-blower law.

“The atmosphere of in-timidation perpetuated by the KYEM administration is alarming,” Edelen said.

“It has led to waste and abuse at one of the most vital agencies in state government, one that citizens are wholly depen-dent upon to manage the emergency response to disasters like ice storms and tornadoes.”

Edelen said his staff-ers found spending on conferences held in 2010, 2011 and 2012 that didn’t appear reasonable or nec-essary.

At least $103,000 in taxpayer money was spent on entertainment, including a riverboat cruise, after-hours re-ceptions, meals, alcohol, door prizes and gifts.

The agency spent $113,000 on lunches at a Frankfort hotel between 2009 and 2013.

Auditors questioned the necessity of those ex-penditures and noted that many of the meals ex-ceeded the state’s maxi-mum per day allowance.

“In a state that has its share of horrible natural disasters in recent years, wasting tax dollars in-tended for emergency response is inexcusable,” Edelen said. — AP

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Today Thu.

Athens 91 75 s 93 78 sBeijing 84 73 r 93 75 pcBerlin 90 70 t 78 59 cBuenos Aires 62 49 pc 59 44 pcCairo 98 77 s 98 76 sHong Kong 93 79 t 91 81 tJerusalem 86 66 s 85 65 sLondon 72 55 pc 77 57 pcManila 90 76 t 90 76 tMexico City 79 52 t 76 51 tMoscow 81 60 pc 79 59 sParis 75 60 t 77 55 pcRome 92 68 s 93 69 sSeoul 92 79 t 95 77 pcSydney 65 53 pc 63 55 pcTokyo 91 80 pc 91 80 pcWarsaw 90 68 s 95 71 sZurich 85 57 t 74 57 r

Five-Day Forecast for PaducahShown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.

Almanac

UV Index Today

Sun and Moon

The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ number, the greater the need for eye and skin protection.

0-2 Low; 3-5 Moderate; 6-7 High; 8-10 Very High; 11+ Extreme8 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m.

River and Lake Levels

Ohio River

Full Pool

Regional WeatherCity Hi Lo W Hi Lo W

World Cities

National CitiesCity Hi Lo W Hi Lo W City Hi Lo W Hi Lo W

Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow fl urries, sn-snow, i-ice.

Regional Cities

The Region

St. Louis

Cape Girardeau

Paducah

Owensboro

Cadiz

Union CityNashville

MemphisPulaski

Blytheville

Evansville

City Hi Lo W Hi Lo W

Carbondale

Clarksville

Jackson

Elevation 24 hr. Chg

Precipitation

Temperature

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Stage 24 hr. Chg

National Weather

TODAY TONIGHT THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY

92/74

94/73

90/72

92/72

88/73

88/73

94/7488/73

88/73

98/79

94/73

90/73

95/75

88/73Showers and a heavier t-storm

High 92°

Overcast, a couple of t-storms

Low 72°

A couple of showers and a

t-stormHigh89°

Low75°

A couple of showers and a

t-stormHigh93°

Low71°

Variably cloudy, a t-storm; humid

High88°

Low65°

Mostly sunny with a thunderstorm

High87°

Low67°

Paducah through 2 p.m. yesterday

First Full Last New

Aug 14 Aug 20 Aug 28 Sept 5

Sunrise today ................................. 6:04 a.m.Sunset tonight ................................ 7:55 p.m.Moonrise today ............................... 6:51 a.m.Moonset today ................................ 8:06 p.m.

24 hours ending 2 p.m. yest. .................. 0.03”Month to date ......................................... 0.27”Normal month to date ............................. 0.61”Year to date ........................................... 37.33”Last year to date ................................... 13.57”Normal year to date .............................. 30.33”

High/low .............................................. 81°/70°Normal high/low .................................. 90°/67°Record high ................................ 100° in 1991Record low .................................... 52° in 1957

Through 7 a.m. yesterday (in feet)

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Kentucky: Humid today into tomorrow with a couple of showers and a thunderstorm.

Illinois: Humid today. A couple of showers and a heavy thunderstorm; only during the morning in the north.

Indiana: Humid today into tomorrow with a couple of showers and a thunderstorm.

Missouri: Clouds and sun today with a thunder-storm; humid. Hot in the south and east; seasonably warm in the west.

Arkansas: Partly sunny and hot today; humid in the east.

Tennessee: Humid today into tomorrow with a shower or thunderstorm. Friday: a couple of thun-derstorms; humid.

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Albuquerque 87 64 pc 90 65 tAtlanta 86 72 t 89 73 tBaltimore 80 70 t 86 72 tBillings 86 57 pc 76 55 sBoise 94 64 pc 92 63 pcBoston 79 66 pc 80 69 tCharleston, SC 89 73 pc 90 75 tCharleston, WV 84 70 t 84 70 tChicago 85 62 t 79 65 pcCleveland 82 68 t 81 68 tDenver 70 54 r 85 55 tDes Moines 80 58 pc 83 63 tDetroit 82 64 t 81 66 pcEl Paso 93 73 s 96 75 sFairbanks 81 51 s 78 50 sHonolulu 89 73 s 89 73 sHouston 101 79 s 100 79 sIndianapolis 86 71 t 83 72 tJacksonville 89 72 t 91 73 t

Las Vegas 99 82 s 99 78 sLos Angeles 74 61 pc 75 60 shMiami 89 79 t 90 80 tMilwaukee 81 59 t 75 60 pcMinneapolis 76 59 pc 79 61 pcNew Orleans 93 77 pc 92 77 tNew York City 78 70 t 83 72 tOklahoma City 102 73 s 99 72 tOmaha 80 61 pc 80 60 tOrlando 91 75 t 91 75 tPhiladelphia 82 70 t 85 72 tPhoenix 101 87 s 103 83 sPittsburgh 82 68 t 82 68 tSalt Lake City 92 65 pc 94 64 sSan Diego 72 64 pc 73 63 pcSan Francisco 63 54 pc 64 55 pcSeattle 81 58 s 79 57 pcTucson 93 77 t 97 75 tWashington, DC 82 73 t 87 75 t

Today Thu.

Belleville, IL 90 73 t 85 73 tBowling Gn., KY 88 73 t 90 73 tBristol, TN 83 67 t 86 67 tC. Girardeau, MO 94 73 t 89 75 tCarbondale, IL 90 72 t 85 73 tCharleston, WV 84 70 t 84 70 tChattanooga, TN 87 73 t 91 73 tClarksville, TN 88 73 t 91 73 tColumbia, MO 90 69 t 85 71 tEvansville, IN 88 73 t 87 74 tFt. Smith, AR 100 75 s 98 72 tHopkinsville, KY 88 73 t 90 74 tIndianapolis, IN 86 71 t 83 72 tJackson, KY 82 69 t 85 70 tJackson, TN 94 73 t 94 75 tJoplin, MO 94 72 t 90 72 rKansas City, MO 84 67 t 82 68 rKnoxville, TN 85 71 t 88 72 tLexington, KY 85 71 t 86 72 tLittle Rock, AR 99 77 pc 98 76 tLondon, KY 84 70 t 86 70 tLouisville, KY 88 75 t 88 76 tMemphis, TN 98 79 pc 97 79 tNashville, TN 88 73 t 93 75 tPeoria, IL 86 66 t 82 69 pcSt. Louis, MO 92 74 t 86 75 tSpringfi eld, IL 88 68 t 82 69 tSpringfi eld, MO 92 72 t 88 70 rTerre Haute, IN 88 69 t 82 72 t

National Summary: More humid air will surge northward with showers and thunderstorms from the Deep South to the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes region today. Locally drenching storms will affect the central Plains and part of the mid-Atlantic. Heat will hold over Texas, while more cool air spreads over the northern Plains. A few storms will dot the West.

Cairo 40 15.28 -0.22

Paducah 39 16.06 -0.12Owensboro 38 10.80 +0.60Smithland Dam 40 12.26 -1.38

Lake Barkley 359 357.80 noneKentucky Lake 359 357.76 -0.07

Shown are today’s noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.