Maner weeps after court upholds judgment against Fayette schools
The Kentucky Supreme Court declined Wednesday to review the Carol Lynne Maner sex-abuse case, letting stand a $3.7-million judgment against the Fayette County Public Schools.
No further avenue of appeal remains available to the school district, other than taking the case to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Maner, who received the news shortly after noon, said she spent much of the next hour in tears of relief.
“I haven’t been able to stop crying,” she said. “I didn’t expect to be quite so overwhelmed. But I got the news and in about 30 seconds I started weeping, and I’ve been weeping off and on for the last hour. It’s been almost eight years of litigation.”
Chuck Arnold, one of Maner’s attorneys on the case, said Wednesday’s high court decision spells vindication for his client.
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Couple stresses fire safety after grandsons killed in Christmas blaze
FRANKFORT Grief still grips Irv and Cathy Bailey after losing two grandsons in a Christmas morning fire that destroyed the Baileys’ Louisville home. But the philanthropist couple has shifted into activist mode to stress the importance of fire safety.
“You can either surrender to it or use it as a way for better things to happen,” Irv Bailey said at the state Capitol Wednesday.
The Baileys appeared on the Senate floor as state Sen. Ernie Harris, R-Crestwood, introduced a resolution adjourning the chamber in memory of Solon L. Bailey, 12, and William T. “Liam” Bailey, 10.
The two boys, who were visiting with their parents from Vermont, couldn’t escape the fast-moving fire that engulfed the Bailey’s home at about 4:30 a.m. on Christmas.
“It was like an explosion that happened in our home very, very massive,” said Cathy Bailey, a prominent Republican fund-raiser who served as U.S. ambassador to Latvia from 2005 to 2008.
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Maker’s Mark signing might be big blue bottleneck
The Big Blue Nation is about to hit a big blue waxy bottleneck.
Only 1,200 fans will be allowed to line up at 6:30 a.m. Friday, April 9, to each get one commemorative bottle of Maker’s Mark bourbon signed by University of Kentucky men’s basketball Coach John Calipari.
In anticipation of the fervor that UK basketball fans might bring to the occasion, the track has come up with a special process this year for its annual bottle signing tied to the Maker’s Mark Mile race.
To be one of the lucky 1,200, fans first will have to get a lottery ticket at a special drawing Tuesday, April 6, at Keeneland’s Keene Barn and Entertainment Center.
That’s right three days in advance.
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Expert on multiple myeloma to speak at UK Friday
The University of Kentucky’s Markey Cancer Center and Jessamine County businessman R.J. Corman are co-sponsoring the Friday visit to Lexington of a Boston expert on multiple myeloma.
Corman has the disease and was instrumental in arranging the visit of Dr. Paul Richardson.
Multiple myeloma is a rare blood disease that is generally considered incurable, although remissions can occur with treatment.
Richardson will be holding multiple sessions for medical professionals at the Markey Center, but his 9:45 a.m. session is open to the public.
“It’s supposed to be a multiple myeloma support group meeting,” says Brenda Frazier, an administrative support associate in the division of hematology, oncology and blood and marrow transplantation at the Markey Center. The division is coordinating Richardson’s visit.
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Bald eagle spotted at Lakeside Golf Course
The bald eagle was sitting in the top of a tree on the edge of Lexington’s Lakeside Golf Course, polishing off what must have been a tasty seagull.
After a while, it spread its wings and headed across Jacobson Reservoir, dropping a seagull wing that apparently had too many feathers and not enough meat (the other wing was found on the ground about 50 yards away).
After several years of reported sightings, a bald eagle finally made an appearance in Lexington this week within range of a newspaper photographer with a long lens.
This eagle is probably the one spotted in late December by a Kentucky American Water employee who captured it with his cell phone camera, said Susan Lancho, a spokeswoman for the company.
She consulted with Dillard Griffin, who is manager of the utility’s field operations and the head of the local Audubon Society chapter, who said employees have seen only one bird, and no evidence of a nest.
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