Published: Sunday, Nov. 15, 2009 / Updated: Monday, Nov. 16, 2009 06:08 AM
News briefs from around Kentucky at 4:58 a.m. EST
OWENSBORO, Ky. (AP) - The International Bluegrass Music Museum's Web site is going multilingual.
The Owensboro-based museum's executive director, Gabrielle Gray, says its board of trustees recently approved money to translate the Web site into Spanish, French, Portuguese, Czech, Japanese, Chinese and Russian.
Gray tells the Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer that someone is already working on all the translations except Chinese. She says the museum is trying to find someone to do that translation.
The Owensboro paper reports that the museum hopes to have a truly international Web site by January.
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Information from: Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer, http://www.messenger-inquirer.com
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - Kentucky quarterback Mike Hartline will miss the rest of the regular season to receive surgery on his injured knee, coach Rich Brooks said Sunday.
The junior quarterback was featured in the Wildcat's 24-13 win over Vanderbilt on Saturday, throwing 2-of-6 for 10 yards and an interception. Brooks said the pace of the game agitated a knee injury Hartline picked up five weeks ago enough to warrant immediate surgery.
"When the game started flying as fast as it did, (the knee) just wasn't functioning correctly," Brooks said.
Hartline had started the Wildcats' first five games of the season before injuring the knee in a loss at South Carolina. After weeks of rehabilitation, he returned to practice last week to prep for the Vanderbilt game.
Brooks had hoped to use Hartline as a backup to Morgan Newton for the rest of the season.
The coach added that he will continue using a quarterback rotation of Newton and receiver Randall Cobb running a spread offense. Cobb will likely get 10 to 20 snaps in the remaining games, Brooks said, after running for 99 yards and two touchdowns against Vandy.
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FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP) - With an Afghanistan deployment looming, soldiers with the 101st Airborne Division are trying out new roles that reinforce their jobs as advisers working to build up and train Afghan troops.
Members of the 3rd Brigade Combat Team recently played the parts of Taliban commanders, recruits and detainees as well as Afghan National Army soldiers. The exercise at Fort Campbell on Thursday involved an assault by helicopter into a Taliban recruiting camp where soldiers found a cache of weapons hidden in a cave.
"Most Army people are type A people. We want to do everything ourselves," said Lt. Col. Stephen Lutsky, commander for 1st Squadron, 33rd Cavalry. "It's forcing us to take the Afghan security forces, the police and the army, train them and show them how to do it, because they want to do it."
As leader of the group portraying the Taliban forces, 2nd Lt. Frankie Shy had more than two dozen fighters spread out in a clearing amid woods at Fort Campbell. But the group was quickly overtaken by U.S. and Afghan forces who dropped in from a Chinook helicopter.
"My job is to fight to the death. But I was taken out. You are speaking with a ghost," he joked.
All around him, other soldiers clad in long robes and turbans were being searched for weapons or being questioned. Back in the woods, soldiers discovered two men hiding in a cave near a trove of rifles, ammunition and boxes of cash.
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ELIZABETHTOWN, Ky. (AP) - In the U.S. Army, most days are far from typical.
But for Staff Sgt. Kyle Puckett, Nov. 5 started out as "fairly routine" at Fort Hood, Texas. Puckett, 30, was just about to take a break from his duties as a mental health NCO to grab some lunch after a busy week of processing between 300 and 400 soldiers through his office.
Within seconds, his plans changed, lives were lost and chaos broke out on the post. Puckett heard gun fire. Then he heard it again and again.
"I can't tell you how many shots I heard," said Puckett, who once lived in Hardin County and has family here. "It was bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. And it kept going."
When the shooting ceased on that Thursday, the worst mass shooting at a military post in the United States had ended. More than a dozen people had died and more than two dozen were injured.
Puckett, a 12-year Army veteran, said the accused shooter, Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, walked by his office, fired three rounds at the door and then kept running.
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