Fort Knox News

VINE GROVE, Ky. - Open only for a few weeks, the staff at North Middle School in this Hardin County community is still unpacking: The trophy cases are empty.

Statues haven't been the only eye catching displays on Tech's campus recently. The custom Army chopper, with a 140 horsepower engine, built by the Orange County Choppers, travels the country 11 months of the year.

This year, Fort Knox will take what some on base are calling the "big inhale." The base's total population - about 45,000 at the end of 2009 - will swell to roughly 53,000 as it makes transitions related to Base Realignment and Closure, or BRAC, initiatives signed into law in 2005, said Col.

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Enthusiasm filled the cafeteria of La Grange Elementary school on Monday as children excitedly scrambled from table to table to assemble bags of personal care items.

Army National Guard Pvt. Jeffery S. Smith has graduated from Basic Combat Training at Fort Knox, Ky.

FORT KNOX, Ky: Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling, the Training and Doctrine's deputy commanding general for Initial Military Training, spent some time at Fort Knox last week for a conference on reception battalions.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - On a once exclusive hilltop country club, a U.S. Army truck backed up to a steep golf green as 82nd Airborne paratroopers tossed 110-pound rice bags, bucket-brigade style, to the front of a winding line of thousands of famished Haitians on Tuesday.

It's one thing to counterfeit a twenty or hundred dollar bill. The amount of financial damage is usually limited to a specific region and only affects dozens of people and thousands of dollars.

Soldiers from Fort Knox are headed to Haiti to assist in relief efforts weeks after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake rattled the island nation.

FORT KNOX, Ky. -- Army Pfc. Thaddeus A. Bender has graduated from One Station Unit Training at Fort Knox, Ky., which consisted of basic military training and advanced individual training.

Fairport Army Pvt. Haley Messer, daughter of Joe and Dori Messer of Fairport, and a graduate of Fairport High School, has graduated from basic combat training at Fort Jackson in Columbia, S.C. Hamlin Army Pvt.

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Governor Steve Beshear presented a balanced budget proposal to the General Assembly tonight - one that does not raise taxes, cuts many agencies an additional two percent, and includes projected revenues from gaming in order to protect core priorities, including SEEK - the primary classroom funding formula; Medicaid - the health care program for our ...

Road, water and sewer projects to handle growth near Fort Knox would get a boost under Gov.

One of the most lasting traditions in Kentucky history is the now-annual "State of the Commonwealth" speech that the governor gives in early January to the General Assembly and, thanks to KET, a statewide audience.

Rep. Linda Belcher introduced legislation in the Kentucky House of Representatives to authorize the creation of regional wastewater commissions to promote the sharing of costs of wastewater handling and treatment among government entities.

CIRCULATED AND PROOF COINS. DUE TO A LAW PASSED BY CONGRESS ALL AVAILABLE 22 KARAT GOLD AND SILVER BLANKS ARE BEING ALLOCATED TO THE BULLION COIN PROGRAMS AS LONG AS THE DEMAND IS THERE FROM INVESTORS.

Tim Hortons Inc. is lining up plans for further international growth after warming American coffee enthusiasts in the Big Apple to its fritters and Timbits.

Basketball BOYS Thursday's games METRO Jeffersontown at Eastern, ppd. Western at PRP, ppd.