Jeffersonville News

LOUISVILLE, KY. -- A lemonade stand helps a Louisville 7-year-old raise more than $1,000 for kids with cancer.

Gov. Steve Beshear has directed that flags at all state office buildings be lowered to half-staff on Thursday, May 17, 2012, in honor of a Kentucky soldier who died while supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.

The Department of Defense says 19-year-old private first class Dustin Gross of Jeffersonville, Kentucky died Monday when his unit was attacked with an improvised device.

On Thursday afternoon, Jeffboat is launching a 200-foot-long barge painted pink to raise cancer awareness, said the Jeffersonville shipbuilder's parent company, American Commercial Lines Inc.

A dog is dead, and a Fairdale, Ky. is accused of abusing and torturing it to death.