By Lorie Hailey
Associate Editor
The nation’s top public high school is in Kentucky, according to rankings released Sunday by Newsweek magazine, reports the Lexington Herald Leader.
The Gatton Academy of Mathematics and Science, a residential high school on the campus of Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, topped Newsweek’s list of America’s Best High Schools.
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Mammoth Cave Hotel has seen more overnight guests since beer and wine sales were approved at the hotel last year, reports the Bowling Green Daily News. Hotel managers also hope more travelers to Mammoth Cave National Park will stop at the nearby Caver’s Camp Store, where wine and beer have been sold since the beginning of the current tourist season.
Cave’s spring tourist season began March 17, which is when beer and wine began being sold at the camp store alongside camping supplies, soft drinks and snacks, the paper reports.
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More than a decade after the state ethics commission called it a bad idea, Kentucky governors are still helping contributors get Derby tickets — many of them on Millionaires’ Row, reports the Louisville Courier-Journal.
Like his predecessors, Gov. Steve Beshear used the Derby this year to showcase Kentucky to official state guests who are considering investing in the state.
More than 350 tickets were made available to the governor, but he only had 52 official guests. Records obtained by The Courier-Journal show many of the extra tickets — and most of the best ones on Millionaires’ Row, with a face value of $773 each — were purchased this year by some of the biggest recent contributors to Beshear’s re-election campaign and inauguration, and to the Democratic Party.
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Prescription drug abuse continues to plague Kentucky, and employers are paying the price in higher workers’ compensation and health insurance costs, reduced productivity and heightened risks to non-abusing employees.
Employers whose workers misuse prescribed drugs also have a greater risk of being sued.
As many as 70 percent of drug and alcohol abusers in America are gainfully employed, according to the U.S. Department of Labor and U.S. Department of Mental Health Services, which uses a formula designed to quantify alcohol and drug “abuse.”
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USA TODAY has compiled a list of the Top 10 cars and trucks that should be more popular than they are. The lack of interest in them also could get you a good deal on a fine vehicle that hasn’t been feeling the love on the dealer’s sales floor, the paper reports.
In some cases the sales figures aren’t terrible — but in none of the cases mentioned do the sales match the paper’s assessment of the cars’ relevance or excellence.
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Months after the first invitations were mailed, only a small percentage of eligible borrowers have accepted a chance to have their foreclosure cases checked for errors and maybe win restitution, USA TODAY reports.
By April 30, fewer than 165,000 people had applied to have their foreclosures checked for mistakes — about 4 percent of the 4.1 million who received letters about the free reviews late last year, according to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.
If errors occurred, restitution could run from several hundred dollars to more than $100,000, the paper reports.
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