25 Years ago: Aug. 9, 2012

Aug. 9, 1987

The state will resurface 1.4 miles of Muddy Creek Road, Gov. Martha Layne Collins has announced.

Richard H. Wengert, forest supervisor of the Daniel Boone National Forest, will host a three-day management team meeting in Lexington next weekend for Forest Service officials from 13 different southern states. Conference speakers will include other forest supervisors and directors of several agencies, including the Regional Fisheries Program.

NEW YORK (AP)¿— A Pan Am jetliner and a TWA¿jumbo jet came within 600 feet of each other in a near miss that apparently was caused by an air traffic controller who transposed the number of a flight, the Federal Aviation Administration reported. Controllers realized the error as the planes neared each other.