Young Women

STANFORD — In a hallway outside of Lincoln District Court, David Hacker offered his own account Thursday morning of the recent accusations made against him by two young women. “They have their stories, and I have my stories,” Hacker said. Hacker, 51, was in court for a pretrial conference for two separate incidents in May in which he is charged with stalking a waitress at The Depot restaurant in Stanford and making a terroristic threat against a high school senior at her home in Hustonville.

STANFORD — A former Lincoln County school board member with trouble in his past now faces more difficulties with the law. David Hacker is scheduled to appear for a pretrial conference Thursday in Lincoln District Court on allegations of harassing two young women in separate incidents last month. Hacker was arrested May 7 by Hustonville Police Chief Fred McCoy, who charged him with terroristic threatening after he allegedly chased a terrified Kelsey Merriman, 18, into her home and then told McCoy during a subsequent interview that “I’m putting her on my list.

There is perhaps no better illustration of a gender gap in professional pay than that which exists in Kentucky schools at the district superintendent level. It didn't take long for Advocate reporter Charlie Cox to learn that women in that role are paid on average about 10 percent less than men. And within that group is a local example that should have everyone scratching their heads. It was the superintendent's position in Lincoln County that got our attention to begin with, and it is that position that remains a standout.

100 years ago - 1912 A warrant was issued in police court charging Judge J.H. Mulligan of Lexington with violating the law by running his automobile through the streets of Danville without lights. The officers are determined that this practice, as well as speeding, must cease. It is miraculous that more accidents have not occurred in the past and the authorities mean to take this step in time.   At the close of Caldwell College's commencement, an announcement was made that  $100,000 had been raised for enlarging this grand old institution for young women.

When young women walk into the small downtown Danville office of the Pregnancy Resource Center, wondering whether they might be pregnant or struggling with what to do about it, Vicki Mayotte knows what it's like to be in their shoes. Now in the middle of her life with two kids of her own, Mayotte went through two pregnancies and abortions early in her life, at ages 16 and 23. “I regret it,” she says now of her abortions. “At 16, I had no business being a mother, and had somebody really sat down and discussed adoption with me, that's the choice I would have made.

Editor's note: Videos of the paranormal investigations will be posted in chapters for the next several days at www.amnews.com. More detail about the ghost hunters and their findings will be found online. Mike Norris has heard about the "Breck ghost" since his early days at Centre College. From early on he was interested in the campus myths, stories and legends, he says. Norris, now the director of communications for the college, even remembers special group of Breck residents from the early 1990s.

Lions live in the lobby of the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. They were sleeping soundly behind a thick pane of glass when I saw them. I was told the fearsome creatures sleep 15 to 20 hours a day. I didn't ask what they feed them, but I suspect it's the unfortunate Christians who are lured into the Coliseum at Caesar's Palace nearby. Las Vegas is not a place that nurtures devout living. Spiritually, it is as barren as the Mojave Desert that surrounds it. Some of the sex shops and dirt cheap all-you-can-eat buffets have been replaced with good restaurants and glamorous salons, but it is still a city that worships Mammon.

Lions live in the lobby of the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. They were sleeping soundly behind a thick pane of glass when I saw them. I was told the fearsome creatures sleep 15 to 20 hours a day. I didn't ask what they feed them, but I suspect it's the unfortunate Christians who are lured into the Coliseum at Caesar's Palace nearby. Las Vegas is not a place that nurtures devout living. Spiritually, it is as barren as the Mojave Desert that surrounds it. Some of the sex shops and dirt cheap all-you-can-eat buffets have been replaced with good restaurants and glamorous salons, but it is still a city that worships Mammon.

Lions live in the lobby of the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. They were sleeping soundly behind a thick pane of glass when I saw them. I was told the fearsome creatures sleep 15 to 20 hours a day. I didn't ask what they feed them, but I suspect it's the unfortunate Christians who are lured into the Coliseum at Caesar's Palace nearby. Las Vegas is not a place that nurtures devout living. Spiritually, it is as barren as the Mojave Desert that surrounds it. Some of the sex shops and dirt cheap all-you-can-eat buffets have been replaced with good restaurants and glamorous salons, but it is still a city that worships Mammon.

One year after debuting in Clark County with its new name, the Distinguished Young Women program, formerly known as Junior Miss, will debut a few more changes this Friday. For more than 10 years, the program has been staged in August, but committee chairwoman Donna Fuller said the program will be in June this year to help students focus on the competition without school and extracurricular activities. The program will feature a new emcee, Clark County Attorney Brian Thomas, who has performed in the program in previous years.