The Kentucky Administrative Office of the Courts recorded each case's outcome. Somerset Community College may not immediately spring to mind when hotbeds of academia are discussed. But when the Chronicle of Higher Education went looking for schools that received the most federal assistance, there was SCC, ranked 20th in the nation. There are few signs of the nation's economic boom in Lewis County. The new-car dealerships and movie theaters have closed.
Restaurants are few.
Four of Nine West's shoe factories have shut down in recent years, leaving 600 people without jobs. The county's unemployment rate in April was 16.9 percent the highest in the state. The talk of Williamstown and all of Grant County these days centers on Tuesday's vote on whether to legalize alcohol sales. A Wisconsin native has been chosen as the first executive director of the Muhammad Ali Center proposed for Louisville's riverfront. Jonathan A. Steckbeck.