Regional

By Dan Modlin

Bowling Green, KY – The Warren County Mediation Program can help families in the area address a number of legal matters that relate to children. Participants in the program say the mediation approach can help to serve famillies who can't afford legal fees...and can help to reduce the load on busy courtroom dockets. Dan Modlin has more on the story...

By Dan Modlin

By Dan Modlin

Bowling Green, KY – Kentucky's jobless rate has reached 10.2 percent. State officials say that reading is the highest unemployment rate since May of this year, and marks a two-tenths of a percent increase in the past month. Although the overall jobless rate moved higher, some sectors did show job growth in November. The Education and Health Services sector, for example, showed an increase of eleven hundred jobs for that month.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that about 212 thousand Kentuckians were unemployed in November.

Fort Knox – More than 3,000 soldiers at Fort Knox are headed overseas this month. The Third Brigade Combat Team will spend a year in eastern Afghanistan. It's a volatile region along the border with Pakistan, where the mountainous terrain presents challenges, says Brigade Commander Colonel Chris Toner.

"A lot of small villages out in a very rural environment, not a lot built up in terms of roads and those things, literacy rate is about 30 percent literate."

By Dan Modlin

Bowling Green, KY – The Public Service Commission says a shortage of telephone numbers won't be a problem in western Kentucky for at least four years. So the PSC has decided not to pursue the implementation of a split area code plan for those portions of Kentucky currently in the 270 area. The PSC started the process of creating a new area code in the region back in 2006. Dan Modlin has more on the story.........