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The 2013 Regular Session of the Kentucky General Assembly is scheduled to begin on Jan. 8 and will last 30 legislative days.
As usual during an odd-numbered year, in which sessions are half as long as in even-numbered years, the session will have two parts. The first four days of the session – Jan. 8 to Jan. 11 – will focus on organizational work, such as electing legislative leaders, adopting rules of procedure and organizing committees.
The second part of the session begins on Feb. 5, with final adjournment scheduled for March 26.

A still shaken Berry woman says she may go into hiding in order to keep from reliving the night of Sept. 7; a night she calls “the night of hell.”
What started as a simple friendly encounter between two neighbors quickly turned into a night filled with acts of  jealousy and rage against Dorothy Butcher.
“Harold [Stevens] and the neighbor were outside one evening talking about starting a garden,” Butcher recalled. “He called me outside and asked what I thought about it. I said that was fine with me.”

Matt Simpson could have taken his musical talent into any genre when he was first breaking in. However, his heart was anchored with his Christian roots.
Now, more than 10 years later, he’s providing lead vocals and rhythm guitar for a band ironically named My Heart Remains.
Simpson and his band mates, Tony Gargano of Cincinnati, Dan Cress, Georgetown, and Zach Hunter, Lanesville, Ind., make their brand of music anywhere and everywhere they can.

A Harrison County man faces multiple felony charges after an alleged three-hour torturing.
Harold Stevens, 55, has been charged by the Harrison County Sheriff’s Department after he allegedly tortured his former girlfriend in her Berry home Thursday night.
Stevens faces first degree sexual abuse, fourth degree assault, second degree unlawful imprisonment and third degree terroristic threatening. He is currently being held at Bourbon County Detention Center.
Read the rest of the story in next week’s Cynthiana Democrat.