Kentucky’s only astronaut, Marine Corps Col. Terry Wilcutt, still hopes to command space shuttle mission STS 116.

But his flight’s been delayed.

All shuttle flights are on hold until NASA scientists, engineers and crash investigators find out what went wrong during the final minutes of shuttle mission STS 107 Saturday morning.

Western recreation students who missed this year’s Kentucky
Recreation and Park Society conference made a serious career mistake, recreation professor Steve Spencer said.

“If you really want to be in this profession and you don’t do this, it’s a bad choice,” he said.

This Christmas will be a bittersweet holiday for Sgt. James Wheeler’s family and more than a hundred other local families.

“Christmas will be kind of a rough time, but it’ll be good,” Wheeler said.

He and 113 other Kentucky National Guardsmen assigned to Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, 123rd Armor Regiment are at Fort Riley, Kan., training for NATO peace support duty in Bosnia.

They’ll leave for Bosnia shortly after Christmas. Last week, that departure was the last thing on Wheeler’s mind. He and three fellow guardsmen rented a car and drove 700 miles to spend Thanksgiving with their families in Bowling Green.

Former College Heights Herald faculty adviser Jody Richards, D-Bowling Green, was scheduled to officially announce his candidacy for governor in an 8 a.m. press conference today at South Campus.

Richards has been Speaker of the Kentucky House of Representatives since 1995 and has represented House District 20 since 1976.

“Now, I want to serve all of the people of Kentucky to the best of my abilities as their governor,” he said in a news release.