LOUISVILLE, Kentucky, Oct. 11 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky issued the following news release: This week the last of ten defendants, each of whom were associated with the "Everybody Shines Together" street gang (also knowns as "EST"), was sentenced as part of a conspiracy involving federal drug and firearms offenses. U.S. Attorney Michael A. Bennett of the Western District of Kentucky, Special Agent in Charge Michael E. Stansbury of the FBI Louisville   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation's Surface Transportation Board issued the following decision (Docket No. AB 290) entitled "Norfolk Southern Railway Co. - Abandonment Exemption - In Pike County, Kentucky": * * * In 2004, Norfolk Southern Railway Company (NSR) filed a notice of exemption under 49 C.F.R. part 1152 subpart F--Exempt Abandonments to abandon an 8.74-mile rail line between milepost WP-2.20 at Toler and milepost WP-10.94 at Peg, in Pike County, Ky. (the Li  more