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Kentucky crews helping repair damaged roads in North Carolina after Helene
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) – The recovery process in North Carolina is lengthy. Many roads are having to be completely rebuilt.
Kentucky Transportation Cabinet crew members have been down there helping all they can.
“We went down there, and there are just pockets of complete devastation. You might be driving down a road that looks perfectly fine, and then you come across a community where the road is gone, houses had 3 to 4 feet of water in them at times,” said Logan Murphy of Kentucky Transportation Cabinet District 7.
Murphy said the scenes in North Carolina remind him of some of the natural disasters that have recently happened in Kentucky.
“We knew what it’s like. We’ve had disasters in western Kentucky with the tornadoes and eastern Kentucky with the flooding, so we knew what they needed. We knew how hard it is to rebuild after situations like this,” said Murphy.
Murphy was involved with a crew that was down there for two weeks.
“We were able to work on five or six roads. A couple of them were impassable. There was one section of roadway where all it took was one pipe to be clogged up and the river rechanneled, took out the road,” Murphy said.
The joy of helping others is what fuels people like Murphy to do things like this.
“It’s very fulfilling work because I know we are doing a good job. I know we are helping speed up the process of recovering because it’s going to take them a long time to recover in some of these areas. Just anything our crew could do to help speed it up just a little bit,” Murphy said.
Murphy said he would be headed back down to North Carolina to relieve some of their crews on Friday.
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PENDLETON CO., Ky. — A woman was killed, and two juveniles were seriously injured Friday night in a two-vehicle crash in Pendleton County, Kentucky State Police said.
Police said troopers responded to a two-vehicle crash near the 2600 block of US-27 around 9 p.m. Friday.
Troopers found that 67-year-old Sandra Barker was driving a 2015 Chevrolet Equinox north on US-27 when she crossed the center line and struck a 2018 Ram truck that was being driven by a 57-year-old man.
Barker was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. Two juveniles, who were passengers in the Ram truck, were transported to the hospital with serious injuries. Police did not say if the 57-year-old driver of the truck was injured or not.
Troopers said the investigation into the crash is in the early stages, and it’s being reconstructed by Kentucky State Police’s Post 6 in Dry Ridge.
Troopers were assisted by the Pendleton County Coroner’s Office, Pendleton County EMS, Pendleton County Fire Department, Southern Campbell EMS, Northern Pendleton Fire/EMS and AirCare.
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Is the mint julep overhyped? See what was said at Kentucky Derby 2026.
Courier Journal’s Keely Doll and Olivia Evans asked racegoers at the 152nd Kentucky Derby if the mint julep, a derby-staple, live up to its hype.
It’s National Mint Julep Day, a celebration of one of Kentucky’s most recognizable cocktails.
The popular bourbon drink has long been tied to Louisville and the Kentucky Derby. According to Churchill Downs, about 127,000 mint juleps are served over the two-day Kentucky Oaks and Kentucky Derby weekend.
How to make a mint julep
Let’s Talk Derby: How to make a mint julep for the Kentucky Derby
It’s time for another ‘Let’s Talk Derby with Kathryn and Kirby’ video. Learn how to make the official drink of the Kentucky Derby: the mint julep.
How many mint juleps are served during Kentucky Derby weekend each year?
According to Churchill Downs, about 127,000 mint juleps are served over the two days of Kentucky Oaks and Kentucky Derby weekend. This number of cocktails requires more than 10,000 bottles of bourbon, 2,250 pounds of freshly harvested mint and 475,000 pounds of ice.
The mint julep has been a traditional beverage of Churchill Downs and the Kentucky Derby for nearly a century.
Reach Marina Johnson at Marina.Johnson@courier-journal.com.
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