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Year 159 No. 96, 428 Pages, 27 Sections www.bgdailynews.com Bowling Green, Kentucky Park City A 6, 2014 Details, Page 2A Afternoon showers. Today Daily News digital app Classifieds 1D Crossword 10D Deaths 6A Sunday Reader 1C Sports 1B Sudoku 12D TV 13B Index Saturday Pick 3: 2-7-2 Pick 4: 3-0-9-4 Saturday late Pick 3: 0-7-0 Pick 4: 7-7-4-6 Cash Ball 3-4-20-28, 21 Powerball 11-21-26-33-34, 29 5 Card Cash 4 5 3 8 KentucKy Lottery opinion Navigation system will be helpful tool for responding to school emergencies. Page 2C $1.75 Newsstand $1.17 Daily Home Delivery Sunday reader With economic struggles, many people no longer see themselves in middle class. Page 1C Enrollment grew steadily at Western Kentucky University for several years, and maybe officials there a little WKU President Gary Ransdell said.

There is no more complacency these days when it comes to enrollment. A decline of 300 to 400 white, female, nontraditional, part-time undergraduate students usually age 25 and up within the past year has university officials rethinking longstanding enrollment strategies, Ransdell said. even led to an administrative reorganization as the chief enrollment officer now reports directly to the president. A drop in tuition revenue in the fall 2013 and spring 2014 semesters means WKU is seeking to overcome a $3.1 million revenue shortfall. The university hopes to overcome $1 million of that by having an outside entity run WKU Health Services.

is our highest priority to recapture enrollment in the Ransdell said. days of dramatic growth are gone. The campus has come to understand how critical enrollment is to the financial Enrollment at WKU is about 21,000 students. At Southcentral Kentucky Community Technical College, enrollment has also been steady for the past 18 years up in the fall and down in the spring, college spokesman Mark Brooks said. of higher education is in a pinch, but we have not seen a decrease in traditional Brooks said.

SKYCTC has about 6,000 students. Phil Neal, SKYCTC president, said 16,000 people in southcentral Kentucky are served by campus programs and workforce initiatives in various communities and job sites. WKU renews focus on enrollment By CHUCK MASON The Daily News 783-3262 Facing revenue shortfall, Ransdell says boosting numbers is WKU tuition enrollment 0 7,500 15,000 22,500 30,000 19,265 19,761 20,712 20,903 21,048 21,124 20,456 $2,976 $3,208 $3,465 $3,600 $3,780 $4,042 $4,236 Tuition Enrollment NOTE: Tuition numbers for full-time, in-state undergraduates WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY ENROLLMENT TUITION See RISING, 5A Jim Morris of Bowling Green entertained professional wrestling fans in the 1980s as squaring off against rivals while wearing a scraggly beard and bib overalls. Morris is returning to television alongside seven other World Wrestling Entertainment figures from his era, but instead of settling old scores in the ring, the group is living together for the new reality show Legends Premiering at 7 p.m. Thursday on the WWE Network, the program places Hillbilly Jim in the California estate once owned by famed comic performer Harpo Marx.

The list of Hillbilly housemates Rowdy Roddy Piper, Hacksaw Jim Duggan, Tony Atlas, Pat Patterson, Jimmy Hart, Mean Gene Okerlund and Howard Finkel is sure to hit the sweet spot for nostalgic wrestling fans who grew up watching their exploits in the former World Wrestling Federation and helped the popularity grow. gains spot on reality TV By JUSTIN STORY The Daily News 783-3256 JIM MORRIS See REALITY TV, 5A Professional wrestling will come to Bowling Green next weekend when the World Wrestling Alliance presents Inception, a series of matches Saturday at the Kentucky National Guard Armory on Morgantown Road. Wrestling event coming next weekend By JUSTIN STORY The Daily News 783-3256 See NINE MATCHES, 5A Cold but not forgotten are the cases of Walter Greg Fowler, Jessie Marie Twilight Song Crooks, Mark Medaris and Jordan Staten. Fowler, 44, disappeared in 1999. His body has never been found.

Twilight, 15, was found slain Sept. 10, 2001, after she walked away from her home late Aug. 28, 2001. Medaris, 37, and his stepson, 3-year-old Jordan Staten, were killed Nov. 22, 2010, by a hit-and-run driver at 5:39 p.m.

while crossing Veterans Memorial Boulevard at New Bond Way. The 3-year-old Warren County Office cold case unit comprised mostly of retired investigators meets regularly to compare notes and work on these and other cases in hope of finding closure for the families. Retired Bowling Green Police Chief Gary Raymer and Sheriff Jerry Gaines came up with the concept. They are joined in the cold case unit by Warren County Attorney Chris Cohron, retired city police Sgt. Bernie Cox, retired Kentucky State Police Detective Bennie Bowles, retired Warren County BY DEBORAH HIGHLAND THE DAILY NEwS 783-3243 Warren County unit offers chance to put things Photos by Alex Slitz News Bob and Linda Crooks of Plano remember their daughter, Jessie Marie Twilight Song Crooks, who was found slain Sept.

10, 2001, off Matlock Old Union Church Road. Capt. Tony Chism of the Warren County Office points to the area where Jessie Marie Twilight Song body was found Sept. 10, 2001. If you have information on these cases, call the office at 270-842-1633.

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