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Year 159 No. 319, 16 Pages, 2 Sections www.bgdailynews.com Bowling Green, Kentucky Park City 17, 2014 Details, Page 2A Mostly sunny, cold. Tomorrow Sunday Pick 3: 2-3-4 Pick 4: 8-2-2-0 KentucK Lottery $1 Newsstand Daily Home Delivery opinion Economy must be strong for the middle class, or it be productive. Page 4A Classifieds 4B Comics 7B Crossword 7B Deaths 5A Sports 1B Sudoku 6B TV 7A Index Islamic State President Barack Obama calls ISIS acts of violence Page 6A Daily News mobile site A fresh start to the workweek Talk of the Town In Craig 10 years as head coach for Bowling Green High soccer team, the Purples have a 18732-14 overall record, including the recent state championship title. Widener played varsity soccer at Franklin High School in Franklin, and competitive soccer after college play.

He graduated from Western Kentucky University with a degree in broadcasting in 1999 and retired to obtain a teaching certificate. He teaches political science and psychology at BGHS. Widener and his wife Sarah have children, Emma, Kate and Braden. What is it like to win your second state championship as head coach? It is always an amazing feeling to leave your last game with a smile on your face. As a head coach, the vast majority of your seasons end in disappointment, tears and trying to comfort distraught young men.

When you win the last one, that all changes and you realize you have become a small part of your players lives that they will remember with nothing but good feelings forever. an incredible sensation. How is this win different from your first one in 2006? In 2006, I was only a second-year head coach and had with Quote DN Poll Speaking Out Last online poll This online poll Have beheadings by the Islamic State affected your opinion on whether the U.S. should send ground troops to fight in Iraq? Results will be published Nov. 24.

home invasion robberies of innocent victims are very Bowling Green-Warren County Drug Task Force director Tommy Loving CRAIG WIDENER COMING UP Media center Addition progresses at Warren Central High School. See Learning. SPORTS on the run Hilltoppers rejuvenate their ground game vs. Army. Page 1B See WIDENER, 5A The second open enrollment period for health exchange, kynect, got underway Saturday with steady traffic and no problems.

traffic on the website, call center and the kynect store in Lexington was said Jill Midkiff, director of communications for the Cabinet of Health and Family Services. was not as heavy as it was last year, but we expected that because open enrollment started on a As of 4 p.m. Saturday, there were 6,200 unique visitors to the kynect website; 2,415 calls were handled by the kynect call center; 1,000 people downloaded the new kynect app; 368 individuals newly enrolled in a qualified health plan; and 133 individuals enrolled in Medicaid, according to a news release from the office. Open enrollment continues through Feb. 15.

In addition to the Kentucky Health Cooperative and Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, which offered qualified health plans on the exchange last year, an additional company, WellCare, is offering plans in Warren County this year. Community Action of Southern Kentucky had several events Saturday to pass out information about kynect and help people start applications. a lot of said Charity Parrish, kynect program manager at Community Action. lot of people said, where I got my and others said, I need to come talk to exciting to see so many people set up appointments with Community Action this week for help signing up, she said. I think, are just asking more Parrish said.

been a year now that seen people have kynect and I believe that people are just more The Barren River Area Development District, which also provides kynect assistance, has been busy with people calling and emailing, said David Theis, kynect coordinator for BRADD. definitely started to get Kynect off to steady start By LAUREL WILSON The Daily News 783-3240 Little girls decked in brightly colored tutus and tights watched as an older girl in a pink ballerina outfit and tiara danced across the stage, sat in a chair and picked up a pink microphone. am the fairy godmother, and I have a magical story to the girl said. About 65 girls between the ages of 2 and 6 gathered with their parents and other guests at Dance Arts on Pedigo Way on Sunday for the annual performance of Co-director Martha Madison said the school has put on the show for 15 years. Unlike other performances of the famous ballet, the audience have to sit still.

Dance Arts students performed the ballet and brought the little girls onto the black dance floor at various times throughout the show to do simple dances with them. One girl clad in pink from her hair bow to her shoes occasionally made her way into dances for which the dancers asked for participation. She even approached the girl narrating the story and said, like your During the last dance, the Waltz of the Snowflakes switched with the Waltz of the Flowers in the order of the ballet each girl got a small plastic bag of fake snow to sprinkle on the floor, though some ended up on their clothes and hair. One girl wearing a purple, pink and yellow tutu and outfit scampered back to her mother during the first participatory dance tradition Story by MONICA SPEES The Daily News The former manager of the Horse Cave Dollar General store is scheduled to stand trial today in federal court on allegations she intentionally set the business on fire. Debra Fowler Kessinger, 57, was indicted in April by a federal grand jury.

The fire was June 27, 2011. The official charge against her is maliciously damaging and destroying and attempting to damage and destroy, by means of fire, real and personal property used in interstate and foreign commerce. Kessinger managed the Hart County location for about a year at the time of the fire, which substantially damaged the store. Federal prosecutors claim in court filings that the store had performed poorly and its finances were subject to audit on the morning of the fire, arguing that the pending audit gave Kessinger motive to commit arson. designed the fire to prevent an impending inventory and financial audit of the Horse Cave Dollar General Assistant U.S.

Attorney Joshua Judd wrote in a notice filed in August of intent to introduce evidence of mismanagement at the store that included theft of cash and store inventory. In another filing dated Oct. 31, Judd further argues that inventory at the store for 2011 was valued at $320,841, with inventory adjustments totaling $85,059. Adjustments determine inventory on hand. According to Judd, the 2011 inventory and adjustments at Horse Cave far exceeded amounts at Dollar General locations in Glasgow and Cave City.

store with high inventory adjustments suggests the inventory is either in the stock room or has been Judd wrote. to Dollar General personnel, high inventory adjustments are an indicator of theft of merchandise in a The arson charge carries a maximum sentence of 20 years and a maximum fine of $250,000. Kessinger is charged in a separate indictment in U.S. District Court with making false claims in a bankruptcy filing and fraudulently transferring property in contemplation of a bankruptcy petition. The trial in that case is set for March 16.

Follow courts reporter Justin Story on Twitter at twitter.com/jstorydailynews or visit bgdailynews.com. Horse Cave federal arson trial starts today By JUSTIN STORY The Daily News 783-3256 Photos by Bac To Trong News Elizabeth Marsh (center), 11, of Bowling Green, is surrounded by dancers Sunday during the Nutcracker Tea Party at Dance Arts School. Left Maya Spence (front), 12, and her brother, Andrew Spence, 16, both of Scottsville, perform at the event. Above Becky Anderson, 17, of Bowling Green, talks with kids Sunday after performing in the Nutcracker Tea Party. Dance Arts plays host to event for girls ages 2 to 6 in unique setting See INTERACTION, 5A Second enrollment period for state started Saturday See KYNECT, 5A InSIde See on open enrollment Page 5A.