Lexington Herald-Leader from Lexington, Kentucky • 15

3 Partners in Progress community college system kicks off fund-raising drive Friday October 7 1994 Lexington Ky Lexington Herald-Leader Prosecutor Louisville trial crucial to future of Prozac was just barking up wrong tree By Jim Warren HeraldLeaoer Medical Writer The future use of Prozac an anti-depressant taken by millions could hinge on the outcome of a trial under way in Louisville says a Lexington forensic psychiatrist who is an expert witness in the would have to play Russian roulette every time he or she prescribed this drag or similar Granacher said guess is the use of these medications would fall precipitously and set back our ability to help patients dramatically" rampage at Standard Gravure printing plant Sept 14 1989 when an angry employee Joseph Wesbecker killed eight people and wounded 12 others before committing suicide in an attack that horrified Kentucky and the nation Popular prescription Prozac has been controversial since it came out in 1988 generating bodes news stories and debate It was die first of a new class of antidepressants that work by affecting serotonin a neurotransmitter or chemical in the Now attorneys representing victims and their families are frying to convince Jeffer-son Circuit Court jurors that murderous rage was triggered by Prozac which he had SEE PROZAC BIO Grenadier's viewpoint might be somewhat biased since he is an expert witness for Eli Lilly and Co of Indianapolis the makers of Prozac But there is little doubt the Louisville case is crucial It began with a bloody shooting messenger brain Similar drugs followed such as Paxil and Zoloft But none captured the kind of attention Prozac received Within two years after debut psychiatrists were writing 650000 prescriptions a month case Dr Robert Granacher Jr says a verdict against Prozac probably force the drug off the market But psychiatrists could be discouraged from prescribing it "The average practitioner Dr Robert Granacher Jr is an expert witness Path paved with problems State closing Lexington office for autopsies Medical facibties moving to Frankfort lab By Thomas Toujver HeraldLeader State Writer The state medical office in Lexington where more than 500 autopsies were performed last year is closing much to the chagrin of Dr Dennis Penn the Fayette County coroner "When the medical examiners leave then anything that re- quires an autop- 1993 sy to be done we will have to transport the autop-body to Frank- fPmfonried fort That's why we hate to see 6F them go" Penn said yesterday 420 were re-The Fayette fened from S3 County Forensic other counties Center which houses the office and the state medical office opened on East Second Street in 1992 Before the center opened autopsies were performed at the University of Kentucky But a new state bb building in Frankfixt will consolidate forensic services and translate into better SEE AUTOPSIES B6 Is that a souvenir can of dog food on the desk of Kathy Stein domestic violence prosecutor for foe Fayette County office? Sure is And why When she was a public defender in a persistent felony offender case me of the prospective jurors she was questioning was a veterinarian That prompted Stein to launch into an impromptu explanation of how that morning during a power outage she had grabbed the wrong bottle and washed her hair with dogshampoo She also said there was only a minimal chance of getting fleas from her should he be selected to serve He was did and was elected jury foreman So what did prosecutor Joe Bouvier think of all this canine camaraderie? During the lunch hour he left a can on Alpo on the defense table help The defendant was acquitted Twenty-five years ago there a single copy of one of Jesse bodes in the Greenup public library There was no public library in hometown bade then So they started one in an empty storefront That first year circulation readied 1100Q Among those working there then was Dorothy Griffith now the librarian And now besides nearly doubling its circulation die library has a new building It also has become something of an unofficial community center that attracts non-readers who use the fax machine and copier There's also a children's story hour adult literacy program plus meeting rooms used daily by numerous dubs and groups It also has plenty of reader copies of works along with valuable nor-circulated first-editions and thick scrapbooks filled with everything written about Stuart that the library has been able to collect And yes Griffith says 10 years after his death Stuart fans still come to Greenup mostly from out of state Well if you are a deer and believe the results of a 1993 survey conducted by the Ohio Department of Transportation it's nearly 10 times safer to cross a road Kentucky than it is in Ohio Figures compiled by the Ohio DOT show that 24813 deer-vehicle collisions were reported in that state a 50 percent increase over the last four years And the largest number (G77) occurred in heavily populated Franklin County where the Btate capital Columbus is In Kentucky only 2A54 colli- sions were reported in 1993 i And a jolly good morning plus four bushels of com a sack of flour two dozen eggs three hounds a knife with a bust- ed handle a radiator off a 19-18 Ford and two UK season fixrtball tickets to the folks in Ibrtervillo It's in Nicliolaa County The goswl according to Ows- ley County storyteller deluxe Low- ell Gayle Morris: As was his annual custom the tax assessor stopped at one of Moms' relatives' farmhtxise one day and began taking notes and asking questions Among them was this one: "I you have any jacks or jennies to declare and if so fix how much?" sir" tlw farmer sakl "One jenny $1510" For one jenny? I'd sure like to see one worth S2ri00" the 1 assessor said "All right" tlie farmer replied Thm he called to tlie kitchen from which a woman rmrrged here" tlie farmer sakl "is Jenny" Frank AnkrmnHumldUader Agnes Cole of El some Creek Road in Breathitt of a mile that runs past her driveway leaving the County says the county paved just the two-tenths two ends of the road unpaved Some Breathitt residents say blacktop unfairly distributed FRmm AmmiimiiHuwdUnxr Dr Carolyn Coyne will be transferring to Frankfort along with Dr John Hunsaker Corrections and Clarifications Channel 27 to produce 10 pm news on Channel 56 By Karen Samples Southeastern Kentucky Bureau SEBASTIANS BRANCH Agnes Cole is taunted by the thin strip of blacktop in front of her house a joke she say's Ikx-snt even cover tlie spot where the school bus turns around every day worse site says is that some of her neighbors got more even a few wlio live on roads where buses don't travel "I think a kit of it is discrimina-tion to me" Cole said She's not afixic In recent weeks numerous people have complained alxxit alk'gcd inequitk-s in Ihvathitt County's bliick topping program said Cmnmimweallh's Attorney Mike Stidham After driving the county this week to see tlie evidence fix himself Stkllmm lias asked the state police to trates simply turn in lists of roads they would like paved in their districts Hinkle Contracting the company doing the work in Breathitt also receives instructions directly from magistrates a Hinkle manager said Some people will not be satisfied no matter what derisions are made Ifenson said "We go to the most-needed roads the ones tliat are the most populated" lie said know tlie roads and we try to use our judgment" One of tlie court's goals is to by blacktop where school buses must turn around he said In area however some has turnarounds have gone un-pa ved while short mads leading to just a few houses have received SCE BREATHITT B4 "This has got to stop" he said In a place where too many people have too little the gleam of fresh pavement on a driveway can fuel the rumor mill for weeks Many residents vkw blacktop as a reward fix supporting the right candklate in the last election In like Giunty citizens started a road-reform committee after a similar bL'icktopping controversy was featured in the I Little Kingdoms series Like the like County groups Cole and other Breathitt Countians are questioning how the Fiscal Court chose which roods to pave This summer the court borrowed SI million fix rood improvements but it has not publicly discussed tlie specifics of its road plan Judge Executive Nim Ik-nson said tliat is partly because ntagis- A story in Herald-Leader alxxit track taxes gave the wrong amount of total tax fix trucks weighing more than 60000 ptxinds Tracks weighing nvxe Ilian 26000 pounds are charged a 52 cent surtax fix each galkm of fuel and trucks weighing more than 60 UW pixmds are charged an aiklilional 2 amts fix a total surtax of 7 2 cents Infixmatiixi alxxit Fire IVeven-tion Week was inaxrect in yesterday's YOU section An open htnise will be at 6:30 pm Saturday at Fire Statu hi 5 on Wixxlland Avenue The annual parade will be at 7 pm Monday on Miin Street An artickt in YOU section listed placvs fix wonx-n to get low rust mammogram Certain hospitals have restricts! on wlut can get those tests Sonw are ox-n to wnnxii wlui have m-vix tail a maminognim ixhers have age re- strictkxis Call tlw fixation nearest yxi and mim-st infixmition on restrict uxis in advaiuv Tlw miin- hit fix Central Baptist (Kit juittitit Mammograliy Center which is: offering imly first tinw screening is 276 5090 12 seized bn drug weapons charges as nearly 50 officers hit 2nd Street By Nancy Crane Herald Leader TV Radio Writer Melanie Gbsscock and Cindy IVeszler are joining the Simpsons on WDKY-TV (Channel 5tik But not Waving tlie WKYT-TV (Uianncl 27) family part of tlw Fox new 10 pm newscast produced by WKYT Tlie "Fox 56 10 O'Cfixk News" will air fix tlw first tinw Jan 2 GLisscivk will be a co-anchor IVeszkt will do the weathir Akemi Takri will do tlw spirts Tlu-y will do the 10 pm newscast fix WDKY in iuklition to their othiY dulws fix WKYT A second co-amiux yet to tie hired will wrk fix Channel 56 ami will also make public apjx-ammvs fix tlw station Tlw 35 minute newscast will lx "imxe Fnx-ified" than what WKYT nmtnally dix-s sakl Channel 56 vice preshh-nt aiul general manager George ltoggs "It will lx faster pmvd aiul tluTe will he diffemit graphics" Hoggs said not going after tlw slear niul teas but it will tw a diflm-nt style" WKYTs news stambrils will not change said Jiin Ogle Cliamu-I Sl WKYT B6 tlie raid including nmulx-nt of tlie Fourth IliKMi task fixer and the EnKTgeiicy KespRise 1 taxing ton's version of a SWAT tram IN like hid search warrants fix 356 3ti2 and -108 Ibsl SecmicL Just before mklnight tlie offi nrs met at police heaiktiatlers on Miin Street ami went ovi-r every aert of tlw raitl Tlu-y calculatetl tlie time it wookl take to converge on tlw block anti even wlrrc to pisiiiiin tiffuiTS at holes in fetuvs SlC RAID BIO By Eric Gregory HtNAiDllAMR SlAir Wmhir Lexington policf converged on tlie 300 block if East S-oxul Street just after midnight arresting at least 12 people mi drugs and weapons cluirges Umk-reover office! had lm Ixiying drags from pmple in the block fix tlw List week ami a lialf said liilicc Chief tarry Walsh lire drug troth1 had shifted to tliat area from tlie 200 bluk of Race Street wlwre mlice rafikd three homes list month and arrest-id 13 iieople Walsh said "This will help a Lit in cleaning up this neiglilmrhood" Walsh said rally Inlay an he watelied officers search three houses suiv this will all pop up again smnrwhrre else Imt follow it just like we did here" As lie sjmke a woman walked by anti clijipd 1st IuiikK "GukI gnsl gil she said "I htipe you get all of tlietn" Neatly fit) officers look jiart in lUriih uih nn uti sinnifuant errors that are brought the alibis' attention If you think nr hair nuiile sin an error plume euB cur nriesinom at (tkkil J'f -'DW after a an htivs amt after 7 pm on Hnhetnis amt ItohiUys i 1.