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Steven E. Orberson, 22, of 55 Hwy. 243 in Gravel Switch was ordered to serve seven years in prison for second-degree rape (two counts) and second-degree sodomy in Marion Circuit Court recently.
He will serve his sentence concurrent with a case in Boyle County.
According to the original indictment, Orberson was accused of engaging in sex with a person under 14 years of age on March 30 and April 2, 2011.

Boldrick Avenue man indicted for rape

Terry Mills normally asks questions during meetings of the Kentucky House of Representatives Agriculture Committee, but recently, he found himself on the other side of the table, answering questions about legalizing industrial hemp.
Mills and State Sen. Joey Pendleton, D-Hopkinsville, have introduced similar legislation in their respective houses in the hopes of making industrial hemp a legal cash crop again across the Bluegrass State.
"It's not to promote marijuana," Mills stressed in his comments to the committee.

One in four children in Marion County lives in poverty. Three out of every 10 babies are born to mothers who smoked during their pregnancy, and nearly one in 10 children born in the community were considered low weight at birth.
All of this is according to the 2011 Kids Count report (www.kidscount.org). Each year, the Annie E. Casey Foundation compiles information from a several sources on a variety of issues affecting children across the United States.

Nicky Reynolds is Lebanon's new tourism director, but the Tennessee native views the city more like a tourist.
And she likes what she sees.
"A lot of times you don't know what treasures you have in your own backyard," Reynolds said at the Marion County Chamber of Commerce's monthly luncheon Thursday. "You're sitting on a goldmine."