The public is invited to attend a Regional Legislative Breakfast hosted by the Green River Area Development District on Saturday, January 28. This free event will be held at the GRADD office at 300 GRADD Way in Owensboro.

Breakfast will be served at 9:00 a.m. and will be followed at 9:30 a.m. by a forum with the state legislators who represent the seven-county region.

Senators Joe Bowen, Carroll Gibson, Jerry Rhoads, and Dorsey Ridley, as well as Representatives John Arnold, Dwight Butler, Jim Glenn, Jim Gooch, Tommy Thompson, and David Watkins have been invited.

The Green River Area Community Foundation (GRACF) named G. Dan Griffith of Owensboro its new executive director at a press conference this morning at the Chase Bank Building in downtown Owensboro.

According to Jiten Shah, outgoing chairman of the Foundation and chair of the search committee, “Griffith is uniquely qualified to lead the Green River Area Community Foundation because of his involvement in both state and community philanthropic organizations and his experience in non‐profit management.”

An Owensboro gas station clerk is called to appear on charges he sold an illegal synthetic cannabinoid.

Officers say a detective was allowed to buy a product called Madder Hatter from the Marathon on Breckenridge Street back in October.

That product was sold as a potpourri but KSP testing showed it contained a Schedule 1 non-narcotic called JWH-250.

The clerk who sold the Madder Hatter, Sanjaykumar Patel, is charged with trafficking in a synthetic cannabinoid.  That's a misdemeanor.