Feb. 16, 2012
- Biologists from the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources helped capture a rogue elk roaming the West Virginia panhandle that was feared diseased, reports the Charleston Gazette. The mature bull elk escaped last year from a Pennsylvania captive deer facility and might have spread bovine tuberculosis, brucellosis or chronic wasting disease to domestic livestock or wild deer in the area where it had been roaming. Kentucky has a large elk population and biologists are used to tranquilizing and capturing the animals, which can weigh as much as 700 pounds.
- Faculty at the University of Kentucky elected John Wilson, a behavioral science professor, to replace former faculty trustee Joe Peek on the UK Board of Trustees, according to the Kentucky Kernel. Wilson will join the Board of Trustees immediately and complete his term on June 30, 2013.
- Army doctors at Fort Campbell, Ky., are using acupuncture to aleviate pain among injured soldiers, reports National Public Radio's Morning Edition. Col. Rochelle Wasserman, head of the Warrior Transition Battalion at Fort Campbell, said, "I actually had a demonstration of acupuncture on me, and I'm not a spring chicken," she says, "and it didn't make me 16 again, but it certainly did make me feel better than I had, so I figured, hey ... let's give it a shot with our soldiers here."
- An Ohio judge has sented a doctor who ran a local pain clinic to four life sentences, according to reports from The Columbus Dispatch. Paul H. Volkman operated three clinics in Ohio where he prescribed millions of doses of painkillers, and raked in an estimated $3.8 million from 2003 to 2006, according to court records. In May, he was convicted of prescribing painkillers illegally, including four counts involving deaths. On Wednesday, Lexington police and federal officers raided a Lexington clinic where pain medication is prescribed, reports the Herald-Leader.
