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Mt. Eden Fire Department responded to a house fire at 14286 Mt. Eden Road around 2 a.m. Tuesday morning and discovered the second story fully involved. Mt. Eden Fire Chief Doug Herndon said that because a cause could not be determined, the incident has been turned over to ATF and Kentucky’s fire marshal office. The apparent vacant home was a total loss. One firefighter was taken to Jewish Shelbyville for evaluation. Herndon said he was treated and released. Assisting Mt. Eden were Waddy, Shelby County and Anderson County fire departments.

What’s better than a huge carnival? How ‘bout a huge carnival with a cause?

That’s what you’ll find in downtown Taylorsville this Saturday during the first annual Carnival for a Cure, an event that will help raise awareness and funds for the fight against Juvenile Diabetes.

Debby Cannon has worked with other families in the community with children dealing with this disease and have banded together to create the event.

The Farmers Market in Taylorsville will open up this weekend and organizers are hoping for bigger and better things this growing season.

Sandy Deutsch said there more than a dozen local growers who brought their plants and produce to sell at market last year, and that number could expand this season.

“We’ve had more people ask about it so I expect to have that many or more this year.”

A Spencer County Grand Jury has decided that there is enough evidence to place Raymond Revard. Jr. on trial for the murder of his wife.

Revard, 41, was charged in January for the alleged shooting death of his wife,  Lea Revard. When police arrived at the couple’s Normandy Station Road home, they found the 39-year-old woman laying on the kitchen floor with a gun shot wound at the back of her head. In his call to 9-1-1, Revard reportedly told dispatchers that his wife had shot herself.