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THE COURIER-JOURNAL METRO REGION TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1997 B6 (0 im rpEjE Corporate cleanup on the river ijc OjEEiSl Peter Rondot helped put weeds and trash into bags yesterday along Louisville's downtown RlverWalk. Rondot organized corporate volunteers from KFC to help members of Operation Brightslde clean the area around 10th Street. urn nm; v- BY MICHAEL HAYMAN, THE C-J REGIONAL BRIEFS COMPILED FROM ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES Man denies trying to have his mother killed HAZARD, Ky. An Eastern Kentucky man pleaded innocent yesterday to charges that he tried to have his mother killed on Mother's Day. Charles Wooton, 27, of Busy, remained in the Perry County jail in lieu of $250,000 cash bond.

A Perry County grand jury charged Wooton last month with one count each of criminal conspiracy to commit murder and committing a fraudulent insurance act. Wooton was arrested on May 11 after allegedly paying undercover Kentucky State Police officers $5,000 to kill Janice Wooton. Charles Wooton also allegedly asked that she be killed at work so he could sue her employer for lack of security. The son allegedly gave the officers a pistol and supplied them with his mother's work schedule at the Hazard Appalachian Regional Hospital cafeteria. New operator running Hickman Ferry HICKMAN, Ky.

The Hickman Ferry, which reopened last year after a five-year hiatus, "hasn't missed a lick" since new management took over last week, Fulton County Judge-Executive Harold Garrison said. Garrison said he was pleased with the choice of Kenneth Love of Hickman as the new operator. "It's running as usual," Garrison said. "I don't think we could have found a better man or pilot on the Mississippi River to operate the Hickman Ferry." The ferry reopened after Kentucky and Missouri agreed to subsidize the ferry between Hickman and Dorena, Mo. Larry Claghorn, operator of the ferry for the past year, did not seek renewal of his contract, which expired Saturday.

He said in a news release that it was not profitable. Love currently manages the Hickman Harbor. The ferry boat is owned by the Mississippi County (Mo.) Port Authority and is leased to an operator who receives a portion of the fares. College offers 2 years free to those laid off CAMPBELLSVILLE, Ky. Campbellsville University announced yesterday that it will offer two years of college at no cost to newly laid-off workers at Fruit of the Loom plants in Campbellsville and Jamestown.

The company announced it would lay off nearly 2,000 workers at the two plants. "We know these workers and their families are facing a great challenge in their lives at this point," university President Kenneth W. Winters said. "We want to provide a way to help prepare the dislocated workers for a new career." The private university, which has an enrollment of 1,530, said the free educations would be paid for by "various funding programs" and would include tuition and textbooks. Spring trial set in fatal apartment fire MADISONVILLE, Ky.

A judge has set aside three weeks next spring for the capital-murder trials of two teen-agers accused of setting an apartment fire that killed three people. Yesterday Hopkins County Circuit Judge Charles Boteler scheduled the trial for March 23. William Dale Clarke and his cousin Christopher Wayne Hogan are charged with arson, burglary and three counts of murder in the April 1 fire at the Victory Apartments in Earlington. Commonwealth's Attorney David Massamore said the two teens will be tried together. They could be sentenced to death if convicted.

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