The English department has a new book to read, but this time the author is one of its own professors. Paul Walker, associate professor of English, recently published a book with Hampton Press titled “Writing in Context: Composition in First-Year Learning Communities.” Walker, who based the book on his work as a doctoral student, described Read More
Jerry Wayne Walker, Jr., pleaded guilty to six charges of tampering with physical evidence this morning in Calloway County Circuit Court in front of presiding Circuit Court Judge Dennis Foust. Walker, originally indicted in 2001 for the murder of Michael Minger in a dorm fire was acquitted and retried again in 2012, where a jury Read More
Jerry Wayne Walker Jr. first appeared in court more than 10 years ago for charges relating to a September 1998 fire at Hester College. Last year, the Paducah man charged with setting the fire and killing one student all those years ago faced nearly a year of court deliberations in a re-trial in which he Read More