CALLOWAY COUNTY, KY (KFVS) - A Calloway County High School Japanese Language student and class valedictorian has been selected to participate in the Japan Exchange and Teaching Memorial Invitation Program for U.S. High School students.

Sarah Wade is four-year Japanese Language student and will be going to Japan for two weeks starting July 8.

The program will commemorate the efforts of the JET program participants (Taylor Anderson and Montgomery Dickson) who lost their lives in the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, 2011. The Japan Foundation has invited American high school students who are studying the Japanese Language to Japan in order to provide them with an opportunity to deepen their knowledge of Japanese language and culture, in the hope that they will serve as a bridge between the two countries in the future. The program, run in cooperation with the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, will be limited to 20-30 students from all over the U.S.

(KFVS) - Kentucky State Police will be taking part in two highway safety initiatives in an effort to reduce deadly and serious injury collisions on Kentucky Highways.

Starting Tuesday, troopers in the Post One district will be taking part in the Ticketing Aggressive Cars and Trucks enforcement mobilization. This highway safety initiative focuses on hazardous moving violations by commercial motor vehicles or other vehicles in close proximity to commercial motor vehicles.

According to KSP, the enforcement areas of Interstate 24 and the Julian Carroll Parkway have been selected based upon crash data along those roadways. Post One’s participation in the TACT enforcement period runs though May 19.

Starting the weekend of May 19, troopers will also take part in the national Click It or Ticket campaign. This annual highway safety initiative will mostly focus on things like seatbelt, child restraint and booster seat violations.