Kentucky: Offer in Boulder Battle

he Kentucky attorney general, Jack Conway, has proposed a settlement aimed at ending a squabble with an Ohio city over a rock. The historic rock bears numerous carvings of initials, names and a crude face and was once an attraction for locals. It had been submerged since about the 1920s until last September, when a local historian led a team to extract it. The boulder now sits in a city garage in Portsmouth, Ohio. Mr. Conway sent a letter to the city solicitor in Portsmouth proposing that the eight-ton boulder be returned to Kentucky and put on display. He wants the City of Portsmouth to pay a total of $90,000 for legal fees and the cost of building a display facility on the Kentucky side of the Ohio River.