Wife of Injured Lawmaker Sworn into Office

Regina Bunch spent much of her first afternoon as the newest member of the Kentucky House of Representatives receiving congratulations and words of encouragement from the chamber's other 99 members. "Their generosity is just humbling," Bunch said of the warm reception she received Tuesday from Republicans and Democrats. The seventh-grade teacher at Whitley County Middle School never wanted to seek public office. Her husband, Dewayne Bunch, resigned his seat last year after being injured during a fight at Whitley County High School. Dewayne Bunch, a math and science teacher at the school, had stepped in to stop a fight between two students in April and suffered serious head injuries.