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December 13, 2011 1:21 PM
LONDON (AP) - Criminal behavior can't be blamed on how someone's brain is wired, at least not yet, says a report from British experts who examined how neuroscience is being used in some court cases. "Having a psychotic brain is not a general defense against a criminal charge," said Nicholas...
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July 19, 2011 5:41 AM
A man charged with killing two people in a drunk driving crash is scheduled to enter a plea in a Lincoln County court Tuesday.
Police say Brett Whitaker, of Pulaski County, was driving drunk along US-27, crossed the center line and slammed head-on into an oncoming vehicle. Josh and...
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June 9, 2011 6:14 AM
A hearing is scheduled Thursday to review the case of a Lexington teenager convicted of killing his best friend.
In 2009, Jamar Mays shot and killed Ali Salash. A jury convicted Mays and sentenced him to 10 years in prison.
But that ruling could change now that Mays...
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June 6, 2011 5:26 AM
The man accused of killing a Lexington police officer is due in court Monday, after the case was delayed last week.
Police say Glen Doneghy was driving the SUV that hit and killed Bryan Durman as he was responding to a call last year. Doneghy was supposed to appear...
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May 16, 2011 5:41 AM
A judge will consider on Monday whether some evidence is admissible in the trial of a man accused of hitting and killing a Lexington police officer last year.
Police say Glen Doneghy was driving an SUV that hit Bryan Durman as he was investigating a noise complaint near downtown...
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May 16, 2011 5:19 AM
Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway will take a gas price-gouging accusation to court Monday.
Conway filed charges last week under the state price-gouging law, accusing Marathon Petroleum Company of illegally raising prices during a state emergency declaration for flooding last month. Conway says prices rose as much as 30...
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April 18, 2011 1:57 PM
The timing of blood samples taken the night Glen Doneghy allegedly struck and killed Lexington Police officer Bryan Durman with an SUV raises questions about toxicology results and their admission into evidence.
Judge Ishamel did not reach any decision Monday in circuit court.
Defense attorneys argue that blood...
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March 30, 2011 5:55 AM
Police say a woman and her nephew murdered a Pulaski County man.
Rafael Robinson already pleaded guilty. On Wednesday, his aunt, Peggy Mina, is scheduled to appear in court, her competency to stand trial under the microscope.
Prosecutors say they murder was so brutal and calculated, Mina could...
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January 24, 2011 7:02 AM
Former UK quarterback Mike Hartline is due in court Monday, facing disorderly conduct and alcohol intoxication charges.
Police arrested Hartline and his girlfriend Ashley Carnes back in December. The police report says Hartline was on his way back from the Tin Roof Bar when an argument broke out inside...
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January 13, 2011 9:26 AM
The woman Lexington police say is responsible for the death of a two-year-old girl is due in court Thursday.
Police say Robin P. Waddy, 23, flagged officers down on Broadway January 3 and turned herself in. Police arrested her and charged her with second-degree manslaughter in connection with the...
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November 10, 2010 10:00 PM
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Mel Gibson appeared in court Wednesday for the first time for a custody hearing involving his infant daughter with an estranged ex-girlfriend. The Academy Award winner arrived for the all-day session about 10 minutes before Russian musician Oksana Grigorieva at a downtown Los Angeles courthouse, escorted...
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October 29, 2010 9:54 PM
LEXINGTON. (AP) - The central Kentucky man who was videotaped stepping on a woman outside a U.S. Senate debate has been charged with misdemeanor assault. Tim Profitt and other supporters of Republican Rand Paul were filmed restraining a woman attempting to give the candidate a mock award. The Lexington Herald-Leader...
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October 20, 2010 10:28 PM
NEW YORK (AP) - A court has ordered Google to tell a New York business consultant who posted disparaging online comments and unauthorized videos she sees as defamatory. Carla Franklin said Wednesday she's relieved to be closing in on the cyber cipher and hopes her case will help others deal...
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October 4, 2010 10:13 PM
ATLANTA (AP) - Rapper T.I. is headed back to federal court in Atlanta next week to explain why his probation shouldn't be revoked after his recent arrest in Los Angeles. U.S. District Judge Charles Pannell Jr. has set the hearing for 2 p.m. on Oct. 15 for T.I., whose real...
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September 24, 2010 10:32 AM
The Lexington man accused of killing his girlfriend's toddler could spend the next 20 years in jail after a jury found him guilty this morning. A Fayette County jury found Leamon Wesner guilty early Friday morning following the 2008 death of his girlfriend's toddler. Wesner was charged with killing 2-year-old...
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September 21, 2010 5:39 AM
An Ohio man wanted for murder and captured in Kentucky is expected in court Tuesday in Scott County. Shawn Kortz, 38, eluded authorities all the way from Dayton, Ohio. But his run came to an abrupt end in Scott County Sunday. A police cruiser video cam captured dramatic footage of...
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August 4, 2010 7:36 AM
A Powell County woman accused in the death of her 22-month-old daughter is scheduled to appear in court Wednesday. Jessica Charles, 26, already pleaded not guilty. Her daughter, Danika, died at Clark County Hospital back in February. A grand jury indicted Charles about a month later after autopsy results showed...
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July 29, 2010 10:41 AM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino and the attorney for a woman accused of attempting to extort him have started the trial's fourth day of testimony with a heated exchange. Attorney James Earhart questioned Pitino on Thursday about calls made to the coach's phone about his 2003 encounter...
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July 5, 2010 10:04 AM
BEATTYVILLE, Ky. (AP) - "Till death do us part" came sooner rather than later in Denton Cooper's second marriage to Izetta Johnson. Cooper, 59, had esophageal cancer and was lying on his deathbed on June 10, 2009, when he remarried Johnson, his second wife. A couple of hours after a...
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June 30, 2010 8:26 AM
The man accused of murdering a 4-year-old boy in Louisville is scheduled to appear in court Wednesday. Cecil New is charged with the the 2007 murder of Ivan Aguilar-Cano. Prosecutors say the child's blood-alcohol level was nearly three times the legal limit after garbage workers found his body in the...
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June 24, 2010 2:47 PM
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) - Lindsay Lohan will have to answer more questions about a 2007 car chase that landed her in jail, including inquiries about drug use at the time, a judge ruled Thursday. Lohan's answers will be used in a civil lawsuit filed against the actress by a...
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June 9, 2010 11:00 AM
A Powell County man charged with trying to solicit sex from two young girls over the internet will face a Clark County judge Wednesday. Investigators say 47-year-old Jerry Rogers, Sr. set up a meeting in Winchester with undercover officers posing as the aunt two girls, ages 8 and 10. Police...
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April 15, 2010 6:48 AM
An arraignment is scheduled Thursday afternoon for assistant UK basketball coach Rod Strickland. Police arrested Strickland, 43, on Sunday morning at the intersection of New Circle Road and Tates Creek. Investigators say the former NBA star failed field sobriety tests and smelled of alcohol. Strickland refused a breathalyzer. Strickland had...
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March 17, 2010 6:37 AM
A University of Kentucky professor facing multiple counts of incest is scheduled to appear in court Wednesday. Dr. Robert Tannenbaum says he is innocent of the charges. Lexington police say a relative of the 67-year-old came forward last month and alleged Tannenbaum forced her to have sex with him four...
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March 14, 2010 1:41 PM
ASHLAND, Ky. (AP) - A Kentucky man is challenging his conviction in the 2006 shooting death of a woman in eastern Kentucky saying his attorney did a poor job at trial. Timothy Scott Simpson of Ashland is scheduled to return to court Monday in Boyd Circuit Court. The Ashland Daily...
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January 22, 2010 6:20 AM
For the second time since confessing to killing two people in the 1980's, 46-year-old Michael Abner made an appearance in a Pulaski County courtroom. But Abner wasn't in court for an arraignment on the charges. It was so his attorney could ask the judge to order a psychological evaluation. Last...
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January 12, 2010 6:46 AM
The owner and a worker accused of abusing the children in the care at a Russell County daycare are scheduled to appear in court Tuesday. Rhonda Stapp and Heather Dykes face multiple first-degree abuse charges. State inspectors found conditions they called an "immediate threat to children" at Small Steps Child...
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December 30, 2009 2:16 PM
The Winchester couple accused of intentionally setting a fire in their home in order to cash in on the goodwill of others appeared in court Wednesday morning. Deborah and Anthony Poole's preliminary hearing was continued until next week. For the second time, the couple begged the court to reduce their...
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December 29, 2009 7:38 AM
The former owner of a Lexington hat shop accused of shooting video of nude female UK students in their homes is scheduled for a court date Tuesday morning. Terry Grossman's preliminary hearing is set for 8:30 in Fayette Court. Grossman, the former owner of the Mad Hatter in downtown Lexington,...
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December 29, 2009 6:32 AM
The man charged with the murder of 24-year-old Brannon Winn in Lexington will appear in court Tuesday afternoon. Police say Dedric Brown, 30, shot Winn in the chest early Monday morning during an argument. Police got a report of shots fired around the area of Sixth and Toner Streets at...
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December 15, 2009 7:53 AM
HARZARD, Ky. (AP) - A man charged in the fatal shooting of a popular community doctor in eastern Kentucky is expected to hear some of the evidence against him Tuesday morning. John Combs faces a preliminary hearing in Perry District Court in Hazard in the murder of Dr. Dennis Sandlin....
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December 4, 2009 10:59 AM
A Knox County couple charged with murdering a two-year-old child will be arraigned in the case Friday afternoon. Earlier this week, a grand jury indicted Crystal Garland and Jeremy Strunk nearly two years after the death of Garland's two-year-old son, Troy McClendon. Police say the child's August 2008 death was...
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December 4, 2009 6:02 AM
Former Kentucky state lawmaker Steve Nunn, accused of murdering his ex-fiancee, will appear in court today in the wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of the victim. Amanda Ross' family filed the suit in September, just weeks after police say she was gunned down outside of her Lexington town...
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December 3, 2009 12:12 PM
Former Blue Grass Airport director Mike Gobb was back in court Thursday morning for a pre-trial hearing. Gobb, along with John Rhodes, John Coon, and John P. Slone, face felony theft charges. Those charges stem from thousands of dollars worth of questionable expenses the men are accused of running up...
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November 11, 2009 2:37 PM
A man accused of raping a western Kentucky woman and killing her three children made a court appearance Wednesday morning. Kevin Dunlap is accused of raping Kristy Frensly and killing her three children in Trigg County a little over a year ago. His trial was set to begin this week,...
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October 23, 2009 6:01 AM
A former Lexington radio personality arrested on child pornography and other charges is due back in court Friday. Roy D. Baldridge, formerly "Dusty Dan" on 98.1 The Bull, is scheduled for a preliminary hearing. He was arrested earlier this month on gun charges. Police added the child porn charges after...
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October 14, 2009 11:28 AM
Newly-released court documents and statements from investigators are shedding more light on the evidence against a former Lexington radio personality who was arrested Tuesday on child porn and weapons charges. Roy D. Baldridge, 36, was arrested Tuesday, first for weapons charges then later on four counts of having child porn...
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October 13, 2009 12:23 PM
A Mercer County couple accused in the death of mother of one of them is due in court Tuesday.
Paul Estes and Meagan Brooks are accused of killing Brooks' mother, 43-year-old Debbie Brooks. She was found dead in May at her Harrodsburg apartment with a plastic bag over her...
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October 7, 2009 5:22 AM
The man arrested at the scene of a shooting that left a former Henry Clay football player dead is scheduled to be in court Wednesday. Deondrae Fishback was arrested on Georgetown Street after officers found 22-year-old Jermaine Birch shot to death in the kitchen of a house. Fishback was in...
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