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June 21, 2011 5:42 AM
Officials still have not released the name of the person killed during flash flooding in Knox County Monday morning.
About four inches of rain inundated the Kayjay community, off KY-225, during a three hour span. Floodwaters knocked some mobile homes off their foundations. Witnesses say a mother and her...
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June 20, 2011 5:39 AM
Grief counselors are expected at the Blue Grass Depot in Madison County Monday to help workers there cope with the loss of a coworker.
Adam Morefield, 29, served as an ammunition inspector at the depot.The veteran Marine's body was found in the Illinois River in Oklahoma Sunday morning, after...
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June 8, 2011 8:40 AM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - A man has died minutes after being handcuffed by Louisville Metro Police. The man in his 50s was seen acting strangely by an officer on patrol Tuesday evening. Deputy Police Chief Vince Robison says when the officer stopped to talk to the man, he ran. The man...
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May 6, 2011 10:54 AM
BALTIMORE (AP) - The very travels that inspired Charles Darwin's theory of evolution may have led to one of the illnesses that plagued the British naturalist for decades and ultimately led to his death.
Darwin's ailments are the topic of a conference in Baltimore on Friday that meets every...
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March 30, 2011 8:18 AM
CINCINNATI (AP) - A Cincinnati man has pleaded guilty to reckless homicide in the death of his sickly mother, found dead from a blood infection and with rotting bedsores and maggots on her body. Court records show 33-year-old Brian White also pleaded guilty Monday to failure to provide for a...
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October 5, 2010 10:35 PM
The death of an 80-year-old man in Louisville is the season's first reported fatality from West Nile Virus.
Don Shields died a week ago after a two week illness.
"I just love him, and I miss him. I miss him like mad," said Laura Suggs said of her...
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September 4, 2010 2:20 PM
An investigation is underway in Knott County where firefighters found the remains of an elderly woman inside a burning home.
The fire was reported Friday at a home in the Sassafras community. When fire crews arrived, the home was fully engulfed by flames. Once it was extinguished, firefighters went...
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July 15, 2010 8:59 PM
STANFORD (AP) - A central Kentucky woman has pleaded guilty to charges in the death of her 4-year-old son. The Advocate-Messenger reports 34-year-old Jessica Noble entered the plea Tuesday in Lincoln Circuit Court to reduced charges of criminal abuse and complicity to manslaughter. Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney David Dalton said she...
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June 28, 2010 6:34 AM
WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia, a fiery orator versed in the classics and a hard-charging power broker who steered billions of federal dollars to the state of his Depression-era upbringing, died Monday. He was 92. A spokesman for the family, Jesse Jacobs, said Byrd died peacefully...
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June 25, 2010 11:28 AM
A year after Michael Jackson's death caused a worldwide outpouring of shock, tears and tributes, the anniversary of his passing was being marked Friday on a quieter scale, as fans remembered their fallen King of Pop with vigils, prayer and, of course, music. Some radio stations woke up listeners to...
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June 7, 2010 3:31 PM
There's been a delay in the civil trial over the death of a Kentucky high school football player. A Louisville TV station reports that next Monday's trial over Max Gilpin has been put on hold. The parents of the 15-year-old filed the suit against former head coach Jason Stinson and...
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May 18, 2010 11:18 AM
A Whitley County woman and her daughter charged in a grandmother's death are expected to plead not guilty in the case Tuesday afternoon, according to their attorneys.
The January death of 76-year-old Georgia Dotson of Williamsburg in Whitley County was at first investigated as a fall, but an autopsy...
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May 17, 2010 5:58 AM
After a frantic 24 hour search, the family of 6-year-old Linda Peachy now face the sad task of planning her funeral. The little girl went missing around noon on Saturday near Flemingsburg. Just before 9 a.m. Sunday, search teams found the Peachy's body 12 feet below a dock in a...
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March 16, 2010 10:52 AM
A central Kentucky coroner says a man found dead over the weekend likely fell from a cliff. The body of 26-year-old Jeffrey Shivel was discovered Saturday near the Dix River in Rockcastle County. Rockcastle County coroner Billy Dowell says that Shivel's body sustained trauma consistent with a fall from a...
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March 8, 2010 10:57 AM
Kentucky State Police are investigating the death of a 3-year-old eastern Kentucky child over the weekend. The death happened at about 4 p.m. Saturday in the Jenson Community in Bell County. Emergency crews responding to the scene called state police. The child died at a Pineville hospital. The state medical...
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March 8, 2010 10:43 AM
Police in Oldham County are investigating after a woman who had been visiting The Roederer Correctional Complex claims she had a miscarriage in a restroom there, but further investgation revealed the she gave birth to a full-term baby. The Roederer Correctional Complex notified the Kentucky State Police at 4:04 p.m....
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March 5, 2010 4:13 PM
The Whitley County coroner is investigating the death of a man who had been a jail inmate before dying at a local hospital. Bobby Hubbard, 18, of Woodbine had spent a week at the county jail before his death Friday at Baptist Regional Medical Center in Corbin. Investigators say Hubbard...
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March 5, 2010 12:59 PM
Police in Pulaski County are investigating after two women were found unresponsive Thursday.
State police say Carol Barnett, 50, died at a local hospital after being found inside a home on Whitis Lane.
They say an unidentified elderly woman was also rushed to the hospital and had to...
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February 24, 2010 3:59 PM
ORLANDO (AP) - A trainer at SeaWorld Orlando died Wednesday after a killer whale attacked her in front of a horrified audience. Orange County Fire Rescue spokesman John Mulhall said paramedics were called to the Shamu Stadium at the theme park resort where they found a worker who could not...
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January 20, 2010 10:12 AM
(AP) - A firefighter has died after collapsing during an exercise workout. The Courier-Journal of Louisville reported the death of Maj. Terry Cannon of the Buechel Fire Protection District in Jefferson County. Cannon collapsed at the Southeast YMCA Sunday afternoon and was pronounced dead at Baptist Hospital East later in...
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January 15, 2010 4:59 PM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - Francene Cucinello, the popular host of WHAS radio's "Francene Show," has died after suffering a heart attack and aneurysm. She was 43. In a statement issued by the hospital Friday, her family said Cucinello suffered a heart attack Monday, followed by a brain aneurysm Wednesday and died...
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January 11, 2010 11:49 AM
In her first sit-down TV interview since her daughter, Amanda Ross, was shot and killed outside her home in downtown Lexington last September, Diana Ross says she's breaking her silence in the hope that other people won't meet her daughter's fate. Police say Amanda Ross' ex-fiancee and former lawmaker Steve...
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January 11, 2010 10:07 AM
FALMOUTH, Ky. (AP) - Jury selection is scheduled to begin for the trial of a truck driver in the traffic death of a northern Kentucky prosecutor. Attorneys begin picking the jury on Tuesday in Falmouth to try Daniel Keith Gabbard, who acknowledges he was driving the rig, but has pleaded...
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December 28, 2009 5:40 AM
Lexington police say that a man died after a shooting early Monday morning. Police got a report of shots fired around the area of Sixth and Toner Streets at about midnight. When officers arrived, they found a trail of blood, but no victim. Three witnesses told police that a man...
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December 23, 2009 11:11 AM
For more than 20 years, his family says he worked to spread the gospel through music. On Tuesday night, Scott County minister Roger Barkley, Sr. died after his car crashed on Long Lick Pike on his way home. Barkley, known as "Papa" to close family and friends, was the leader...
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December 22, 2009 6:12 PM
A Bath County family faces an awful deadline where they have to come up with enough money to bring their deceased father's body home to Kentucky from North Carolina by the end of the week or he'll be cremated. Rana Perry says her father, 55-year-old Harold "Rocky" Perry, died Friday...
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December 17, 2009 3:58 PM
CINCINNATI (AP) - For the second time in their breakthrough season, the Cincinnati Bengals are dealing with death. Teary players held a somber practice Thursday and dedicated the rest of their season to receiver Chris Henry after learning that he'd died a day after falling from the back of a...
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December 10, 2009 9:21 AM
PADUCAH, Ky. (AP) - A young man has pleaded guilty to supplying hallucinogenic mushrooms that led to the death of a Paducah teenager as he tried to enter the wrong house. The Paducah Sun reported 20-year-old Taylor Thompson pleaded guilty Wednesday to trafficking in a controlled substance, marijuana possession and...
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December 9, 2009 4:06 PM
The Pike County Health Department is reporting an H1N1 influenza-associated death. The patient was in her seventies, had underlying health conditions, and was a resident of Pike County. “We are very saddened to hear about this loss”, stated Paul Hopkins, Director of Pike County Health Department. “Our thoughts and prayers...
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November 30, 2009 11:39 AM
A $1,000 reward is being offered for information in the homicide of a Western Kentucky University professor earlier this month. Martha Bettina Richmond, 51, was found dead November 21. She was last seen on surveillance cameras leaving the Bowling Green Parks and Recreation building earlier in the day. Richmond was...
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November 20, 2009 2:13 PM
Fayette County’s fourth H1N1-related death has been confirmed in a woman in her 40s who had underlying health conditions, bringing Kentucky’s total number of H1N1-related deaths to 31. The Lexington-Fayette County Health Department recommends that those people in target groups who haven’t gotten the H1N1 vaccine to do so and...
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November 13, 2009 5:23 AM
WASHINGTON (AP) - Investigators trying to solve the mystery of a census taker found hanging from a tree with the word "fed" scrawled on his chest are examining whether he manipulated the scene in order to conceal a suicide and make a life insurance claim possible for his son, law...
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November 10, 2009 4:25 PM
The Kentucky Department for Public Health and the Lincoln Trail District Health Department are reporting an H1N1 influenza-associated death in a school-aged child from Nelson County. They say the child had a complex medical history. The death is the 21st reported in the state since the H1N1 outbreak began. “We...
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November 9, 2009 3:35 PM
An inmate from the Jessamine County Detention Center was killed Monday after a tree he was cutting down while on work detail fell on him. The incident happened at about 11 a.m. on River Road. Police say John Michael Hager, 35, a state inmate being held in Jessamine County, was...
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November 9, 2009 3:11 PM
The Northern Kentucky Health Department has confirmed the latest fatality in the state from the H1N1 virus, a Boone County man in his 20s. The individual did not have any underlying conditions prior to his death, according to the information provided to the Health Department. The death, reported Monday, is...
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November 3, 2009 3:50 PM
Health officials say a northern Kentucky woman in her mid-50s has died from complications associated with the H1N1 virus, or swine flu. The woman lived in Kenton County. The Northern Kentucky Health Department says it is the 15th death attributed to swine flu in Kentucky. Health department officials say there...
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November 3, 2009 5:25 AM
The Laurel County woman accused of killing her young son is due in court Tuesday. Amanda Johnson is accused in the death of 23-month-old Stephen Troy. Police said Johnson abused little Stephen, eventually killing him. The coroner said the child died from blunt force trauma to the abdomen. A preliminary...
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November 2, 2009 5:47 AM
Police are trying to determine what happened to a man found dead in the bathroom of a Lexington hospital. 34-year-old Christopher Watts of Versailles was found unresponsive in the 2nd floor bathroom of Saint Joseph Hospital just before 6:30 p.m. Sunday. Police were told Watts was a hospital worker. Investigators...
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October 30, 2009 2:53 PM
A total of 14 deaths have now been blamed on the H1N1 virus in the state after the Knox County Health Department reported its second H1N1-related death Friday. The latest death was a Knox County woman in her early 30s who had underlying health conditions. The previous Knox County death...
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October 29, 2009 10:46 AM
The Kentucky Public Health laboratory has confirmed that the death of a 59-year-old man on October 26 in Richmond was caused by complications from the H1N1 virus. This is the first death in Madison County related to the H1N1 virus. Officials say the man, whose name was not released, had...
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October 28, 2009 4:20 PM
Officials have concluded a part-time census taker died at the tree where his body was found more than six weeks ago with a rope around his neck. The location of Bill Sparkman's death was confirmed to The Associated Press on Wednesday by Clay County coroner Jim Trosper and state medical...
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October 23, 2009 3:54 PM
Kentucky State Police are investigating the death of a 23-month-old child in Laurel County. Police said someone reported an unresponsive child who was having trouble breathing at a house on Ruby Jones Road in East Bernstadt Friday around 8:30 a.m. We're told Stephen Troy's mother performed CPR until paramedic's arrived....
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October 22, 2009 5:24 AM
The husband of a Kentucky native found beaten to death in her Manatee County, Florida home is making a plea for information. Doctor James Briles and two crime fighting organizations are offering $50,000 for information leading to an arrest and conviction in the death of Kathleen Briles. Briles was found...
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October 16, 2009 12:58 PM
Fayette County’s third H1N1-related death has been confirmed in a man in his 40s who had significant underlying health conditions. This marks the third H1N1-related death in Fayette County. Previously, H1N1 was confirmed in a woman in her 50s and a woman in her 60s, both of whom had significant...
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October 14, 2009 12:51 PM
A nurse accused of murder in the death of a patient at a Lexington VA hospital was granted home incarceration by the judge in the case Wednesday. Maria Whitt pleaded not guilty in the case last week. She's accused in the death of 90-year-old World War II veteran Jessie Chain....
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October 13, 2009 5:28 PM
A Scott County man who died from the H1N1 virus has been identified.
Family members confirm that Matthew Finger, 39, had not sought treatment and died at his sister's home on October 3. Officials say Finger had been sick and home bound for several days. “According to family members...
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October 13, 2009 3:00 PM
Scott County health officials said Tuesday that a 39-year-old man who had not sought treatment died at his home from the H1N1 virus. Officials say the man, whose name has not been released, had been sick and home bound for several days. “According to family members he had not sought...
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October 13, 2009 11:53 AM
The manager of a U.S. census taker who died under mysterious circumstances in eastern Kentucky last month says other workers are requesting to visit homes in teams rather than alone. The request comes following the death of Bill Sparkman last month. He was found tied to a tree in Clay...
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October 9, 2009 9:37 AM
A nurse accused of murder in the death of a patient at a Lexington VA hospital has entered a not guilty plea. Maria Whitt entered the plea in Federal Court in Lexington Friday morning. She's accused in the death of 90-year-old World War II veteran Jessie Chain. Investigators said Whitt...
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October 9, 2009 5:17 AM
Federal investigators are looking into at least two more suspicious deaths at a VA hospital in Lexington following the indictment of a former nurse. Maria Whitt is due to be arraigned in Federal Court in Lexington Friday morning. She's accused in the death of 90-year-old World War II veteran Jessie...
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October 8, 2009 10:34 PM
Friends and family of 45 year old Robert Neal Singleton are wondering what happened to the Livingston resident, who was found dead inside his home off KY 490 on Thursday afternoon. Livingston Mayor J.C. Griffin was at the home just before Kentucky State Police arrived to begin their investigation. He...
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October 2, 2009 9:41 PM
Kentucky has recorded its second death from the swine flu - this time, a woman from Louisville. Health Department doctors there say the 41-year-old died last month from a lung disease caused by the H1-N1 virus. They are calling her death unusual for two reasons. First, most people recover from...
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September 25, 2009 5:21 AM
State health officials in Frankfort are investigating a teen's death in western Kentucky to see if it's related to the H1N1 virus. Students at Caldwell County Middle School are in shock after learning their classmate, 13-year-old Gabrielle Wilson, died. Family and friends of the 8th grader said she had been...
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