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March 24, 2012 2:53 PM
A passerby found the body of an unidentified adult man just before 5 a.m. Saturday and called police.
The body was on the side of the road near Leestown Road and Trade Road in Lexington.
Police are calling it a hit-and-run. They were not able to ID the...
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April 8, 2011 6:59 AM
Police in northern Kentucky are looking for the driver of a vehicle that struck and killed a man changing a tire along I-75 early Friday morning.
LEX 18 sister station WLWT in Cincinnati reports that police say the victim was changing a tire on the right shoulder of southbound...
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November 19, 2010 8:43 AM
A minivan struck and killed a man riding a bike in Louisville early Friday morning.
WAVE TV reports the accident happened along Hurstbourne Parkway around 5 a.m. Jeffersonville police say the van driver did not see the biker. The victim was riding down middle of the road and the...
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November 10, 2010 8:42 AM
A woman died in a three car accident in Cumberland County Tuesday evening.
Police say Joseph C. Davidson, 24, was driving his Nissan pickup west along KY-90 around 6:30 p.m. As he tired to pass another vehicle, he crashed head-on into an eastbound Ford Taurus driven by 32-year-old Misti...
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October 18, 2010 8:42 AM
Fire investigators say a fire that killed two people in Rowan County started in the kitchen.
When Jeffrey Bishop came home from work Saturday morning, he found his girlfriend, 49-year-old Vada Knipp, and a friend, 40-year-old Kris Harvey, along with four pets, had died in a blaze at his...
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October 14, 2010 9:59 AM
A man was killed after a car struck the motorcycle he was riding in Lincoln County Wednesday night.
Police say Bert King, 41, stopped his Toyota Sequoia at the intersection of Singleton Road and US-150 outside Crab Orchard around 9 p.m. As he merged onto US-150, he struck a...
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October 12, 2010 12:45 PM
An Estill County man was killed early Monday when the ATV he was riding flipped over on a hill and he hit the garage of a nearby auto sales business.
The accident happened at Turner's Auto Sales & Repair in Irvine. Barry Combs, who lived near the business, was...
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October 11, 2010 11:24 AM
Frankfort Police have released the name of a man who died in a early-morning car crash Monday.
The accident happened at about 3:30 a.m. at the intersection of Kentucky 676 and Versailles Road (U.S. 60). Police say Margaret Moore, 21, of Frankfort, was turning left from the ramp of...
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October 11, 2010 5:50 AM
A Lexington teen died at UK Hospital after he was hit by a car Sunday night.
Police say Jai-Wei Weng, 19, was trying to cross Richmond Road around 7:30 p.m. when a white Toyota Corolla struck him. Police say witnesses told them that the car had a green light....
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October 8, 2010 6:02 AM
A teenager died early Friday morning after an ATV accident in Lee County the evening before.
The Fayette County Coroner's Office says 16-year-old Jordan Svatba was driving the ATV along HWY-11N when it flipped, landing on top of him. The coroner says Svatba died early Friday morning at UK...
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October 7, 2010 9:21 AM
WAVE-TV reports that a woman critically injured helping rescue her children from a fire in Louisville has died.
The fire broke out at the City View Apartments along 11th Street around 6:30 a.m. Thursday. Firefighters say the woman collapsed after making sure that all of the children escaped from...
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September 29, 2010 6:24 AM
One man died and five people suffered injuries in a Boyd County accident late Tuesday night. Police say a man was driving south on KY-180 when he lost control of his vehicle, crossed into the northbound lane and slammed into a car carrying five people. The man in the first...
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September 17, 2010 5:31 AM
A pair of accidents in southern Kentucky left one man dead, three people hospitalized and one in jail Thursday night. A man died and one person was injured in a crash in Laurel County. Police say a van and a pickup collided at the intersection of KY-80 and Grubb Road,...
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September 16, 2010 5:54 AM
Louisville police are investigating a fatal Thursday morning shooting downtown. According to reports, one person was killed and another suffered minor injuries after shots erupted from different cars near Second and Liberty Streets around 2:30 a.m.
WLKY reports that police are talking to two persons of interest. Police say...
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September 4, 2010 2:41 PM
A 14 year old boy was killed early Saturday morning while walking along Hwy. 1812 in the Quicksand community of Breathitt County.
Investigators say Joseph Crank of Canoe, Ky. was sitting on the highway when he was hit by a car being driven by Edith Robinson. Crank was pronounced...
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August 25, 2010 1:07 PM
A man who had been involved in an earlier non-injury accident in Carroll County was killed by a hit and run driver while trying to retrieve his vehicle early Wednesday morning. The incident happened at about 12:30 a.m. on Highway 47 near Ghent. State Police say Aaron L. Martin, 24,...
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July 19, 2010 8:24 AM
A passenger on a motorcycle that crashed on the exit ramp from I-75 to North Broadway Sunday morning has died. Police say Gregory L. Wasserott, 51, of Cedar Lake, Ind., took the turn too tight causing part of the motorcycle undercarriage to drag. Wasserott lost control of the bike and...
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July 14, 2010 3:56 PM
The coroner has released the identity of a man killed in an accident in Harrison County Wednesday morning. The accident happened at about 9 a.m. on Highway 27. Police say Clarence Hoskins, 62, of Pendleton County was driving a Honda Odyssey when he hit a tractor and a telephone pole...
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July 6, 2010 7:02 AM
MADISONVILLE (AP) - Kentucky State Police say a Georgia helicopter pilot has been killed while spraying a field in western Kentucky. A news release from the KSP states 55-year-old Timothy E. Watson of Lawrenceville, Ga., was spraying fungicide and fertilizer late Monday afternoon on a farm field in Crittendon County...
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June 14, 2010 11:03 AM
A Clark County middle school teacher has been arrested and charged with murder Sunday in a late May car accident in Morgan County that left an elderly woman dead. Brittany D. Williams, 23, of West Liberty was driving a 1998 Chevy Lumina south on Kentucky 7 on May 31 at...
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June 10, 2010 7:25 PM
Emergency crews in Estill County were called to the scene of a bad crash Thursday evening that left at least one person dead.
It happened on KY 52, near the Madison County line.
LEX 18 has a crew at the scene and will have the latest details on...
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June 8, 2010 3:13 PM
Bond has been reduced for a South Carolina trucker accused of killing two workers on an eastern Kentucky road earlier this year. The Appalachian Express says that even if Arthur Davis manages to make bail, the judge would order him to remain on house arrest in Pike County. The incident...
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June 2, 2010 10:15 AM
The Richmond Fire Department and state fire marshall's office confirmed Wednesday that a fire over the weekend that left a woman dead was caused by food cooking on a stove. Richmond Firefighters responded at around 4:30 am Sunday to a home on Spanish Grove Road fully engulfed in flames. One...
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May 29, 2010 7:35 PM
A man is dead and his 14 year old daughter injured after a motorcycle the two were riding crashed in Rowan County. The accident happened just before 2:30 Saturday afternoon on highway 801 at Cave Run Lake.
Several witnesses say they saw a white pickup turning into the Cave...
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April 23, 2010 1:44 PM
A deadly motorcycle crash shut down part of the Watterson Expressway in Louisville Friday morning. The accident happened around 2:45 a.m. where the Watterson intersects with I-65. Witnesses say a motorcycle rider appeared to be speeding when he slammed into a construction sign. The motorcycle burst into flames. Officials say...
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April 5, 2010 6:44 AM
Police and emergency crews are on the scene of a fatal accident on Briar Hill Road near the Fayette Bourbon County line. Police say a Ford Explorer traveling east crossed the center line and crashed head-on into a Chevy Trailblazer traveling westbound. The woman driving the Trailblazer was pronounced dead...
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March 28, 2010 10:59 AM
Versailles Police responded to a crash on Dry Ridge Road at the southern end of Woodford County late last night. Upon arrival, officers discovered that a vehicle, occupied by a man and two women, had lost control and struck a tree before bursting into flames. The female driver and male...
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March 19, 2010 5:38 AM
The Fayette County Coroner says one victim of a Thursday evening accident in southwest Lexington has died. According to the coroner's office, 23-year-old Brian Houck of Nicholasville died just before 9:30 p.m. after he was critically injured in a collision between a car and an SUV at the intersection of...
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March 11, 2010 10:41 AM
A woman has been confirmed dead after a fire broke out in a southeast Lexington home Thursday morning.
The fire was spotted by a police officer at about 9 a.m. at the home, located on Pimlico Parkway. The coroner confirmed the death, and officials worked on a dog found...
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March 5, 2010 10:37 AM
Police have released the identities of the drivers of two semi-trucks that crashed on I-64 in Franklin County early Friday morning, killing a three-year-old girl. The accident happened just before 1 a.m. on the eastbound side of the interstate between mile markers 48 and 49. Police say traffic was already...
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March 5, 2010 9:57 AM
PHOENIX (AP) - Arizona authorities say six people were killed in a passenger bus crash south of Phoenix. The roof of the bus was crushed and multiple people were seriously injured in the accident about 5:30 a.m. Friday. Rescuers have set up a triage area in the middle of the...
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February 23, 2010 11:19 PM
A central Kentucky man is dead after a plane crash less than a mile from an airport runway.
The crash happened in Washington County, less than a mile from the Springfield Lebanon Airport, in the woods off Highway 55.
Officials say Kent Douglas Shilling, a flight instructor and...
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February 19, 2010 10:07 PM
The Lexington man who was critically injured Friday morning when his car slammed into a tree... has died. It happened on the inner loop of New Circle Road, between Leestown and Georgetown roads. Police say 21-year-old Allen Borntraeger was changing lanes when he lost control of his car, spun across...
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February 9, 2010 5:06 PM
A Mercer County man is dead after officials say he was discovered on the floor of his kitchen after a fire at his home. Officials say the fire was discovered at about 11:45 p.m. Monday at a home on Short Road in Salvia. Officials say Roscoe Brown, 67, was pronounced...
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January 21, 2010 11:02 AM
Emergency crews have reopened the road that was the site of a fatal accident early Thursday morning involving a Woodford County school bus and a mini-van in Versailles. The accident happened on South Main Street between Southside Elementary and downtown around 7:30 a.m. Police say the van, driven by Mearion...
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January 20, 2010 5:39 AM
A crash on New Circle Road left one person dead and three injured Tuesday night. Police say the accident happened just before 11:30 p.m. on the inner loop of New Circle Road between Tates Creek and Chinoe. Investigators say Adam T. Leake, 24, was driving his car the wrong way...
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January 18, 2010 8:56 AM
Police say a minor traffic accident in Louisville turned fatal Sunday night when a pickup truck crashed into the accident scene. Police say four people were standing behind a pickup truck and a car waiting for police after a fender-bender around 6:30 p.m. when a second pickup truck hit the...
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January 8, 2010 7:23 AM
Kentucky State Police say that a fire in Letcher County claimed a life There are not many details at this time, but authorities confirmed a fire sparked sometime Thursday night killed at least one man. The KSP continue to investigate.
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January 5, 2010 5:58 AM
An accident in Madison County Monday night left one man dead and another injured. Police say 38-year-old David Thompson was driving his Lexus in front of a Dodge Magnum driven by 57-year old Joe R. Carr of Irvine on KY 52 just after 9 p.m. Investigators say the Lexus went...
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December 28, 2009 10:13 AM
Lexington police arrested Dedric J. Brown, 20, in connection with a Monday morning shooting that took a man's life. 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...
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December 16, 2009 5:20 AM
Police say a woman was killed in a Bourbon County wreck about 9 p.m. Tuesday. Bourbon County Sheriff Mark Matthews said that the woman was the only occupant of a pickup truck when it went off the road on US-460 between Paris and North Middletown. The vehicle hit a guard-rail...
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November 13, 2009 5:50 AM
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) - Bridgeport officials say a fire at a public housing complex has killed a mother and her three children Firefighters say they responded to the P.T. Barnum complex at about 1 a.m. Friday and pulled the four victims from an apartment. Officials tell WTNH-TV that a mother,...
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October 26, 2009 11:33 PM
A woman is dead following a crash on KY-229 in London near Levi Jackson State Park. Witness Lorene Hammons says the red van involved in the accident ended up in her front yard late Monday afternoon.
"My grandbaby had been playing out here all afternoon, and I had...
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October 22, 2009 5:29 AM
An elderly Lexington woman has died after a crash on Man O' War. The wreck happened around 2:15 p.m. Wednesday in the Palumbo Drive intersection. Police said a truck driven by 19-year-old Joseph Pollard was headed southbound when a Lexus SUV driven by 47-year-old Jacqueline Carter turned into the path...
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October 20, 2009 5:50 AM
A woman is dead after a fire in Covington. WLWT-TV reports it happened just before 2 a.m. at a house on Russell Avenue that is divided into four apartments. Firefighters said flames were shooting from the windows and roof area when they arrived. A man made it out of the...
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October 19, 2009 5:37 AM
Two people are dead, one injured after two separate accidents in Boone County. The first accident happened on the eastbound side of Interstate 275 around 11:40 a.m. Sunday. Police said 67-year-old William Bolton lost control of his car, hit a sign and went off the road into some trees. He...
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October 14, 2009 10:39 PM
Officers say 34-year-old Shara Means was on his way to a doctor's appointment with three friends, when their Plymouth Neon crashed in Whitley County Indiana. Means was father to three sons; ages 16, 14, and 9. Police say the car was traveling northbound on Indiana 5 near the community of...
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October 9, 2009 11:21 PM
Wet roads are being blamed for a bad wreck on Highway 627 in Bourbon County that sent sent a teenager to the hospital and killed her grandmother. According to a Bourbon County Sheriff's Deputy, the 19 year old driver and her 54 year old grandmother were traveling in their Mazda...
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October 2, 2009 11:12 PM
A second person has died after an accident on Boonesborough Road in Madison County. The Madison County Rescue Squad says a pick up truck hit a Semi head on around 8 tonight a mile from from I-75 exit. A passenger in the car was thrown from the vehicle and pronounced...
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October 1, 2009 10:21 AM
Alcohol is suspected in a deadly crash late Wednesday night near Georgetown.
45-year-old Retha Pursel was killed when her BMW flew off the road and slammed into 2 trees. It happened on US 25 about two miles north of Georgetown a little after 11:00 Wednesday night.
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September 29, 2009 11:53 PM
The Henry Clay Blue Devils lowered their flag to half staff today, in honor of former player Jermaine Birch, who was found shot to death in a house on Georgetown Street Tuesday afternoon. Coach Sam Simpson heard the news just minutes before the team's practice for a big game on...
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