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July 14, 2011 10:08 AM
A woman accused in connection with the 2008 murder of her grandmother in Lexington pleaded guilty Thursday morning and her boyfriend was sentenced to life without parole in the case.
Marilyn Hegge, 78, was beaten to death with a pool stick and that evidence was later buried next to...
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July 8, 2011 12:08 PM
Two men convicted in the 2006 robbery and murder of a UK student were formally sentenced in the case Friday.
Raymond Wright got life in prison with parole after 25 years and Adrian Benton got 44 years in the death of John Mattingly. Investigators said Mattingly was shot in...
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June 28, 2011 11:46 AM
After more than two weeks of trial, the jury in the Glenn Doneghy murder case may start deliberations as early as Wednesday.
Doneghy is charged with murder following the April 2010 hit and run death of Lexington police officer Bryan Durman.
The defense called five witnesses to the...
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June 17, 2011 10:01 AM
A Butler County woman accused of killing a pregnant woman and then showing up at the hospital with the victim's preterm baby boy earlier this year is due in court Friday in the case.
Jamie Stice's body was found in a wooded area near Bowling Green in April. Investigators...
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April 25, 2011 12:44 PM
The case of a UK physical plant employee charged with murder has been handed over to the grand jury.
Police say Mike Rieder, 49, and 29-year-old James Muzic got into an altercation near the Shell Station on Eastland Drive on April 17. According to the uniform citation, Muzic asked...
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April 7, 2011 2:30 PM
A man accused of raping and killing his ex-girlfriend in 2009 was found competent to stand trial in the case during a hearing in Harrison County Thursday afternoon.
Bass Webb, 31, is accused of raping and murdering Bryia Runiewicz, 32, whose body was found in her home in July...
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March 4, 2011 1:48 PM
The trial of a former Perry County man accused of killing his fiancee's two-year-old daughter faces another delay because of a clerical error.
The trial was supposed to happen in Collier County, Florida, where family members say Todd Akers moved with his fiancee at the time and her two-year-old...
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February 9, 2011 11:08 AM
The Harrison County man arrested Tuesday in his wife's brutal 2002 murder appeared in court for the first time Wednesday morning, where his bond was set at $1 million.
Daniel Paynter, 56, was arrested at a Lexington business Tuesday. He's charged with the murder of his wife, Lori Paynter,...
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February 1, 2011 1:34 PM
A man accused of raping and killing his ex-girlfriend in 2009 may now face the death penalty after the judge in the case agreed to combine the charges Tuesday in court.
Bass Webb, 31, is accused of raping and murdering Bryia Runiewicz, 32, whose body was found in her...
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January 31, 2011 4:18 PM
The judge in the murder case against former state lawmaker Steve Nunn on Monday granted a prosecutor's request to have a mental evaluation performed on Nunn.
Nunn, 58, the son of late former Kentucky governor Louis B. Nunn, is charged with shooting ex-fiancee Amanda Ross outside of her Lexington...
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January 31, 2011 3:02 PM
The case of a Madison County man who allegedly murdered his wife and left her body in a field was waived to a grand jury Monday.
Police say Jason Singleton was charged with Angela Singleton's murder after he had stolen a car in Somerset and held several hostages at...
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January 31, 2011 11:17 AM
A hearing was held Monday morning for a Lexington man who wants a new trial in a 2004 murder case.
Taquan Neblett claims his attorneys in his Lexington trial were ineffective in advising him. A Fayette County jury found Neblett guilty of killing Derek Elam inside Sami's Music store...
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November 12, 2010 4:24 PM
A judge in the case of a man accused of killing a Lexington Police officer denied a defense motion to have the indictment in the case thrown out.
There were questions about the fairness of an indictment in the hit-and-run death of Lexington Police officer Bryan Durman. The defense...
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August 19, 2010 12:12 PM
Testimony in a suppression hearing in the Steve Nunn murder case revealed Thursday that the former lawmaker allegedly said he couldn't decide whether to "murder someone or get a job" in the days leading up to the murder of his former fiancee in front of her Lexington home. Nunn, a...
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August 4, 2010 5:19 PM
A southeastern Kentucky judge has refused to rule out the death penalty as a possible punishment for a man accused in the murders of five people. The trial of Clayton Jackson was delayed earlier this year in Leslie County by a medical issue. The trial remains rescheduled for next March....
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July 27, 2010 7:45 AM
PADUCAH, Ky. (AP) - A judge in Paducah has sent a man to prison for 25 years in a manslaughter plea agreement. The Paducah Sun reports the deal was struck in the case of 24-year-old Dustin L. Mackie of Kevil, who must serve at least 85 percent of his term...
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July 7, 2010 2:52 PM
Police continue to search for a man they want to question in the murder of a man shot at an apartment complex in Frankfort early Wednesday morning. Frankfort police say Jonathan Stewart, 25, was pronounced dead shortly after arrival at the Frankfort Regional Medical Center. Somebody shot Stewart near the...
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June 17, 2010 4:03 PM
Since her death last week, there have been questions about the procedures followed by police and emergency personnel in the last hours of Umi Southworth's life. On Thursday, Lexington's police chief said things will be done differently from now on. Southworth died on June 9, a day after she was...
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May 21, 2010 2:28 PM
Police in Montgomery County say a man charged in connection with the murder of a woman whose body was discovered in a shallow grave years after she was killed turned himself in to police Friday. Jonathan French, 32, is charged with tampering with physical evidence in the Sabrina Vaughn murder...
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May 21, 2010 12:32 PM
Police in Montgomery County have charged a man in connection with the murder of a woman whose body was discovered in a shallow grave years after she was killed. Police have an arrest warrant out for Jonathan French, 32. French is charged with tampering with physical evidence in the Sabrina...
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April 28, 2010 2:40 PM
A Bourbon County man who admitted to the 2009 murder of a woman was sentenced to life without parole for at least 25 years on Wednesday. Gary Stone pleaded guilty to killing Pauline Mastin in January 2009 in a seemingly random murder. Stone also pleaded guilty to burglary, assault, and...
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April 8, 2010 12:22 PM
Computer issues in Bourbon County have delayed formal sentencing for a man who admitted to a 2009 murder. Gary Stone, 33, pleaded guilty last month to murdering 43-year-old Pauline Mastin back in January 2009. On Thursday morning in court, the judge said a computer error prevented him from reviewing courts...
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April 6, 2010 6:00 PM
Prosecutors said Tuesday that they will see the death penalty against former Kentucky lawmaker Steve Nunn, who is accused in the shooting death of his ex-fiancee. Nunn, a longtime lawmaker and the son of a former governor, was ruled competent to stand trial Monday after being evaluated by a team...
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March 30, 2010 4:52 PM
Sate police announced Tuesday afternooon that they have made an arrest in a five-year-old cold case murder. 56-year-old Kenneth Wilson was found dead in a burned Knox County home in December 2005. Police have charged 30-year-old Leland Curtis Stephens of Huntsville, Tennessee with murder, evidence tampering and arson in the...
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March 2, 2010 11:13 AM
An accused murderer was supposed to be in court Tuesday, but issues with his transportation from the Fayette County Detention Center to Harrison County caused a delay. Bass Webb's pretrial conference in Harrison Circuit court has been rescheduled for April 6. Webb is charged with killing his ex-girlfriend, Bryia Runiewicz...
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February 25, 2010 12:15 PM
Attorneys for accused killer and former Kentucky lawmaker Steve Nunn were in court Thursday going over rules and guidelines for his murder trial. A judge ruled both sides must have access to physical evidence and all emails, phone and text messages related to the case. Nunn did not appear. Nunn...
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January 28, 2010 12:39 PM
A man charged with a Lexington murder after he spent months on the run has been convicted in the case. Lexington police and federal marshals arrested James Mullins, 31, in June 2008. Police started looking for him the previous fall, when they say he violated his parole on charges of...
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January 14, 2010 11:46 AM
Formal sentencing has been delayed for the man convicted of killing six-year-old Wesley Mullins in Bourbon County back in 2007. Lewis "Buck" Ballard is now set to find out his formal punishment next Tuesday. In October, a jury convicted Ballard of the brutal beating death and sodomy of the little...
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December 24, 2009 11:49 AM
A bizarre murder in Calloway County Wednesday has state police investigating. Police say they responded to an accident where a car with three people inside somehow landed in a creek bed. The person in the backseat of the car, 23-year-old Herbert Scandell, was killed. The two people in front, Jason...
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December 7, 2009 10:38 AM
Jury selection has begun in the murder trial of a Louisville man accused of running over and killing two young girls while fleeing from police last year. Police say Kenielle Finch hit and killed five-year-old Claudia Wadlington and four-year-old Riley Lawrence while trying to flee from police near the University...
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November 17, 2009 7:26 AM
The grandfather of a six-year-old boy who was sodomized and murdered at his home by Lewis "Buck" Ballard has died. The Lexington Herald-Leader reports that Bobby Mullins passed away Sunday at his home after a long illness. Mullins grandson, Wesley Mullins, was murdered by Ballard, 51, while the boy was...
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November 16, 2009 3:15 PM
A judge on Monday denied a change-of-venue motion made by the attorneys of a Montgomery County woman accused of shooting and killing her husband. Attorneys for Pam Bartley filed the unusual motion to move the trial back to Montgomery County. This comes months after a judge granted a change of...
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November 10, 2009 1:12 PM
The two daughters of a former Kentucky lawmaker accused of killing his ex-fiancee outside her Lexington home testified before a grand jury in the case Tuesday. According to the Louisville Courier-Journal, Courtney Nunn, 25, and Mary Nunn, 28, testified in the case of their father, Steve Nunn, who is accused...
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November 9, 2009 12:00 PM
Funeral arrangements are set for a Pulaski County man found murdered in his home early Saturday morning. Police went to a home on McKee Street to speak to Homer Carrender, age 72, after finding his car a short distance from his apartment. When they arrived, officers were not able to...
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November 6, 2009 11:01 AM
A Hart County grand jury has handed down an indictment against accused murderer Steve Nunn for an alleged incident there the day he allegedly also shot and killed his ex-fiancee in Lexington. Nunn, a former Kentucky lawmaker, has pleaded not guilty to six counts of wanton endangerment in Hart County....
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October 27, 2009 11:33 AM
The high-profile trial of a man accused in the sodomy and murder of a six-year-old Clark County boy has gone to the jury. Prosecutors said Lewis "Buck" Ballard, 51, sodomized and killed six-year-old Wesley Mullins while the boy was visiting his grandfather's home in Bourbon County in August 2007. The...
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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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