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April 13, 2012 5:27 AM
Heavy smoke from a basement fire billowed into the sky over Nicholasville Thursday night.
Firefighters say a golf cart in the basement of a business along Lexington Road caught fire as the battery was charging. Heat from the flames caused water pipes to burst, dousing the fire.
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April 6, 2012 9:45 AM
Nicholasville police arrested a woman and charged her with stealing money from the daycare where she worked.
Police say an investigation into missing funds revealed Pamela Sandlin, 53, stole $320,000 over the eight years she worked at the front desk of the Kids Connection Learning Center.
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March 16, 2012 9:37 AM
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - Police say a 57-year-old tourist has died in Savannah after he fell over a handrail onto the old stones paving the pedestrian walkways near the city's historic riverfront. Savannah-Chatham County police said the fatal fall happened at about 12:30 a.m. Friday. Thousands of tourists are packing...
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December 27, 2011 10:54 AM
Police in Jessamine County say they are investigating four suspicious fires that burned in the same area.
Police say the Nicholasville fire department responded to a barn fire on Third Street at Mill Street around midnight Christmas morning. When firefighters arrived, the barn was completely engulfed. The fire spread...
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December 27, 2011 10:22 AM
Nicholasville police are looking for the driver and a passenger in a truck that struck an off-duty Jessamine County Sheriff's Office deputy earlier this month.
Police say the deputy was traveling along US-27 near Brannon Crossing on Dec. 7 when a vehicle rear-ended him. When deputy got out of...
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November 10, 2011 9:48 AM
Police arrested a man after he tried to pawn a box of jewelery that a Nicholasville man accidentally left sitting on top of his car.
Bob Webb says he was taking his late aunt's jewelery to an estate sale. He had the $48,000 worth of jewelry packed in a...
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October 14, 2011 9:31 AM
Nicholasville police arrested four people on drug related charges Tuesday.
Police say they received a tip about a suspicious package scheduled for delivery to a home along Strawberry Court. After the package was delivered, officers served a search warrant and seized just under five pounds of marijuana.
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September 26, 2011 9:54 AM
Nicholasville police are searching for female rape suspect.
Police say Ashley B. Bender, 30, is wanted on 12 counts of third degree rape.
Bender stands about 5-foot-7 and weighs 130 pounds. She has blond hair and blue eyes. Her last known address was listed as 705 Corbitt Drive,...
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April 22, 2011 3:30 PM
Nicholasville Police on Wednesday arrested a suspect in two armed robberies at the same check cashing store last year.
The robberies of the Cash Express on North Main Street happened last year. The business was robbed at gunpoint on two separate occasions in August and September 2010.
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March 29, 2011 8:22 AM
Police in Nicholasville arrested three people after officers discovered a one-step meth lab inside a car after a traffic stop Monday afternoon.
Police say officers stopped a car along Second Street around 4 p.m. after observing a minor traffic violation. While speaking with the occupants, police notice a chemical...
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March 25, 2011 11:56 AM
Police say they arrested a man after he traveled from Stanford to Nicholasville, expecting to have sex with a 14-year-old girl on Thursday.
Investigators say someone trying to sell something on Craigslist notified police when Andrew Yates, 49, started making sexual comments in texts. The seller told Yates "she"...
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March 21, 2011 11:30 AM
Officials say the suspicious package discovered outside of the Nicholasville post office was not a bomb.
A passerby discovered the package around 7 a.m. outside of the main entrance. Officials say a bomb squad robot X-ray showed wires and electronics inside the package, so members of the Lexington Police...
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March 21, 2011 8:49 AM
A section of South Main Street in Nicholasville is closed as officials investigate a suspicious package.
The package was discovered outside the Nicholasville post office near the main entrance Monday morning.
Officials say the bomb squad has been called in to check out the package.
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January 18, 2011 10:41 AM
Police are searching for a suspect after a Jessamine County gas station was robbed early Tuesday morning.
The incident happened at about 6:40 a.m. at the Hardee's BP located at the corner of Etter Drive and the US 27 By-Pass in Nicholasville. Police say a white male with a...
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January 6, 2011 7:06 AM
Police in Jessamine County continue to search for a man who robbed a check cashing business Wednesday evening.
Police say the robber walked into the Check Into Cash store around 5 p.m., pulled a gun and demanded money from the clerk. The suspect ran off with some cash. He...
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December 13, 2010 9:30 AM
Nicholasville Police are investigating after five different businesses were burglarized overnight.
Police say all of the businesses had the front glass door broken out and the cash register or other items from within the business stolen.
The businesses that were burglarized were Enterprise Rent-a-Car on Lexington Road, Rent-a-Center...
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November 25, 2010 6:04 AM
A Jessamine County man died in an accident in northeastern Ohio early Wednesday morning.
According to a Youngstown newspaper, a semi driven by Steven Stout, of Somerset, slammed into the back of another tractor trailer along I-76 in North Jackson around 5 a.m. Jason Thomas, of Nicholasville, was a...
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September 17, 2010 6:05 AM
A taxicab driver in Nicholasville was taken to UK Hospital after a passenger stabbed him early Friday morning. Police say an officer was in the area of Mingo Road around midnight, responding to a noise complaint, when he heard someone yelling for help. When he went to investigate, the officer...
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August 26, 2010 4:46 PM
Police are in two counties are searching for suspects at two different Cash Express check cashing stores Thursday. The first robbery happened at a Cash Express on New Circle Road in Lexington, and it was the second robbery at the store in the past two weeks. In Thursday's robbery, two...
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August 18, 2010 8:19 AM
Nicholasville and Kentucky State Police dismantled a meth lab on Saturday night Police say they discovered the lab after arresting Michael A. Richardson earlier in the day on assault charges. When officers returned to the North First Street apartment to speak with the assault victim, they discovered an Igloo cooler...
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August 13, 2010 12:39 PM
A burglary in Jessamine County leaves police with few clues and three different organizations, including the Salvation Army, with less. Nicholasville Police were called to the building on South First Street just after 7 a.m. Friday morning. The Salvation Army, the Regional Kentucky Works program and the Jessamine County Animal...
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August 13, 2010 6:02 AM
Officials say US-27 in Nicholasville is back open, but they advise taking an alternate route during the morning rush hour if at all possible. A vehicle crashed into a utility pole at the intersection of Industry Parkway around 5 a.m., bringing wires and traffic lights down across the roadway. Crews...
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August 13, 2010 5:30 AM
A non-injury crash in Nicholasville has US-27 blocked in both directions. The accident happened around 5 a.m. Police say a car crashed into a utility pole at US-27 and Industry Parkway, brining down traffic lights and wires across the roadway. Police are diverting traffic onto Bradley Drive and Industry Parkway...
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August 10, 2010 11:29 AM
Three people have been arrested in connection with a burglary at a Nicholasville convenience store Sunday night. The incident happened at the Pit Stop gas station on Richmond Avenue. Police say an employee arrived at work Monday morning and discovered that the back door had been forced open, and the...
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July 30, 2010 5:40 AM
Nicholasville police are investigating after a man says he was robbed at knife point late Thursday night. The incident happened at some apartments on Southview Drive. The victim told police he was walking between buildings, when a man approached him and asked for a cigarette, then pulled out a knife....
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July 16, 2010 7:20 AM
A Nicholasville police officer on bike patrol was hit by a truck Thursday night. Police say Officer Gil Rendon of the Nicholasville Police Department was riding his bike on patrol at the intersection of Rebel Road and Garden Park when a truck making a sharp left onto Rebel struck the...
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June 29, 2010 5:47 AM
A fire forced a Nicholasville man out of his home early Tuesday morning. Firefighters say the blaze broke out in a utility room at a house along Edwards Road around 2 a.m. Fire crews cut power to the home and were able to knock the fire out quickly. Firefighters treated...
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May 28, 2010 4:02 PM
Police say information supplied by the Lexington–Fayette Co. Div. of Police led Kentucky State Police troopers and officers of the Nicholasville Police Dept. to a large quantity of marijuana on the site of a Nicholasville business on Thursday. Officers seized 491 lbs. of processed marijuana, packaged for resale in one-pound...
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April 14, 2010 3:06 PM
Police looking for the public's help after a case of vandalism in Jessamine County. It happened Tuesday night. Nicholasville Police say someone spray painted graffiti on a garage door above the Maple Grove Cemetery, as well as the Skate Park at nearby Lake Mingo Park. The vandal used several colors...
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April 6, 2010 10:17 AM
Police have arrested a man and two juveniles in a burglary attempt at a Jessamine County convenience store that was foiled by a Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife conservation officer. The incident happened Friday night around 10:30 p.m. at the Pit Stop Food Mart on Richmond Avenue. Officer Rufus...
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April 5, 2010 3:02 PM
The Nicholasville Police Department has obtained 59 indictments from the Jessamine County grand jury in their latest drug round-up. Police have arrested 37 of the 59 and are asking for the public’s help in locating the last 22 people.
Listed below are the indictments (as copied from the Grand...
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March 29, 2010 3:15 PM
Police in Nicholasville have released the identity of a man who was killed early Sunday morning in a motorcycle accident. The accident happened just after midnight Sunday North Main Street between John Sutherland Drive and US 27 Bypass. According to witnesses, Brian Smith, 31, was traveling North on Main Street...
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February 26, 2010 6:47 AM
When the president of Toyota stopped by to visit a Nicholasville dealership, he literally gave a woman the shirt off his back. An LEX 18 viewer sent in video of Akio Toyoda handing a woman inside the Toyota On Nicholasville dealership his red company jersey after she complimented him on...
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January 21, 2010 5:52 AM
A turtle found itself caught in the middle of a domestic dispute in Nicholasville early Thursday morning. Police say a man and a woman showed up at an apartment complex on Grinder Court around 2 a.m. The man planned to help the woman move out of her ex-boyfriend's home. At...
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December 21, 2009 5:24 AM
A fire early Monday morning heavily damaged a Nicholasville duplex. Firefighters say the blaze broke out about 12:30 a.m.on Woodview Drive. When they arrived on the scene, they saw smoke and flames coming from one side of the duplex. All of the residents escaped unharmed, but officials say two cats...
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November 23, 2009 3:14 PM
Police in Jessamine County are searching for a suspect after a check cashing store was robbed Monday morning. The incident happened at about 10:40 a.m. at Pete's Check Cashing on Main Street in Nicholasville. Police say the suspect implied he had a weapon and demanded cash. He got away with...
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November 18, 2009 6:38 AM
Police in Jessamine County are searching for a suspect after a home invasion robbery attempt early Wednesday morning.
The incident happened at about 1:30 a.m. at a home on Henry Court in Nicholasville. Police say the suspect, who was dressed in all black clothing with a ski mask and...
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September 16, 2009 11:07 AM
Two people, including one juvenile. were arrested early Wednesday morning after an armed robbery in a Kroger parking lot in Nicholasville. Police say a man was in his vehicle in the parking lot of the Kroger on South Main Street at about 1 a.m. when two people came up to...
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