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April 18, 2011 2:12 PM
Crews continue to search for a missing McCreary County canoeist
Park rangers say they initially thought they spotted Tim Godfrey, 29, but now believe dogs picked up on a scent that was not his. As of Monday, officials say the body has not been spotted or found.
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April 11, 2011 2:50 PM
(AP) - A University of Kentucky search committee has approved a list of finalists who are in the running to become the school's next president.
The search committee met in private for about 5 1/2 hours Monday on the Lexington campus before emerging to send the list of finalists...
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March 14, 2011 5:20 AM
Lexington police continue to search for the driver of a vehicle involved in a minor crash early Monday morning..
Police say an SUV ran into a pole at the Speedway gas station on the corner of Liberty Road and New Circle Road around 12:30 a.m. A nearby officer across...
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November 15, 2010 5:43 AM
Crews will begin day six of the search for the body of a missing Louisville college student on Monday.
Louisville police officers, recruits and cadaver dog will head back to a southern Indiana landfill to search for the body of Andrew Compton, 18.
Gregory Thomas, 40, told police...
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November 12, 2010 9:23 AM
Dozens of Louisville officers and recruits will return to an Indiana landfill Friday to continue the search for the body of a Sullivan University student.
Police say Gregory O'Bryan, 40, told them that Andrew Compton, 18, died while they were engaged in sexual activity. O'Bryan admits to putting Compton's...
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November 11, 2010 6:15 AM
Crews will begin day three of the search for the body of a Louisville Sullivan University student on Thursday.
Andrew Compton, 18, disappeared back on Oct. 28. Police say Gregory O'Bryan, 40, told them he put Compton's body in a dumpster after the teen died while they were having...
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October 8, 2010 10:58 AM
Police in Montgomery County are searching an inmate who escaped from the Montgomery County Regional Jail Thursday night.
Stewart Creekmore, 25, was charged with murder, fetal homicide and first degree assault following a July car accident that killed Henry Bush of Mt. Sterling and killed the unborn child of...
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September 28, 2010 9:43 PM
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - A judge ruled Tuesday that prosecutors in the case of a former state lawmaker charged with killing his ex-fiancee can continue to search a computer hard drive that authorities say contained child pornography. Fayette Circuit Court judge Pamela Goodwine also ruled against motions by attorneys for...
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September 7, 2010 3:49 PM
Kentucky State Police said Tuesday that they are continuing to search for a Marion County woman who has been missing since mid-July. Kara Rigdon, 26, of Gravel Switch in Marion County who has been missing since July 17. She was last seen on Beechfork Loop Road in Gravel Switch, and...
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September 3, 2010 2:00 PM
State police are asking for for help from the public in locating a fugitive sex offender who has ties to the Ashland area. Kentucky State Police are searching for Andrew Wiley, 36, who is wanted for failing to comply with the sexual offender registry 1st offense, a Class D felony....
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September 1, 2010 5:51 AM
Rescue crews in Boone County plan to resume the search for a missing man along the Ohio River Wednesday morning. Officials say Mike Fugate, 48, was boating Tuesday afternoon and dove into the water for a swim. He surfaced once, but went back under and was not seen again. Rescuers...
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August 20, 2010 5:24 PM
Police are searching for a missing elderly Alzheimer's patient from Bell County, but the search has caught the attention of police in Lexington. Virgil Preston Emmett, 81, of Middlesboro was last seen around 8 p.m. Thursday night. He's been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and is believed to be in his...
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August 12, 2010 4:36 PM
Police in McCreary County are asking for the public's help in finding a man who has been missing since Saturday. Donald Ray Keith, 56, of Marshes Siding was last seen at his residence on Saturday by his son. Keith told his son he was going camping with an old friend,...
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August 6, 2010 5:43 AM
State police say they plan to resume the search Friday morning in Scott County for an escapee from the Blackburn Correctional Complex. Russell Curtis, 25, walked away from the minimum security prison Wednesday night. Investigators say a train conductor saw Curtis jump off his train as he was operating near...
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August 5, 2010 5:24 AM
The hunt is on for an escapee from the Blackburn Correctional Complex. Prison officials say they noticed Russell Curtis, 25, was missing around 11 p.m. Wednesday. They say Curtis simply walked away from the minimum security complex because he was trying to get cigarettes left somewhere between Blackburn and the...
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July 23, 2010 11:37 AM
Search crews returned Friday to the creek where a Carter County woman is feared dead after being washed away in her mobile home earlier this week. Fire departments have been looking along the banks of the Little Sinking Creek for 72-year-old Mary Littleton since her mobile home washed away in...
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July 23, 2010 7:47 AM
Still no sign of an elderly Carter County woman who was swept away in her mobile home during a flash flood Wednesday morning. Someone spotted Mary Littleton, 72, as her mobile home floated down Little Sinking Creek, but she hasn't been seen since. Crews continue to search for Littleton, but...
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July 22, 2010 5:32 AM
Crews plan to resume searching for an elderly Carter County woman Thursday morning. Mary Littleton was trapped inside her mobile home when flood waters carried it downstream. It happened during heavy rains in the Fultz area Wednesday, along the banks of Little Sinking Creek. Family members tried to save the...
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July 21, 2010 1:21 PM
Officials say an elderly Carter County woman is missing and nearly 100 homes have been damaged after torrential rains moved through the state Wednesday. Officials say Mary Littleton, 71, disappeared around daybreak as her mobile home on Fultz Road was washed into the Little Sinking Creek area by flood waters,...
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July 5, 2010 3:57 PM
Georgetown, KY - Several police agencies, including Kentucky State Police and Scott County Police, continued Monday to search for a Scott County Detention Center inmate who ran away from a work detail Sunday morning, and officials say he now may be driving a stolen car. Jail officials say Nathan Pierce,...
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June 30, 2010 4:53 PM
Kentucky Fish and Wildlife said Wednesday they may be moving in on that black bear that attacked a hiker on Sunday in the Red River Gorge. Officials say someone thinks they spotted that same bear going through trash can in Lee County. Fish and Wildlife Officials say they have not...
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June 28, 2010 3:36 PM
More than a dozen wildlife and law enforcement officers continued Monday to actively search for a black bear that attacked a hiker Sunday afternoon in the Red River Gorge Geological Area north of Campton.
Springfield resident Tim Scott, 56, reported that he was attacked by a bear as he...
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June 25, 2010 9:38 AM
EDDYVILLE, Ky. (AP) - A search continues in the Cumberland River above Land Between the Lakes for a missing teenager. The Paducah Sun quoted Crittendon County Rescue Squad Chief Donnie Arflack, who said the 19-year-old man was swimming with friends and was coming back from a buoy when he went...
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June 22, 2010 12:07 PM
WOODBURY, Ky. (AP) - Rescue crews are searching for a missing 42-year-old man after his son's body was found near a dam where the Barren and Green rivers meet in southwestern Kentucky. WBKO-TV reports that Warren and Butler County rescue squads responded to a call Monday night of three people...
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May 31, 2010 8:37 AM
Lexington police continue to search for two suspects involved in the early Monday morning shooting of a Herald Leader newspaper carrier. Officers were called to the Thorntons gas station on Georgetown Road around 4:30 a.m. Investigators say the carrier was shot in the neck somewhere around Roosevelt Boulevard and drove...
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May 21, 2010 6:17 AM
Police in Nicholasville arrested two men after a search initiated thanks to a sharp-eyed security guard early Friday morning. Police say the two suspects stole some equipment from the yard of the Bluegrass Energy complex. Officers have not said exactly what the men stole. A security guard spotted the men...
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May 18, 2010 11:50 AM
Crews will be back out on the Ohio River again Tuesday looking for a missing boater. James Williamson was reported missing Monday afternoon. A witness says he saw Williamson's john boat running in a circle near Harmony Landing, but there was no sign of Williamson. A friend says Williamson planned...
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May 17, 2010 1:42 PM
Crews that spent most of Monday morning and part of the afternoon searching the Kentucky River near the Clays Ferry Bridge following the report of an SUV spotted in the water have ended the search. Crews have found no signs of the SUV, which was reported in the water some...
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May 17, 2010 10:38 AM
Crews spent most of Monday morning searching the Kentucky River near the Clays Ferry Bridge following reports of an SUV spotted in the water. So far, crews have found no signs of the SUV, which was reported in the water as some time before 8 a.m. LEX 18 has a...
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May 6, 2010 5:22 AM
Search and rescue teams in Pulaski County temporarily suspended the search for a missing teenager on Lake Cumberland early Thursday, due to debris in the water. Officials say darkness and the debris, washed into the Lake from the recent heavy rains, were hampering the search and posing a danger for...
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May 5, 2010 4:37 PM
The search for a missing kayaker in Hart county resumed Wednesday. Robert Atcher was last seen Monday on the Green River around Munfordville. The kayak he was in hit a logjam and then the current pulled him underwater. The county emergency management director says that it is still considered a...
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May 5, 2010 12:40 PM
Search and rescue teams in Bath County have called off a search for a car that had reportedly gone into a creek along Old Sand Road Tuesday night. Witnesses say the car went into the rain swollen Cow Creek and was pushed downstream by the rushing water. However, as flood...
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April 9, 2010 5:07 AM
MONTCOAL, W.Va. (AP) - Rescue workers clinging to the slimmest of hope pushed deep into a shattered coal mine early Friday, trying to get far enough to finally resolve whether four miners somehow survived an explosion that killed 25. Search teams had gotten frustratingly close a day earlier to answers...
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March 24, 2010 4:48 PM
Police are searching for a community custody inmate housed at the Russell Community Center in Louisville who jumped out of a transport van en route to the Kentucky State Reformatory Wednesday. The incident happened at about 1 p.m. Jason Jerrell Smith, 26, was one of five inmates being taken to...
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March 4, 2010 4:51 PM
Police in Kentucky and Tennessee are on the lookout for a non-custodial father who didn't return his two kids to their mother's home. Police say 48-year-old Clifford Skees had his two kids, four-year-old Samantha and seven-year-old Jedidiah, for a custodial visit on February 5. Now, investigators in both states want...
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March 3, 2010 5:21 AM
Rescue crews in the Red River Gorge are looking for at least one missing hiker. Officials say the search began about 9:30 p.m.Tuesday after officials received a 911 call leading them to believe one or more hikers were in trouble. Rescuers focused their efforts around the Lost Branch Trail area...
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January 20, 2010 11:27 AM
Search teams on the Kentucky River Wednesday have not yet found any sign of an elderly Perry County man believed to have drowned after his truck went off a road and into the river Tuesday afternoon. Police say Jesse Young, 85, was driving his pickup truck along HWY 451 when...
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December 17, 2009 5:38 AM
The Scott County Sheriff's Department is looking for a man in connection with an attempted abduction at a Scott County truck stop. Police say a man attempted to abduct a woman at gunpoint about 3 a.m. at the Pilot Travel Center at the 129 mile-marker on I-75 in Scott County....
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December 16, 2009 5:05 PM
Rescuers were on the scene Wednesday in Pulaski County after a man apparently fell off a ledge while exploring inside a cave system.
The incident happened at around 8 a.m. in the Sloane Valley cave system south of Somerset. So far there aren't many details, but officials say three...
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December 9, 2009 9:01 AM
COLUMBIA, Ky. (AP) - Rescue teams in south-central Kentucky are searching for a man who apparently went to his wife's rescue after her car was swept into a flooded creek Tuesday night. Adair County emergency management director Greg Thomas says area rescue squads have searched about 2 miles of Harrodsfork...
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November 17, 2009 3:30 PM
The search for a Casey County man missing for more than a month took a desperate turn Tuesday afternoon, as searchers hit waterways and combed rural areas looking for Charles Randolph. Randolph, 55, hasn't been seen since October 15. His family says Randolph, who lives alone in the Kings Mountain...
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November 16, 2009 10:34 AM
Authorities searched along a highway Monday for the body of a missing 5-year-old girl but said they still hoped they might find her alive. Shaniya Davis has been missing since last Tuesday. Her mother, who reported her gone, is accused of offering her for prostitution, according to court documents and...
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November 11, 2009 11:20 AM
Police continued to search Wednesday for a missing Pulaski County man not heard from since Monday afternoon after his pickup truck was found burned. Family members of Jeffrey K. Price II, 21, contacted police Monday night after he had not returned home. Price reportedly left work at Eagle Hardwood after...
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November 10, 2009 5:46 PM
Police are searching for a missing Pulaski County man not heard from since Monday afternoon after his pickup truck was found burned. Family members of Jeffrey K. Price II, 21, contacted police Monday night after he had not returned home. Price reportedly left work at Eagle Hardwood after his shift...
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November 6, 2009 5:46 PM
Lexington Police have issued a Golden Alert for a schizophrenic 69-year-old Lexington woman who been missing since early Friday morning. Mary Elizabeth Harbert was last seen by one of her brothers at about 5 a.m. at her home on Dunkirk Drive. Another brother arrived at the house to take her...
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November 6, 2009 2:04 PM
A gunman opened fire Friday in the offices of an engineering firm where he was let go more than two years ago. At least six people were hurt and police were searching for a gunman in a sport utility vehicle. People streamed out of the 16-story Legion Place office building...
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November 5, 2009 12:25 PM
The search for a four-year-old girl in Florida missing since 1999 and possibly involving a Bath County man has been suspended after three days of searching. After conferring with all agencies involved in the three-day search for Pilar Rodriguez, Charlotte County Sheriff Bill Cameron announced they were suspending the ground...
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November 5, 2009 8:41 AM
The search continued Thursday in southwest Florida for evidence in a cold case disappearance of a four-year-old girl in 1999 that may have connections to a Bath County man. The Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office, assisted by multiple agencies, continues the search Thursday morning around on property east of Punta Gorda...
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October 15, 2009 5:34 AM
Lexington Police are looking for the driver responsible for knocking over a light pole Wednesday. It happened around 10:30 p.m. on Palumbo Drive near Man O' War. Officers said the driver hit the pole, knocking it over, then took off. We're told another driver came up on the scene, did...
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October 14, 2009 5:20 AM
Lexington Police are investigating an armed robbery at a gas station. It happened around 2:30 a.m. Wednesday at the Shell station on Newtown Pike. Police said a black man wearing a green football jersey walked in while the clerk was stocking cigarettes, showed a gun, demanded money and got away....
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October 12, 2009 8:05 AM
LEX 18 has learned what charges the inmate accused of injuring a guard and escaping from the Wayne County Jail was being held on. Officials have confirmed Jeremy Sescourka, 19, had been in the jail since March on charges of first degree rape, first degree sodomy, second degree escape and...
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October 12, 2009 5:22 AM
A shooting victim continues his recovery at UK Hospital. Lexington Police said the victim stumbled his way into their east roll center on Centre Parkway around 4 p.m. Sunday. He had been shot once in the chest and once in the arm. The victim told police the shooting happened at...
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September 25, 2009 2:17 PM
Authorities are searching for a missing Woodford County teen who they fear may have fallen and hurt her herself. Crews are searching for Paige Susara, 16. The teen was reported missing by her parents Thursday morning though she was reportedly seen with friends at the Imperial Mobile Home Park in...
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