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May 25, 2012 8:11 AM
Police in Winchester have released artist sketches of two suspects in a home invasion.
Police say two men forced their way into a home on Johnson Street earlier this month, tied up the 68-year-old woman who lives there with masking tape and stole valuable coins. It took nearly an...
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May 24, 2012 5:49 AM
Court documents shed more light on what motivated a Clark County grandmother charged with killing her daughter and granddaughter.
Lillie Stanton, 48, was released from UK Hospital Wednesday and booked into the Clark County jail. Police charged her with killing Danel "Korrey" Stanton, 23, and her 1-year-old daughter, Kaydence...
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May 22, 2012 9:14 AM
Police have charged Lillie Stanton with two counts of murder in the stabbing death of her daughter and grandchild.
Winchester police say they found the bodies of Danel "Korrey" Stanton, 23, and her 1-year-old daughter, Kaydence Miers around 5:30 p.m. at a home along Vaught Road in Winchester Sunday...
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May 10, 2012 4:47 AM
Officials say the driver of a car in Clark County suffered minor injuries in a single vehicle accident late Wednesday night.
The vehicle rolled over along Lexington Road, near the Sky-Vue Drive-In, around 11:30 p.m. EMS took the driver to the hospital for treatment.
Deputies say they aren't...
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May 8, 2012 9:19 AM
Police and fire department crews are on the scene of an accident on Winchester Road at New Circle.
Stay tuned for more information as it becomes available.
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March 19, 2012 7:12 AM
Police in Winchester are investigating a robbery at a motel.
Officials have not released much information. Investigators say two men robbed a victim at the Value Stay Motel off the I-64 exit 95 around 5:30 a.m. Monday.
Officials say nobody was injured, and Winchester Police and Clark County...
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February 7, 2012 5:24 AM
A Winchester man's quick thinking likely saved his family and home from a fire late Monday night.
Firefighters say a heater apparently malfunctioned, sparking a blaze inside a home on Cherry Street around 11 p.m. The man living there says he woke up to a squealing noise from the...
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February 6, 2012 11:35 PM
An eighth-grade student from Jessie Clark Middle School remains in critical condition after passing out while participating in pre-season conditioning with the Lafayette High School baseball team.
Students who were attending a basketball game at Lafayette High School say Ben Highland passed out at around 5:15 p.m. The school's...
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January 12, 2012 6:25 AM
Police in Winchester arrested a man in connection with a drive-by shooting Wednesday.
Police say a woman and an infant were asleep inside the home along Westside Drive when a bullet went through a window and several walls around 9 a.m. Nobody was injured in the incident.
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January 11, 2012 12:19 PM
Police in Clark County continue the search for the person who shot into a home Wednesday morning.
Police say the incident happened just before 9 a.m. at a duplex along Westside Drive. A bullet went through a front window and several walls inside the duplex. A woman who lives...
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January 11, 2012 8:43 AM
Police in Clark County say surveillance cameras caught images of two thieves who stole thousands of dollars worth of items from the Winchester Walmart.
The video shows a woman wearing red and a man in a Carhart jacket. Police say the couple took $4,100 worth of merchandise, then left...
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December 30, 2011 1:22 PM
WINCHESTER (AP) - Two Kentucky siblings who recently made contact with their long-lost mother after five decades are hoping to travel to Texas to meet her. Patricia Cuddy and Mike Daniels of Winchester last saw their mother, Nora Chaney, sometime in the early 1960s. They began their search around 2006...
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December 29, 2011 10:55 AM
A fugitive wanted from another state led police on a chase in Clark County before crashing early Thursday morning.
Police say Thomas Carl Townsend, 52, stole a car from Dotson Motors in Winchester and then led officers on a chase. Police say Townsend ran a red light at the...
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December 15, 2011 5:53 AM
Police arrested a former Scott County football star and charged him with murder in Winchester Wednesday.
Early Wednesday morning, police searched for a victim and suspect in a home invasion along Whitney Court. About nine hours later, a maintenance worker found Andrew Ingram, 33, dead under the back porch...
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December 14, 2011 6:43 AM
Winchester police are investigating an early morning assault.
The incident happened at a home on Whitney Road around 4 a.m. Police have released little information, only confirming a person suffered a minor injury. Neighbors say they heard gunshots and later saw police chasing someone down the street.
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November 17, 2011 7:02 AM
A man was airlifted to the hospital after a rollover crash in Clark County Wednesday night.
Police say a car changing lanes on the Winchester bypass crashed into a pickup truck, sending the truck into the guardrail. The pickup flipped, ejecting the driver.
Officials did not release the...
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October 10, 2011 5:46 AM
One man was hurt during a fire in a Winchester apartment building early Monday morning.
The blaze broke out in the Brown Proctor Apartments at Lexington and Main Street just after midnight. Firefighters say EMS took one person to the hospital. Officials did not release any information on the...
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September 21, 2011 5:25 AM
People across several counties heard the rumbling sound early Wednesday morning. It shook the ground and rattled windows.
A gas line ruptured just after midnight in Clark County, near the Powell County line. People as far away as Lee County heard the noise, and the LEX 18 newsroom was...
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August 12, 2011 10:16 AM
A judge sentenced a Winchester man to nearly a year in jail after leading police in Clark County on a high-speed chase last month.
The Winchester Sun reports Christopher Caudill, 30, will serve 360 days in jail. Caudill pleaded guilty to fleeing and evading, DUI and wanton endangerment.
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July 21, 2011 8:37 AM
WINCHESTER (AP) - A Winchester man who spent time helping tornado victims in Joplin, Mo., is now wanting to help children with their back-to-school needs in the stricken town. Steve Caudill is helping collect $10 gift cards to put in backpacks being given to Joplin students, the Winchester Sun reported....
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June 10, 2011 9:07 AM
Firefighters quickly doused a fire burning outside of a Winchester duplex Friday morning.
Firefighters say a neighbor alerted two people inside one of the units that there was a fire burning outside the back porch. They called 911 and firefighters quickly arrived and put out the blaze. The fire...
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May 31, 2011 8:55 AM
A mother's intuition may have saved a college student from Winchester from becoming a tornado statistic.
Megan Hall had just finished up her third year of classes at Messenger College in Joplin, Mo. She was planning on staying in town another week before returning home to Kentucky, but her...
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May 23, 2011 6:06 AM
Two people involved in a Winchester shooting have died.
Winchester police say two intruders broke into a duplex along Redwing Road around 1:15 a.m. One of the suspects shot the man who lives in the home. The resident shot back, hitting one of the suspects. Police say they don't...
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May 23, 2011 5:30 AM
A home invasion led to a double shooting in Winchester early Monday morning.
Police say an intruder shot a person inside a home along Redwing Road around 1:15 a.m. The victim shot back, hitting one suspect and possibly another. EMS took two people to the UK hospital. One of...
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May 13, 2011 8:52 AM
WINCHESTER (AP) - A Winchester man has found an albino baby robin in his yard. Hubert Sparks told the Lexington Herald-Leader that he and his wife discovered the bird on Wednesday and have been feeding it worms. Sparks said the bird's parents weren't feeding the baby, whose feathers are completely...
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May 4, 2011 8:32 AM
Winchester firefighters battled a fire and rescued several residents at the Hillcrest Manor Apartment complex along Oxford Drive Wednesday morning
The blaze broke out around 7:45 a.m.
Officials say firefighters rescued several residents from the burning building. One firefighter called for aid while battling the blaze, but officials...
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April 29, 2011 7:03 AM
A fire gutted a garage in Winchester early Friday morning.
A neighbor first noticed the detached building ablaze along McClure Road, near Casa Landa Way, and alerted the owners.
"It could have been a lot worse. It was detached from the house, but it could have been a...
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April 12, 2011 8:40 AM
Firefighters in Clark County battled a two-alarm fire Tuesday morning.
The blaze broke out sometime around 6:30 a.m.in a vacant house at the corner of Monroe Avenue and South Bloomfield Road in Winchester. Firefighters say they were able to quickly get the fire under control.
Fire officials say...
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March 16, 2011 10:55 AM
A family of seven escaped unharmed but lost everything after a fire destroyed their Clark County home Wednesday morning.
The fire broke out at about 8:30 a.m. at a home on Lincoln Street in Winchester. Officials say there were seven people in the home at the time of the...
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January 28, 2011 6:02 AM
Police in Winchester are looking for two smash and grab burglars.
Massoue Pourdollah, the owner of a BP gas station at the corner of Bypass Road and Fulton, woke up Friday morning to a call from his alarm company around 2:30 a.m. He arrived at his store to find...
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January 13, 2011 11:29 AM
Although no one hit the $67 million Powerball jackpot Wednesday night, a Clark County woman has come forward to say she has the ticket worth $1,000,000 sold for the drawing. The $1 million ticket matched all five numbers but not the Powerball in Wednesday night's drawing.
The lucky ticket...
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January 13, 2011 9:51 AM
Although no one hit the $67 million Powerball jackpot Wednesday night there was a ticket worth $1,000,000 sold in Kentucky. The $1 million ticket matched all five numbers but not the Powerball in Wednesday night's drawing.
The lucky ticket holder(s) also chose to play the Power Play feature. The...
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December 10, 2010 5:38 AM
A raging fire destroyed a farmhouse in Clark County early Friday morning.
When an LEX 18 crew arrived at the scene along Ford Hampton Road around 2:30 a.m., the house was engulfed in flames, as firefighters battled to salvage what they could.
It wasn't much.
The blaze...
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December 1, 2010 5:34 AM
A Christmas tree went up in flames inside a Winchester home early Wednesday morning.
The man who lives in the house along Camden Drive says he heard the smoke detector going off around 1 a.m. When he got up to check things out, he found his artificial Christmas tree...
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November 19, 2010 6:36 AM
Winchester police made two arrests during a gambling raid Thursday night.
Police raided the Playhouse Pool Room in downtown Winchester. Officers say they seized four gambling machines and some cash.
Investigators have not released the names of the people arrested, but they charged the suspects with promoting gambling....
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November 19, 2010 6:19 AM
Quick work by Winchester firefighters save a home after a blaze broke out early Friday morning.
Firefighters say the fire started in the garage of a home along Clintonville Road. The flames then spread up into the attic.
Crews knocked down the fire quickly and nobody was injured....
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November 12, 2010 7:01 AM
Winchester police are investigating an early morning assault.
Dispatchers say a man showed up at the police station around 12:30 a.m. Friday. He told officers that somebody had assaulted him. The victim was taken to the hospital. There is no word on the extent of his injuries, but officials...
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November 12, 2010 5:59 AM
Winchester police are investigating the robbery of a restaurant along Bypass Road.
Dispatchers say the robber hit the Subway around 8:30 p.m. Thursday.
Nobody was injured.
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November 12, 2010 5:23 AM
A fire forced a woman and her two children from their Clark County home early Friday morning.
Angela Day says she heard a crackling noise around 1 a.m. inside her home along Elm Street in Winchester. When she went to check it out, she discovered the area above her...
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October 20, 2010 9:00 AM
A man accused of setting his own apartment on fire in Winchester spoke to LEX 18 from jail Tuesday.
Police arrested Johnny Hays after his apartment on East Broadway burned last Friday. Investigators say Hays set the fire after his landlord evicted him.
Hays says he didn't set...
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October 18, 2010 6:08 AM
A restaurant robbery in Winchester has the attention of police in Lexington.
A masked armed robber hit the KFC on Carol Road Saturday night, and police say it is similar to the robbery of a Captain D's in Lexington about a month ago.
Police say the robber slipped...
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October 18, 2010 5:33 AM
Winchester firefighters were busy yet again, battling an overnight fire.
The blaze broke out just before midnight. Family members living in a house along Old Boonesboro Road say the fire started in the laundry room and that they tried to fight the blaze. When fire crews arrived, they were...
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October 15, 2010 5:34 AM
For the fourth time this week, firefighters in Winchester were called out to battle an overnight fire.
The blaze broke out around 2:30 a.m. Friday in an apartment above two businesses on East Broadway. Witnesses say nine people were inside the building, but firefighters couldn't confirm that. Everybody all...
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October 13, 2010 5:26 AM
For the third night in a row, Winchester firefighters had their hands full battling a blaze.
Crews rushed to a home on Oliver Street around 2:30 a.m. Wednesday. Relatives of the woman who lives there say she was not home at the time because she is in a nursing...
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October 12, 2010 5:14 AM
Firefighters rushed to one of the oldest buildings in Winchester after a fire broke out early Tuesday morning.
The blaze started sometime before 4 a.m. in an old home converted into apartments along South College Street. A police officer on the way home spotted smoke and called in the...
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October 6, 2010 2:35 PM
Firefighters in Clark County say it appears that an overloaded power strip was the cause of a fire that caused extensive damage to a home Wednesday morning.
The blaze broke out at about 10 a.m. at a home on Holly Avenue in Winchester. Firefighters say that when they arrived,...
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October 6, 2010 11:09 AM
A home in Clark County suffered extensive damage Wednesday morning after a fire broke out there Wednesday morning.
The blaze broke out at about 10 a.m. at a home on Holly Avenue in Winchester. Firefighters say that when they arrived, they found three vehicles parked near the home, but...
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August 23, 2010 8:19 AM
A woman was taken to the hospital and a man ended up in jail after a disturbance in Winchester early Monday morning. Police say a man kicked down the door of an apartment along Oxford Drive, possibly breaking a woman's leg as she stood behind the door. The woman was...
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August 19, 2010 10:37 AM
Police in Clark County on Thursday arrested and charged a man with the shooting death of another man at a Winchester mobile home park on Wednesday. Jeffery Clem, 51, was arrested and charged in the death of Wilburn Banks, 57. Police arrived at C-L Eastside Rental Mobile Home Park around...
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August 18, 2010 1:25 PM
Investigators now say that the man found dead at the Clark County mobile home park was shot to death. Winchester Police Capt. James Hall says the victim is Wilburn Banks, 57. Police arrived at C-L Eastside Rental Mobile Home Park around 9 a.m. and found a white male dead inside...
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August 10, 2010 8:26 AM
Crews continue to battle a blaze in Winchester. Firefighters were called to an apartment building on the corner of Winn Avenue and Jackson Street around 7:30 a.m. Tusday. Fire officials say everybody made it safely out of the building.
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August 10, 2010 7:43 AM
Firefighters are battling a blaze along Winn Avenue in Winchester.
LEX 18 has a crew in route to the scene. Stay tuned for more information as it becomes available.
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August 6, 2010 5:58 AM
Firefighters in Winchester battled an intense house fire Thursday night. Neighbors say the fire broke out at a home on Westmeade Drive around 9:30 p.m. The fire was mostly contained to the back of the home, but was so large, neighbors say they were concerned it might spread to other...
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July 5, 2010 5:17 AM
Fireworks sparked a house fire in Winchester Sunday night. Fire officials say children were playing with sparklers on the back deck of a house along Stacey Road around 10:30 p.m. when embers fell through the deck onto an old Christmas tree and some logs stored underneath. The embers sparked a...
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June 10, 2010 12:22 PM
Officials and hazmat crews were on the scene Thursday afternoon in Clark County at a truck stop off of I-64 where a truck was possibly leaking a dangerous chemical.
The truck was at the truck inspection stop at mile marker 96 near Winchester when the leak was noticed late...
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June 8, 2010 7:57 AM
WINCHESTER (AP) - Environmentalists will be testing some Kentucky residents for mercury contamination before the start of a public hearing Tuesday regarding a proposed coal-fired power plant near Winchester. Kentuckians For The Commonwealth, the Sierra Club and the Kentucky Environmental Foundation believe simple tests of hair samples will help determine...
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May 24, 2010 5:34 AM
Police in Clark County are investigating a home invasion that put one man in the hospital. Investigators say at least two men, possibly four, busted into a mobile home along Tree Haven Drive in Winchester. EMS took a man inside the home to Clark Regional Hospital, but police would not...
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April 19, 2010 8:29 AM
WINCHESTER (AP) - The trial of a central Kentucky couple charged with murder in the death of their infant son has been set for October. The Winchester Sun reported that 24-year-old Christopher Chandler of Georgetown and 23-year-old Amanda Tolson of Winchester face charges in the death of their 16-day-old son...
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April 16, 2010 9:15 PM
A couple facing arson charges for setting their home on fire before Christmas... then taking donations from the community... will have short jail sentences after entering a plea Friday afternoon. According to the Winchester Sun... Debra and Anthony Poole entered an Alford Plea to criminal mischief charges. That means they...
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February 16, 2010 11:05 PM
A crash on US 60 outside Winchester Tuesday afternoon claimed the life of a 17-year-old high school senior and injured two teens riding in the car with her. According to police, Shawna Taylor and her two friends were heading westbound on US 60 around 3;30 p.m. when Taylor lost control...
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February 16, 2010 7:21 AM
Firefighters in Clark County battled both fire and ice Monday evening. The two-alarm blaze broke out around 5 p.m. in a 150-year-old house at the corner of Cook Road and North Main Street. Cold temperatures and blowing snow made fighting the fire that much more difficult. "Everything ices up as...
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February 15, 2010 5:49 PM
A two-alarm fire broke out at a home near downtown Winchester Monday afternoon, shooting flames well above the roof of the two-story home.
The fire broke out at about 5 p.m. at the home, located on Cook Avenue near North Main Street. Firefighters at the scene say an older...
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February 11, 2010 5:38 PM
Winchester Police say that they arrested a 25-year-old man after he shook his baby so hard the child had to be hospitalized. Investigators charged Jeremy Divine after an interview last week. They say Divine admitted hurting the 4-month-old baby several times in one day. Police say the child suffered some...
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February 9, 2010 12:44 PM
(AP) - Police in Wichester have arrested the parents of an infant that died last year. The Winchester Sun reports 24-year-old Christopher Chandler of Georgetown and 23-year-old Amanda Tolson of Winchester were arrested Monday after a grand jury indicted them last week on murder charges. The newspaper reports their 16-day-old...
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February 3, 2010 9:13 AM
Winchester police worked through the night rounding up suspects in a major drug operation. Officers say they started the roundup at 4 p.m. Tuesday. So far, they have arrested 33 of 51 suspects. Police say those arrested face drug trafficking charges. The arrests stem from a drug trafficking investigation that...
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December 30, 2009 2:16 PM
The Winchester couple accused of intentionally setting a fire in their home in order to cash in on the goodwill of others appeared in court Wednesday morning. Deborah and Anthony Poole's preliminary hearing was continued until next week. For the second time, the couple begged the court to reduce their...
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December 30, 2009 5:12 AM
The Winchester couple accused of intentionally setting a fire in their home in order to cash in on the goodwill of others is scheduled to appear in court Wednesday. Investigators say Deborah and Anthony Poole started the blaze that destroyed their home and put their seven children in the care...
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December 24, 2009 4:51 PM
Winchester police are investigating a possible serial purse thief who may be able to count the Clark County Judge Executive's wife among his victims. Police say the suspect went on a pricey shopping spree after breaking into some cars late last month. He was captured on surveillance cameras wheeling out...
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December 23, 2009 11:19 AM
The Clark County parents accused of setting firte to their house and leaving their family of 10 homeless last week pleaded not guilty in the case Wednesday. Winchester Police say Anthony and Debra Poole were arrested Tuesday night and charged both with arson in the second-degree following a lengthy investigation.Police...
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December 22, 2009 5:35 PM
A fire in Clark County last week that left a family of ten homeless has been ruled arson and the mother and father of the family have been charged. The fire broke out in the early morning hours of December 17 at the home, located on East Broadway in Winchester....
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December 17, 2009 5:29 AM
A Winchester family was displaced by a fire early Thursday morning.
The fire broke out just before 4 a.m.in a house on East Broadway.
Ten members of the Poole family lived in the home, including a mother and father, seven children, and a disbaled aunt. Officials say Nobody...
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December 16, 2009 7:16 AM
Winchester firefighters pulled an elderly man from a burning house Wednesday morning. A man driving down the street saw flames coming from a house on Madison Avenue and called 911 about 6 a.m. Wednesday. Winchester fire chief Daniel Castle told LEX 18 that firefighters broke through a window in the...
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November 25, 2009 11:05 AM
Winchester, KY -- A Clark County woman was arrested Wednesday by the Secret Service and Winchester Police after they say she used stolen credit card numbers provided by a man overseas to buy thousands of dollars worth of items authorities believe were then shipped overseas for use by terrorist organizations....
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