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Corbin Driver Stopped On I-75 Killed In Crash
A Corbin man died Monday night after his stopped pickup truck was hit by a tractor-trailer on Interstate 75 in Whitley County, authorities said.
Larry W. Rogers, 65, was stopped for unknown reasons in the right lane of southbound I-75, according to Kentucky State Police. The 1996, Chevrolet S-10 Rogers was driving, was struck from behind by a 2007 tractor-trailer driven by Donald M. Cain, 44, of Dayton, Ohio.
Rogers, who was not wearing a seat belt, was ejected from the truck he was driving and pronounced dead at the scene by the Whitley County coroner, police said.
Cain was uninjured.
The state police post received a report of the crash about 10:44 p.m.
Story courtesy of www.kentucky.com.
Wall Named National Player of the Year By Yahoo Sports
UK freshman John Wall has been named National Player of the Year by Yahoo! Sports, while both Wall and DeMarcus Cousins were named First Team All-America by the online publication.
Wall was also named Yahoo's Freshman of the Year while Patrick Patterson received Honorable Mention All-America honors.
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Story courtesy of WLEX.
Absentee Voting Begins Next Month
Somerset — Registered voters who will be out of town on Election Day, or those who meet other qualifications, may vote in the Pulaski County clerk’s office as early as April 22, and requests for mail-in absentee ballots are being accepted up until seven days before the May 18 primary elections.
County Clerk Ralph Troxtell said an optical scanner and paper ballots as well as the federally required eSlate machine for physically challenged will be ready for voters in his office April 22. The clerk’s office also will be open from 8 a.m. until noon on May 15, the last Saturday before the primary elections, for walk-in absentee voters, he said.
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Story courtesy of the Commonwealth Journal.
Giant Snakes A Passion For Somerset Professor
SOMERSET — Using your bare feet and toes to search for snakes as they hide underwater might seem crazy to most people. But for Jesus Rivas, that's what it takes to capture and study anacondas, the South American serpents that can grow to be 18 feet long, or longer.
Green anacondas are well-camouflaged amid the floating cover of water hyacinths and other vegetation. As non-venomous ambush hunters who kill by constriction, they lie in wait for prey.
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Hinkle Acquired By Washington Firm
A Washington DC-based firm has acquired Hinkle Contracting Corporation, a Paris (Ky.)-based company with a Somerset Division that for many years has been a major road-building contractor in Pulaski County.
Summit Materials recently revealed it has purchased Hinkle, an aggregate, asphalt, paving, concrete block and construction company founded by the Hinkle family in 1942. Hinkle, a name synonymous with road building in Kentucky, is a major player in nearly $200 million worth of highway construction in Pulaski County during the past five years.
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Story courtesy of the Commonwealth Journal.
Abner Indicted On Murder Charges
A man who reportedly confessed to killing three people, two of them more than 20 years ago, was indicted this week on those charges.
Michael Andrew Abner, 46, of Bullock Lane, Eubank, was indicted by a Pulaski County grand jury Wednesday on three counts of murder, along with robbery and burglary charges in connection with the killings of Jack Roerink, Mae Frisbee Stringer and Mamie B. Mercer.
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Businessman Defends Cost Of Training Sessions
Somerset — Local businessman Ed Massey came under fire recently when members of Somerset’s city council complained that he had billed the city $9,000 for training for the city’s sewer department employees.
During the most recent city council meeting, Massey app-eared before council members to defend his company — the Lake Cumberland Area Construction Consult-ing Group (a branch of the Clifty Heights Community Develop-ment Organization) — and to let the council know he won’t be slandered in public.
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Jail Guard Tries To Shoot Himself Out Of Cell
A security guard at the Adair County Judicial Center was fired after he accidentally locked himself in a cell and then tried to shoot his way out.
The Columbia Magazine reports that Charles Wright mistakenly locked himself in a holding cell in the courthouse basement last Monday, and then panicked. The guard says that he suffers from claustrophobia, and Adair County Sheriff Ralph Curry says that within 20 minutes of locking himself in, Wright grew desperate, drew his gun and tried to shoot his way out of the cell.
The buildings chief of maintenance heard the noise and released Wright from the cell.
Curry said Wright was lucky that he wasn't injured or even killed by ricocheting bullets.
The gunfire caused minor damage to the building. Curry said Wright has agreed to pay for any repairs.
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KCTCS Employees And Students Rally Against Cuts
FRANKFORT, Ky. — The chant, "K-C-T-C-S, No More Cuts!" reverberated through the Kentucky state capitol today as more than 600 Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS) students, employees, faculty and others rallied to encourage legislators to make smart investments in Kentucky's future by investing in KCTCS.
More than 50 Somerset Community College students and employees traveled to Frankfort to joined the rally.
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Story courtesy of the Commonwealth Journal.
Senate Impasse Puts Employees Out Of Work, Bunning Blamed
WASHINGTON -- Two thousand federal transportation workers are being furloughed without pay on Monday, and the Obama administration said they have a Kentucky senator to blame for it.
Federal reimbursements to states for highway programs will also be halted, the Transportation Department said in a statement late Sunday. The reimbursements amount to about $190 million a day, according to the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.
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