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In southern Kentucky, the Barren County community is grieving the unthinkable. Local teenager Eli Heacock died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound last month. Investigators are looking into what role an online extortion scheme played in the death.
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Kentucky State Police say a Lyon County sheriff’s deputy shot and killed a Smithland man early Monday morning after the suspect fled a separate shooting incident.
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Jurors began deliberations Wednesday in the retrial of former Louisville police detective Brett Hankison.
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Federal prosecutors spent two-and-a-half hours questioning Brett Hankison on the last day of his retrial. Also, the question of whether Breonna Taylor was alive when he fired into the home could have implications for one of the charges in the case.
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A former Murray State men’s basketball player was arrested Sunday night on three different charges, including two involving alleged domestic violence.
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Federal prosecutors rested their case Thursday, the fourth day of testimony in the retrial of Brett Hankison, a former detective accused of blindly firing shots into Breonna Taylor’s apartment in March 2020.
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The retrial for ex-LMPD officer Brett Hankison continued, as the prosecution called a crime scene investigator, an FBI agent and a former SWAT commander to the stand on Tuesday.
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The retrial of Brett Hankison, one of the former Louisville police officers who was part of the botched raid at Breonna Taylor’s home in 2020, was underway Monday.
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The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has made progress in shortening monthslong delays in laboratory testing of sexual assault evidence, according to a new audit by the state’s comptroller.
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Attorneys for a Kentucky man that’s spent four decades on death row for murder say a recent DNA test is proof he wasn’t the killer.
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The private prison company CoreCivic operates four prisons in Tennessee, a service for which the state pays over $200 million a year. But the government can withhold some of that money if CoreCivic violates Tennessee standards for prison operation.
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Louisville’s top state prosecutor is collaborating with Republican Attorney General Russell Coleman to give his office the authority to prosecute certain gun crimes in the city as he opens a new branch office.