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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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Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman recused himself from all matters involving Addiction Recovery Care, shortly before the FBI announced it is investigating the company for potential health care fraud.
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Former Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis is appealing a ruling that says she must pay damages to same-sex couples who were refused marriage licenses. Her lawyers filed a brief Monday with the U.S. Sixth Circuit of Appeals, asking for the $360,000 judgment to be overturned.
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A nonprofit that helped young people navigate the legal system in Christian County has been dissolved after it didn’t meet state and national standards set by its national parent organization.
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The Tennessee government has agreed to begin scrubbing its sex offender registry of dozens of people who were convicted of prostitution while having HIV, reversing a practice that federal lawsuits have challenged as draconian and discriminatory.
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A Fort Campbell soldier found dead in her home earlier this year died of nearly 70 stab wounds, according to an autopsy report.
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Starting next month, more kids who are charged with violent crimes will be automatically prosecuted as adults. In Louisville, police data show most will be Black.
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Following a seven-day trial, a Bowling Green man has been convicted in a federal terrorism-related case. Thirty-four-year-old Mirsad Ramic was found guilty in U.S. District Court of providing material support to ISIS and receiving military type training from the foreign terrorist organization.
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Another caregiver at Choate Mental Health and Developmental Center in Anna, Illinois is facing charges for abusing a patient.
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The new commissioner for the state’s Department of Juvenile Justice warned lawmakers Wednesday that an influx of youth sent to juvenile detention facilities could burden an already overtaxed system.
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A state law taking effect next month will require more kids charged with violent offenses to be held in Kentucky’s troubled juvenile jails — at a time when all eight of the youth detention centers are under federal investigation for possible abuses.