Kentucky State Police are investigating the death of a 38-year-old woman found stabbed 11 times in a Floyd County home earlier this month, but Amber Spradlin’s death has brought close scrutiny to the way 911 calls are handled in the county and the city of Prestonburg. Spradlin’s family says that someone called 911 from the …
A 22-year-old man in northwest Georgia was arrested this week and charged with breaking a 3-month-old girl’s neck and trying to smother her twin sister. Robert Terrell Dubose Jr is charged with aggravated assault and cruelty to children, according to the Coosa Valley News and jail records. According to a warrant filed in the case, …
A Missouri man flagged down a Texas police chief Wednesday and told him he’d shot his wife. Floydada Police Chief Reuben Ramon told the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal that he was checking out a report of a hay bale in the road early Wednesday afternoon when Keith Bass II, 48, waved him over. Ramon said Bass approached …
Two police officers were killed and five other people wounded Thursday night when police tried to serve a warrant in eastern Kentucky’s Floyd County. The Floyd County Sheriff’s Office said that Deputy William Petry, a retired state trooper, and Prestonburg Police Captain Ralph Frasure were killed. Kentucky State Police said three wounded police officers remain …
A Kentucky woman was last seen more than two weeks ago in a cellphone video that shows her wandering in a stranger’s back yard before jumping into a creek and disappearing. Kandi Gonzalez, 36, was along Abbott Creek Road, less than a half mile from her home in Prestonburg on June 1 when she was …
Authorities in Georgia say two suspects are behind bars on suspicion of providing a young child with a drink spiked with illegal narcotics. According to the Atlanta Journal Constitution, 27-year-old Ashley Lee Sexton and 29-year-old Joshua Lamar Teems were arrested on Monday after local law enforcement claim they gave a 4-year-old child a beverage that …
