A Kentucky man is accused of fatally beating his 7-week-old daughter earlier this month while the girl’s mother was hospitalized. Cortney Jones told WAVE that she was being treated for postpartum complications on June 17 when Del’Shawn Banks, 23, called her in hysterics. Jones said Banks was in an ambulance at the time with their …
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 …
A Kentucky woman left her 4-year-old son behind a Lexington social services organization and took off in one of the facility’s vans. Jahaira Rivera had been charged with abandonment of a minor and theft by unlawful taking of a vehicle, LEX18 reported. The Lexington Police Department said the incident took place at about 5:30 p.m. …
A body found in a ditch in rural Kentucky has been identified as a 21-year-old Murray State University student from Virginia, according to Kentucky State Police. Sarah Townsend died from multiple gunshot wounds, the Lexington Herald-Reader reported. Julius Sotomayor, 22, has been arrested and charged with killing Townsend, state police said. A motorist found Townsend’s …
A Kentucky mother has been charged with murder after her 2-year-old son ingested her fentanyl while she was sleeping. First responders found the boy in respiratory distress when they responded to a call in Ludlow at about 3:300 Thursday afternoon. He was taken to Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. His mother, 33-year-old …
On Monday, a Kentucky judge ruled criminal charges be permanently dropped against Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend, who allegedly shot at police officers during last March’s raid that resulted in Taylor’s death. According to the Louisville Courier-Journal, Jefferson Circuit Judge Olu Stevens determined that charges of assault and attempted murder of a police officer against Kenneth Walker …
A Kentucky police dispatcher answered a desperate call to 911 Thursday night: A 10-year-old boy reported a deadly shooting at his home in Brandenburg, WLKY reports. “A 10-year-old was on the telephone saying that his stepmother and stepmother’s dog had been shot,” said Brandenburg Police Chief Brian Haag. Brandenburg police and Meade County sheriff’s deputies …
A Kentucky massage therapist was arrested on Tuesday after allegedly raping a client, WBKO reports. Bowling Green Police said that a woman reported the rape during a massage at a spa near the College Hill Historic District. The woman said she had used Lindsey’s services several times in the past. Police said Christopher Lindsey admitted …
A northeastern Kentucky middle school teacher was arrested earlier this month after allegedly hiring someone to kill his mother, Kentucky State Police said, according to WSAZ. Billy G. Reynolds, 41, was a bus driver for Carter County Schools and also served as a special education teacher at West Carter Middle School in Olive Hill, Superintendent …
A former principal in Kentucky who is serving a nine-year federal prison sentence was ordered last week to pay $3.6 million for confiscating students’ phones and uploading their nude photos to the internet. According to the Louisville Courier-Journal, six accusers named ex-LaRue County High School principal Stephen Goodlett, 40, and the LaRue County School District …
Human remains found this summer near the area where Crystal Rogers vanished more than five years ago did not belong to the missing Kentucky mother of five, the Nelson County Sheriff’s Office said Friday. After the remains were found on July 23, the FBI joined the investigation and served several search warrants, including at the …
Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron announced Wednesday that one officer will be criminally charged in relation to the shootout that killed Breonna Taylor, an emergency room technician who Louisville police fatally shot in March — but the charge pertains to Taylor’s neighbors. Former Louisville police officer Brett Hankison, 44, was indicted on three counts of …
