Seven people were reportedly shot Thursday night during a protest in Kentucky over a woman who police fatally shot in March while executing a search warrant at her apartment. WFPL reported that the peaceful demonstration, which occurred in downtown Louisville, turned violent after several hours. Police said that several hundred protestors blocked the Louisville Metro …
Attorneys for the family of an unarmed female Louisville EMT shot and killed by police officers in her own home say officers used “false information” to obtain the “no knock” warrant they used to burst into her apartment, WDRB reported. Breonna Taylor, 26, was hit eight times by the spray of bullets Louisville Metro officers …
A Kentucky man has been accused of sexually abusing his foster children and an adopted child for years, using threats and coercion to force the children to pose nude and perform sexual acts. The Boone County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement that a search of Harry G. Forgue’s phone showed that he had installed …
A former Eastern Kentucky University professor has been charged with the murder of his wife, who has been missing since last fall, the Richmond Police Department said Friday. Ella Diebolt Jackson, 48, was reported missing on October 22, police said, and her husband, 39-year-old Glenn Jackson. said that he last saw her on October 20. …
A Kentucky woman was arrested this month for allegedly trying to abduct a 14-year-old girl as she walked to a friend’s house. According to WAVE, the girl told police that Kimberly Phelps, 50, jumped out of a wooded area, grabbed her from behind, and covered her mouth before trying to drag her away. The girl …
A sex offender set free by former Kentucky Gov Matt Bevin (R) after losing his re-election bid last fall has been arrested on a federal charge of producing child sex abuse material, the Louisville Courier-Journal reported. Bevin commuted Dayton Jones’s life sentence to time served in December, telling the Courier-Journal there was “zero, zero” evidence …
A Kentucky doctor was criminally charged Tuesday for allegedly assaulting a teen girl for not adhering to social distancing guidelines. John Rademaker, 57, was charged with first-degree strangulation and harassment with physical contact for an alleged incident that occurred on April 3 in Louisville. The Courier Jornal reported that Rademaker was filmed confronting a group …
Authorities announced that remains discovered in Ohio on Sunday belong to a Kentucky girl who mysteriously vanished in 2010. An unidentified man reportedly contacted the Clermont County Sheriff’s Office and claimed he’d discovered possible human remains in a wooded area near Williamsburg Township. Clermont County police, along with the Clermont County coroner and Covington, Kentucky, …
A Kentucky man filed a lawsuit against two police departments earlier this month, alleging officers violently dragged him out his home and threw him to the ground while investigating a shooting that turned out to be a false alarm. The September 2019 bodycam footage was released in light of the lawsuit Frank Serapiglia, 71, filed …
A man who was 5-years-old when his babysitter reportedly kidnapped him recently reunited with his mother after 55 years apart. According to WLKY, Jerry Barnett and Anna-Mary Barnett reunited on Friday in Radcliff, Kentucky. The mother and son managed to find each other four years after Jerry Barnett’s son took a DNA test for a …
A Kentucky man who was on house arrest while awaiting trial for fatally shooting a woman last year was recently arrested for assaulting his girlfriend, according to reports. WDRB reports that Austin Tudor, 25, was rearrested on February 27 — less than a month after being released from jail and entering a home incarceration program …
An oversight committee said a Kentucky judge had sex in court and forced attorneys to support her election bid. She’s now was suspended with pay as officials determine her punishment. The Judicial Conduct Commission issued nine counts against Kenton County Judge Dawn Gentry in early December, finding she had a “pattern” of misconduct. The Lexington …
