State News
Two Lexingtonians charged with trafficking marijuana
Two residents of a suburban Lexington neighborhood were arrested Sunday on charges of growing and trafficking marijuana.
Court records said police executing a search warrant on Angela Court near Nicholasville Road, south of Man o' War Boulevard, said they found six marijuana plants, more than five pounds of packaged marijuana and items used to smoke marijuana.
Laura Marie Walters, 43, and Stephen Craig Henderson, 40, were charged with felony trafficking and cultivating marijuana (first offense for both) and with misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia.
Arraignments for Walters and Henderson were set for 1 p.m. Tuesday in Fayette District Court.
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2010 19:58 EDT
UK's new faculty trustee is funny even when he's serious
It's unclear whether Joe Peek, the new faculty trustee on the University of Kentucky board, is a funny smart guy or a smart funny guy.
Either way, for a university where board meetings can be remarkably sedate, Peek promises to be like a can of kerosene held next to a lit match.
The humor of the UK Gatton Chair in International Banking and Finance, an expert on financial institutions and bank regulation, betrays an academic heft that can be daunting.
But would a research associate at the Center on Japanese Economy and Business at Columbia University and a former fellow of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s Center for Financial Research send out an e-mail message like this after his May election?
"Now that you have foolishly elected me as your faculty trustee, I have lost all respect for you, thereby fully qualifying me to be a UK trustee. Therefore, it is time for me to tone down the campaign rhetoric, take on a more statesperson-like role, and stop making cheap jokes at the expense of the UK administration. ... Yeah, right."
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2010 19:13 EDT
Author's Ky. connection: federal prison
What James Patterson is to the nail-biting thriller, Wahida Clark is to thug romance.
Clark penned her first two books on yellow sheets of legal paper and then shipped the work from her temporary Kentucky address to relatives in New Jersey, who typed the words that would launch Clark's career.
The two books turned into a series of four books, soon-to-be five, which landed Clark a coveted spot on the New York Time's best-seller list. Now she travels, speaking to groups at juvenile detention centers, halfway houses and trade shows. Another author dubbed her Queen of Thug Love fiction. Clark also works for a non-profit organization that serves at-risk youth and people who have been incarcerated.
You might not have heard of Clark, but a recent search of the Lexington Public Library catalog produced eight titles by her, and most of the books were on hold or awaiting return from patrons. The books have worn covers and creased pages.
Clark, who hails from Trenton, N.J., is a Kentucky author, which is noted on the spine of her books at the library and in the author biography on the back covers of her books. But she wasn't born in Kentucky and has never lived in Kentucky outside of a federal prison.
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2010 18:38 EDT
Officer in Sunday wreck was not wearing seat belt
It's Lexington police policy for officers to wear seat belts, said Lt. Chris Van Brackel.
An officer whose police cruiser struck another car Sunday was not wearing his.
Officer Kevin G. Jones, 43, is off duty now, Van Brackel said, because of neck injuries he received when his cruiser struck another car that ran a red light.
"We do have a policy. Seat belts will be worn," Van Brackel said.
Any disciplinary action will be up to the chain of command, he said.
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:23 EDT
Monticello woman dies in single-car crash
A Monticello woman died in a single-car crash in Wayne County Monday morning, Kentucky State Police said.
Gretchen E. Koontz, 35, was driving a 2000 Chevrolet Impala west on Ky. 92 when her right tires dropped off the side of the road.
Koontz then crossed over both lanes and off the road, hitting a wooden post and a tree, state police said.
She was taken to Wayne County Hospital, where she died, police said.
Koontz was alone in her car and was wearing her seat belt, London state police post spokesman Trooper Don Trosper said, and alcohol was not suspected as a factor in the crash.
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2010 18:18 EDT
Woman found in Anderson Co. was slashed to death; identity still unknown
A woman whose body was found by state police Saturday in an Anderson County home was slashed to death, the county coroner said.
An autopsy has confirmed that much, but confirmation of the woman's identity would probably not be available from the state medical examiner until Tuesday, said Coroner Brian Ritchie.
The man thought to be the woman's boyfriend, Gary M. Bancroft, 33, of Lawrenceburg, was charged with murder on Saturday. The body was found in a container in his home.
She was not dismembered, Ritchie said, but died of multiple slash wounds.
Bancroft was being held in the Franklin County Regional Jail on $500,000 full cash bond.
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:08 EDT
Artist with a chain saw carves for WEG
"It's a little bit of an odd story," said Isaac Bingham.
That's a little bit of an understatement.
Because the tale that finds Bingham revving up a chain saw to carve giant squirrels and fish at the Kentucky Horse Park begins in Vermont, winds through Dartmouth and Berea colleges, and takes a detour to study boat building by indigenous peoples in Asia and South America.
"I never imagined I would do anything like this," said Bingham, "this" being, among other things, carving a Canada goose the size of an RV out of a tree trunk for the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games.
Carved animal figures have long been used as jumps or beside jumps at equestrian cross-country events, but it wasn't until January that Bingham tried his hand at the unusual artistic endeavor.
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:03 EDT
Concierge model provides high-end doctor's visit
No tedious waiting while flipping through outdated magazines. 24/7 access to your doctor that's just a phone call away. And, yes, even house calls.
More and more "concierge" doctors in Central Kentucky are offering these top-flight services for a price ranging from $1,500 to $4,200 a person annually on top of insurance premiums.
Doctors leaving a traditional general practice say decreasing payments from insurance and shrinking Medicaid and Medicare reimbursements mean they have to take on more and more patients to stay afloat. That results, the physicians contend, in stressed doctors and a reduced quality of care.
So a small number are opting out of that system in favor of concierge services in which patients pay an upfront fee, and the number of patients served by a practice is capped in the hundreds rather than the 1,500 to 2,000 in a typical practice.
The trend, which has been building across the country for about 15 years, is gaining traction in Central Kentucky, with two practices opening in Lexington, one expected to open soon in Versailles and second recently opened service in Louisville. There are at least 12 such practices in Cincinnati.
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2010 16:39 EDT
Kentuckians fight back against alarming rise in suicides
Elfrida Johnson sat on the stairs of her porch crying.
One trembling hand held a lit cigarette; the other absently stroked an orange cat.
This is what a broken woman looks like, she said.
"I don't know when I will be able to get over it," said Johnson, 52.
Johnson's sister, Aletha King, took her own life. She died Aug. 17 after she lay on the railroad tracks behind her home at Ponderosa Mobile Home Park off Lisle Road at the Fayette-Scott County line. She died of multisystem trauma after being struck by a train, according to coroner's reports.
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2010 06:38 EDT
Horse culture is at its heart
Kathy Hopkins attended the 2006 World Equestrian Games in Aachen, Germany, and enjoyed the top-level competition and the top-drawer shopping.
But something was missing, thought Hopkins, the director of equine education at the Kentucky Horse Park. And for the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games the first time the event has been held in the United States she wanted to see something more American.
"We've got a very, very unique and diverse equestrian community in the United States," Hopkins said. "We didn't want this to be just about the competition, we wanted to include the entire equine community and celebrate the uniqueness of our horse culture."
And so was born the Equine Village, a horseapalooza of different breeds, clinicians, performers and hands-on experiences, all of it free with a general admission ticket to the Games. (For suggesting the idea, Hopkins got the privilege of running the whole thing, set around the Horse Park's visitors' center and museum.)
From 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sept. 25 through Oct. 10, there will be equine activities in five rings at once, featuring at least 350 horses a day. People could spend all day watching clinicians like Pat Parelli, the dean of "natural horsemanship," or performers such as Tommie Turvey, the "Equine Extremist," who performs any number of acrobatics and tricks with his horses.
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2010 06:20 EDT
William Shatner talks horses with the New York Times
Sept. 6, 2010
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The New York Times profiles actor, sometimes Lexington visitor and horseman, William Shatner . Some advice Shatner shared about horses: A horse owner once told me, 'Never buy anything that eats while you sleep.' '' The profile includes a video .
Business leaders from Victoria, Tex. , visited Paducah to learn what they did to transform the downtown, reports the Victoria Advocate . Victoria and Paducah share several characteristics: a downtown lost to malls; both towns are located on waterfronts; and both are near large, metropolitan cities. One Paducah resident suggested to the Texas group: If your goal is to become a tourist destination, the visual and performing arts are crucial .. Anytime you can engage the art community, you create new life in your town.
A student demonstrated dressage for the sixth-graders at Oakview Elementary in Ashland, reports the Daily Independent . It's like ballet on horseback, Anne Burchett said to the newspaper. She rode her horse Rusty Be Quick and answered questions from the other students with her instructor Susie Duncan.
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Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:31 EDT
Driver in critical condition after car collides with police cruiser
A car ran a red light and collided with a Lexington police cruiser Sunday afternoon at Manchester Street and the newly opened Oliver Lewis Way, police said.
John C. Chew, 70, was driving a 1989 Mercury Sable east on Manchester when he ran the red light at Oliver Lewis, the renamed Newtown Pike extension road that opened last week, police said.
Officer Kevin G. Jones, 43, driving a 2007 Crown Victoria cruiser, hit the Sable's passenger side.
Both men were injured, and neither was wearing a seat belt, according to a police collision reconstruction unit press release.
Chew was taken to University of Kentucky Chandler Hospital where he was listed in critical condition Sunday night. Jones was treated for neck injuries and discharged.
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2010 21:43 EDT
Woman's body found in container; Anderson man charged with murder
The body of a woman was found Saturday afternoon in a container in a mobile home in western Anderson County.
Gary M. Bancroft, 33, of Lawrenceburg, was charged with her murder, Kentucky State Police said Sunday night.
The woman's remains have not been identified, but her death is being investigated as a homicide, Coroner Brian Ritchie said.
"It's a domestic violence situation," said state police spokesman Trooper Ronald Turley, though police would not release the victim's identity.
Ritchie said the woman's body was found at Bancroft's home at Fairview Road and Bardstown Road. He said family members of Bancroft's girlfriend, Renee Mobley, said the two had a violent history.
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2010 20:58 EDT
UPS plane had smoke in cockpit
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates Pilots aboard a UPS cargo plane faced radio problems and smoke in the cockpit as they struggled to maintain altitude before crashing into the desert outside Dubai last week, investigators said Sunday.
What exactly caused Friday's crash remains under investigation. The UAE's General Civil Aviation Authority said in a preliminary report that the Boeing 747-400's two-man crew was trying to return to Dubai's main airport the Mideast's busiest when the plane went down. Both crew members, including the pilot from Louisville, were killed.
UPS, the Atlanta-based company formally known as United Parcel Service Inc., has identified the crew members as Capt. Doug Lampe, 48, of Louisville, and First Officer Matthew Bell, 38, of Sanford, Fla. Lampe had been with UPS since 1995. Bell had been with the company since 2006. Both flew out of UPS's Anchorage, Alaska, pilot base.
A little more than 20 minutes into the flight, air traffic controllers in Dubai received word from officials in the nearby Gulf nation of Bahrain that the plane was on its way back after reporting smoke in the cockpit. The jet was "unable to maintain altitude," the report said.
Crew members were unable to speak directly with air traffic controllers in Dubai as they tried to land, however, because the pilot had switched his radio to a different frequency and for some reason couldn't switch it back, said Saif al-Suwaidi, director-general of UAE's aviation authority
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2010 03:49 EDT
Some experts urging shock therapy for housing market
The unexpectedly deep plunge in home sales this summer is likely to force the Obama administration to choose between future home owners and current ones, a predicament officials had been eager to avoid.
During the last 18 months, the administration has rolled out just about every program it could think of to prop up the ailing housing market, using tax credits, mortgage modification programs, low interest rates, government-backed loans and other assistance intended to keep values up and delinquent borrowers out of foreclosure. The goal was to stabilize the market until a resurgent economy created new households that demanded places to live.
As the economy again sputters July housing sales sank 26 percent from July 2009 there is a growing sense of exhaustion with government intervention. Some economists and analysts are now urging a dose of shock therapy that would greatly shift the benefits to future homeowners: Let the housing market crash.
When prices are lower, these experts argue, buyers will pour in, creating the elusive stability the government has spent billions upon billions trying to achieve.
"Housing needs to go back to reasonable levels," said Anthony B. Sanders, a professor of real estate finance at George Mason University. "If we keep trying to stimulate the market, that's the definition of insanity."
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2010 06:39 EDT
Labor Day closings
Here is a list of local services that might be affected by Labor Day:
Government: All city, state and federal �offices closed Monday.
Courts: All courts closed Monday.
U.S. Post Office: No home delivery Monday.
Libraries: Closed Monday.
Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2010 07:12 EDT
Hurricane watch issued for coasts of Mexico, Texas
Mexican authorities urged people to move to shelters while officials in Texas distributed sandbags and warned of flash floods as Tropical Storm Hermine strengthened and headed toward the northwestern Gulf coast on Monday.
Hermine will probably make landfall around midnight just south of the U.S.-Mexico border, threatening to bring as much as a foot of rainfall to some areas battered by Hurricane Alex in June. Remnant rains from Alex killed at least 12 people in flooding in Mexico.
Hermine "will briefly be over Mexico, and then we're expecting it to produce very heavy rainfall over south Texas," said Eric Blake, a hurricane specialist at the U.S. National Hurricane Center. "We're expecting widespread rainfall totals of 4 to 8 inches with isolated amounts of a foot possible. Especially in the hilly and mountainous terrain, that could cause life-threatening flash flooding."
The storm's winds strengthened to about 65 mph (100 kph), and by Monday afternoon it was located about 80 miles (130 kilometers) south-southeast of Brownsville, Texas. Tropical storm force winds extended out up to 105 miles (165 kilometers) from the storm's center.
While it is likely to hit just south of Matamoros - across the border from Brownsville - at tropical storm force, it has the potential to build into minimal hurricane strength, Blake said.
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:15 EDT
Power company to auction off land in Ky.
A utility subsidiary is preparing to sell more than 4,700 acres of land in what is being billed as one of the largest land auctions in western Kentucky history.
The Henderson Gleaner reports that American Electric Power's Franklin Real Estate Co., is selling the property in 44 tracts at an auction set for Oct. 6 in Evansville, Ind.
"It's a big deal," Henderson County Agricultural Extension Agent Mike Smith said. "It's one of the largest selloffs of farmland we've seen. It has the ability to change the lives of people out that way."
The sale will allow farmers who have been leasing land to potentially buy it. The tracts range from a country house on a 1.7-acre lot to as much as 350 acres, with most encompassing 70 to 165 acres.
"You take 400 acres out of a guy's farming operation and you might be taking some of the profitability out of it," he noted.
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2010 13:15 EDT
Lincoln birthplace cabin re-open in Ky.
A pink granite building that's home to Abraham Lincoln's symbolic birthplace cabin has reopened after a year of renovations.
The work included replacing the roof and fixing a skylight.
Chief of interpretation, visitor services and resource management for the Hodgenville park, Scott Shultz, described the building as brighter, with a new skylight.
Shultz told the Elizabethtown News-Enterprise that renovations likely will cost more than $1.5 million.
The Memorial Building was built about 100 years ago to mark the centennial of Lincoln s birth.
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2010 12:45 EDT
Seniors being honored at center on aging dinner
Lexington artist Adalin Wichman is turning 88 in a few days, but she isn't even thinking about slowing down.
Wichman is too busy, anyway, putting the final touches on the bronze trophies for the Eclipse Awards that will be presented early next year to major figures in Thoroughbred racing. Wichman sculpted the original design for the annual awards in 1971, but she gets the trophies ready for presentation each year, adding a patina and assembling each piece.
"I'm fretting about it, but you just keep plugging along," she said. "So much of this is just plugging along, isn't it?"
Wichman's long success at "just plugging along" will be honored Tuesday night, when she will be named a "Senior Star" at the 24th annual dinner of the University of Kentucky Sanders-Brown Center on Aging Foundation.
The Bourbon County native began as a fashion illustrator in the 1950s. Now, Queen Elizabeth II owns some of her work. Wichman has contributed to calendars commissioned by the White House Historical Association, designed the Foucault pendulum in the Lexington Public Library downtown, and she has an entry in this year's Horse Mania exhibit. All this from a woman who didn't plan an art career.
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2010 03:48 EDT
Dozens of cars vandalized at U of L
LOUISVILLE University of Louisville police were investigating damage to dozens of cars parked on campus, with most of the incidents taking place in the student parking lots.
The first reports of damage came in at about 3:55 a.m. Sunday. WHAS-TV said at least 39 cars were vandalized, with the bulk of damage being scratches and cut tires.
No arrests were made as of Sunday afternoon.
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2010 18:08 EDT
UK medical school to open extension campus at Murray State
MURRAY The University of Kentucky College of Medicine plans to open a western campus in Murray with the goal of having students enrolled there in 2014.
College of Medicine Dean Emery Wilson says the extension campus at Murray State University will start up in 2012. Wilson told The Murray Ledger & Times that students in the program will attend school at the university's Lexington campus for their first two years of medical school and then transition to the campus in Murray for their third and fourth years.
The program is the result of a formal agreement with Murray State. UK has a similar arrangement at Morehead State University, where students are entering their second year of having students on campus.
Wilson says Kentucky is 2,300 physicians below the national average and that the deficit is especially high in rural areas.
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2010 16:03 EDT
Couch-and-coffee table car travels down Victory Avenue
Inspired by the art cars in Nevada's Burning Man Festival, Tim Francis built a couch-and-coffee table car over the winter by stripping a three-wheeled golf cart.
It will go about 10 mph, "just enough for a nice evening breeze," said Francis.
Francis steers the car by a toggle switch he built into a "magic pillow" he holds.
The couch-and-coffee table car went for a spin Saturday night on Victory Avenue in Lexington.
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2010 12:44 EDT
Coal a 'driving factor' in U.S. Senate race
The landscapes of Eastern and Western Kentucky have little in common, but the areas share at least two things: an abundance of coal and a pivotal role in the U.S. Senate race.
That means coal policies, such as the controversial "cap and trade" approach to cutting greenhouse gas emissions, are a key issue in the contest between Republican Rand Paul and Democrat Jack Conway.
In Western Kentucky, one concern is that cap and trade would cause higher rates for electricity produced by burning coal, hurting two large aluminum smelters that employ 1,500 people and support thousands more jobs.
In Eastern Kentucky, where coal is an economic linchpin, companies and many miners fear tougher environmental regulation will cripple surface mining.
Coal will be the "driving factor" in who carries the eastern counties that rely on it, Bell County Judge-Executive Albey Brock predicted.
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2010 06:28 EDT
Security will be tight for WEG
For the 16 days of the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games, the Kentucky Horse Park should be the safest place in the state outside of Fort Knox.
Lexington and Kentucky State police will work with Kentucky National Guard troops and 1,000 paid and volunteer security guards to patrol the Horse Park, guide traffic, screen visitors and protect the yet-to-be-named Very Important Persons in the audience, some of whom are bringing their own security details.
"People will notice us. We want them to notice us and be comfortable, knowing that we've put real effort into the operation here," said Kevin Tyo, president of Event Security Consulting and Operations Inc., a Georgetown firm that won the primary security contract for WEG.
Security will be tight because the Games, like any large gathering of international visitors and VIPs, is a possible target for terrorism although officials say they're unaware of any specific threats and more routine kinds of crime, such as theft.
WEG's high profile is keeping law enforcement on its toes. As many as 60,000 visitors are expected to crowd the park on the busiest days, such as when the popular cross-country competition is held. The Games will be televised to scores of nations by hundreds of journalists from around the globe.
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2010 06:59 EDT
Merlene Davis: Blacks need to spread out their giving
Melody "Mimi" Booker, 43, died June 6, 2007, after a brief battle with gastric cancer.
But that is not the end of her story. Jessica Ann Clark, Booker's mother, wanted to do something in her daughter's name to honor her memory as well as help conquer the disease that took her life.
She asked some friends to help raise money for cancer research and found those friends more than willing.
"My spirit told me it was time for me to carry the torch," Clark said of her volunteer and fund-raising efforts for the American Cancer Society.
As I listened to Clark, I reflected back to a Sunday afternoon a few years ago when a girlfriend and I decided to go to an Alzheimer's Walk at Keeneland Race Course. Former University of Kentucky basketball Coach Tubby Smith was there signing T-shirts and welcoming folks who were donating money for that worthy cause.
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2010 07:01 EDT
U.S. vehicles destroy Afghan bombs by rolling over them
Spc. Joshua Joe drives a "Husky," a giant vehicle built to find and withstand the blast of a roadside bomb, putting him in the front line of the U.S.-led coalition's battle against the Taliban's most effective weapon in Afghanistan.
Seventeen U.S. troops fell to improvised explosive devices in a five-day period that began Aug. 27, and the weapons accounted for about 60 percent of the 485 International Security Assistance Force deaths this year through August, according to iCasualties.org, which tracks casualties in the Afghan and Iraqi conflicts. IED's also are a prime cause of casualties among Afghan civilians.
The threat requires specialist IED hunters and specially designed vehicles. The Husky is the lead vehicle in an IED clearance convoy of hulking, bizarre-looking vehicles - with such names as the Buffalo - that seem like creations for a sci-fi movie.
The Husky carries just one person, who's the driver and operator, perched on top of the vehicle in a tiny cab, basically just waiting to drive over any bomb the equipment doesn't detect, and hoping that the machine is strong enough to avert serious injury.
At the 174 Mobility Augmentation Company, a counter-IED unit stationed at Kandahar Airfield in the insurgency hot spot of southern Afghanistan, Joe, a broad-built 22-year-old from Sumter, S.C., with the Lord's Prayer tattooed on his bulging forearm, is one of the Husky drivers.
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2010 03:11 EDT
Las Vegas casino evacuated after bomb threat
A man claiming to have a bomb around his chest prompted an evacuation of a Las Vegas casino for several hours.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal and Las Vegas Sun report that the threat Saturday turned out to be a hoax and the man was arrested after the incident at Arizona Charlie's Hotel and Casino.
Police say the man apparently wanted to commit "suicide by cop." His name wasn't immediately released.
Police say the man walked up to the security desk inside the casino and showed a security guard what he said was an explosive device.
Guards persuaded him to go outside and evacuated the resort. The incident also prompted the temporary closure of the Boulder Highway outside the casino.
Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2010 20:35 EDT
Aunt arrested after 2-year-old found in Ky. street
Kentucky State Police have charged a woman after a 2-year-old boy that she was supposed to be watching was found wandering in the street in Union County.
According to a police news release, the toddler was spotted walking alone by a passer-by on Saturday morning.
Police said the child was supposed to be in the care of his aunt, Susan Shepherd, who lived about mile away from where the child was found. Police said she was unaware the child had been missing and was arrested for wanton endangerment and endangering the welfare of a child.
The child was examined by a medical technician and later returned to his grandparents' custody.
Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2010 17:35 EDT
Appalshop hopes to debunk Appalachia's stereotypes
Appalachia the place, its people, their cultures defies easy summation.
Not surprisingly, so does the media center that's devoted more than 40 years to documenting the region's unique resonance: Appalshop.
Tucked away in the eastern Kentucky town of Whitesburg, Appalshop is at once a creature of the mountains and a representative of the world at large.
Through films and video, radio, live music and theater, still images and the written word, the center exists to tell stories. Some encompass huge scope. Others are intimate
Indeed, through the power of narrative and clear example, Appalshop wants to shatter complacency and debilitating stereotype.
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:10 EDT
Pilot from Louisville died in UPS crash
Crew members from Kentucky and Florida were identified Saturday as the two people killed when a UPS cargo plane crashed shortly after takeoff outside Dubai.
The crash on Friday killed Captain Doug Lampe of Louisville, Ky., 48, and First Officer Matthew Bell, 38, of Sanford, Fla., the Atlanta-based package delivery company said in a news release.
Lampe has been with UPS since 1995. Bell has been with UPS since 2006. Both crew members flew out of UPS's Anchorage, Alaska, pilot base.
"This is a terrible tragedy, and all of us at UPS extend our deepest sympathies to the families and friends of both of these crewmembers," said UPS CEO Scott Davis in a statement. "Our thoughts and prayers will continue to be with them during this difficult time."
Family members for the pilots could not immediately be reached on Saturday.
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2010 07:33 EDT
Richmond woman dies after Saturday wreck
A Madison County woman died in Lexington after a Saturday collision in Richmond, the Fayette County coroner's office said.
Nettie Casey, 83, of Richmond was pronounced dead at 6:20 p.m. Saturday at the University of Kentucky Chandler Hospital, according to a news release from the coroner's office.
Casey was the driver of a vehicle struck in the driver's side door by another vehicle. The collision happened at 8:33 a.m. Saturday as Casey attempted to turn left from Boggs Lane onto the Eastern Bypass, Richmond police said.
Casey was initially taken to Pattie A. Clay Hospital in Richmond and was later transferred to the Lexington hospital. Upon examination at UK, she was found to have a head injury that led to her death Saturday night.
Richmond police said no charges are anticipated in this collision.
Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2010 23:43 EDT
Wedding celebration becomes community event
When you see a voter-registration table at a wedding reception, you know it's no ordinary post-wedding shindig.
Likewise, there were inflatable "bounce houses" and games for children, and volunteers handing out donated clothing, canned goods and toiletries to those in need.
And there were people of all races and ages and backgrounds dancing to Cupid Shuffle .
It was the kind of wedding that Tanya Ferguson and Christian Torp wanted: a community event they could share with the neighborhood around Lexington's Duncan Park.
"We just wanted everybody to come, have an awesome time and get to know each other," Tanya Torp said Saturday, minutes after the wedding at Greater Soul Deliverance Apostolic Tabernacle across the street from the park.
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2010 03:53 EDT
Pike County man dies of gunshot wounds
The fatal shooting Friday night of a man in Pike County is under investigation by Kentucky State Police.
Sonny Charles, 38, address not listed, was found with several gunshot wounds near the Phelps Laundromat on Ky. 632, state police said.
Harold Scott, 52, of Phelps was arrested and charged with murder. He remained in the Pike County Detention Center without bond on Saturday.
A preliminary investigation revealed that Charles "had been in an altercation" with Scott in the parking lot of the laundromat, a new release from state police said.
After he was shot, Charles attempted to flee the scene by driving away in a Ford F350 pickup truck, but the truck went across Ky. 632 and into the Right Fork of Peter Creek, said Pike County Deputy Coroner Ernest Casebolt.
Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2010 17:23 EDT
Teen sitting in road dies after being struck by car
A 14-year-old boy sitting in a roadway was struck by a vehicle and died Saturday in Breathitt County, Kentucky State Police said.
Joseph James Earl Crank of Canoe, a Breathitt County community south of Jackson, was sitting "on the traveled portion" of Ky. 1812 in the Quicksand community, a police news release said.
Crank was struck by a vehicle driven by Edith Robinson, no address listed, state police said.
The accident was reported to the state police post in Hazard shortly before 5 a.m. Saturday. No other details were immediately available.
Crank was pronounced dead at the scene, and state police continue to investigate.
Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2010 15:58 EDT
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