Prisons

An alert deputy stumbled upon two men with several items designed to manufacture methamphetamine early Wednesday morning off Short Shun Road, Jessamine Sheriff’s Chief Deputy Allen Peel said. Shawn P. Brown, 29, of Lancaster, and Bo S. Anderson,...

Jessamine County Fiscal Court magistrates got a first-hand look Tuesday at the inside of the Jessamine County Detention Center and some of the reasons the jailer says the building is in need of upgrades and an expansion. So far this year, the center has...

One of the two men convicted in a 1989 Clark County murder is back in jail after allegedly trying to abduct a girl in Laurel County last week. Carl Wayne Miller, 42, is incarcerated in the Laurel County Detention Center on a charge of attempted...

HARRODSBURG — James Michael Kelley pleaded guilty Tuesday to murdering John “Bud” Dacci and assaulting Dacci’s wife even though he said didn’t remember committing the attacks at the couple’s home on Herrington Lake in...

100 YEARS AGO 1913 Boyle County Fiscal Court unanimously accepted the bid of the Danville Construction Company to erect the new workhouse. Attorneys have advised the court and the Danville City Council to begin work on the workhouse regardless of the...

FRANKFORT — The Kentucky Court of Appeals on Friday upheld the manslaughter conviction of Jason Napier in the 2009 beating death of a 4-year-old Lincoln County boy. Napier was convicted of second-degree manslaughter in 2011 by a Lincoln Circuit...

BOYLE DISTRICT COURT Cases handled recently in Boyle District Court, listed by name, charge, fine and jail sentence, where applicable, include the following. Court costs also were assessed in most cases. Ages and addresses are listed if available. Judge...

A Danville man was sentenced last week to three years in prison for trafficking in and possession of oxycodone but may already be eligible for parole. Robert D. Martin, 21, pleaded guilty to trafficking in oxycodone and two counts of possession in 2012...

In December 2011, Mercer County mother Sandra Baker was called to school to retrieve her son, Christopher, after the school determined he was out of control.  When she arrived, Baker told reporters later, she found her son in a large, green gym bag,...

LEXINGTON — A Danville man has been sentenced to 36 months in federal prison for possessing a firearm while on supervised release from another crime.  U.S. District Judge Danny C. Reeves sentenced 22-year-old Trent Jordan Strong on Wednesday for...

A Winchester man has been arrested after he went to Central Elementary School this morning and attempted to check out a child. James A. Tolson II, 25, of 109 Alabama St., was charged with attempted custodial interference and is in custody at the Clark...

BOYLE DISTRICT COURT Cases handled recently in Boyle District Court, listed by name, charge, fine and jail sentence, where applicable, include the following. Court costs also were assessed in most cases. Ages and addresses are listed if available. Judge...