Skull Fracture

A Danville man who became a businessman when he was a 14-year-old took an interest in balloons and airplanes and established a reputation as a stunt-flier and aerialist in the days of aviation barnstormers. Thomas Longo built his own bi-plane in a...

The road to recovery for a college student from Wilmore took her back home to her own bed Tuesday after she was hit by a car and suffered a traumatic brain injury a month earlier. Katie Hogan, who graduated from West Jessamine High School in 2009 and is...

A Winchester man admitted to fracturing his wife’s skull during the summer and agreed to serve six years in prison for the assault. James Beschorner, 49, pleaded guilty to a single count of second-degree assault Thursday afternoon in Clark...

A Winchester mother is facing five years in prison for killing her 16-day-old son nearly two and a half years ago. Amanda Tolson, 24, of 348 Hill St., pleaded guilty Thursday morning in Clark Circuit Court to a single count of reckless homicide. The...

STANFORD — Jessica Noble’s tears began almost as soon she took the witness stand, when Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney David Dalton handed her a picture of her 4-year-old son, Nathaniel Knox, sitting on a riding lawn mower. They...

Amanda Tolson began serving five years for reckless homicide Thursday, after she was sentenced for her infant son’s death nearly three years ago. Tolson, 25, of 348 Hill St., pleaded guilty in August after a court mediator met with all sides earlier...

The murder case involving the death of a 17-day-old boy may be resolved through mediation rather than by a jury. Amanda Tolson and Christopher Chandler, the parents of Lucas Chandler, were scheduled to be tried for murder in October, but Clark Circuit...

It will be another six months before the parents stand trial for the death of their 16-day-old son. Amanda Tolson, 24, and Christopher Chandler, 25, were to be tried for murder next month in the death of their son Lucas. Thursday afternoon,...

Saying that "those who made the laws have an obligation to obey them," a District Court judge in Annapolis sentenced state Del. Donald H. Dwyer Jr. on Tuesday to 30 days in jail after he pleaded guilty to operating a boat while under the influence....

The trial for a man charged in a February 2011 bar fight in Martinsburg that left a man with severe injuries was set Monday for Aug. 27 in Berkeley County Circuit Court. Benjamin Jason Bean, 37, who was indicted on one count of conspiracy in October...

Somebody is going to get killed out there. I've said it a hundred times, thought it a thousand. The only question was, what ballplayer would have to die on the mound before something was done to protect pitchers? The issue, in the news again after...

As her infant daughter lay in a hospital bed, brain-dead and on life support, Angela Petrov revealed to the medical staff a family history steeped in child abuse and murder. Six years earlier, she said, her half sister fatally beat her 5-year-old...