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Jonathan Ryan Foley missing since Tuesday

BY JOHN L. ROSS STAFF WRITER

arbourville Police B detectives continue to investigate the disappear-

ance of a man missing since Tuesday.

Jonathan Ryan Foley, 26, never returned home after a trip to a local store, according to his father, Charles

“I believe he’s dead. I know somebody’s killed him.”

—Jonathan’s father, Charles Foley Jr. Foley, Jr. And his hopes for his son’s safe return continue to

fade.

“I believe he’s dead,” Foley said. “I know some-

Barbourville Police detectives continue to investigate the disappearance of Jonathan Ryan Foley who has been missing since Tuesday.

Foley never returned home after a trip to a local store.

body’s killed him.”

Foley said his son returned from active duty with the National Guard in December 2011. “He was an Iraqi War veteran,” he said. “When he was over there, he’d call me every day. Or he’d call me before a mission to tell me

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Corbin High to offer new sports

BY JEFF NOBLE, STAFF WRITER

wo new sports will be T offered by Corbin High School this school year after

the Corbin Board of Education approved three coaching positions during their regular meeting Thursday night at Corbin Primary School.

Both swimming and bass fishing are sports sanctioned by the KHSAA, the Kentucky High School Athletic Association, which Corbin High School is a member of. In addition to approving the two new sports, board members approved the positions of swimming coach and bass fishing coach, with an annual extra-service pay of $900 each. Also approved was the position of assistant archery coach at the annual extra-service pay of $500, which is effective for this school year.

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A patriotic song is sung by a choir of Hunter Hills Elementary students, conducted by the school’s Music Specialist, Jon Oliver. Oliver said the program was not only a salute to our nation’s veterans, but also based on the book, “America’s White Table,” written by Margot Theis Raven.

The book is about a tradition of white tables being set in this country on Veterans Day. That tradition honors all men and women who served or serving in the Armed Forces, with a special emphasis on those Missing in Action (MIA) and Prisoners of War (POW). “I wrote her and asked if she would give me permission to adapt it into a play, and she did. She contacted the publisher of the book for permission, and they did, too.

So we’re doing a play, and today’s performance is a world premiere,” Oliver noted.

Veterans Day services planned throughout area

BY JEFF NOBLE STAFF WRITER

Friday’s veterans program at Hunter Hills Elementary School in Laurel County, and the First Annual V e t e r a n s ’ Appreciation Dinner in Williamsburg, were just two events held in honor of Veterans Day this year. Here are some others scheduled for this weekend in

the Tri County region.

—In honor of Veterans Day, the Daniel Boone National Forest is waving fees today through Monday at several recreation areas. The fee waivers apply to all forest visitors at designated locations, including the Laurel River Lake boat ramps in Laurel and

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Confusion forces cancellation of meeting in 16th Senate District

BY RONNIE ELLIS CNHI NEWS SERVICE

ecause of confusion B about how the Monroe County Republican Party exec-

Veterans of military service were in full force at Friday’s program at Hunter Hills Elementary School. Among them were J. C. Myers (left) and Bob Tye (right), both members of American Legion Post 88 in Corbin. Between them in the middle is Ann Carroll, who served as a nurse with the U. S. Air Force.

utive committee was appointed, the Republican Party of Kentucky on Friday cancelled a nominating committee meeting scheduled for Saturday to choose a nominee to run for the vacated state Senate seat of David Williams.

The 16th Senate District covers Clinton, Cumberland, McCreary, Monroe, Wayne and Whitley counties and executive committees from each were to meet in Monticello on Saturday to choose a Republican nominee to run in a Dec. 18 special election called by Gov. Steve Beshear. The vacancy was created when Williams accepted Beshear’s appointment to the circuit bench.

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Crash sends Corbin man to hospital

BY JOHN L. ROSS STAFF WRITER

A single-vehicle crash Thursday sent a Corbin man to a Knoxville, Tenn., hospital and may have him facing charges.

According to Kentucky State Police Post 11-London Public Affairs Officer TFC Don Trosper, Kenton D. McKeehan, 55, of Corbin,

was traveling in a 1995 Ford Ranger on U.S. 25W when he crossed the center lane into the northbound lane.

Trosper said he exited the roadway and struck a tree, which sent the vehicle careening back into the road, coming to rest in the northbound lane.

McKeehan had to be extricated from the vehicle, and was flown to the

University of Tennessee Hospital in Knoxville.

Trosper said McKeehan was wearing a seat belt, but that alcohol use is suspected in the crash.

McKeehan had surgery on Friday, and was listed in stable condition.

Kentucky State Trooper Raymond D. Foley was lead investigator in the crash.

TECO laying off 90 in coalfields

HAZARD, Ky. (AP) — About 90 jobs are being lost in the eastern Kentucky coalfields.

WYMT-TV in Hazard reported TECO Coal Corporation is cutting back production and shedding jobs.

Company personnel director Paul

Matney told the station no mines are closing, but manpower and staffing is being trimmed to match reduced production from the mines.

Matney said the layoffs are at several locations and are the result of economic conditions in the coal market.

Crews to remove hazardous materials next week LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Authorities say crews will start removing hazardous materials next week from a train that derailed on the outskirts of Louisville nearly two weeks ago.

A spokeswoman for the Louisville-Jefferson County Emergency Management Agency says the plan to transfer hydrogen fluoride and butadiene from stricken rail tank cars has been approved.

The spokeswoman, Jody Duncan, says the work will begin Tuesday

morning.

Duncan said Friday the work will result in the closure of a stretch of Dixie Highway. She says the plan currently doesn’t call for any evacuations or shelter-in-place orders.

A chemical fire that spewed for days from a derailed tanker forced the evacuation of the town of West Point along with other nearby neighborhoods.

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According to Foley, that habit continued after his son’s return to the United States. “Even if he stayed out overnight somewhere partying, he’d still call home so I wouldn’t worry.”

Earlier Tuesday, Foley said he and his son went to Lexington. “We went to the VA Hospital up there because they were planning on removing his wisdom teeth,” he said.

They returned to their Foley Street home about 4:30 or 5 p.m. that afternoon. “I was pretty tired, so I was going to lay down for a bit,” Foley said. “He wanted to borrow my (cell) phone and run up to the store to get gas.

“He said he’d probably be back in 15 minutes or so.”

But when Foley awoke nearly an hour and a half later, he discovered his son had yet to return home.

“I couldn’t call him or anything, because he had my phone,” he said. “My son in California thought something was wrong with me because he couldn’t reach me through that phone.”

Numerous attempts were made to contact Foley’s son through that phone.

“If you’d call my phone, it would go to voicemail like it was out of service,” he said. “I’ve called from this (new) phone and it still just goes to voicemail.”

Wednesday came with no news and no sign of Jonathan. “I waited all day for him to show up,” Foley said.

That’s when he started driving. “I didn’t know what to do,” he said. “(His mother and I) were just driving around, just looking. I’d asked all over the county if anybody had seen him.

“We stopped at a red light at the (Knox County) hospital and it was fixing to get dark, and I thought, ‘Maybe he went in there.’”

That’s when the parents spotted their missing son’s 2002 Ford F150.

“There was mud and grass underneath like it’d been four-wheeling and the bottom was messed up,” he said. “That’s when I called the detectives.”

Barbourville Police Detective Steve Owens said they are looking for surveillance video.

Detectives also seek potential witnesses. “The longer this draws out, the worse the outcome looks,” he said.

Friday was especially hard for Foley. “It (was) his birthday,” he said. “He and his mother have the same birthday, and they were going to celebrate.

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Jonathan Foley’s body found Three men charged with murder of missing Barbourville man

BY JOHN L. ROSS STAFF WRITER

hree arrests were T made Sunday in the murder of Barbourville man

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Jonathan Ryan Foley, 26, who went missing after a trip to a local store Nov. 6.

John Chris Mills, 42, and

James Wyatt, 33, both of Bimble, and George Marcum, 52, of Trosper, will face murder charges at a preliminary hearing in Knox County District Court next week.

All three suspects remain at the Knox County Jail.

“This is an ongoing inves-

tigation,” Barbourville Police Chief Mike Broughton said. “More charges are expected to be brought out when we present (our case) to the Knox County grand jury.”

Broughton said Foley’s body was recovered off Ed Matlock Place Road in the

Trosper community.

Barbourville Police Detective Steve Owens said after the three suspects were arrested, one of them provided information which led to the discovery of Foley’s body.

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Contract hiring 600 workers stopped by FEMA

BY JEFF NOBLE, STAFF WRITER

A call center contract issued last week for Senture LLC’s facilities in London and Monticello to provide call center support for victims of Superstorm Sandy along the East Coast has been stopped by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Along with the decision, 600 jobs coming to the Kentucky company were washed away.

Senture officials announced Monday that FEMA had issued a stop work order on the contract last weekend. In a news release, Senture said FEMA’s decision “stopped all efforts to hire 600 workers for call center positions in Senture’s (Kentucky) facilities.”

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Nine agencies responded to a fire at Forest Products Inc. in Gray on Monday. Above, firefighters battle the fire at the lumber mill.

About seven employees inside building

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mergency responders from E nine agencies were called to a fire at Forest Products Inc. in

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Gray about 8:15 a.m. Monday, according to West Knox Volunteer Fire Rescue Chief Darryl Baker.

About seven employees were in the building when the fire erupted, Baker said. One employee, who worked on the second floor, heard an explosion. When he looked down to the first floor, he saw fire around an air compressor.

The employees were safely evacuated from the building, which was used to cut cross-ties.

When firefighters arrived, they found about half of the building in

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31,000 lbs. of cargo dumped TIMES-TRIBUNE STAFF REPORT

ore than 31,000 pounds M of cargo was dumped onto a London street early

Monday morning, according to Kentucky State Police-Vehicle Enforcement Public Affairs Officer Steven Douglas.

The cargo was dumped about 3 a.m. after a 2007 Freightliner driven by Martin Levine, 58, of Rock Hill, N.Y., got off route and traveled down a city street. Levine collided with power lines and a large tree, which separated the trailer and caused the load to spill near Alf Lane and Owens Road.

Firefighters recover from battling the blaze.

Woman sent to hospital after one-vehicle crash Conditions were rainy and wet Monday morning in Corbin when a one-vehicle accident on 5th Street Road (KY 727) near Alsip Trail sent this 2002 Ford Explorer into a fence and a young woman to the hospital for observation. According to Corbin Police Sgt. James Miller, the accident happened around 9:25 a.m. Sarah Crawford, 22, of Corbin, was driving on 5th Street Road headed towards town when she lost control of her Explorer, hit a fence and flipped on its side. Crawford was taken by ambulance to Baptist Regional Medical Center for what Miller called “to get checked out, after being bruised and shaken.” The wet road, and driving a little fast, were cited by police as the cause of the accident.

Miller investigated the accident for Corbin Police and was assisted by Whitley EMS and the Oak Grove Volunteer Fire Department.

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flames. Baker said it took up to an hour to get the fire under control.

Firefighters did keep the fire from spreading to more of the building.

High winds made the fire fight difficult, as did the deep layers of sawdust around the building, Baker said.

Firefighters were on scene until about 1 p.m. and none were injured.

Others responding were Keavy, Woodbine, Campground, Lily and Corbin fire departments. Also responding was Knox EMS, the Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program and Knox County Emergency Management.

An insurance company investigation will be conducted.

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Tourism Commission buys new Christmas lights 100 new fixtures to go up on Master Street, Kentucky Avenue, Falls Highway

BY JEFF NOBLE, STAFF WRITER

ome new S Christmas lighting will be going up on three

Corbin streets in the weeks ahead after the Corbin Tourism and Convention Commission voted to approve buying the lighting during their regular meeting Monday.

The lighting will come from Holiday Bright Lights of Corbin, part of Celebration Lighting Kentucky. The company will replace 100 current holiday lighting fixtures on Master Street, Kentucky Avenue and Cumberland Falls Highway with 100 new Christmas fixtures involving four holiday designs of 25 fixtures each.

Tourism Commission member Tania Marcum said there were 200 light poles on the three streets where Christmas lights hang.

Marcum, who recently worked on a committee

to look into the lights, added the new lights would be on half of the poles in the area, with existing lights remaining on the other poles.

Remaining spots on the poles along the three streets would be filled in with vinyl and ink signs designed by Main Street Corbin and made by the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Public Works Department.

The deal comes with the tourism board buying new Christmas lighting up to $21,100 for the next three years, which includes installation, maintenance and storage for the 100 lights. After three years, the cost will be $58 per pole for storage, maintenance and installation, or $5,800 a year.

Kyle Perkins, a certified public accountant who works with the tourism commission, told members there was $45,000 in this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s budget allotted for Christmas activities.

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Kentucky State PoliceVehicle Enforcement Officer Rob Mitchell investigated. No drug or alcohol use is suspected and Douglas said the driver was wearing his seat belt at the time of the collision.

Assisting at the scene were officers from KSP-Vehicle Enforcement, London City Police and Kentucky Utilities.

Ohio men arrested for rigged card game Two Ohio men were arrested about 6:30 p.m. Saturday as police investigated a complaint about a card scam taking place at the Pilot Travel Center,

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Broughton said an autopsy will be performed at the Kentucky State Medical Examinerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office. Knox County Coroner Mike Blevins said it will take four weeks for autopsy results.

Owens said detectives â&#x20AC;&#x153;did not find any type of wound to indicate (Foley

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The news came after Senture received a request for the FEMA proposal earlier this month. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We received that proposal last Friday, Nov. 2nd. We worked all week

When commission Vice-Chairman Tom Rose asked Holiday Bright Lightsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Daniel Mackey, â&#x20AC;&#x153;When can we get them?â&#x20AC;?, Mackey told him, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll check and call you tomorrow.â&#x20AC;?

The lighting is based on availability. Marcum noted the new lighting does not involve Main Street, which already has its own Christmas lights.

To help pay for the vinyl and ink signage, the board also approved allocating $3,000 toward purchasing Christmas and Holiday banners and brackets made by city Public Works.

Later in the session, a $1,000 donation to the Border Bowl Committee was approved, the same as in previous years. It goes towards putting on the annual â&#x20AC;&#x153;Border Bowlâ&#x20AC;? football game, held at the University of the Cumberlands in Williamsburg. That contest pits the best high school seniors in

according to Williamsburg Police Chief Wayne Bird.

Roy Tucker, 36, and John Branham, 55, both of Cincinnati, were luring truck drivers into playing a rigged card game for money, Bird said.

It isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the first time the department has gotten complaints about similar scams at the truck stop as well as the rest stop near Williamsburg.

Bird said it isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t known if Tucker and Branham are involved in those other scams or if different groups of scammers are operating in the area.

Tucker and Branham were charged with first-degree promoting gambling. Police seized $2,159 in cash.

Officers Brandon Prewitt and Elijah Hunter responded to the call.

Drunken juveniles found at home A London woman was arrested early morning Sunday after deputies found her and

Kentucky versus the best from Tennessee, and is scheduled for Jan. 12.

In accepting the donation, Brad Ingle of the committee told tourism board the January game will be seen in 16 states over a regional TV network, Fox College Sports.

The game had been previously seen on Hazardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s WYMT-TV. WYMT was at the tourism boardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s session, with station Account Executive Randy Brock making a presentation on a new show called â&#x20AC;&#x153;Go Local.â&#x20AC;? The hourlong program features segments on historic sites, fun things to do, dining, recreation and tourist-oriented attractions, and is taped in Kentucky and Tennessee. Some segments are also localized for southeastern and eastern Kentucky, according to Brock. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve done 35 shows so far, and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve found a niche in tourism. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve

several juveniles drunk in a Laurel County home, according to Laurel County Sheriff John Root.

Joann McHone, 48, at first refused to open the door to deputies, who were responding to a complaint made about 12:25 a.m. about fighting and shots being fired at the property located five miles east of London.

Deputies Kirk Mays, Brett Reeves and Shawn Boroviak responded.

After 10 minutes, McHone opened the door. Deputies determined she and several juveniles in the house were drunk.

McHone was charged with third-degree unlawful transaction with a minor. She was jailed in the Laurel County Correctional Center.

Williamsburg man jailed for receiving stolen goods, theft of property Whitley County Sheriff Colan Harrell said Shannon R. West, 34, of Petrey Road in

done stories on zip lining on Black Mountain in Harlan County, the Benham Inn, and the Paintsville Country Club,â&#x20AC;? Brock said.

The station currently runs the show Wednesdays at 7 p.m., and is repeated on Sundays. The show is also seen on WYMTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sister stations in Lexington, Bowling Green and Knoxville, Tenn.

Brock told board members sponsorship to be on a program segment would cost $400, which the tourism commission could tie in with the Kentucky Travel Industry Association (KTIA). He said once a segment of the program about Corbin was produced, the board could use the video and put it on their website. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We would love for you to do that. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a win-win situation,â&#x20AC;? Brock pointed out.

No action was taken after the presentation.

Williamsburg, was arrested Friday and charged with receiving stolen goods and theft of property over $500.

Harrell said various items including a stove, washer and refrigerator were stolen from Charles King, of Brayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Chapel Road in Whitley County. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We received a report of an individual unloading these items (the appliances) at the Oak Grove Recycling place,â&#x20AC;?

Harrell said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This case remains under investigation.â&#x20AC;?

West was jailed in the Whitley County Detention Center.

Woman arrested for burglary A Whitley County woman was jailed on burglary charges, according to Whitley County Sheriff Colan Harrell.

Carolyn Petrey, 27, of the Canadatown community of Whitley County, was arrested by responding Deputy Millard Root. Harrell said Root was dispatched to White Oak Road to investigate a burglary in

During the financial report, Perkins updated members on the boardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s audit, saying itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still underway. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cloyd and Associates has assured me that audit will be ready at next monthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s meeting.â&#x20AC;?

Perkins added the current cash balance is at $277,375, and after some more checks coming in from sources including the City of Corbin are delivered, the cash balance would be around $300,000 by the end of the month.

He mentioned that both Landmark Inn and Mountain View Lodge were current on their taxes owed to the commission. Landmark Inn is now under new management, and that the commission was looking taking action against the innâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s previous owners.

The financial report was approved, as were the minutes of the meetings on Oct. 15 and 19.

process. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Within an eighth of a mile (of the victimâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s residence) Root found her walking,â&#x20AC;?

Harrell said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;(And she) had the missing items on her.â&#x20AC;?

According to Harrell, she was carrying four pocketknives, a watch and a ring which had been reported stolen.

She was jailed in the Whitley County Detention Center.

Harrell said the investigation is ongoing, and there is â&#x20AC;&#x153;a strong possibilityâ&#x20AC;? more arrests will follow.

Autopsy scheduled for Feather Creek woman Whitley County Sheriff Colan Harrell said Deputy Millard Root responded to the Feather Creek residence of Mary Ellen Siler, 46, who was found dead in her residence Saturday.

Harrell said no foul play is suspected at this time, and that the Kentucky State Medical Examinerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office is conducting the autopsy.

was killed by) a gunshot. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The actual cause is still undetermined at this time.â&#x20AC;?

Owens said surveillance video provided by Knox County Hospital was reviewed after Foleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s father located his sonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2002 Ford F150 parked at CSC next door. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There were two Ford trucks (in the surveillance video) matching the description of what we were looking for,â&#x20AC;? Owens said. They also sought Wyattâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ford truck. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The

two trucks came in at the same time, leaving Foleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s truck parked there.â&#x20AC;?

Owens said Foleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vehicle was taken and processed by the Barbourville Police Department and the Crime Scene Response Unit of the Kentucky State Police.

Owens added the investigation continues. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There may be other arrests made in connection with the investigation,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Foleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s father, Charles

Foley Jr., said Friday when he located the vehicle, it appeared as though it had been â&#x20AC;&#x153;four-wheeling.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;There was mud and grass underneath,â&#x20AC;? said Foley. â&#x20AC;&#x153;...And the bottom was messed up. It looked like itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d been through a garden or a swamp. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Even the parking lights were jammed up with mud.â&#x20AC;?

After a trip with his father to the VA Hospital in Lexington, the two returned home. The elder

Foley went to rest, while the younger Foley, borrowing his fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cell phone, said he was taking a quick trip to the store.

When his father awoke nearly an hour and a half later, his son had not returned. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I believe heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dead,â&#x20AC;?

Foley said last week. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I know somebodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s killed him.â&#x20AC;?

Broughton said Jonathan Foley was killed the night he went missing.

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on this. We had our staff from London and Monticello working fulltilt, plus we were hiring 600 people. Then FEMA pulled the plug out from under us. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no fault of our own,â&#x20AC;? said Sentureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Human Resources Director Vicki Blair.

Sentureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s President and CEO Chris Deaton added, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kind of a double-edged sword for us.

Last Tuesday morning we hit the ground running with news that we got the contract, and we got a tremendous response of well over 1,000 people applying in four days. Late Friday,

word came that the contract might be stopped.

And last weekend, it was stopped.â&#x20AC;?

According to the news release from Senture, FEMA officials said the stop work order was due to a lower-than-anticipated need for disaster assistance.

In the announcement, Deaton noted he and the company saw both sides of the coin. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The bad side is that we didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get the FEMA jobs, and they were temporary. But the good news is thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not that many people in the Northeast that needed assistance.â&#x20AC;?

While disappointed with the stop work order, both Deaton and Blair say the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s looking forward to work opportunities in 2013 due to a new five-year contract which Deaton said would hire more than 370 people. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We expect to win other work after the New Year, and all employment

applications will be retained and used to fill those vacancies,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Blair said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have other jobs that we have bid, we have several new opportunities in the hopper and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in a rampup mode for a new government contract. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re keeping optimistic to get these people to work.â&#x20AC;?

Barbourville Police Department were members of the Knox County Sheriff â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Department, the Kentucky State Police, the Knox County Coronerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office, the Knox County SORT Team and Commonwealthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Attorney Jackie Steele.

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Woman admits to shooting death B’ville man found with multiple gunshot wounds

BY JOHN L. ROSS STAFF WRITER

“He’s dead.”

That’s what Charlene Sue King, 49, of Barbourville, repeated seven times to a Knox County 911 dispatcher Tuesday after she admitted shooting a Barbourville man to death.

The recorded 911 call

was obtained by the Times-Tribune through an open records request.

Earl Carter, 75, of Barbourville, was found in his 936 J. Goodin Branch Road home with multiple gunshot wounds early Tuesday, according to Kentucky State Trooper Shane Jacobs.

Jacobs said King was a live-in caretaker to Carter.

Earl Carter, 75, of Barbourville, was found in his 936 J. Goodin Branch Road home with multiple gunshot wounds early Tuesday.

“According to his stepson, she’d been living with him for several months,” Jacobs said.

He said Carter was having health issues. “We’re not sure how (Carter) knew (King) or how he contacted her (for caretaking services),” he said. “But people said there were times he

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Business license ordinance gets first reading

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ext month, the City of N Corbin will have a new Director of Parks and

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For schoolchildren, their fascination with food can be amazing to watch. Here, two Corbin Elementary students wonder what this new taste could be? Is it green beans, the roll, the turkey? Or is it the texture of that chocolate pie between them? “Hmmm…just what is it?…Hey, give it to Mikey!” Many parents and grandparents came to school to sit down with their kids or grandkids Tuesday. For more photos from the dinner, see page 2.

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illiamsburg City Council members received a finalized version of the city’s Comprehensive Plan during Monday’s regular meeting.

Mayor Roddy Harrison said this plan has yet to be approved by the city council.

The Comprehensive Plan “determines community goals and aspirations in terms of community development and provides a broad vision for the future growth of the community,” states the plan.

The plan was compiled by S & H Consulting Company from Cold Springs, Ky. The Williamsburg

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Once the plan becomes official and approved by the city council, then council members must use this to guide them in their decision-making process. It is a 20-year growth guide for

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And in less than two months, city business owners will get a big break on their business licenses, thanks to a revised ordinance that goes into effect on January 1, 2013.

Both actions topped Tuesday evening’s special session of the Corbin City Commission, which also saw the city proclaim today (Wednesday) as “Corbin Educators Appreciation Day.” The new ordinance amending the existing business license ordinance got its first reading Tuesday and was unanimously approved. If the second reading’s approved next month and after legal publication, the updated ordinance becomes law on the first day of January.

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Report: FDA wanted to close Mass pharmacy in 2003 WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly a decade ago, federal health inspectors wanted to shut down the pharmacy linked to a recent deadly meningitis outbreak until it cleaned up its operations, according to congressional investigators.

About 440 people have been sickened by contaminated steroid shots distributed by New England Compounding Center, and more than 32 deaths have been reported since the outbreak began in September, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That has put the Framingham, Mass.-based pharmacy at the center of congressional scrutiny and calls for greater regulation of compounding pharmacies, which make individualized medications for patients and have long operated in a legal gray area between state and federal laws.

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When it does becomes law, the new ordinance reduces the costs of business licenses in Corbin in half.

One section reduces the license tax or fee for restaurants, lunch rooms and dining rooms, including carry-out and delivery, while another amended section also reduces fees and taxes for businesses selling groceries, fruits and vegetables.

In addition, a section of the ordinance deals with retail merchants and wholesale merchants, while the updated ordinance adds certain businesses, trades, professions and occupations to be subject to the license taxes or fees.

Among those listed in that section include consultants, management firms, bingo parlors, operating a gas and/or oil drilling company, and installing window blinds or garage doors.

Two city commissioners said the action was a long-time coming and long overdue.

“What we just did was reduce the business licenses by 50 percent.

We’ve got the alcohol tax to make up the difference now. We want to make Corbin more friendly to businesses wanting to start up here and coming here,” said Commissioner Joe “Butch” White.

After the meeting, Commissioner Phil Gregory added, “The mayor and I have talked about this for quite some time, and we promised the merchants that we

The House Energy and Commerce Committee released a detailed history of NECC’s regulatory troubles on Monday, ahead of a meeting Wednesday meeting to examine how the outbreak could have been prevented. The 25-page report summarizes and quotes from FDA and state inspection memos, though the committee declined to release the original documents.

The report shows that after several problematic incidents, Food and Drug Administration officials in 2003 suggested that the compounding pharmacy be “prohibited from manufacturing” until it improved its operations. But FDA regulators deferred to their counterparts in Massachusetts, who ultimately reached an agreement with the pharmacy to settle concerns about the quality of its prescription

would help them. All of our funds are in the budget, and now it’s time to help both new merchants, and long-time business in the city.”

Beginning Dec. 21, Wesley “Wes” Lanham will be Corbin’s new Parks and Recreation Director, at a salary of $37,000 a year.

The Corbin native was recommended by the city’s personnel board for the position, after the job had been advertised during the late summer and fall. Lanham succeeds Marlon Sams, who held the position for 14 years, until he stepped down to devote his full time as Corbin’s City Manager.

“I am very excited about having the opportunity to be the new Parks and Recreation Director, and I’m very eager to get started,” Lanhan said in a phone interview Tuesday evening.

A 2004 graduate of Corbin High School, Lanham attended Eastern Kentucky University, majoring in Recreation and Park Administration. In 2009, he graduated from EKU with a bachelor’s degree in Recreation and Park Administration, with an emphasis on Natural Resources and Outdoor Recreation.

While studying at EKU, Lanham did an internship with the Richmond Parks and Recreation Department, and later worked there for about a year. He also worked as Supervisor of the 21st Century Afterschool Program for the Corbin Independent Schools district, from the summer of 2010 through the fall of 2011. Lanham currently works as the Family Resource and

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The nine-minute call from King came in to dispatchers at 12:26 a.m.

“There’s been an incident,” she said.

She then told dispatchers the address. When questioned as to the nature of the incident, King said “he (Carter) was bothering me, and I shot him.”

“Is he alive?” asked the dispatcher.

“I don’t know,” she responded. “I didn’t go look.”

She told the dispatcher Carter was located in the sunroom of the home.

“You shot Earl Carter?” asked the dispatcher.

“Yeah,” said King.

When asked why she shot Carter, King said “he was trying to follow me.”

“He was trying to rape you?” asked the dispatcher.

“He was trying to take advantage of me,” she said.

She then told dispatchers she would have to return to the Carter residence to allow responding officers to enter. “I don’t want to,” she said. “I know I have to but I don’t want to.”

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injections.

The congressional report also shows that in 2003 the FDA considered the company a pharmacy. That’s significant because in recent weeks public health officials have charged that NECC was operating more as a manufacturer than a pharmacy, shipping thousands of doses of drugs to all 50 states instead of small batches of drugs to individual patients. Manufacturers are regulated by the FDA and are subject to stricter quality standards than pharmacies.

The report offers the most detailed account yet of the numerous regulatory complaints against the pharmacy, which nearly date back to its founding in 1998. Less than a year later, the company was cited by the state pharmacy board for providing doctors with blank prescription pads with NECC’s information.

Youth Services Center, or FRYSC, Coordinator for the Lynn Camp Schools, and will continue until he begins his new job in Corbin next month.

Both Wes and his wife Jessica currently live in London.

Other actions taken at the meeting included the approval of Bill Storm to the Corbin Economic Development Board, and Jane Chandler to the Corbin Public Library Board. Also approval was the cost of living adjustment for the city’s fulltime and permanent part-time employees, while a $307,751.57 Certificate of Deposit at Commercial Bank was earmarked for the city’s Police and Firemen Pension Fund. Approval was given for the leasepurchase agreement with TCF Equipment Finance, Inc. for purchasing a new garbage packer for the city, with Corbin Mayor Willard McBurney authorized to sign the lease. And a municipal insurance tax refund to RPS of Lexington for $130.68 was also approved, with the refund for an overpayment on the insurance premium tax.

Ordinances came into play twice again at the session. The commission approved the first reading of an ordinance to establish a no-parking zone on the west side of Main Street, starting at the intersection of Main and 21st Street.

“The City Manager’s been getting some complaints about some nearmisses and some hits at that junction,” McBurney told the audience.

And approval was given to authorize City Attorney Bob Hammons to draw up an ordinance

Dispatch explained to her officers would be on scene in three to four minutes. “I’m scared,” King said.

“Have you checked on him or anything?” dispatch said.

King said no. “When I shot him, he said, ‘You killed me.’”

King also told dispatch she used a 9 mm handgun. When asked, she said the gun was “on the table.”

She requested dispatch remain on the line with her until officers arrived.

“I’m not going outside by myself,” she said.

During her call to 911 she returned to the home to check on Carter. “I see him,” she said. “There’s a lot of blood.

“His mouth is open and his head is back,” she continued. “I don’t see his chest moving.

“I didn’t mean to hurt him.”

Knox County Sheriff ’s deputies responded, and Jacobs said while en route to Carter’s residence the KSP was contacted for assistance. Both deputies and troopers arrived on the scene at the same time. Trooper Mark Mefford heads this ongoing investigation.

Jacobs said an autopsy was performed today to determine if other injuries are present. “It’s a sad situation when you have an elderly individual who needs help and things like this happen,” Jacobs said. “You never think a caregiver would do anything like this.”

depending on weather conditions, emergencies and other factors beyond the control of the Department of Highways.

The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet asks motorists to be aware of the work zone

and to utilize safe driving habits when traveling through the area.

Road condition reports for District 11 routes are available by calling 511 or by visiting the 511 travel and traffic information web site at http://511.ky.gov.

Such promotional items are illegal in Massachusetts and the pharmacy’s owner and director, Barry Cadden, received an informal reprimand, according to documents summarized by the committee.

Cadden was subject to several other complaints involving unprofessional conduct in coming years, but first came to the FDA’s attention in 2002. Here are some key events from the report highlighting the company’s early troubles with state and federal authorities: —In March of 2002 the FDA began investigating reports that five patients had become dizzy and short of breath after receiving NECC’s compounded betamethasone repository injection, a steroid used to treat joint pain and arthritis that’s different from the one linked to the current meningitis outbreak.

placing a stop sign at the intersection of Covey Trail and Setters Point, off Cloverbrook Street.

Mike Ashurst of Air Evac Lifeteam spoke with the commission, asking the city to offer lifetime memberships with the medical helicopter organization to all city workers. Ashurst cited the cost would be on the average, 55 dollars a person, which would come to a total of about $5,500 for about 100 Corbin city employees.

He was told the city would take the matter under advisement, and for Air Evac to return in January.

Earlier, the Corbin Independent Schools were honored by the city for their recent success in achieving Kentucky’s Highest District K-PREP Test Score Award with a 97th percentile score.

The district-wide score earned the Corbin Schools as a “District of Distinction.” Also honored was Kentucky’s “2013 Teacher of the Year” and “2013 Kentucky Middle School Teacher of the Year,” Kristal Doolin

Public Information Meeting to be held concerning intersection upgrade SPECIAL TO THE TIMES-TRIBUNE

The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet has scheduled a Public Information Meeting for the proposed roundabout-type intersection upgrade at KY 363 and KY 1006 in Laurel County.

The meeting will be held from 5-7 p.m. Thursday at the Cumberland Valley Area Development District headquarters, 342 Old Whitley Road, London.

The open format of the meeting will allow interested participants to join the meeting at any point between 5-7 p.m.

The proposed project will reconstruct the KY 363-KY 1006 intersection in the Sublimity City community. The purpose of the meeting is to show right-of-way plans to affected property owners and to introduce the roundabout-type intersection to the members of the driving public who may not be familiar with it.

Anyone having an interest in this project is urged to attend this meeting.

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Wesley “Wes” Lanham was named as Corbin’s Director of Parks and Recreation at the City Commissioner’s meeting. Lanham, who presently is the FRYSC Coordinator for the Lynn Camp Schools, is joined at the announcement by his wife, Jennifer. of Corbin Middle School; along with a husbandand-wife teacher team at the Middle School, Brett and Jenni Lou Jackson.

In 2012, Jenni Lou was the “Kentucky Middle School Teacher of the Year,”while that same year, Brett was the “Kentucky Middle School Social Studies Teacher of

the Year.”

As a result, today was made “Corbin Educators Appreciation Day,” after City Clerk Erin Tye read a proclamation from McBurney and the City Commission, thanking teachers, staff and administrators in the district for their high accomplishments.

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Brush fire rages near Corbin home

Unclaimed property totals $300M in Ky.

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Knox County Judge Executive J.M. Hall points to a familiar name on a short list of people who have unclaimed property with the state of Kentucky. Standing with him are Kentucky State Treasurer Todd Hollenbach (center) and Knox County Property Value Administrator Bill Oxendine. Hollenbach held a press conference Monday calling for volunteers to help match local residents with unclaimed property.

The fire raged approximately 50 feet from the property line and approximately 350-450 feet from the home.

Spreads to about 50 feet from property line

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t was a late night Monday for Corbin resident Charlotte Standifer.

She, along with her kids Steven and Waylon Standifer, set up guard in the backyard of their Bacon Creek Road home near Exit 25 of I-75 and watched a brush fire burn its way down the mountain. She lives there with her husband, Billy Standifer.

At press time, the fire raged approximately 50 feet from their property line and approximately 350-450 feet from their home.

It could also be seen from I-75.

“I went out to check the dog,” Mrs. Standifer said. “And there were ashes falling everywhere.”

She said she then contacted a neighbor. “I called them to find out what was going on, and they ended up calling 9-1-1.”

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While the fire remains under investigation, Battalion Chief Donnie Hart said he had heard the fire began during a controlled burn, but added he did not know the official cause of Monday’s blaze.

As to the cause being arson, Hart said “We just don’t know yet.”

Residences leveled by blazes in Laurel, Knox

BY JEFF NOBLE, STAFF WRITER

irefighters with one volunF teer department in Knox and Laurel counties were kept busy over the weekend — the result of three structure fires that spanned a three-day period, beginning late Saturday and ending Monday morning.

The most recent blazes totally destroyed a house and garage in the 1100 block of Oak Ridge Church Road, at the intersection of Oak Ridge Church and Campground Roads in Laurel County, near the Laurel-Knox county line. There, a pre-fab house with a two car garage in the back first caught fire late Sunday night, also destroying the residence. Hours later, the fire scene started over, or “rekindled” Monday morning, destroying the

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This scene shows a fire that “rekindled” spreading to the garage, while the house is a total loss. A child’s bicycle outside the rubble, and a bedpost in the fire heap are just some of the few recognizable remains. garage.

Late last Saturday night, a small-family house at the corner

of KY 1232 and El Toro Lane in the

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Williamsburg Police got a complaint of a reckless driver on U.S. Highway 25W. Police Sgt. Mike Taylor spotted the Ford Crown Victoria in the Savoy area when the driver turned onto Bear Cat Lane at a high rate of speed.

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er refused to stop, traveling through a trailer park onto KY 92. The driver led police on a 6-mile chase, ditching the car after turning on Lowell Thomas Road.

The driver, Thomas Honeycutt, 35, fled the vehicle on foot, and was chased down and arrested by Sgt. Mike Taylor, according to reports.

The car’s owner, who was also a pas-

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Hollenbach said the traditional route of searching for claimants to this property was “a passive approach.” He said the previous administration’s eight-year run brought $48.5 million of unclaimed property to the hands of owners or heirs.

However, since Hollenbach took the seat in 2008, he felt the Commonwealth needed to take more of a “proactive” approach in finding claimants.

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Middle school athletics getting closer look

BY RONNIE ELLIS CNHI NEWS SERVICE

A task force on middle school athletics wants the Kentucky Board of Education to develop a system to monitor middle school athletics and ensure middle school coaches and athletes are subject to the same health and safety requirements as high school athletes.

The task force, co-chaired by Rep. Carl Rollins, D-Midway, and Sen. Mike Wilson, R-Bowling Green, with four lawmakers and representatives of the state board and athletic associations, will list several recommendations in its final report, all of which shift responsibility to the state board.

But that doesn’t mean the task force “punted,” said Wilson Sears, the director of the Kentucky Association of School Administrators who worked in seven different school districts during his career which included positions as coach and superintendent.

“I think it’s a real step forward,” said Sears after Monday’s meeting.

“Considering the fact that high school athletics are governed by the state, I think it’s time we take a look at middle school athletics and take the proper steps to ensure they’re competing in a safe environment.”

While the Kentucky High School Athletic Association (KHSAA) governs high school sports, middle school sports are largely left to individual schools and school districts.

The KHSAA actually has the statutory authority to oversee middle school sports but does not presently

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Looking at the blaze from the top of the mountain behind the Standifer home, it appeared the fire was burning about a foot a minute.

Battalion Chief Donnie Hart said the department was dispatched to the scene between 6:30-7

have the staff or resources to do that, according to KHSAA Commissioner Julian Tackett, a member of the task force.

But that could change if the state board follows through on some task force recommendations.

Kevin Brown, a deputy commissioner for KBE and also a member of the task force, said Monday the state board will be briefed on the recommendations at its December meeting and would be prepared to ask for legislation by February — if any is needed.

“The vast majority of these recommendations would not require statutory action,” Tackett said.

Tackett said the state board and KHSAA had convened its own task force to study middle school athletics in response to concerns from schools, parents and coaches and the state medical association but suspended that effort when the General Assembly passed a joint resolution to create its own task force.

One of the legislature’s task force recommendations was to reconvene that group and continue studying the issues of middle school athletics, which vary widely between districts.

Many are operated through non-profit organizations which the task force thinks needs oversight.

Other recommendations are: —Require such non-profit groups to report injuries, meet insurance requirements, determine eligibility for participation; —Require middle school athletic teams to follow KHSAA rules related to physical examinations, medical cov-

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Monday.

“The (Kentucky Forestry Division) is helping us with this fire,” he said.

At press time, Hart said crews were on top of the mountain battling the blaze. “They’re cutting a ring around the fire,” he said. “And the forestry service is bringing a (bull)dozer in.”

While the fire remains under investigation, Hart said he had heard the fire began during a controlled burn, but added he did not know the official cause of Monday’s blaze. As to the cause being arson, Hart said “We just don’t know yet.”

Mrs. Standifer said she plans to keep vigil

until the fire is under control, but she’s ready to leave if she has to evacuate. “I don’t want to leave,” she said nervously. “But what else can I do?”

According to a current Wildland Fire Report of the Kentucky Forestry Division, as of Sunday, 83 fires were burning across the state. The reporting period for that report is Nov. 21-25. So far in 2012, 1,135 fires have been reported, with 745 of those being caused through arson. The report lists fires occurred this year in Whitley and Knox counties, but Laurel County was not listed.

erage, heat index and concussions; —The KBE should determine limitations on the number of contests during the school year in each middle school sport; such a limitation could be waived to allow for a post-season championship event; —KBE should explore ways to ensure athletes, coaches, schools and school boards provide adequate accident and injury insurance; —KBE should track injuries and incidents at middle school sporting events; —KBE should consider adopting statewide eligibility rules which should include any restrictions on participation in high school sports; —KBE should require middle school coaches, including volunteers and paraprofessionals, to meet existing certification and background checks and complete all training required by KHSAA for high school

coaches.

Tackett said training opportunities for coaches already exists but KHSAA does not monitor which middle school coaches have had training as it does with high school coaches.

He said the health and safety concerns were primarily the reason KHSAA and the state board wanted to be involved in the task force and he thinks the recommendations are narrow enough to pose a first step to monitoring middle school athletics.

“I think (the state board) will be receptive to these recommendations because they were the ones who first called for us to put the task force together,” Tackett said.

RONNIE ELLIS writes for CNHI News Service and is based in Frankfort.

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BY JOHN L. ROSS STAFF WRITER

The federal trial for a woman who alleges her civil rights were violated during an arrest in Williamsburg started Wednesday in London’s U.S. District Court before Judge Gregory Van Tatenhove.

Kimberly Perkins, of Tennessee, filed the lawsuit against Williamsburg Police Department Officer Mike Taylor, Mayor Roddy Harrison and the city of Williamsburg.

In her lawsuit, Perkins claims that during an arrest in May 2008, she was illegally searched, denied medical care and had personal property go missing. “(Perkins) had an event that no one ought to have to go through,” Perkins’ attorney, John Spainhour, said during his opening statement.

According to Spainhour, Perkins had surgery on May 5, 2008, to treat infected abscesses caused from multiple sclerosis.

Spainhour said Perkins was released from the University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville, Tenn., on May 6, 2008, and returned to the home of her mother, Norma Perkins, who was also the third witness to testify Wednesday.

Norma Perkins lives in Jellico, Tenn., and her daughter, Kim, lives there as well.

He said Perkins was

advised to avoid contact with others to reduce the possibility of infection.

Since Perkins’ mother cared for her grandchildren in her home, he said Perkins decided to stay with her mother’s sister in Louisville. A friend, Shawnee Lay, was to take Perkins to Louisville, although once the two left Tennessee May 13 they were asked by Perkins’ aunt to delay their arrival by a day.

Spainhour said Perkins and Lay decided to stay at the Day’s Inn in Williamsburg.

He said while PHOTO BY JOHN ROSS there, a request for a second room key was Williamsburg Police Sgt. Mike Taylor, Williamsburg Mayor Roddy Harrison, Attorney William Tooms and Barbara Bolton gather at the doors of the federal courthouse in London Wednesday after the first day of a civil trial against Taylor, Harrison and the city of Williamsburg. made, and it was delivered by Perkins’ Testimony will continue today. second witness, Misty Wright, who medications, Spainhour said officer Taylor, Capt. Eddie her.” was the hotel’s night clerk. she needed to eat something Cain and then officer Shawn He said that after a patThe next morning, while to take with the medicine.

Jackson. down search, officers searched the two were packing to leave He said she decided to go to Officers were told to look the room. When officers for Louisville, Spainhour said Krystal, which is located near for suspects leaving the scene, returned, Spainhour said that Perkins realized she forthe hotel. “In a world of coinci- and that’s when Spainhour Perkins was taken to the front got some of her belongings at dence,” Spainhour said a 911 said Taylor found Perkins. of the police cruiser, and was her mother’s home in Jellico. call went out from the hotel “Probable cause did exist” given “what we think was (an) Lay volunteered to retrieve reporting a disturbance involv- in the questioning and arrest over-the-top” search. the items, leaving Perkins at ing two men. of Perkins, Spainhour said.

He said she told officers the hotel room.

He said three Williamsburg “(He) suspected something As Perkins was on several police officers responded, then was not right and detained SEE TRIAL, PAGE 3

Agreements reached on hydro power, property loan

BY JEFF NOBLE STAFF WRITER

Two one-year agreements — one with the Southeastern Power Administration (SEPA), the other on renewing a loan on the property where the Corbin Utilities Commission’s headquartered — were reached by the CUC’s Board at their regular meeting Tuesday.

The SEPA agreement is a renewal, and is with Owensboro Municipal Utilities (OMU). While CUC gets all its power from Kentucky Utilities, General Manager Ron Herd said Corbin City Utilities gets a small appropriation from

OMU. Based in Elberton, Georgia, SEPA markets electric power and energy generated at reservoirs operated by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers. More than 491 “preference customers” in Kentucky and nine other states receive the power. CUC and OMU are among 22 preference customers in the Cumberland System, made up of ten hydroelectric projects in Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia.

“We get hydroelectric power from SEPA and OMU, and the Owensboro utility helps us handle that power. We let them use it, and OMU

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The property loan renewal is approximately $2 million, with the interest rate at 3.45 percent.

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Participation loans are made to a single borrower by multiple lenders.

On a big loan, one of the banks involved takes what’s called the role of the “lead bank,” then gets other banks to join in to share the profits and risks by “participating.” In this case,

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about her condition, but “still Officer Taylor continued” with a more thorough pat-down search.

Spainhour said when Taylor got to Perkins’ legs, he felt the bandages and said “I got you now.” Spainhour alleges Taylor tore off the bandages, brought out “a metal probe” and began searching in the wounds.

Spainhour said his client was “uncomfortable” and in “excruciating” pain during the process.

Then, instead of taking her to the jail immediately, Spainhour said his client was taken through the parking lot of a Pilot gas station, where she said she recognized people she knew and began to yell at them to call her mother.

Once at the detention center, Spainhour said Perkins’ wounds were bleeding and oozing through her clothes and that Perkins repeatedly requested medical assistance which was never given.

He said she was released into the care of her mother three hours after being booked.

“This was an over-thetop act,” Spainhour told the jury. “It was an unjustified act. It was a brutal act. And it was a painful act.”

In his opening statement, attorney for the defendants, R. William Tooms, said Taylor did not do what Perkins claims.

“Officer Taylor strongly denies (that he) acted in any improper manner on the day he arrested her,” Tooms said. “It was a lawful arrest, and the evidence (shows) that at all times (Taylor) treated Perkins in a professional manner.”

He said when officers Taylor, Cain and Jackson arrived at the hotel, they found the desk clerk, Wright, “behind the desk, crying and (in an) impaired state.

“The lobby was a mess…it looked like it had been trashed,” Tooms said.

He explained officers were required to make a “sweep” of the room “for security” after they were let in by the hotel manager, Charles Thomas Spurlock, now deceased.

Tooms said the officers went to the breezeway of the hotel, having been told the identity of the people involved in the reported disturbance.

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“Taylor saw the individual who we now know to be Perkins,” said Tooms. “(He) started to walk to the person, saying ‘stop man’ or ‘hey man.’”

He said they quickly realized she was a woman.

Tooms said Perkins appeared to be impaired and that she stumbled when she walked, her speech was slurred and her eyes were bloodshot.

He did say Perkins was “very compliant” with officers.

“He (Taylor) made the decision she was impaired (and was a) danger to herself and to the public.”

Tooms said she first was charged with public intoxication, which he said requires 8 hours in a cell. Tooms said Taylor “felt sorry” for Perkins after she explained she had a doctor’s appointment she would miss.

“He changed (the charge) to alcohol intoxication,” Tooms said. “He reduced the charge (so she could) get out (sooner) to get to her doctor’ appointment.”

He explained the reduced charge only required 4 hours of holding time.

“The only search was a pat-down,” Tooms said, explaining Taylor was trained in first aid. “He would never ever touch an open wound.”

He said at the request of the manager, a security sweep was conducted in the room to ensure nothing hazardous was present to endanger the staff or other guests.

Tooms told the jury that there was one empty pill bottle in the room, it was picked up by an officer and put back down, and that “they did not remove anything from the room.”

He explained that during Perkins’ arrest, a call came in concerning a possible location of a suspect from a separate situation, which was reported to be at the Pilot.

Then Tooms said another call came in for “an injury accident involving schoolchildren.”

Perkins was taken to the jail, Tooms said, so that Taylor could help work the crash. “(The events) did not occur as Ms. Perkins claims,” he said.

After opening remarks concluded, Perkins took the stand.

She said she attended school in Jellico and earned a basketball scholarship to attend college, but her failing health prohibited her from continuing to play basketball.

She said after her diagnosis, she received various treatments. She then required the surgery she had in May 2008.

The morning she was arrested at the hotel, Perkins testified she was taking methadone, oxycodone, “a water pill” and an antibiotic for her condition after surgery, so she left the hotel to eat something.

She said she was walking across the hotel’s parking lot when she heard someone say “hey man, hey man.”

“I didn’t turn around,” she said. “He grabbed me on the left side of (my) arm, and (Taylor) told me I had to go with him.”

She said she went to his cruiser with him. “He told me to (put my) hands on the car,” she said, saying Taylor had gone along her body, “up under her breasts” and between her thighs.

“Was anyone else present?” asked Spainhour.

“I don’t know who seen it or what,” she said in a quavering voice.

Then she said Taylor continued to search her legs.

Perkins alleges that Taylor said “Oh boy, what have we got here…. it looks like I did find what I was looking for.”

She then testified Taylor began to open the bandages on the wounds, and added the metal probe to the search.

“He’s (Taylor) saying (that he) won’t touch an open wound,” she said.

“He didn’t have to.”

She said he brought the probe “with a hook on it and pulled the rest of the bandage off.”

She then looked toward Taylor, and full of emotion said, “(You said) you wanted to help… don’t say you tried to help me.”

Then the jury was excused from the room for a short recess, during which time Perkins was

Herd added the bonus and gift cards has been a tradition at the utilities commission for several years.

Updates on two projects involving the CUC’s Wastewater Treatment Plant were announced.

In his report to the board, Herd said the only work that remains on the Old Trickling Filter Mercury Project was to demolish the trickling filter walls and renovating

the site. At this time, the estimated cost to do the work is around $250,000, including the consultant’s cost. Money for the project comes from CUC funds.

On the plant’s Flow Upgrade Project, he stated the engineering firm of GRW, Inc. has been authorized to work on proposals to begin the project’s engineering services.

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Kimberly Perkins leaves the federal courthouse in London Wednesday. Perkins filed a civil suit against members of the Williamsburg Police Department, the city mayor and the city itself, alleging her civil rights had been violated during an arrest in 2008.

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asked to only answer the questions asked of her.

Once reconvened, Perkins said she was taken to the hotel room, where the door was open. She stated she was dressed in pajamas and a white T-shirt and only carried $10 and a room key.

In the room, she said Jackson was there and the door was open. “How do you know?”

Spainhour asked.

“The only thing I know is they talked like in Morse Code,” she said, adding Jackson was in the bathroom and she and Taylor were beside a table.

Perkins then said she was taken to a police cruiser, and police confiscated several items, including her medication, scratch-off lottery tickets, and jewelry.

Perkins said she was handcuffed with her wrists in front of her, and it was noted she had IV marks on her arms.

Spainhour asked if Taylor allegedly commented about the marks. “(He) acted like I was a drug user,” she said, adding the cuffs were causing swelling and she told Taylor they were “too tight.”

Perkins then alleges Taylor said “I’ll fix it for you” and made the cuffs tighter.

“I had no idea, had no idea what (they) were going to do with me,” she said. “I didn’t know what (was going to) happen to me, especially with what I had already been through.”

She said when she was initially booked, she was listed as a man.

Perkins said she was initially housed in a cell with another man, then moved to another cell with a woman, who happened to be the night clerk from the hotel, Misty Wright.

Wright had been arrested that morning by Jackson on a DUI charge.

Perkins said she voiced her complaints about her condition. “I begged for medical attention. I begged (to go to) the hospital. I begged for (my) bandages,” she said.

She also offered testimony concerning the clothing she was wearing. Perkins said she was bleeding, and that there was “yellow fluid” coming out of the three open wounds.

“I had a pretty messy garment on,” she said, alleging also that she received “no (orange) jumpsuit” to wear.

After three hours, she was released. But Perkins said she never got back all the property

she believed had been seized by officers. She testified money was missing, as well as two rings, and winning scratch-off lottery tickets.

Exhibit 2 for the trial was a “picture” of one of the rings, which she said was purchased by her boyfriend. The picture was on part of the packaging which came with the ring.

Perkins testified the experience has caused her permanent stress.

“It’s terrible living it every day,” she said. “I see a cop or I watch a TV show….and I sit around the house.

“But the way I have seen it I want to stay at home.”

Tooms then began his cross-examination of her.

He asked if Perkins had taken any of her prescribed medication prior to her surgery at UT. She answered she had taken her antibiotic for “about a year” and that she’d been taking pain medication for “four or five years.”

Tooms asked Perkins if her medication was the same today. She testified she currently takes oxycodone, morphine, Valium for anxiety and another drug, but no longer takes methadone. “I didn’t want to take a bunch of drugs the rest of my life,” she said.

Then Tooms inquired about a doctor’s followup visit scheduled by the hospital, which instructed her to return to the doctor on May 14. “(But you) were on the way to Louisville (that day), correct?” asked Tooms.

She answered she had a different doctor.

“The bottom line (is you) didn’t follow up in Knoxville on May 14,” Tooms said.

“I didn’t have to, is what I’m trying to say,” Perkins testified.

He then asked if she sought medical attention after leaving the Whitley County Detention Center.

Perkins said she went home, where her mother cleaned her up.

Tooms asked if she ever told any doctors about her treatment or the treatment of her wounds. Perkins said she hadn’t.

It was also learned that Perkins had sought counseling at Ridgeview Clinic four months after the alleged civil rights violations, and saw a counselor named “Michael” twice.

The second witness, Misty Wright, said she knew Lay as an “acquaintance” and that she saw Lay and Perkins the previous night and was present the next day when officers arrived.

She alleged she was told by officers on the scene that after she was questioned, she was “free to go” but when she “put the keys in to start the ignition,” she was arrested for DUI. She then testified she saw Perkins twice at the jail. The first time she saw her, she said, “she was sitting in (the) room crying. She was saying she needed medical attention.”

She said there was blood on Perkins’ clothes.

The second time Wright saw Perkins, she said Perkins was placed “into my cell where I was at.”

“Did you discuss in the cell what happened?” asked Tooms. “(She) showed me what they had done to her,” said Wright, adding Perkins had changed clothes. “She was in a orange jumpsuit.”

Tooms was fired from her job at the hotel the same day she was arrested, according to her testimony. She also said she had been prescribed Xanax, which she took once a day “at night, before I went to work.”

Tooms told jurors that Wright pleaded guilty to the DUI charge in district court. Spainhour asked her why she pleaded guilty, and Wright said she couldn’t afford an attorney to fight the charges.

He also asked for reiteration about the jumpsuit. “Was Kim in a jumpsuit,” he asked. “You’re sure?”

“Yeah,” said Wright.

Perkins’ mother was the next witness called.

She testified about her daughter’s hospital stay, and subsequent care afterward.

The elder Perkins said she ended up at the hotel, trying to collect some of her daughter’s things. She reviewed a list made by the hotel’s maids of the items collected from the hotel room. Perkins took what had been collected, and went to get her daughter from the jail.

“She was in bad shape,” her mother said.

“She was crying (and) falling.

“She cried until we got to the van. Her pants had blood and runny stuff (on them),” she said.

Concerning the alleged missing property, Perkins said she never asked the Williamsburg Police about it, and that her daughter likely didn’t either. “No I don’t think she did,” she said. “I can’t say for sure.”

The trial, expected to last three days, continues today.

County, Herd pointed out the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued a Categorical Exclusion Determination for the project. Also, two easements have not yet been signed. CUC will schedule a bid opening for

the project to begin next spring, after bids are approved and awarded.

The cost for the project is $1,297,119, with money coming from federal and state grants.

As for the 2011 Sanitary Sewer Rehabilitation

Project, a total of $933,340.95 has been paid so far to the contractor, with $103,704.55 being held in retainage. Herd said the final pay quantities are being checked for submittal of the contractor’s final pay request.

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Laurel couple indicted for rape of minor

BY JOHN L. ROSS, STAFF WRITER

A Laurel County couple was handed a 15-count indictment involving the rape of a minor.

Dustin Eugene Brummett, 25, and C h a r l e n e Brummett, 37, were DUSTIN indicted Friday in BRUMMETT Laurel County Circuit Court.

E u g e n e Brummett faces four charges of first-degree rape.

C h a r l e n e Brummett faces four charges of first-degree comCHARLENE plicity to commit BRUMMETT rape.

The two face several other counts in connection with these crimes.

Eugene Brummett was given a $250,000 cash bond. He remains jailed in the Laurel County Detention Center.

Charlene Brummett received a $25,000 cash bond, and she also remains in the Laurel County Detention Center.

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Five people were reportedly killed in a two-vehicle crash on US 25E near Flat Lick on Christmas Eve.

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“Don’t come out or I’ll blow your brains out.”

That’s what a London man allegedly said during an armed robbery of the Taco Bell in Corbin in October.

Jason A. Wagers, JASON WAGERS 34, of London, faces several charges in that robbery and another armed robbery at the Cash Express in Corbin in June.

Wagers was handed a 14-count indictment in Laurel County Circuit Court Friday In the Taco Bell robbery, four employees faced an armed man with his mouth covered by a handkerchief wearing a dark hoodie.

The man demanded money, forcing the manager to empty the cash registers into a take-out bag.

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Two arrested for intoxication

ive people were reportedly killed in a two-vehicle crash on US 25E near Flat Lick on Christmas Eve. Winston Gregory, of Pineville, witnessed the crash.

“That guy in the Ford station wagon — he was drunk or something — he was driving all over the road from down in Pineville,” Gregory said. “And then once he got here, he went left, right into the median.”

He said once he hit the narrow strip of median, the gray station wagon hit the ditch. “It went airborne,” Gregory said.

“And it landed on top of that Nissan.”

Gregory said the driver of the station wagon, as well as four occupants of the Nissan, were killed.

“It threw him (the driver of the station wagon) out of the car,” Gregory said.

Kentucky State Police did confirm it was a two-vehicle crash and that there were “several” fatalities, but further reports were unavailable at press time.

Trooper Joey Brigmon said investigators were awaiting a regional accident re-con-

structionist to review the crash scene.

Gregory said he began calling authorities once he came across the station wagon in Pineville.

“He came an ace of hitting me,” he said. “That’s when I tried to follow him.”

He continued to contact authorities.

“I called and I called and I called — three or four times at least — to keep telling them where this guy was at,” Gregory said. “I just knew he was going to wreck or kill someone.”

Minutes before the crash, Gregory said the driver of the station wagon hit a guardrail.

“I just wish they (the police) (would have) found him before this was done,” he said.

Both southbound lanes of US 25E were closed.

Several fire departments and other agencies responded, including Artemus Volunteer Fire Department, East Knox Fire Department and Stinking Creek Volunteer Fire Department, as well as Knox County Sheriff ’s deputies, Knox County EMS and several units of the KSP.

SEE POLICE, PAGE 3

BY JOHN L. ROSS STAFF WRITER

PHOTO BY JOHN L. ROSS

A Monday afternoon crash at Meadow Creek Road and Mosley Branch Road is one of many at the small intersection, according to property owner Denny Waddell.

A Monday afternoon crash at Meadow Creek Road and Mosley Branch Road is one of many at the small intersection, according to property owner Denny Waddell.

Meadow Creek is also known as KY 1064 off of KY 6 in Whitley County.

“This happens all the time right here at this spot,” Waddell said. “This is the third wreck around this corner since Tuesday.”

He said he had built a fence to border his property. “We replaced that fence seven or

eight times,” Waddell said. “You can look down there and see where the fence posts were.

“We finally put the fence on the other side of the creek.”

He feels the road may not be built correctly. “It’s a bad curve,” Waddell said. “They’re constantly having wrecks.”

He’s even had problems.

“Two weeks ago I took my truck in that ditch,” he said.

“They really need to have guard rails put up here.”

Three people were in the car that ended up in the creek Monday. The driver, Timothy Dowell, 34, of Rockholds, said

INSIDE TODAY

OBITUARIES Arthur Jeffries Jr. . Williamsburg Oda Bargo . . . . . Williamsburg Paul Clark . . . . . . . London Neola Johnson . . . . . London Arnold Fox . . . . . Williamsburg

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TODAY’S WEATHER Cloudy with rain.

HIGH 48° | LOW 28°

FRUGAL LIVING SEE PAGE 17

RETIRED TEACHERS $500 CASH PRIZE Whitley Area Association holds quarterly meeting Dec. 13. See PAGE 12.

Darlene Herron wins Dollar Mart Christmas Cash Giveaway. See PAGE 18.

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INDEX

INSIDE TODAY Two injured in separate I-75 crashes.

See PAGE 2

—WINSTON GREGORY

No injuries in Whitley intersection crash

TIMES-TRIBUNE STAFF REPORT

A visit to a southern Laurel County store by two Corbin residents this past Sunday morning ended up with the two visiting jail after being arrested for intoxication.

Ricky E. Sharp, 47, of Corbin, and Carolyn F. Hubbard, 46, of Corbin, were arrested by the Laurel County Sheriff ’s Office, and were held in the Laurel County Detention Center in London. Sharp

“That guy in the Ford station wagon — he was drunk or something — he was driving all over the road from down in Pineville.”

KNOX TEEN COURT

30 high school students sworn into panel Dec. 13. See PAGE 18.

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