Knott judge-executive is indicted OFFICIAL AND THREE MEN ARE CHARGED WITH BUYING VOTES By Bill Estep HERALD-LEADER STAFF WRITER Knott County Judge-Executive Donnie Newsome took part in a conspiracy to buy votes in the primary election he won five years ago, a federal grand jury charged yesterday. Three other Knott County residents also were charged yesterday with buying votes in the May 1998 primary. That brings to 16 the number of people charged as a result of an FBI investigation of the election, making it one of the larger vote-fraud cases in Kentucky in recent years. Newsome, a Democrat, is...