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A Laurel County woman took matters into her own hands when she fought against an attempted robber who had a gun. "I went and before I got to the door the door opened and this guy come in with a mask on," says Brenda, the homeowner. Brenda says she acted instinctively. "I grabbed him at the top of the mask trying to pull that off. I was grabbing him and kicking him at the same time," remembers Brenda. What she didn't realize was that man had a gun. "I didn't even know that was a gun that he had I...

The Kentucky State Police are investigating a shooting incident that left a man dead at a residence near Green River Lake Saturday night. According to a press release from KSP Post 15 in Columbia, the post was contacted around 9 p.m. Saturday night by Adair County 911 Dispatch requesting assistance with the shooting death of 42-year-old Edward Stickel. The incident took place at the residence of 60-year-old Ralph Mercer at 160 Poplar Court, which is located off Corbin’s Bend Road near Green River Lake. According to the release, Stickel was at the Mercer residence discussing the purchase of a firearm...

Two men have been charged in connection with the attempted robbery of a pharmacy, Lexington police said Wednesday night. The attempt was foiled when an employee pulled a handgun, John E. McGarvey and Steven E. Corman, both 47, were each charged with two counts of first-degree robbery, police Lt. Chris Van Brackel said. McGarvey was also charged with two counts of tampering with physical evidence; Corman was charged with one count. The incident happened about 10 a.m. Wednesday at Corner Pharmacy, 1701 Alexandria Drive. A man entered the pharmacy, displayed a knife and demanded pills. At that point, an employee...

Former Republican lieutenant governor candidate and state Rep. Mike Harmon, R-Danville, has filed a bill allowing Kentucky residents to carry concealed firearms without a permit. The legislation would make the unlicensed carrying of a hidden deadly weapon legal and prohibit employers from having no-firearms policies that apply to buildings or parking areas. It also forbids companies from disciplining employees who have firearms in their vehicles or who use them for self-defense. Harmon says certain restrictions to carrying conceal weapons will still apply to schools and judicial areas, but the bill is about securing Second Amendment rights. “I do believe it’s...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WHAS11) -- Some scary moments for a 16-year-old who was in bed asleep when two men break into her home in Pleasure Ridge Park. Residents in the Hunters Pointe neighborhood say this wasn't the first time burglars are breaking in in the middle of the day. It's what this teen did that probably saved her life. Around 11:30 Tuesday morning Steve Dennison's 16-year-old daughter was asleep in her bed, home alone, when two robbers busted through the back door. "They took the iron chair and threw it through here. They never bothered to unlock the door they climbed...

A man is stabbed to death after breaking into someone's home. State police say Edward Crowley forced his way into the home on Keith Whitley Boulevard in Sandy Hook early Sunday morning. The homeowner, Jamie Dillon, then stabbed Crowley when the two got into a fight. Police did not charge Dillon and say it appears he acted in self defense. The case will be presented to a grand jury.

A Richmond man told troopers he shot a burglar in self-defense. Police got a call around 8:30 Saturday morning about a break-in that was happening on Hager drive. Steven Womack later told investigators he was holding the burglar at gunpoint until troopers arrived when the suspect suddenly tried to get out a window. Womack also told troopers when the burglar went to reach for something in his pocket, he shot him three times. The man who was shot, 38-year old Steven Murphy, was taken to the hospital and is expected to recover. No word yet on charges filed in the...

Lexington police have obtained an arrest warrant for a would-be robber who they say was shot by his intended victim last week. Darrell Wayne Strunk, 35, of Lexington is wanted in a Dec. 5 robbery at B&N Towing, 336 Lisle Industrial Dr., according to a news release from Lexington police. A man working at the business told police that he was approached by two people, one of whom was holding a handgun. The man, who was not identified, pulled out his own handgun and shot the man with the gun, who is believed to be Strunk, in the abdomen. The...

A robbery turned violent, but witnesses say the victim turned the tables on one of the suspects, and shot him. The wife of the man who owns B & N Towing, on Lisle Industrial Avenue in Lexington, said he fought back while being attacked. Lexington Police say around 2 p.m. Monday, a man walked into the business and acted like he wanted to sell the owner an alternator. After a brief discussion, the owner's wife says a second man, wearing a ski mask, came out from behind a car, threatening to shoot her husband if he didn't cooperate with their...

Shepherdsville, KY (WDRB) -- The coroner's office has identified the man who was shot in the head following a struggle with a homeowner. Police say he was trying to steal items from the woman's home. 25-year-old Christopher Sanford died of that wound Monday at 2:26 at U of L Hospital A woman who lives at the house on Blue Ash Drive returned home with her twin boys around 11 a.m. Sunday to find an intruder pointing a shotgun at her. A man who spoke to a reporter at the home declined to identify his wife by name, but said the...

Update: We are learning more about a fatal shooting during a robbery at a Mount Vernon gas station. Family members of 20-year old James Hensley of Rockcastle County say he was shot and killed outside the Shell station, off exit 59, overnight. Police say Hensley had just robbed the clerk and was on his way out of the gas station when the clerk fired a gun. They say Hensley used a knife to get away with cash and cigarettes before he was killed. Officers are not identifying the clerk. Police say they are still investigating. Original story: We have confirmed...

Tea Party Says Metro Government Playing Favorites LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Questions have been raised about the 2½-month long special event permit issued to Occupy Louisville. Members of the tea party believe the Metro Government gave the protesters a big break. According to a spokesperson for Metro Public Works that's just not the case, though spokeswoman Lindsay English said the request was unusual. Occupy Louisville continues its occupation of Jefferson Square. For several days the group operated without permit. Now, Occupy Louisville has been given the OK to camp out until 2012. "It was kind of uncharted waters because there had...

(WHAS11) – Louisville Metro Police are investigating a shooting in old Louisville. Police say a man walked into a store and tried to rob it and the owner fought back taking aim at the intruder. Police say the robber walked into the business and demanded money. The owner gave it up, but then pulled a gun and shot the robber. The wounded suspect then fled the scene and police say he found a ride to the hospital where he remains at this hour Wednesday night. We're not sure of his condition, but police say the injuries do not appear to...

The ordinance does not extend protections to gays, lesbians and transgender people, but two council members said after the vote that an ordinance to include those protections would be proposed later.

RICHMOND — What he thought would be a quiet trip to his storage shed Tuesday night ended with a Richmond man holding an accused burglar on the ground while waiting for police. The 54-year-old man, who did not wish to be identified, said an alarm sounded as he passed Dale’s Auto Service on Main Street. When he turned around to investigate, he heard glass breaking at the business. Then he saw something black on the counter inside. “At first I thought it was a cat,” he said. “Then I realized a cat couldn’t have broken the glass. I looked closer...

An illegal immigrant who works harvesting tobacco has been charged with sexually abusing a female relative. Marcos Moran-Cuellar, 23, 1104 Beauty Ave., was charged Sunday with first-degree sexual abuse of an 11-year-old girl, according to Warren Circuit Court records. Cuellar also uses the name Oscar Ribera, court records show. The girl’s mother called the Bowling Green Police Department on Saturday after the girl told her older brother that Moran-Cuellar touched her breasts and committed a sex act with the child, according to court records.

Amish men jailed for not displaying buggy safety signsBy Steve Robrahn | Reuters – 15 hrs ago LOUISVILLE, Ky (Reuters) - Eight members of a traditional Amish sect were behind bars on Tuesday after refusing to pay fines for failure to display orange-red safety triangles on their horse-drawn buggies. The eight were being held in the Graves County Jail, serving sentences ranging between three and 10 days for failing to pay the fines on religious grounds. Graves District Judge Deborah Hawkins ordered the men jailed Monday in Mayfield, about 200 miles from Louisville in western Kentucky. The defendants contend that...

LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) - The Jefferson County Commonwealth's Attorney calls it a no-win situation from the beginning and there's nothing more he can do. WAVE 3 was the first to report that the Commonwealth was dropping its appeal in the death of a former Cards football player Daniel Covington. The man who shot Covington, former baseball player Isaiah Howes, will never face criminal charges. "You can't imagine how disappointed we are," said Donna Covington, Daniel's mom. Mrs. Covington does not like it but Commonwealth's Attorney Dave Stengel said from the start he believed Daniel's shooting was done in self-defense. "He...

MAYFIELD — Republican U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell gave Kentucky Republicans a preview of next year’s presidential race and how his party will run against incumbent President Barack Obama at a pre-Fancy Farm breakfast of Republicans here.... McConnell didn’t directly address his part in negotiating a last-minute deal in the federal debt limit standoff, but he thanked his party for helping him rise to the position of Republican leader in the U.S. Senate, a position from which he helps decide some of the country’s most important debates.

NEWPORT -- A woman told a burglar to leave twice before shooting him in the head, Newport police said Monday. Phyllis Maloney, 63, told officers that a man she did not know walked in the back door of her home at 16th and Monmouth at about 1 a.m. Maloney said she told the man to leave, but he refused, even moving to touch her. She said she backed up and got a gun out of a drawer and pointed it at him, again telling him to leave. When the man refused a second time and started moving toward her, Maloney...

A Knott County man shoots his wife's brother and says he did it to defend his home and family. It happened last night in the Pippa Passes community, off highway 899 in Knott County. We spoke with the shooter about the situation, and to police, to see if any charges are expected to be filed. He says he gave Jerry Caudill multiple verbal warnings... "He didn't pay attention to no sign, he didn't pay no attention to nobody. He was just fried out of his mind." Paul Maggard says Caudill, his wife's brother, was upset over a family issue and...

Two men are in a Lexington hospital after an armed robbery Sunday morning took an unexpected turn. Investigators say the alleged victim managed to grab the suspect's gun, then shot him. Officers were called to East Seventh Street near Chestnut around 2:15 am. They believe the suspect, Quantez Allen, tried to rob a man and shot the victim 3 times. But investigators say the victim managed to get the gun from Allen, then shot him twice. Neighbor Jeff Gullett heard the gunshots and looked out his front door to see what was going on. He says, "I saw a guy...

Public pensions are $660 billion in the hole. Investment middleman Glen Sergeon illustrates how millions more are being lost to dubious dealings.

The University of Kentucky has fired a graduate student and former anesthesia technician, Michael Mitchell, for keeping a gun in his car a mile away from the university hospital where he was employed. The university then proceeded to try to deny Mitchell unemployment compensation by claiming, unsuccessfully, that he was fired for misconduct. A hearing officer found against the University of Kentucky and in favor of Mitchell. All this, despite the fact that Mitchell had a Kentucky concealed carry permit, believed he had fully complied with Kentucky law governing concealed carry, and therefore cooperated fully with police and university authorities....

Violence broke out in the rural community of Lee City in Wolfe County early Monday morning from what some in the community say started out as a visit between two friends. "They said he (David Young) was trying to rob him (Ronald Sallie), but he was up there talking," said Manford Young, David Young's brother. Manford Young says his brother, David, was at Ronald Sallie's house when something went wrong. Police say Young hit Sallie in the head, and then Sallie drew his gun and shot Young dead. Police say Sallie's head injuries were so severe, he required 50 stitches....

A shooting during an attempted robbery of a delivery driver Friday night sent one person to the hospital. It happened just before 10:00 p.m. at Fairmont Court and Lakeshore Drive in Lexington. Police said a Wing Zone delivery driver was making a run on Fairmont, when several men approached him as he got out of his car. The driver told officers one of the men showed a gun and demanded cash. That's when the driver said he fired a gun, that was legally stored in his vehicle, in an attempt to defend himself. The alleged robber shot was taken to...

CALVERT CITY, Ky. -- A mother charged with endangering her children said she was wandering along a western Kentucky interstate with them after snorting bath salts. Kentucky State Police said they found a 2-year-old boy with a head injury lying on the inside edge of Interstate 24 in Marshall County and his mother carrying a 5-year-old child in the median. Police said 29-year-old Cynthia Palmer told officers she had been snorting bath salts and began to hallucinate Monday night while driving from the Tennessee side of Fort Campbell. Officers said she stopped and attempted to carry both children across the...

Paul: Well, I think competition makes things better. You have to compete with other late-night comedians; I have to compete with other physicians. I think competition makes us better. Think if you didn’t have that guy, what’s his name, you have to compete with?

A three-judge panel is weighing questions of God, public safety and whether putting the two in the same law amounts to a state’s establishment of religion.... ....The law requires the Homeland Security director to post a plaque with the “Almighty God” reference in the department’s headquarters.... ....On rebuttal, Thomas said the founding fathers weren’t trying to ban all religious involvement in government, but rather the establishment of a single, state-sponsored church.

Concealed Carry In Kentucky Without A License LEGISLATIVE ACTION ALERT SUPPORT HB 113 - http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB113.htm Rep. Mike Harmon from Danville, the sponsor of this new concealed carry bill, recently met with members of Take Back Kentucky, Campaign for Liberty and OpenCarry.org, and they fixed the language in the bill. The concerns we had with the bill were not intentional. They were mostly legalese. This is a good bill, and would add Kentucky to Vermont, Alaska, and Arizona as states that do not require a state issued license to practice the fundamental and unalienable right to keep and bear arms, regardless...

<p>FRANKFORT (AP) - Hundreds of demonstrators braved freezing temperatures outside the Kentucky Capitol on Tuesday to protest to a bill aimed at jailing illegal immigrants.</p> <p>"It's senseless," said Panama native Vivian Marin, who now lives in Kentucky. "It's senseless," said Panama native Vivian Marin, who now lives in Kentucky. "Kentucky is a very diverse state. If we allow for a bill to pass here similar to the one in Arizona, it would be a tragedy."</p>

LOUISVILLE, KY (WDRB) -- Authorities say a store owner shot and injured a would-be robber who Metro Police detectives believe could be responsible for more than a dozen similar crimes. Jeremy Simpson, 26, was listed in fair condition Wednesday night after being shot several times earlier in the day at the Knapps Food Mart in Shively. Police say after being shot Simpson drove himself to the Short Stop Food Mart nearly a mile away before relatives found him and called EMS. Detectives say Simpson robbed a Circle K gas station on Greenwood Avenue around 5:20 a.m. Wednesday morning. Surveillance video...

FRANKFORT, Ky. -- "It's just crazy." That's the comment made Tuesday by a state lawmaker from Louisville, pointing out Kentucky and Texas are the only two states to allow guns in their state Capitol. State Rep. Mary Lou Marzian, of Louisville, plans on introducing two measures to change the law. The first one would ban guns in the state Capitol and annex building. If that bill fails, the other one would make it mandatory for parents to sign permission slips for children visiting the Capitol. Those forms would point out guns are allowed in the Capitol. Marzian said she gave...

ASHLAND, Ky. — AK Steel announced Tuesday it plans to close its Ashland, Ky., coke plant permanently in 2011, a decision that will affect its 263 employees. Procedures for the closure will begin immediately and be completed early in the second quarter of 2011, according to a press release from the company. Ray Finley, 54, of South Point, has been a contracted employee at the plant for the past three years. Finley blamed the Obama Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency for the closure. “It’s sad that the federal government is going to let the American people starve,” while jobs...

A former University of Kentucky graduate student and employee has appealed the dismissal of a lawsuit he filed against UK over his firing for having a gun in his parked car on school property. Michael Mitchell has asked that the case be reviewed immediately by the Kentucky Supreme Court because it involves the right to bear arms granted by the Kentucky and the U.S. constitutions. "This case presents a question of great and immediate public importance to the citizens of the commonwealth because, without a swift resolution of this case, more than 300,000 students and employees of the various colleges,...

The Louisville, KY Courier-Journal reported recently that an elderly woman who was able to defend herself with a firearm during an attempted home invasion two years ago is now certified as an NRA-certified instructor, teaching others the same life-saving skills. From the article: Sylvia Hall had never used her handgun for protection until the morning four strange men appeared at her doorstep impersonating evangelicals. "We want to read the Bible to you," they said when she answered the door. Hall said no. They insisted, and one of them began to push on the screen door and force himself in. That's...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) will file a brief in a Florida court in support of a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the new health reform law. The top Senate Republican will file an "amicus curiae" ("friend of the court") brief in the Florida case, and has urged GOP colleagues in the Senate to sign onto the filing, too. "While I strongly believe that we should repeal the law and replace it with the types of commonsense reforms Americans support, I also strongly support the efforts of over twenty States that have challenged this law in the courts," McConnell...

Typical … Matthews is commenting on the Rand Paul supporter who stepped on the MoveOn member before a debate in Kentucky. That video is below as well. The money line, “When has a liberal politician had a thug step on someone?” Hmmm, don’t know .. let me ask Kenneth Gladney. The back story … Lauren Valley shows up to present Paul with a phony award. The professional agitator first charges Paul’s car as it arrives and then after he gets out of the car. I would have tried to stop her too … but slam a foot down on her....

As Rand Paul's car pulled up to the debate hall Lauren Valle ran towards the car window and thrust her sign through the passenger window... SHOULD AN UNKNOWN FELON WEARING A DISGUISE BE ALLOWED TO CHARGE & ASSAULT CANDIDATES RUNNING FOR PUBLIC OFFICE? http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=yiLeud-sxrM

Democrat John Yarmuth has a massive financial interest in a home health care company owned by his brother that has benefited from the congressman's advocacy for higher Medicare reimbursements.

I'm trying to understand the scope of the political theater depicted in the video and reported here. The woman, a Moveon.org employee, came to the debate to create a scene, we're told, by presenting a joke "award" to Ron Paul. In the video from CNN affiliate WDRB, several men wearing Rand Paul shirts or stickers are seen ripping a blonde wig off the head of Lauren Valle and pushing her to the ground. One of the men stomps on her shoulder with his foot, which then lands on the side of her head. Are the men in the T-shirts also...

Jack Conway Snaps At Reporter As His Desperate Attack Ad Backfires In Kentucky Video

Former President Bill Clinton campaigned for Attorney General Jack Conway in Lexington on Monday, delivering a hard-nosed repudiation of Republican Rand Paul's "radical ideas" to cut government spending. Clinton touted Conway's proposals for reducing the debt and creating jobs, while blistering Paul and Republicans for wanting to repeal programs such as loans for college students and new controls on big financial institutions — even as they push tax cuts for the rich. "We have a practical, progressive, common-sense moderate who has actually done things and actually has a plan, running against a man with radical ideas and no record to...

October 01, 2010It's Now or Never: Good Candidates Need Our SupportCarol Brown Among conservatives who are running for Congress, there are some truly great ones running in very tight races that lean Democrat. Some have been written about on these pages - such as Allen West and Ilario Pantano. Here are a few more outstanding candidates who have a deep understanding of domestic and foreign policy issues. Let's win the House (at the very least) and make sure these folks are sworn in because they will be strong voices that are desperately needed. Patrick Murray (http://murrayforcongress.com/) is running in Virginia's...

I linked the California poll in Headlines but I owe you a post about it because the numbers are almost certainly off. Dude, even I’m not this eeyorish: Brown, the former governor and current attorney general, held a 49%-44% advantage among likely voters over Whitman, the billionaire former chief executive at EBay. Boxer, a three-term incumbent, led Fiorina, the former head of Hewlett-Packard, by 51%-43% among likely voters in the survey, a joint effort by The Times and the USC College of Letters, Arts and Sciences… Most galling to Fiorina, perhaps, were the results when pollsters asked which candidate could...

LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) - Sunday afternoon several community activists stood at the location of Thursday's deadly shooting. They said they are not satisfied police detectives are already calling the shooting self-defense. Members of The Justice Resource Center plan to call LMPD Chief, Robert White, Monday morning to schedule a meeting with him. They plan to ask for a full investigation. Around 2:30 Thursday morning, 23-year-old Daniel Covington, a former U of L Football player was shot and killed at 2nd and Liberty Streets. WAVE 3 Sources said Isaiah Howes, a former U of L baseball player, was the shooter. Police...

SHEPHERDSVILLE, Ky. -- A Bullitt County man who shot and killed another man is speaking out. The shooting happened Friday night in the parking lot of the Northside Apartments in Shepherdsville. The victim's family said the victim was shot for no reason, but the man who fired said it was self-defense. "He says that we said stuff to his mom, but we didn't," the shooter's wife, Alice Morris, said. Alice and David Morris said that's when victim Charles Pearl stopped his vehicle and approached their picnic table, swinging a tire iron in his hand. "He said, 'That doesn't scare me....

[EMAIL: Man Shot In Head During Break-In] Email [PRINT: Man Shot In Head During Break-In] Print [COMMENTS: Man Shot In Head During Break-In] Comments (14) Bookmark and Share LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- A frightening scene overnight for one Louisville family when an attempted burglary ended with one man shot and another running away. The incident happened around 3:30 a.m. Monday in the 900 block of marshal Street in the Shelby Park neighborhood. Police are calling it a case of self-defense; neighbors call it a sad reminder of the times they live in. "It sounded to me like someone was throwing firecrackers...

FRANKFORT — Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul took a softer approach Thursday on the federal government's response to the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. During an interview with Tony Cruise on WHAS-AM in Louisville, Paul said government regulations of offshore drilling were not adequate. Paul, calling the spill "a great tragedy," said "I think we do have to have regulations, and we do have regulations in place but apparently wasn't enough. Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/06/03/1661955/kentucky-senate-candidate-rand.html#ixzz0ptBS4reI

Newly elected in the state of Kentucky Rand Paul,makes a special offer to the Democrats to “bring President Barak Obama to the blue grass state and see how popular he is, “NOT!”.