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9.18.25 · The Mountain Eagle

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Speaker 1: Now we turned to the Mountain Eagle to read news
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from Weisberg. Your reader today is Bill Vanarsdal. We will
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begin with the edition dated September seventeenth, twenty twenty five,
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which the publishers have donated to a RADIOI as a reminder.
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RADIOI is a reading service intended for people who are
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blind or have other disabilities that make it difficult to
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read printed material. The first item is a photo captioned
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a week's work fixes car that sat for decades. Bobby
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Shephard of King's Creek stands next to his nineteen fifty
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Plymouth coup He found the car about one week ago
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at the head of a hollow off Route seven, where
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it had been sitting for decades. He purchased the vehicle
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and worked diligently for a week to get it running again.
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One of the big issues he had to deal with
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was a locked up engine. Everything worked out and he
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was able to drive it to the Campbell's Branch Community
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Center charity car show and swap meet. Mixed headline is
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to say they've been followed and filmed by social media commentators.
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At least two people who have been the subjects of
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rumors surrounding the Sean Mickey Stein's murder case say they
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have been followed and filmed by social media owners. Letter
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County jailer Brian Sloan and Michael Clark, a minister and
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former employee of addiction recovery centers, said they were followed
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and filmed. Videos of both appeared online. Sloan was filmed
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partly from inside a parked car as he walked down
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Main Street in Whitesburg to go to lunch. Sloan, who
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was appointed after the retirement of his brother Bert Sloane,
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and his running for Jaylor in next year's election, shared
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the video on his own Facebook page, along with a
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sarcastic response to it. He said this week that he
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learned of the original video after someone else saw it.
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I didn't even know it was out there, and a
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couple of people sent it to me. He said. The
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more I sat and thought about it, the more pissed
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off I got. Sloan said the morale of jail staff
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is through the floor because of the rumors and adverse attention.
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He said. A private investigator who says he is working
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for Stein's as lawyers, visited one employee's home, claiming to
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be the man's wife, that he has one hundred women
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who say they were sexually assaulted by district Judge Kevin R. Mullins.
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Steins shot the unarmed judge to death in his chambers.
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The crime was caught on a security camera in the
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judge's office. Clark, who rode with Steins to deliver food
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to a house the morning of the shooting has not
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talked to the media about his experiences before. Clark said
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he was followed to a rehab event more than one
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hundred miles away this summer, and then video clips of
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his speech about his own past and recovery from addiction
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were placed on the internet with negative commentary. They followed
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me to Mount Sterling, You're talking two and a half
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hours away, just to record me, and record me and
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put that on the internet. He said that just goes
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to show the links these people are willing to go
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to hurt someone else's reputation and character by cutting up
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someone's testimony and commenting on it. He has also been
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accused by people on social media of sending a video
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of himself masturbating to women in drug rehab. The video
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with a strategically placed image of a police bulletproof vest
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overlaid was then shown last week on social media by others.
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He closed out his own social media last year after
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he said mental illness is real in a personal video
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about Stein's and Mullins, both of whom he said were friends.
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Rumors of inappropriate contact with rehab clients began immediately after
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he posted his talk. There is no truth to me
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having any inappropriate relationship as far as a photograph or
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a video from my past, I don't know what is
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out there. I was a drug addict for twenty years myself,
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Clark told The Mountain Eagle. He said he had given
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no one permission to air any videos of him, saying
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that possession of such a video without his consent is
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a criminal offense. Clark declined to talk about his experience
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with Stein's the morning of the shooting, saying he expects
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to be called as a witness in the murder trial
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and does not want to prejudice a jury with anything
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he might say ahead of time. The next story, it
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is local tax rates are down slightly this year Lecture County.
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Local tax rates are down slightly this year due to
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an increase in the total value of property. The Lectrifiscal
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Court will have a tax rate of twenty point four
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cents per one hundred dollars of assessed value for real property,
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which is down from twenty one point six cents per
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one hundred dollars of assessed value last year. Personal property
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will remain at twenty one point six cents, the same
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as last year. Motor vehicle and watercraft rate will remain
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at thirteen point seven cents. The real property rate means
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a home valued at one hundred fifty thousand dollars would
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be taxed by the Fiscal Court at three hundred twenty
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four dollars. The Court also accepted the tax rates from
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other taxing entities that are included on annual property tax bills.
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All are down slightly due to the total increased value
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of property in the county. The rights accepted on Monday
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are as follows. Conservation District real property three point one cents,
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tangible personal property two point four cents, Jenkins Independent Schools
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real property eighty six cents, tangible personal property ninety point
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five cents, motor vehicle, watercraft aircraft sixty nine cents, utility
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three cents. Letcher County Library District real property eleven point
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eight cents, tangible personal property fifteen point two to three cents,
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motor vehicle, watercraft five point three two cents. Letcher County
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Cooperative Extension Service District real property nineteen cents, tangible personal
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property thirty cents, motor vehicles and in transit inventory three cents.
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Letcher County Public Schools real property sixty eight cents, tangible
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personal property sixty eight cents, motor vehicle forty nine cents,
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utility three percent. The next headline is new charges filed
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in Cowen murder case. Electric County Grand Jury has increased
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the charges against accused murderer Mark Miles and indicted his
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wife for tampering with physical evidence and hindering prosecution or apprehension.
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Mark Miles, sixty five, of Callen, was indicted in May
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on a single charge of murder for allegedly shooting Angela
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Jeannett Roberts as she sat in her parked car at
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a cemetery on Bald Mountain at Callan. The new indictment,
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handed up Thursday, charges him with aggravated murder of Angela
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Roberts while being engaged in commission of first degree robbery,
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first degree robbery, and two counts of tampering with physical evidence.
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Miles's wife, Kathy Myles, also sixty five, was indicted for
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tampering with physical evidence and hindering prosecution of apprehension. Kentucky
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State Police served a search warrant on the Miles home
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in June and seized a high point three eighty pistol.
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Police searched the house and cars on June fourth, about
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a week after Electric County grand jury indicted Mark Miles.
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Warrants were served the same day for two cell phones,
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storage devices and peripherals associated with the phones. Another warrant
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was executed two days later for phone records of another number.
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Miles has been in jail since March twenty second, charged
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with murdering Roberts, who was found lying over the seat
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of her car at a cemetery on Ball Mountain Road
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at Callan. The two were cousins, and Miles called nine
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one one and told police he had found Roberts's body
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and attempted to help her before he realized she was dead.
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When police arrived, Roberts was sprawled faced down across the
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car seat and floorboard covered with blood. Roberts had been
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shot in the head, apparently while seated in the car.
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Police found a spent shell casing and bullet inside the vehicle,
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along with hares that did not appear to come from Roberts.
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Police served another search warrant last fall for DNA from
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Miles to compare to the hares found in the car. Roberts,
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who was fifty eight at the time of her death,
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had been very public about her efforts to find out
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who murdered her daughter, Patricia May Roberts Deathridge. Tricia Deathridge, forty,
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was murdered some time between July twenty seventh and July
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thirty first, two thousand, twenty three, near her home on
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Ball Mountain Road. Deathridge's decomposing body was found over a
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hillside and tangled in vines near her home on July
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thirty first, twenty twenty three, and she was pronounced dead
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on August first, shortly after midnight. Roberts had told others
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that she had made a list of suspects and was
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eliminating them one by one to find out who shot
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her daughter. She posted on Facebook on March sixth, twenty
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twenty four, Trish Deathridge's birthday, asking that if anyone knew
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anything about her daughter's death to call her Roberts was
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killed the following day. Also indicted Michael Fleming thirty six
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two twenty one Cargo Lane Jenkins, who was charged with
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receiving stolen property valued at more than one thousand dollars
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and less than ten thousand dollars. Felicia Hamilton testified in
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the case Roger Gent fifty five sixteen twenty seven Carcasson
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Road Blackie, who is charged with operating a motor vehicle
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under the influence of substance, first degree possession of a
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controlled substance, first defense heroin, and buy possessed drug paraphernalia.
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Kentucky State Police Trooper Jarrett Fields testified in the case
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Damon L. Pipinger twenty eight g W. Drive Weisburg, who
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is charged with secondary burglary. Kentucky State Police Trooper Donnie
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Kelly testified in the case Megan m. Bergee thirty two
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one seventy Bill Cornett Road Whitesburg, who is charged with
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custodial interference of two minor children. Kentucky State Police Trooper
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Charles Bohr testified in the case Bubby Lucas thirty six
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one seventy Bill Cornet Road Weisberg, who is charged with
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complicity to custodial interference of two minor children. Kentucky State
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Police Trooper Charles Moore testified in the case Cecil Shell Senior,
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fifty seven ninety five Buck Creek Road dean, who is
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charged with taking by unlawful theft or disposition all others
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valued at more than one thousand dollars and less than
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ten thousand dollars when he took telephone wire belonging to
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AT and T. Kentucky State Police Trooper Donnie Kelly testified
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in the case Christian Sloane twenty nine fifty Alcoa, Whitsburg,
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who is charged with theft by unlawful taking or disposition,
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attempted shoplifting when he took property valued at eighty six
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dollars and sixty nine cents belonging to Walmart, third degree
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possession of a controlled substance drug unspecified prescription control substance
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not improper container first defense, and first degree possession of
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controlled substance first defense methanphetomin. Whisburg Police officer Seth Whittaker
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testified in the case. In a second indictment, Sloane is
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charged with first degree possession of control substance first defense
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methanthetamin and first degree possession of control substance first defense
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drug unspecified. Wisburg Police officer Hunter Holbrook testified in the case.
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Dale's Sloan fifty seven is charged with theft by unlawful
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taking or disposition valued at more than one thousand dollars
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and less than ten thousand dollars of items belonging to
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Food City valued at one thousand, six hundred ninety nine
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dollars and sixty four cents. Keeley Lowe, Lost Prevention Manager
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District on Food City, testified in the case. Billy Joe
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Thomas forty four one fifty two Douglas Parkway, Pikefull is
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charged with theft by unlawful taking or disposition of items
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valued at more than one thousand dollars belonging to Tyler Newsom.
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Jim Stevens of the Jenkins City Police testified in the case.
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Joe Allen Webb thirty eight twenty one Garfield Road, Whizburg,
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who is charged with first degree trafficking and a controlled
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substance first offense methempediment. Kentucky State Police detective Joshua Richardson
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testified in the case in the next headline, County Government
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Homes move forward with projects to build forty six homes
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on three sites. The Lectuer Fiscal Court has approved a
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housing developer agreement with Homes Incorporated, opening up seventeen point
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five million dollars to build forty six single family homes
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on three sites across Letcher County. The agreement is contingent
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on Homes having all the money necessary to complete all
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forty six homes. The grant was first announced in April.
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The dollars are to procure three properties in Sicco, Thornton
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and New Zee, extend the necessary infrastructure roads, water sewer
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if available, develop the properties and build the houses. Seth Long,
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Executive director of Homes Incorporated, said in April, we expect
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to build twenty four single family houses and thirteen duplexes
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twenty six units on these properties. The projects are part
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of an effort to replace homes that were destroyed in
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the twenty twenty two flood. The high ground subdivisions are
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intended to be out of the floodplain and be of
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an energy efficient design. The subdivisions will be located at Thornton,
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Sicco and yu Zee. There are future plans for seventeen
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apartments in the old Fleming Neon High School, and forty
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eight town houses and single family homes in Weisburg. Another
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three hundred fifty homes are planned for the yet to
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be built Grand View subdivision at Jenkins. The seventeen point
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five million dollars in the developer agreement will be used
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for land purchase, utilities, and construction, but will be paired
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with money from other sources. The homes are for low
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to middle income units and will have a maximum subsidy
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of two hundred thousand dollars. The money comes from a
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Community Development Block grant for disaster recovery. That money has
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not yet been sent to the county, but the court
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voted to open up a special bank account for it
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so the State of Kentucky can transfer the funds. The
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grant is part of one hundred twenty three million dollars
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awarded to the state for housing for flood victims. The
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developer agreement was approved unanimously at Mundy's regular Electric Fiscal
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Court meeting. Much of the court's meeting was centered around
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development and property. The court also voted unanimously to lease
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the old Campbell's Branch School property to the community for
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one dollars per year. The school building is in the
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flood plain, but community members are developing recreational property next
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to it. Barbara Pratt said part of the building is
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out of the floodplain and if it is necessary to
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tear it down, a new building could be built on
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that higher area. The building has been used as a
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community center for several years. The court voted five to zero,
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with Magistrate Kenny Anderson not voting to return land that
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the now closed Arley Boggs Elementary school sits on to
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the Letcher County Board of Education. School Board attorney Daryl
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Hall told the court the land was put in the
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county's name in nineteen eighty nine because the Fiscal Court
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and the school board had to jointly issue bonds for
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building repairs under the law. At that time. The county
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was under contract to return the property to the board
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once the bonds were paid off. The next story Cougar's
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now three and one after win over Perry, the Letcher
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County Central Cougars improved to three and one with a
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hard thought thirty six to twenty victory over home standing
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Perry County Central quarterback Gunner Holbrook continued his hot streak
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with four touchdown passes, and the Cougar's defense didn't allow
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a point the entire second half. We're proud of our
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guys for getting a tough road win, LCC coach Junior
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Matthews said after the game. Perry did some stuff in
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the first half that we hadn't seen, so hats off
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to them. We made adjustments and played well in the
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second half. It's always hard to win road games. Letcher
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Central received the ball to start the game. On third
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down and twelve yards to go for a first down,
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Holbrook rolled right and receiver gent Outlaw made a leaping
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grab for a twenty yard game. Seeing another third down
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in long, Holbrook rolled to the left and found Colton
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Stidham in the middle of the zone for a twenty
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four yard game. The twelve play drive was capped off
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by a twelve yard touchdown pass to Outlaw. The extra
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point attempt failed, leaving the score at six to nothing
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with six point fifty four left in the first quarter.
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Perry County Central answered quickly with a twenty three yard
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touchdown run by running back Kagan Cecil. The extra point
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gave the Commodores a seven to six lead, with Letcher
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Central now back on offense, Holbrook broke containment on third
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and eleven and threw a strike to Stidham for a
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forty eight yard game. Three plays later, Holbrook was sacked
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on fourth down for a turnover on downs. LCC's defense
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then stood up, forcing Perry Central to punt after only
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three plays. Stidham returned the kick thirty eight yardds to
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the Commodore's thirteen yard line. Holbrooke threw a strike to
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Mason Stevens on fourth down for a six yard touchdown.
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The two point attempt failed, but the Cougars had retaken
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the lead twelve to seven. With eight forty three left
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in the second quarter. With Perry Central back in possession,
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the Commodorees quickly moved the ball into LCC territory. On
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third and long, Cecil caught a thirty five yard pass
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and was stopped just short of the goal line. Running
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Back Caden Gibson scored a rushing touchdown on the next play,
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but LCC blocked the extra point to keep the score
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at thirteen to twelve. At this point on the road,
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things appeared to get dicey when Commodore's defender Josh Miller
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had a fifty seven yard interception return for a score,
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and the extra point was good to increase the Perry
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Central lead to twenty to twelve. Now it was time
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for Electra Central offense to regroup, and they did by
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moving the ball efficiently deep into Perry territory. Holbrook threw
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a perfect pass on a fade route to Stidham from
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his slot position for a ten yard touchdown. Holbrook then
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ran in the two point conversion to tie the game
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at twenty to twenty heading into halftime. The LCC kickoff
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team started the second half with a great kick and
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coverage that stopped the Perry Central returner at the Commodore's
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eight yard line. The Cougar defense stood strong and forced
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the Commodore's to punt, giving the LCC offense great field position.
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Facing third down and seven yards to go for a
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first down, Holbrook rolled left and connected with Stevens for
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a fourteen yard game. Theayden Brown then caught a pass
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for a twelve yard game to the one yard line.
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Garrett Howard ran up the middle on the next play
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for a touchdown. Howard also ran in the two point
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conversion to give ELCC a twenty eight to twenty lead.
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Perry Central's offense was able to gain two first downs
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before LCC defender Brody Griffith made a tackle in the
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backfield for a six yard loss. Then on third down,
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Colton Stidham made a great open field tackle to force
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another Commodore punt. After punts from both teams, Holbrooke threw
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a wide receiver screen to Stevens, who raced past the
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defense for an eighty two yard touchdown. Outlaw caught a
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pass in the end zone for the two point conversion
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to make it thirty six to twenty in favor of
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LCC early in the fourth quarter. The defense took over
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from there, with Griffith having two sacks and Braxton Banks
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were covering a fumble in the fourth quarter as the
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Cougars cruised to their third straight win. The Cougar defense
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had a rough first half, but woke up a halftime
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and dominated the second half of the game. Garrett Howard
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led the defense with fifteen total tackles. Brody Griffith lived
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in the backfield and compiled three tackles for loss and
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two sacks. Brett Sturgell and Keaton Fields also had sacks
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for the LCC defense. Colton Stidham had nine tackles and
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forced the fumble that was recovered by Banks. Canaan's sergeant
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was also dominant and had three tackles for loss. Gunnard
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Holbrook continued his brilliant play of late, completing seventeen passes
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on thirty one attempts for two hundred ninety two yards
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and four touchdowns. Mason Stevens led the receiving corps with
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four receptions for one hundred fifteen yards and two touchdowns.
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Colton Stidham had five catches for ninety eight yards and
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a touchdown. Jet Outlaw had three receptions for forty seven
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yards and a score. Brett Sturgell had had five carries
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for thirty eight yards, and Garrett Howard had a rushing
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touchdown for the Cougar offense. Lesser Central travels to Breathett
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County on Friday, with kickoffs set for seven thirty pm.
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The next story is Gabby's Fishing Fever by Greg Gabby Caudle.
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It's time to fish while wading streams. With the weather
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cooling down some and the water temperature is a little milder.
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The fishing in streams and rivers is getting better as
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the fall peak season approaches. I have loved to wade
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while fishing my entire life and have cast some nice
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fish doing so. If you have done this type of
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fishing before, then you know it is a special feeling
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to be in the water while fishing. Being on a
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boat or dock is very fun, but there is just
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something different about being a part of the fish's water world.
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By placing yourself in the water, sometimes pretty deep, you
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just look at fishing a little different and it takes
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you back to a slower, simpler time of fishing from
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your youth. No big fancy boats or expensive gear, just
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you and your know how, a single rod and reel
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and a handful of lures or baits. You will also
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experience some of the most beautiful and peaceful places the
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Good Lord ever made. If you have never done this
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type of fishing, you really do not know what you're missing.
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One of the greatest things about wade fishing is it
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is very basic and you do not need high dollar
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equipment to catch fish. A simple spinning reel with light
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line and a light action rod will work for most trips.
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Small lures will work best most of the time. Of
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all my years of wade fishing. I have favorite lure
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types I like to use best. I like small top
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water buzz baits, small crack baits, and spinners like rooster tails,
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and small worms or grubs fished on lightweight jig heads
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like a white Berkeley power worm or grub. All these
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baits have worked well for me over the years and
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caught a lot of nice fish. I also love to
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fish streams with worms and other live bait. I plan
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on doing some wage fishing shows this fall on my
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Fishing with Gabby show on Facebook, so be sure to
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check them out. Thanks and God bless you all. And
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the next story is two sentenced. Two Whitesburg residents entered
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guilty pleas to charges in Electricircuit court. They are Andrea Frayley,
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forty two, one sixty one Maple Street, Whitesburg. Entered a
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guilty plea in lectri Circuit Court to a charge of
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first degree possession of a controlled substance first defense meth
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and fedimin. Frayley was sentenced to three years in prison,
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probated for three years. She also entered a plea of
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guilty in a second indictment to a charge of flagrant
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non support of her minor children and was sentenced to
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five years in prison, probated for five years. Mark Joseph
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Morton thirty nine two nineteen, Hampton Branch, Whitesburg will serve
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twenty five months in prison after pleading guilty to first
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degree possession of a controlled substance methamphetamine. And this concludes
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the reading of The Mountain Eagle. Your reader has been
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on behalf of everyone here at Radio I. Thank you
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for listening and have a good day.