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Pike Co. News - 8.3.26 · Eastern Kentucky Newspapers

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  Speaker 1: Now we turn to the reading of the Appalachian News
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  Speaker 1: Express for news in Pikeville and Pike County. As a reminder,
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  Speaker 1: RADIOI is a reading service intended for people who are
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  Speaker 1: blind or have other disabilities that make it difficult to
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  Speaker 1: read printed material. The Appalachian News Express is donated to
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  Speaker 1: Radio I by the publisher. Your reader today is Zach Jordan.
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  Speaker 1: We will begin with the addition dated July thirty first
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  Speaker 1: through August third, twenty twenty six. Our first article is
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  Speaker 1: titled Traffic Law presents significant change for upcoming school year
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  Speaker 1: by Terry L. May. Work is in progress for next
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  Speaker 1: week's opening of Pike County schools. However, one of the
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  Speaker 1: major new developments for the year came through the Kentucky
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  Speaker 1: General Assembly with a new traffic regulation. Pike County School's
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  Speaker 1: Superintendent Freddy Bowling recently met with The Appalachian News Express
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  Speaker 1: to discuss the upcoming school year, changes in individual schools leadership,
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  Speaker 1: and his hopes and concerns as the academic session progresses.
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  Speaker 1: Everything is going well for the opening of school on
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  Speaker 1: August sixth, he said, we are putting the final touches
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  Speaker 1: on things. The buildings look great, and our staff has
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  Speaker 1: worked really hard to get ready for the school year.
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  Speaker 1: I think we'll have a very good and productive year.
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  Speaker 1: House Bill seven. Chief among the changes is a new
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  Speaker 1: state mandate that will affect people across the Commonwealth. It
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  Speaker 1: is House Bill seven, according to Bowling, which went into
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  Speaker 1: effect July fifteenth. The legislation creates a new traffic stopping
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  Speaker 1: policy for buses loading or unloading passengers on a four
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  Speaker 1: lane or more highway. Kentucky State Police Post nine, Public
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  Speaker 1: Affairs Officer Troop Michael Coleman agreed with See Traffic Page
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  Speaker 1: seven A. This article is accompanied by a graphic that
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  Speaker 1: reads new Kentucky school bus safety Law, effect of July fifteenth,
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. The new rule drivers must stop for
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  Speaker 1: a school or church bus displaying its stop arm and
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  Speaker 1: flashing red lights from either direction on all roads when
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  Speaker 1: you must stop, if there is no physical barrier or
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  Speaker 1: unpaved medium, you must stop, even on a four lane road.
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  Speaker 1: The only exception you do not have to stop when
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  Speaker 1: traveling in the opposite direction on a roadway with four
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  Speaker 1: or more lanes that is separated by an elevated barrier
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  Speaker 1: or an unpaved median vehicle owner responsibility if a driver
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  Speaker 1: illegally passes a stopped school bus and cannot be identified.
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  Speaker 1: Kentucky law now presumes the registered owner or leasey was
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  Speaker 1: driving and subjects them to penalties provided by law unless
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  Speaker 1: that presumption is rebudded. Our next article is titled Poor
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  Speaker 1: Farm Cemetery project discussed by Gary Sloan. Members of the
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  Speaker 1: Pikeville City Commission heard a presentation by members of the
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  Speaker 1: Historic Preservation Board during its July twenty seventh meeting. The
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  Speaker 1: project is to reclaim and make the nearly forgotten poor
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  Speaker 1: see Cemetery page five a. Our next article is titled
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  Speaker 1: Local Community Venue Opening Soon by Olivia Morgan. Ember and Oakes,
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  Speaker 1: a local community venue specialized for family gatherings, day play parties,
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  Speaker 1: and more, is set to open soon. Ember and Oakes's owner,
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  Speaker 1: d Kaiser said organizing this venue has been a dream.
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  Speaker 1: Her goal is to provide a comfortable space for families
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  Speaker 1: and friends to gather and make memories. My plan for
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  Speaker 1: Ember and oakes is to make a nice community center,
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  Speaker 1: she said. I want to give the community a place
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  Speaker 1: for people to hang out as a family. Kaiser said
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  Speaker 1: the establishment will have services to see venue page three.
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  Speaker 1: This article is accompanied by a photo with a caption.
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  Speaker 1: Ember and Oakes, located at the Troubadour on Town Mountain
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  Speaker 1: Road in Pikeville, offers a variety of venue options for
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  Speaker 1: every member of the family. Our next article is titled
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  Speaker 1: Community Calendar. July thirty first, the Sutton Baptist Church will
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  Speaker 1: hold its Vacation Bible School Illumination Station from six p
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  Speaker 1: m to eight thirty p m. Join us as we
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  Speaker 1: shine a light on who Jesus Really is. The event
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  Speaker 1: is for youth preschool through twelfth grade. The church is
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  Speaker 1: located at five fifty Greasy Creek Road, Shelbiana. July thirty first,
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  Speaker 1: the Jubilee Christian Assembly will hold its Vacation Bible School
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  Speaker 1: What a Mess from six p m to eight pm.
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  Speaker 1: The event will feature Bible lessons, games, music, fun, friends,
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  Speaker 1: and more. The church is located at nineteen seventy eight
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  Speaker 1: South Mayo Trail, U S twenty three, South Pikeville. July
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  Speaker 1: thirty first to August first, the Wildfire Encounter Revival will
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  Speaker 1: be held in the lot adjacent to the Shelbyona Foods
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  Speaker 1: City at Indian Hills twenty seventy four South Mayo Trail
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  Speaker 1: off U S twenty three services begin at seven p m.
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  Speaker 1: July thirty first to August first, The Artist's Collaborative Theater
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  Speaker 1: is staging its final performance of Neil Simon's classic The
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  Speaker 1: Odd Couple at the breaks Interstate Park Amphitheater. Showtime for
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  Speaker 1: each production is at seven thirty p m. ACT does
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  Speaker 1: not conduct matinees during the outdoor theater portion of its season.
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  Speaker 1: Tickets are twelve dollars. August seventh to eighth, the Appalachian
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  Speaker 1: Center for the Arts will present Almost Maine by John Kerriani.
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  Speaker 1: This romantic comedy features nine loosely connected magical realism vignettes
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  Speaker 1: about love and loss. Nightly shows begin at seven thirty
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  Speaker 1: p m, with a Saturday matinee at three p m.
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  Speaker 1: The app is located on Second Street in downtown Pikeville.
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  Speaker 1: Our next article is titled Prestonburg Police three arrested on
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  Speaker 1: federal child exploitation charges. Prestonburg Police said in a statement
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  Speaker 1: that three Floyd residents have been arrested as part of
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  Speaker 1: Operation Safe Harbor and are facing federal child exploitation charges.
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  Speaker 1: According to a statement from PPD on July twenty eighth,
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  Speaker 1: the department, in collaboration with the U S Attorney for
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  Speaker 1: the Eastern District of Kentucky, the FBI, the U S
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  Speaker 1: Marshal Service, Fusiitive Task Force, and the Floyd County Sheriff's
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  Speaker 1: Office executed three federal indictment warrants. These warrants were issued
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  Speaker 1: following complaints to Prestenberg Slash Floyd County ECC and extensive
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  Speaker 1: investigations into child predators who either sexually abused minor victims,
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  Speaker 1: engaged in the production or distribution of child sexual abuse material,
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  Speaker 1: transported their victims across state lines to engage in abuse,
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  Speaker 1: or held positions of authority and trust while they subjected
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  Speaker 1: miners to sexual exploitation or some combination thereof. The statement said,
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  Speaker 1: close cooperation between the Floyd County Attorney's Office, the Floyd
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  Speaker 1: County Commonwealth's Attorney's Office, the United States Attorney's Office for
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  Speaker 1: the Eastern District, and federal and local law enforcement agencies
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  Speaker 1: in and around Floyd County has been extremely successful to
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  Speaker 1: ensure that the strongest prosecution permitted under law is pursued,
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  Speaker 1: which led to these indictments. Those arrested were Brian Cantrell,
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  Speaker 1: thirty one, who PPD said is currently living at Many
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  Speaker 1: but who also has addresses listed in court documents as
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  Speaker 1: Fed's Creek Road Steel and Verne Horn Drive Staffordsville. Cantrell
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  Speaker 1: has been indicted on two counts of production of a
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  Speaker 1: visual depiction of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct
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  Speaker 1: and a single count of transportation of a minor with
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  Speaker 1: the intent to produce sexually explicit conduct for distribution. According
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  Speaker 1: to the indictment handed down by a federal grand jury
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  Speaker 1: in London on July twenty three, on dates in twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty four in Floyd County, Cantrell did employ, use, persuade, induce, entice,
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  Speaker 1: and coerce a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct
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  Speaker 1: for the purpose of producing a visual depiction of such conduct,
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  Speaker 1: knowing and having reason to know that such visual depiction
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  Speaker 1: would be transported using any means and facility of interstate
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  Speaker 1: and foreign commerce. Also, the indictment charges, on a date
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  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four in Floyd County, Cantrell did transport
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  Speaker 1: a minor female in interstate commerce with the intent that
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  Speaker 1: the minor engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose
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  Speaker 1: of producing a visual depiction of such conduct. According to
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  Speaker 1: the indictment, Cantrell faces between fifteen years and thirty years
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  Speaker 1: in prison on each count if convicted, followed by between
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  Speaker 1: five years and life of supervised release. Court documents. Charlotte
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  Speaker 1: Cantrell was indicted in Floyd County Circuit Court in August
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five on a charge of second degree rape
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  Speaker 1: for allegedly engaging in sexual intercourse with a child less
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  Speaker 1: than fourteen years old. In twenty twenty four, Andrew Lewis, forty,
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  Speaker 1: of Prestonburg, who has been indicted on a charge of
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  Speaker 1: attempted online enticement of a minor. According to PPD, Lewis
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  Speaker 1: is also facing charges of tampering with physical evidence and
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  Speaker 1: first degree sexual abuse, which are pending before a Floyd
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  Speaker 1: Brand jury. The indictment against Lewis charges that earlier this year,
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  Speaker 1: he did knowingly attempt to persuade, induce, entice, or coerce
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  Speaker 1: an individual under the age of eighteen using a means
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  Speaker 1: or facility of interstate commerce to engage in sexual activity
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  Speaker 1: for which any person can be charged with a criminal offense,
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  Speaker 1: namely sex abuse first degree under Kentucky Revised Statute. Simon Roxas,
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  Speaker 1: twenty three, of Prestonburg, who has been indicted on a
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  Speaker 1: charge of possession of child pornography. According to the indictment
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  Speaker 1: against Roxis in twenty twenty four, he did knowingly possess
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  Speaker 1: one or more matters, that is, electronic storage media which
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  Speaker 1: contained visual depictions, the production of which involved the use
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  Speaker 1: of prepubescent minor or a miner who had not attained
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  Speaker 1: twelve years of age, engaged in sexually explicit conduct. According
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  Speaker 1: to the oment, if convicted, Roxis faces a maximum prison
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  Speaker 1: sentence of twenty years, followed by a supervised release for
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  Speaker 1: between five years and life. According to the statement from PPD,
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  Speaker 1: all three individuals were lodged in the Floyd County Detention
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  Speaker 1: Center on a U. S. Marshal's hold, awaiting arraignment in
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  Speaker 1: US District Court. The original cases, the statement said, have
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  Speaker 1: been turned over to the FBI, which will now lead
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  Speaker 1: the investigation. We are thankful for our local and federal partners,
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  Speaker 1: with whom we work closely, the statement said. Successful prosecution
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  Speaker 1: of these heinous crimes relies heavily on early reporting and
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  Speaker 1: cooperation with witnesses and the public. You can report any
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  Speaker 1: illegal behavior anonymously by calling six zero six eight eight,
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  Speaker 1: six ten ten. The Floyd County Sheriff anonymous tip line
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  Speaker 1: at six zero six nine four nine, twenty twenty, or
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  Speaker 1: the FBI's online portal at h T T P s
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  Speaker 1: Colan backslash, backslash tips dot, f b I dot gov
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  Speaker 1: slash home. Our next article is titled Several lodged in
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  Speaker 1: Pike County Detention Center. Several individuals were recently arrested and
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  Speaker 1: lodged in the Pike County Detention Center. Those arrested, according
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  Speaker 1: to the booking log at the jail include Monday, July
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  Speaker 1: twenty seventh, Allan O. Dalton, fifty Nosden Fork, Belfrey, d
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  Speaker 1: u Y, First defense and a traffic violation. Jason K.
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  Speaker 1: Chaffins forty one Road to Justice, West Liberty, trafficking in
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  Speaker 1: a controlled substance methamphetamine, first defense, trafficking in a controlled
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  Speaker 1: substance car fentanyl or fentanyl derivatives, first defense, possession of
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  Speaker 1: drug paraphernalia, and a parole violation. Samuel L. Roberts twenty
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  Speaker 1: nine Little Fork Road, Vergee, violation of a Kentucky Emergency
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  Speaker 1: Protective Order. Tuesday July twenty eighth, Keith Boyer forty one
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  Speaker 1: Maple Lane, Pikeville, probation violation. James C. Pinson forty eight,
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  Speaker 1: Joseph Avenue, Williamson, West Virginia. First degree trafficking and a
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  Speaker 1: controlled substance methamphetamine, first defense and non payment of fines.
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  Speaker 1: Don C. Mahone forty four, Vincent Street, Williamson, West Virginia.
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  Speaker 1: First defense trafficking and a controlled substance methamphetamine, first defense,
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  Speaker 1: DUY and traffic violations. Tyler Daherty thirty Memorial Park Avenue, Winchester,
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  Speaker 1: contempt of court. Richard C. Moses forty one, Toller Creek, Herald,
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  Speaker 1: fourth degree assault domestic violence, no visible injury. Joshua Lee
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  Speaker 1: Sanders forty two, Justice Bought Phelps, Violation of a Kentucky
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  Speaker 1: emergency protective order and contemptive court. Wednesday, July twenty ninth.
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  Speaker 1: Jimmy Woods sixty River Street, Pikeville, Failure to appear. Jonathan L.
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  Speaker 1: Thacker twenty eight Thacker Bottom, Pikeville, DUI first defense, Johnny
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  Speaker 1: Clarke thirty four, Williams Hollow, Pikeville, second degree cruelty to animals.
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  Speaker 1: Samuel P. Roberts twenty nine, Little Fork Road Vergie, Violation
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  Speaker 1: of a Kentucky emergency Protective order Heather L. Hackney, forty
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  Speaker 1: third Street, Pikeville, Contemptive Court. Christopher C. Fitzpatrick thirty two
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  Speaker 1: Daniels Creek Banner, contempt of Court. Editor's note. The above
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  Speaker 1: list reflects people lodged in the Pike County Detention Center.
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  Speaker 1: The charges against them are merely accusation, and the defendants
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  Speaker 1: are presumed innocent until if and when they are proven
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  Speaker 1: guilty or enter a guilty plea. Our next article is
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  Speaker 1: titled bridge naming honor's former Dorton resident. There are two
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  Speaker 1: photos with a caption. The Pike County Road Department mounts
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  Speaker 1: signs on a bridge near Dorton Elementary School on July
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  Speaker 1: twenty seventh in memory of Rick Anders. His wife, Linda Anders,
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  Speaker 1: requested the memorial through the Pike County Fiscal Court. She
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  Speaker 1: said the memorial is to keep his memory alive and
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  Speaker 1: said that he had the biggest heart of any one
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  Speaker 1: she knows. The first photo shows a picture of Linda
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  Speaker 1: with a framed document from the Pike County Fiscal Court.
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  Speaker 1: The second photo shows the installment of a sign that
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  Speaker 1: says Rick Anders Memorial Bridge and has a picture of Rick.
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  Speaker 1: Our next article is a continuation of Venue continued from
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  Speaker 1: page one a. Kaiser said the establishment will have services
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  Speaker 1: to a common people of all ages. A variety of
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  Speaker 1: events can be held at the venue, including household and
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  Speaker 1: baby showers, family reunions, and birthday parties. Special areas will
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  Speaker 1: also be available for day play. According to Kaiser, the
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  Speaker 1: areas will contain different types of play for all children,
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  Speaker 1: young and old alike. Kaiser said she is enthusiastic for
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  Speaker 1: Ember and Oakes to officially launch. She was inspired to
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  Speaker 1: create a business that will have something for every visitor.
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  Speaker 1: I'm nervous, but I'm super excited, she said. My son
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  Speaker 1: was my biggest inspiration. I have to put so much
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  Speaker 1: heart and soul into making sure that I have accommodated
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  Speaker 1: almost everything, especially the children. Kaiser also offers services through
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  Speaker 1: her other business, Ink three D, which specializes in personalized
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  Speaker 1: gifts and custom apperil. Kaiser said Ember and Oaks will
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  Speaker 1: host a soft opening on August first and second. She
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  Speaker 1: said approximately thirty families made reservations for the occasion. According
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  Speaker 1: to a post on the Ember and Oaks Facebook page,
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  Speaker 1: the business is currently arranging an official grand opening and
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  Speaker 1: ribbon cutting ceremony. Details will be released soon. Embers and
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  Speaker 1: Oaks is located at five zero two Town Mountain Road
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  Speaker 1: in Pikeville. This article is accompanied by a submitted photo
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  Speaker 1: of a buffet table decorated for the Master's golf tournament.
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  Speaker 1: Our next article is a column backyard banter by Jeff Vanderbeck, publisher,
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  Speaker 1: titled Faffoe. When that idiot Pete Hegseth had the commanders
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  Speaker 1: of all our military branches together, he used the phrase faffoe.
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  Speaker 1: He absolutely blew a perfect opportunity to unite our military
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  Speaker 1: while praising their efforts. Instead, he show voted. And what
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  Speaker 1: we as Americans didn't know at that time is he
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  Speaker 1: was gearing up to start a war that his boss
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  Speaker 1: promised would never happen, and that he would be testing
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  Speaker 1: all military personnel well to see if they possess enough
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  Speaker 1: to stosterone to kill on command. Those commanders have more
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  Speaker 1: leadership and experience in their pinkies than Hegseeth ever could
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  Speaker 1: ever possess. They found out that their leader is a
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  Speaker 1: warmonger and a complete ass. Those wacky news people who
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  Speaker 1: change careers are doomed for failure. The real meaning of
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  Speaker 1: the first f in fappho would make the women at
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  Speaker 1: the nunnery blush. That's a Shakespeare term used in Hamlet,
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  Speaker 1: which has a special meaning for today. The first f
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  Speaker 1: will be changed to flock as in the tracking cameras
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  Speaker 1: that are installed in communities that track movement. Flock cameras
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  Speaker 1: can read your plate number and bumper stickers displayed on
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  Speaker 1: the back end of your vehicle, then identify the make
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  Speaker 1: and model of your vehicle, while storing that information for
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  Speaker 1: future use. But by whom and why is the question.
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  Speaker 1: As with all technology, there are two schools of thought.
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  Speaker 1: One side says this will fight crime, stop thieves, and
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  Speaker 1: identify all vehicles that pass the cameras to see if
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  Speaker 1: they have done or potentially will do something illegal. The
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  Speaker 1: other side offers an Orwellian view that big Brother is
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  Speaker 1: here and monitoring how many times you visit the liquor store.
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  Speaker 1: It's bad enough, Viisa knows how much Jack Daniels and
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  Speaker 1: Budweiser you purchase. Now your visits to the liquor store
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  Speaker 1: are on permanent record. Somewhere in the middle see Vanderbeck,
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  Speaker 1: page six A. Our next article is a guest column
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  Speaker 1: understanding annual child fatality report by Mitch Whittaker. During their
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  Speaker 1: July meeting, members of the Interim Joint Committee on Families
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  Speaker 1: and Children reviewed the most recent annual report compiled by
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  Speaker 1: the Child Fatality and Near Fatality External Review Panel. This
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  Speaker 1: panel was established in twenty thirteen by the General Assembly
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  Speaker 1: to provide the Commonwealth with robust information related to cases
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  Speaker 1: of death or near death of a child that are
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  Speaker 1: suspected to be the result of abuse or neglect. Since
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, the panel has provided annual reports and
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  Speaker 1: updates to the Legislative Oversight and Investigations Committee and has
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  Speaker 1: presented to the Interim Joint Committee on Families and Children
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  Speaker 1: since its inception in twenty twenty two. The twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: five annual report reflects a review of child welfare cases
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  Speaker 1: from twenty twenty four fiscal year. The first key finding
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  Speaker 1: of the panel was that children four years old or
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  Speaker 1: younger are at the highest risk of abuse or neglect,
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  Speaker 1: totaling eighty two percent of the cases. Children under the
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  Speaker 1: age of one comprised forty four percent of the panel's
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  Speaker 1: cases alone. Ingestion of illicit or harmful substances. The panel
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  Speaker 1: found that cases of overdose or ingestion continued to rise
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  Speaker 1: year over year in fiscal year twenty three there were
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  Speaker 1: seventy six such cases, but in fiscal year twenty four
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  Speaker 1: this number had risen to ninety eight. These children were
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  Speaker 1: commonly ingesting substances such as cannabinoids twenty eight percent, fentanyl
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  Speaker 1: nineteen percent, methemphetamines sixteen percent, and amphetamines ten percent. Of
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  Speaker 1: the ninety eight children, eleven lost their lives due to
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  Speaker 1: overdose and ingestion of dangerous or illicit substances. During the
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty six regular session, the General Assembly passed House
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  Speaker 1: Built seven seventy eight into law, which strengthened the Commonwealth's
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  Speaker 1: approach to inhalation and ingestion cases. This law added ingestion
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  Speaker 1: and inhalation to the Criminal Abuse or Neglect statutes, classifying
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  Speaker 1: these events as Class A misdemeanors. Additionally, the legislation directs
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  Speaker 1: state employees across several cabinets to receive training and education
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  Speaker 1: services on pediatric ingestion and inhalation of controlled substances. These
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  Speaker 1: changes should help our our commonwealth curb the rise of
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  Speaker 1: child overdose and ingestion plan of Safe care. Plans of
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  Speaker 1: safe care are c Whittaker, page six A. Our next
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  Speaker 1: article is a column paddling upstream by s J Ruth
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  Speaker 1: titled self Help with s J. Take it from me.
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  Speaker 1: If you too are full of yourself, relief is just
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  Speaker 1: around the corner. Welcome to self help with s J.
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  Speaker 1: Let's start with honesty. Being full of yourself is a
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  Speaker 1: chronic affliction with no reliable cure. In fact, many are
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  Speaker 1: so full of themselves they don't even know it. The
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  Speaker 1: afflicted are actually those who have to put up with
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  Speaker 1: them us. So the real relief I'm talking about is
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  Speaker 1: for those who have to put up with us on
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  Speaker 1: a regular basis. And it might make us a little
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  Speaker 1: easier to be around. And that's good for me. That's right,
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  Speaker 1: Self help with SJ. It's hard to be full of yourself.
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  Speaker 1: All the certainty requires a heck of a lot of
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  Speaker 1: work to maintain. Living full of yourself without scaring the
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  Speaker 1: neighbors requires some kind of support. Genius is a heavy load,
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  Speaker 1: and you are full of it. Me too. In my
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  Speaker 1: lifelong battle, I've always tried to be humble. Humility is
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  Speaker 1: a better delivery system, but it's hard to be all
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  Speaker 1: that and keep it from spilling over. It's best when
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  Speaker 1: the humble is real, something you can't hide with your
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  Speaker 1: brilliance no matter how dazzling granted with a face made
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  Speaker 1: for radio, I had a bit of an upper hand
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  Speaker 1: and keeping the full of myself in check, but Meat's
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  Speaker 1: steady reminder couldn't keep it under control until two years ago.
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  Speaker 1: This is self help with s j I found a
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  Speaker 1: way to fill me with something other than myself, namely humility,
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  Speaker 1: and plenty of it. You can do it too, with
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  Speaker 1: one easy step. Go toothless. That's right, pull your teeth,
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  Speaker 1: every single one of them. I don't mean you get
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  Speaker 1: a dentist, just get them out of your head. Then
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  Speaker 1: go for at least a year with no replacements. I
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  Speaker 1: guarantee humility will come to you in buckets. Do all
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  Speaker 1: the things you'd normally do, Go to the places you'd go,
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  Speaker 1: work the job you work every day. See the difference
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  Speaker 1: and how folk look at you, how people treat you.
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  Speaker 1: It is an eye opening experience and one certain to
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  Speaker 1: deflate even the fullest of themselves. You don't need teeth
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  Speaker 1: to eat humble pie. It's self help with SJY. We
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  Speaker 1: do not recommend utilizing any of the other factors involved
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  Speaker 1: in Sjy's loss of teeth. We also do not recommend
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  Speaker 1: following Sjay's two year path one is enough. You can
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  Speaker 1: only be so humble. The payoff for the full of
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  Speaker 1: themselves types is how good it feels to finally get
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  Speaker 1: those replacements I've had my dentures for see Ruth page
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  Speaker 1: five A. Our next article is titled ARC to pay
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  Speaker 1: sixteen points two million dollar civil judgment over Medicaid billing.
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  Speaker 1: The U. S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of
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  Speaker 1: Kentucky announced in a statement on July twenty seventh that
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  Speaker 1: Addiction Recovery Care LLC and its affiliates Pioneer Health Group
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  Speaker 1: LLC and Science Hill Family Care LLC, have agreed to
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  Speaker 1: a civil judgment of sixteen point two million dollars in
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  Speaker 1: favor of the United States to resolve allegations that they
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  Speaker 1: defrauded the Kentucky Medicaid program. ARC, headquartered in Luisa, operates
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  Speaker 1: residential and outpatient drug rehabilitation facilities throughout the state. Along
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  Speaker 1: with its affiliates, ARC offers behavioral health care and medical
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  Speaker 1: health care services to patients at their rehabilitation facilities. According
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  Speaker 1: to the statement, the judgment announced today by the U. S.
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  Speaker 1: Attorney's Office and the Office of Kentucky Attorney General Russell
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  Speaker 1: Coleman is part of a civil subtle resolving allegations that
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  Speaker 1: ARC and its affiliates violated the False Claims Act, a
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  Speaker 1: federal statute that prohibits the submission of false claims for
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  Speaker 1: payment to government programs, including the Medicaid program. In April
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, the statement said, current and former employees
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  Speaker 1: of ARC filed a Queen Tam complaint alleging that ARC
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  Speaker 1: defrauded the Kentucky Medicaid program by submitting fraudulent claims for
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  Speaker 1: payment for behavioral health services provided in their drug rehabilitation programs.
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  Speaker 1: Under the Qui Tam provisions of the False Claims Act,
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  Speaker 1: a citizen can file a civil action on behalf of
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  Speaker 1: the United States to bring allegations of fraud to the
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  Speaker 1: government's attention. The United States thereafter opened a civil investigation
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  Speaker 1: into whether ARC violated the False Claims Act. During the
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  Speaker 1: government's investigation, ARC self disclosed to the government that it
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  Speaker 1: should not have billed for some of its services, including
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  Speaker 1: services identified by the whistleblower and the Queen Tam complaint.
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  Speaker 1: The statement said, according to the settlement agreement, the government
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  Speaker 1: alleged that ARC falsely represented the qualifications of some of
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  Speaker 1: its clinicians on claims to Kentucky Medicaid in order to
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  Speaker 1: receive higher reimbursements. From January twenty eighteen to March twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty four, some of ARC's behavioral health services, such as psychotherapy,
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  Speaker 1: psychiatry evaluations, and mental health assessments allegedly were provided by
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  Speaker 1: lower level health care workers but billed as if ARC's
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  Speaker 1: employees had higher level licenses, the statement said. Similarly, from
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  Speaker 1: July twenty nineteen to mid June twenty twenty one, the
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  Speaker 1: statement said, the government alleged that ARC falsely represented that
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  Speaker 1: it provided individual group therapy sessions, which Kentucky paid at
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  Speaker 1: a higher rate, when ARC in fact provided less expensive
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  Speaker 1: group therapy sessions. These alleged overstatements of provider qualifications and
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  Speaker 1: individualized care, which are commonly referred to as upcoding, are
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  Speaker 1: not allowed by federal health insurance programs, and caused ARC
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  Speaker 1: and its affiliates to receive higher payments to which they
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  Speaker 1: were not entitled to. The statement set In addition to
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  Speaker 1: arcs purported upcoding practices, the government alleged that from January
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  Speaker 1: twenty nineteen to December twenty twenty four, ARCS affiliates build
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  Speaker 1: duplicate office visits to Kentucky Medicaid and build for office
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  Speaker 1: visits that were already reimbursed under an inclusive per diem rate.
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  Speaker 1: The statement set one of ARCS affiliates also allegedly charged
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  Speaker 1: for care management services that did not meet Kentucky Medicaid
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  Speaker 1: coverage requirements, including services performed by our employees who lacked
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  Speaker 1: the necessary credentials. The statement said, Unfortunately, we've run out
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  Speaker 1: of time, so I'll have to end it there. This
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  Speaker 1: concludes the day's reading of the Appalachian News Express. Your
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  Speaker 1: reader has been Zach Jordan. Thank you for joining me.
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  Speaker 1: Please stay tuned for more programming from Radio I