Thursday, February 03, 2011
EKB Capsule News...Kentucky...2-4-'11
- KSP Post 13 in Hazard received a call on Thursday of a collision involving a passenger car and a Leslie County school bus on Hwy 421 in the Rockhouse community of Leslie County. Preliminary investigation indicates that a passenger car operated by Roger Sizemore was traveling West and a school bus operated by Teresa Philbeck was traveling East on Hwy 421 when the two vehicles collided. The bus then ran into an embankment and overturned. The bus was transporting students to the Leslie County School System when the collision occurred. All students along with the operator were transported to the Mary Breckenridge Hospital and treated for non life threatening injuries. Roger Sizemore was also transported to Mary Breckenridge Hospital for treatment. Criminal charges are pending on Sizemore and the investigation is continuing by Tpr. Loren Holliday.
- Kentucky State Police have identified the man arrested after a shooting outside the J & J General Store in Gunlock in Magoffin County Wednesday as Colonel L. Bolen, 44, of Garrett in Floyd County. KSP Detective Jason Dials says a woman was shot at a residence in Gunlock then fled with a child in her car, up the road to the store, with Bolen following. Two male bystanders were shot at the store for no apparent reason. The three victims shot were listed in stable condition. Bolen was charged with three counts of attempted murder and was being held Thursday at Big Sandy Regional Detention Center in Paintsville on $500,000 bail. Bolen had Floyd County bench warrants on file for public intoxication, driving without a license and driving under the influence. In 2009, he was charged in Magoffin County with felony cultivation of marijuana.
- Nicholas County Deputy Sheriff David Gray, a former Perry County Deputy, has been arrested after being indicted on wanton endangerment charges. He's accused of firing a gun inside his Perry County apartment last February while an infant and two adults were nearby.
- Kentucky's political heavy-hitters are taking sides on legislation aimed at keeping a key ingredient out of the hands of meth makers by requiring people to get a doctor's prescription before they can buy some common cold medications containing pseudoephedrine. Government leaders who spent Thursday in Frankfort pushing the measure included Attorney General Jack Conway, House Speaker Greg Stumbo, Senate President David Williams and U.S. Rep. Hal Rogers, the newly selected chairman of the powerful House Appropriations and Revenue Committee. Pat Davis, wife of U.S. Representative Geoff Davis, called on lawmakers not to pass the legislation because it would cost families far more to treat a simple cold by adding the cost of a copay for a doctor visit to the price of what's now over-the-counter medicine. The Senate version cleared its first hurdle Thursday afternoon when the Judiciary Committee gave its approval, sending the measure to the full Senate for consideration.
- A leading Democratic lawmaker has won approval for an immigration bill that would require all government agencies and their contractors to verify the citizenship of workers. State Representative Bob Damron of Nicholasville presented the proposal Thursday to the House Committee on Labor and Industry, which voted to send it to the full House for consideration. A similar measure passed the House in each of the past two years but didn't get through the Senate. A bill pending in the Senate would allow police to check the immigration status of people they stop and to charge illegal aliens with trespassing.
# posted by Homer Owens @ 11:40 PM 
