Local News
A Pike County man is accused of severely beating his wife with a table leg from a piece of furniture.
Hospital officials notified police of the victims injuries.
Robert Hatfield of McCarr is charged with second degree domestic violence and resisting arrest.
Police say the beating took place at the couples home Sunday.
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Officials with the State Auditor's office say they are reviewing information about the recently closed homeless shelter in Harlan County. Officials are quick to point out they are not investigating, but collecting information about alleged mismanagement of funds. They encourage anyone with tips to contact the office in Frankfort. The My Brother's House shelter in the Christ's Hands building closed just a few days ago. ______ A former inmate at Big Sandy Prison in Inez, Ky. was sentenced yesterday to 17 and a half years in prison for attacking a corrections officer. _____ A computer security blog written by former Washington Post reporter Brian Krebs says computer hackers took a great deal of money from UVA-Wise. The blog Krebs On Security says the figure was close to $1,000,000. The blog says the thieves got access to the college's account by hacking into an employee's computer. UVA-Wise Director of Media Relations Kathy Still says the incident happened last Wednesday. However still says they caught the hack early and no money was lost. The blog.says the attack on UVA-Wise is the latest in a string of online bank heists. _____ An Eastern Kentucky business files for bankruptcy, leaving several people without jobs. The check recovery center, Infinity, in Barbourville filed for bankruptcy in South Carolina, where the company is based. Nearly two dozen people that lost their jobs. Infinity's headquarters in South Carolina has had no comment on the sudden shutdown.
United States District Court Judge Gregory F. Van Tatenhove sentenced 32-year-old Adam Oliveri of New York for assault of a corrections officer resulting in bodily injury.
In April, after a three-day trial, a jury found Oliveri guilty of the charge. The evidence at trial established that on October 21, 2008, Oliveri stabbed the corrections officer in the head, back, and arm with a prison-made weapon. As a result of Oliveri’s attack, the officer suffered from several injuries.
Under federal law, Oliveri must serve 85 percent of his prison sentence
The Mountain Eagle
Two killed when shoppers on way back home hit by car in wrong lane
The return from a shopping trip in southwest Virginia ended in tragedy Monday night for a Letcher County couple who recently celebrated their second wedding anniversary.
John Tate Caudill, 30, of Low Gap Branch, died at the scene of a violent collision when his vehicle was hit head-on by a driver traveling in the wrong direction.
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:12:34 +0000
Drugs, health care reform at issue in Conway-Paul race
FRANKFORT
A conservative political group began airing another TV ad Tuesday in several Kentucky cities attacking Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Jack Conway for supporting “ObamaCare.”
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:12:34 +0000
Ahead of schedule
Kentucky Transportation Cabinet officials say construction of the valley floor section on US 119 is ahead of schedule.
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:12:34 +0000
