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The former executive director of an agency that cared for the mentally disabled pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges of sexual abuse and assault under extreme emotional disturbance.

You might have been warned about putting all your eggs in one basket, but what if you put all those baskets safely in a classic truck? Even though Gary Caton's '48 Chevy started out life as an egg truck and anything but classic in post-World War II's burgeoning America, it would take more than half a century to be treated as such.

Kentucky's corrections commissioner says there were faulty locks on emergency doors inside a medium-security prison in Burgin that was the site of a fiery riot.

FRANKFORT, Ky. - The state has identified "numerous individuals" who were involved in an August riot at the Northpoint Training Center, Department of Corrections Commissioner LaDonna Thompson said Thursday.

Workers at the Northpoint Training Center will begin serving food out of a makeshift kitchen Monday, nearly two months after the worst inmate riot in modern Kentucky history.

Starting Monday, the 84-year-old Kennedy Mill bridge, which spans Herrington Lake on Ky.

The Duct Tape Bandit will be stuck in prison for at least three more years. Last month, the Kentucky Parole Board voted to defer Kasey G. Kazee's parole for 36 months.

The man known as the "Duct Tape Bandit" after he robbed a Boyd County liquor store with his head completely wrapped in duct tape has been denied parole.

The medium-security Kentucky prison that was burned last month during an inmate riot had a more relaxed smoking policy than some others in Kentucky, including four public prisons that have banned smoking altogether.

Initially, Friday night's frightening and destructive riot at Kentucky's Northpoint Training Center was thought to have been sparked by racial tensions.

A Kentucky prison where inmates staged a fiery riot has lifted a ban on smoking but is no longer allowing prisoners to keep their own matches or lighters, a Justice Cabinet spokeswoman said Friday.

By Carl Keith Greene/Staff Writer Miranda Knowles, 23, pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and wanton endangerment in Laurel Circuit Court Monday.

Smoke coming from the prison during the riot in Burgin, KY BURGIN, Ky. a ' Officials said Sunday that investigators and insurance adjusters have started probing whata TMs left of a Kentucky prison in the wake of a fiery riot that injured 16 people and forced 700 inmates to be relocated.

Investigators are looking at whether racial tensions at a Kentucky prison may have triggered a fiery riot that injured 16 people and left the lockup in ruins.

BURGIN, Ky. a " A government official says smoking has been banned a " at least temporarily a " at a Kentucky prison where several buildings were burned down during an inmate riot.Justice and Public Safety Secretary J. Michael Brown said Monday that no cigarettes, matches or lighters have been allowed at Northpoint Training Center in Burgin since ...

BURGIN, KY. -- Officials said Sunday that investigators and insurance adjusters have started probing what's left of a Kentucky prison in the wake of a fiery riot that injured 16 people and forced 700 inmates to be relocated.The damage assessment could take several days and a probe into .

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Fires are seen at Northpoint Training Center, a medium-security men's prison in Mercer County where inmates have set fire to at least two buildings.

BURGIN, Ky. - Police say officers have subdued all inmates at a medium-security men's prison in Kentucky where prisoners had set fire to at least two buildings.

Less than a week after being charged with escape, a Nicholasville man now faces several charges stemming from a string of commercial burglaries throughout the city.