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U.S. Soldiers here are helping the village of Kalour construct a new secondary school to relieve overcrowded conditions through the addition of six classrooms.

A Berea College student was jailed Friday after police say tried to intice a 14-year-old into having sex. 20-year old Sarah Wilson is the woman police say tried to use text messaging to lure a teen to her Berea College dorm. The sexually charged text messages were reported to police by the 14-year old girl's mother. According to authorities, Wilson met the teen at Berea College. The young girl reportedly was participating in a dance competition held last school year at Seabury Hall. Sometime after meeting the girl, authorities say the alleged messages from Wilson began.

A different type of hero received a special honor Monday in eastern Kentucky. For many weeks, we have told about the mission of Jim Davis from Bullitt County to collect 100,000 books for the poorer areas of eastern Kentucky.

A Powell County man is dead after crashing into a tree. The Powell County Coroner said the victim was driving on Highway 15, just east of Stanton, when he lost control around a curve and hit a tree.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Nearly a year before Maj. Nidal Hasan allegedly went on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood, terrorism investigators conducted an "assessment" of him before deciding he did not pose a threat. After the shooting, the FBI is doing a new assessment - of its own conduct. The Army psychiatrist is believed to have acted alone despite repeated communications - intercepted by authorities - with a radical imam overseas, U.S. officials said Monday. The FBI will conduct an internal review to see whether it mishandled early information about the man accused in the bloody rampage that killed 13 people and wounded 29.

Thousands of pills, cash and several hand guns are confiscated from the apartment of a former college professor. Police say 57-year-old Paul A. Prosperino was selling prescription drugs from his Walnut Street apartment in Hazard. Police raided the apartment around 1:00 this afternoon. We're told Prosperino was a former professor at Hazard Community and Technical College, but had not worked there for several years. Most of the prescription drugs they confiscated were hydrocodone. Officials say this case is unlike others they've dealt with because of where the pills came from. Operation UNITE officials say Paul Prosperino was getting prescription drug shipments from across the world. Law Enforcement Director with UNITE Dan Smoot says, "We fight drugs coming from Florida, drugs coming from Detroit and from other states, but, this particular incident, they were coming from the country of India. They were being shipped in via a private carrier from India."

The largest drug roundup in Kentucky’s history unfolded this week as state, local and federal officers stormed dozens of homes with felony arrest warrants for 518 people, striking at the heart of an illegal prescription drug trafficking organization. ‘Operation Flamingo Road’ is the culmination of a three year effort involving multiple law enforcement agencies that began with a KSP/FBI investigation focusing on individuals obtaining prescription drugs in Florida then returning to Kentucky to distribute illegally.

A fire forced inmates at the Powell County jail outside early Friday. It happened just before 1:30 a.m. We're told the inmates had been using rags and cleaning chemicals earlier in the day.

Police had arrested 322 alleged drug dealers by mid-afternoon Thursday in a massive roundup targeting people who bring pills in to Kentucky from other states. Altogether, there are 518 people charged in the case, a state police officer said at a news conference in Lexington Thursday. The roundup, the largest in state history, involved federal officers and state and local police. Officers poured into Eastern Kentucky by the hundreds on Wednesday to begin arresting the bulk of those charged.

MOUNT VERNON — Police officers fanned out across in Eastern Kentucky early Wednesday to begin arresting alleged drug dealers in the culmination of a major investigation of interstate pill smuggling. Kentucky State Police Capt. Kevin Payne, head of the drug-enforcement special investigation unit for Eastern Kentucky, said, "There is a large roundup going on in Eastern Kentucky, and every post in Eastern Kentucky is involved." Billy Reynolds, county attorney in Rockcastle, said the investigation involved people bringing in pills from Florida to sell locally. Twenty-five warrants were issued for the county. "We want to put a stop to the Florida pipeline," Reynolds said.

“Drugs, drugs, drugs! They seem to be the main topic of many publications that cross my desk of late.” This is what I said in a column I wrote in 2004, and it still holds true today, especially since the deaths of Anna Nicole Smith and Michael Jackson. And celebrities from long ago, Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley — not to mention the hundreds of ordinary people who die every year from legal drug combinations written by trusted doctors.

Authorities have released the names of four people from Kentucky killed in a Whitley County crash this week.

Relatives of one of the four Kentuckians killed in a wreck in northern Indiana this week have set up a fund to pay for his funeral.

Officers say 34 year old Shara Means was on his way to a doctor's appointment with three friends, when their Plymouth Neon crashed in Whitley County Indiana. Means was father to three sons; ages 16, 14, and 9. Officers tell LEX 18 investigators believe the three other victims are Powell County residents 29 year old Amanda Hollon, 21 year old Shannel Gabbard, and 27 year old Richard Casey Rardin, although they are still awaiting lab results for confirmation.

Four people from Powell County were killed in northern Indiana were killed Tuesday after the car they were in collided head-on with an SUV in a no-passing zone. The car's male driver and three passengers -- a male and two females -- all died at the scene. There is no official word on the identities of the victims so far, but family members say 34-year-old Sharar Means was among those killed.

Four people from Kentucky are dead, after a car crash in Indiana. The accident happened yesterday near Fort Wayne, in the northeastern part of the state. Police say a car tried to pass another vehicle in a no-passing zone and crashed head on into an oncoming SUV. Four adults in the car were killed, police say they're all from Powell County

Four people are dead following a head-on collision in Whitley County Tuesday afternoon. The accident happened on Indiana 5 about 3:45 p.m. when a northbound Dodge Neon tried to pass in a no-passing zone south of Division Road. The car then collided with a southbound sport utility vehicle, killing all four people inside the Neon, according to the Whitley County Sheriff’s Department. The identities and hometowns of the victims, two males and two females, have not been released pending notification of their families.

CCTV footage shows the shocking moment an argument in a bar turned into a Wild West-style shoot-out. Gunmen could be seen leaping over tables and using a pool table as cover as they fired rapid shots at each other. Amazingly, despite five gunmen firing at least 17 shots, no-one was injured in the Ohio bar brawl. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1219766/Caught-camera-The-moment-bar-room-brawl-turns-Wild-West-shoot-out.html#ixzz0TnZ5l7RN

A Powell County man is in serious, but stable condition at UK hospital after Kentucky State Police say he was shot in the chest. It happened around 6:30 Saturday evening at 881 Frames Branch Road in Clay City.