Kentucky State Penitentiary News

HADDIX, Ky. - The ramshackle country store is just a dim memory now, destroyed by fire a few years after Karu Gene White and two accomplices forced their way inside and bludgeoned three elderly people to death at dusk on Feb.

A Jefferson Circuit Court judge agreed on Monday to allow the New Jersey State Police Office of Forensics to conduct microscopic testing of hairs found on 4-year-old Cesar Ivan Aguilar-Cano, to see if they belong to Cecil Eugene New II, the man charged with kidnapping and killing the boy in the summer of 2007.

The arraignment of Percy Phillips, who was indicted last week in a murder case in which another man was wrongfully convicted of in 1995, has been delayed until Oct.

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.

A Kentucky death row inmate condemned for the rape and murder of two Louisville high school students in 1984 lost his bid for a new trial Thursday after the state Supreme Court ruled a judge properly handled a DNA testing issue.

A man currently serving prison time for the 2002 murder of a Pulaski County man was indicted by a grand jury this month on additional charges.