KENTUCKY
Paris R. Charles, 59, of Lexington, is in Fayette County Detention Center, charged with murder and abuse of a corpse, related to the death of Goldia Massey, Lexington Division of Police officials said. Massey was reported missing in early October 2014; her torso and an arm were discovered more than 100 miles apart in October and December 2014 in Henry and Jessamine counties.
“In my mind I knew who did it,” said Goldia’s son, Zachariah Massey, to WLEX-TV. “That’s the only person I could think of who she was around that would be capable of doing something that gruesome. [He] just seemed like a ragaholic type kind of person,” he remembered. “Somebody that could snap off and lose control at any moment.”
In an interview with WKYT-TV, Zachariah stated that he is now trying to find forgiveness for the man accused of killing his mother.”My mom always told me to forgive people,” he said. “I mean, I think if you take somebody’s life, your life should be taken. But at the same time I think that’s too easy. I think he should have to live out the rest of his days in prison if he’s found guilty, and the rest of eternity in hell.”
“We break men’s law all the time,” Zachariah Massey said, “but as far as God’s law, as long as he faces consequences for that, then that’s fine by me.”
Zachariah Massey’s interviews were conducted at the Bourbon County Detention Center, where he is being held on charges of escape, robbery, possession of a forged instrument, and credit card fraud. Zachariah Massey was arrested in December for the robbery of a Cynthiana gas station.
http://www.lex18.com/story/28017819/murder-victims-son-reacts-to-arrest
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The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet reports that work has begun in Nicolas County on a $3 million bridge replacement project. Contractors are building a new bridge adjacent to the old steel truss crossing Scrubgrass Creek and TTI Railroad about five miles east of Carlisle on Kentucky 32.Land clearing and utility relocations are underway at the location; construction is scheduled to take place this spring through late summer. Demolition of the old bridge is expected in the fall. Kentucky 32 will remain open during construction, but contractors will temporarily widen the highway near the existing bridge to divert traffic away from work zones.
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Democratic House Speaker Greg Stumbo stated that there will be a heroin bill this session, but differences remain between the House and Senate.
Stumbo told reporters that funding for treatment efforts in the Senate bill, as well its approach to penalties, are undergoing review in his chamber.
“We need to be careful about the way that we craft those penalties so that we actually get the people in jail that need to be in jail, and people who are just addicts perhaps don’t need to be in the same category as what we think of as pushers or dealers,” he said.
The speaker said Rep. John Tilley has been working alongside Commonwealth Attorneys to craft the House version of the bill, a draft of which is expected by the middle of next week. Also on the docket in the near term is a measure granting domestic violence protections to dating couples.
Stumbo says questions about the oversight of those protective orders still need to answered, but the House will produce a bill – a promise the speaker says Kentuckians can “take to the bank.”
http://wuky.org/post/house-heroin-domestic-violence-bills-expected-next-week
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Kentucky Treasurer Todd Hollenbach unveiled legislation Tuesday he says will give workers without access to a retirement savings plan at their workplace the option of creating a Kentucky Retirement Account. An estimated 786,000 Kentucky workers who lack access to an employer-based retirement savings plan. Under the KYRA bill, introduced Monday in the House by Rep. Martha Jane King, employees would be able to opt in or out of a privately-run savings plan and have the contributions deducted from their paychecks. The bill would also allow for exemptions for employers that consider offering the plan a hardship.
A number of states bordering Kentucky, including Illinois and Indiana, have either passed or are weighing similar legislation.
http://wuky.org/post/ky-treasurer-proposes-kentucky-retirement-accounts
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Attorney General Jack Conway and his Medicaid Fraud and Abuse Control Unit announced the arrest of Damon J. Heath, 23, of Frankfort–a former caregiver accused of engaging in sexual conduct with two intellectually disabled adults under the care of a group service provider where he worked. Heath is charged with five counts of third-degree sodomy, four counts of first-degree sexual abuse, and two counts of knowing abuse of a vulnerable adult. Heath admitted to investigators to engaging in sexual conduct with the two victims on multiple occasions at various locations in Franklin County from April 2013 until January 2015. Heath is a former caregiver at Community Choices Unlimited, which manages a group of Frankfort-area facilities that cares for intellectually disabled adults.
Heath was lodged in the Franklin County Regional Jail. Heath is scheduled to be arraigned in Franklin District Court on Feb. 4 at 9 a.m. The investigation of this case by Attorney General Conway’s Medicaid Fraud and Abuse Control Unit is ongoing.
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NATION
Republican Sen. Rand Paul issued a statement yesterday in which he denies saying immunizations cause disorders.now says he thinks vaccinations are safe. The potential 2016 presidential contender, said Monday he was aware of “many tragic cases of walking, talking, normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.” However, Paul now notes that they were “temporally related,” or connected by time. The senator says he “did not allege causation.” Additionally, Paul states that he believes vaccines have saved lives and should be administered to children. He also tweeted a photograph of himself receiving a booster vaccination Tuesday for the immunizations he received last year.
Paul, an ophthalmologist, says he’s had his own children immunized.
http://www.wkyt.com/home/headlines/290717841.html
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THIS DAY IN HISTORY
- 1789 – George Washington is unanimously elected as the first President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College.
- 1794 – The French legislature abolishes slavery throughout all territories of the French First Republic. It will be reestablished in the French West Indies in 1802.
- 1825 – The Ohio Legislature authorizes the construction of the Ohio and Erie Canal and the Miami and Erie Canal.
- 1846 – The first Mormon pioneers make their exodus from Nauvoo, Illinois, westward towards Salt Lake Valley.
- 1859 – The Codex Sinaiticus is discovered in Egypt.
- 1861 – American Civil War: In Montgomery, Alabama, delegates from six break-away U.S. states meet and form the Confederate States of America.
- 1936 – Radium becomes the first radioactive element to be made synthetically.
- 1941 – The United Service Organization (USO) is created to entertain American troops.
- 1945 – World War II: The Yalta Conference between the “Big Three” (Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin) opens at the Livadia Palace in the Crimea.
- 1967 – Lunar Orbiter program: Lunar Orbiter 3 lifts off from Cape Canaveral’s Launch Complex 13 on its mission to identify possible landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo spacecraft.
- 1969 – Yasser Arafat takes over as chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
- 1974 – The Symbionese Liberation Army kidnaps Patty Hearst in Berkeley, California.
- 1974 – M62 coach bombing: The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) explodes a bomb on a bus carrying off-duty British Armed Forces personnel in Yorkshire, England. Nine soldiers and three civilians are killed.
- 1977 – A Chicago Transit Authority elevated train rear-ends another and derails, killing 11 and injuring 180, the worst accident in the agency’s history.
- 1996 – Major snowstorm paralyzes Midwestern United States, Milwaukee, Wisconsin and ties all-time record low temperature at −26 °F (−32.2 °C)
- 1998 – An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter Scale in northeast Afghanistan kills more than 5,000.
- 1999 – Unarmed West African immigrant Amadou Diallo is shot dead by four plainclothes New York City police officers on an unrelated stake-out, inflaming race relations in the city.
- 2004 – Facebook, a mainstream online social networking site, is founded by Mark Zuckerberg.
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