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Freezing rain on Friday morning was responsible for at least two accidents in Spencer County, but apparently those accidents resulted in no injuries.

The subject of a five-hour search on Jan. 20 was eventually located the next morning and arrested for stealing a school bus and attempting to break into a church parsonage.

An employee at Flowers Baking Company (a division of Flowers Foods) in Bardstown died Tuesday morning after she was injured late Friday night.
According to Jefferson County Deputy Coroner Eddie Robinson, Leslie Elder, 39, of Valley View Drive, Bardstown, was pronounced dead at 11:32 a.m. at University Hospital, Louisville, as a result of multiple blunt force injuries to her torso.
The accident happened about 11:30 p.m. Friday at the bakery at 1755 Parkway Drive. Elder was trapped between two pieces of machinery, which Robinson described as a lift elevator and a vat.

UPDATED AFTER PRESS TIME TUESDAY: Following one attempted abduction in Bardstown earlier this month and two attempted abductions in Louisville last week, a report of a white van following a female in Southville in Shelby County early Tuesday morning put some Spencer Countians on high alert.
According to Taylorsville Police Chief Toby Lewis, Shelby County received a complaint of a man in a white van following a white male chasing a female on foot in the Southville area early Tuesday morning.