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  • County’s switch to new radios providing clear communications

    The Spencer County Sheriff’s Department and Spencer County EMS made the switch to their NXDN protocol ICOM radios over a week ago and the results are just as Sheriff Donald “Buddy” Stump hoped they would be, he said Thursday.
    “There’s no place in Spencer County where we haven’t been able to communicate,” Stump said.
    Communications have been crystal clear even transporting prisoners outside of the county to Shelby and Bullitt counties, Elizabethtown and the University of Louisville Hospital, Stump said.

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  • Few facts public about board of education settlement involving special education

    Little public information is available regarding a recent settlement reached by the Spencer County Board of Education regarding a special education-related proceeding handled in closed session.

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  • Talks to continue between city, schools about resource officer

    Discussions between the City of Taylorsville, the Taylorsville Police Department and Spencer County Schools about adding a school resource officer will continue, with official blessing from the outgoing Taylorsville City Commission.
    In the wake of the Dec.14 shootings in Newtown, Conn., Commissioner Nathan Nation asked for the matter of a school resource officer to be put on the agenda for last Thursday afternoon’s special meeting.

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  • Severe accident on Ky. 44 near Goose Creek

    A Spencer County woman was seriously injured in this motor vehicle accident last Tuesday afternoon.

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  • Flu strikes early in Kentucky

    ‘Tis the season for sneezing and wheezing, coughing and aching, upset stomachs and headaches. Pretty much everyone has personally experienced or knows someone who has experienced the myriad of nasty viruses that love to spread this time of year, and, as usual, the one garnering the most attention regionally is influenza.

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  • Trial likely in Divine case

    After going back and forth with offers and counteroffers, a Spencer County man looks likely to face a jury trial on charges of first-degree sexual abuse, first-degree sodomy and incest.
    Robert Anthony Divine, 33, appeared in Spencer Circuit Court on Thursday with his attorney Stephen Wright.
    Wright told Judge Charles Hickman that his client hadn’t been able to reach an agreement with Commonwealth’s Attorney Laura Witt Donnell, but asked for the two sides to meet one more time before a trial date is set.

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  • Sammy Mobley arraigned, enters not guilty plea in Spencer Circuit Court

    A Waddy man charged with attempting to run over his uncle’s girlfriend with a motorcycle was arraigned in Spencer Circuit Court on Thursday morning.
    Waddy resident Sammy F. Mobley, 36, faces a first-degree wanton endangerment charge in connection with a March 16 incident in which Benjamin W. Mobley, 58, of Murphy Lane, allegedly attempted to shoot at and pistol-whip his girlfriend, who is of Mount Eden. Benjamin Mobley faces charges of first-degree attempted murder - domestic violence; first-degree wanton endangerment and first-degree assault - domestic violence.

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  • Two leads come up empty in Waddy attacks

    The planned autopsy on a calf that was one of the mysteriously attacked animals in Waddy has been cancelled.
    Tony Carriss, the magistrate for District 6 who has helped gather information and lead an investigation into the attacks, said he went to look at Robert Green’s calf just before noon on Tuesday, but another animal had attacked it since its death on Sunday.

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  • 4,610.5 pounds of love

    More than 33 Spencer County families had a great Christmas meal and then some as the result of a “Cram the Cruiser” food drive that exceeded all expectations, according to law enforcement officials that facilitated the drive.

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  • PHOTO GALLERY: One Sole Purpose — Spencer County and Taylorsville Elementary Schools

    The ‘One Sole Purpose’ initiative visited Spencer County and Taylorsville Elementary Schools Thursday, bringing a pair of Converse tennis shoes to all preschool through fifth grade students. The celebration was courtesy of many school, community and business volunteers who have contributed monetary donations, hours sizing children’s feet and more. Podiatrist Dr. William Beasley, along with his wife, Pat, and First Assembly of God Pastor Chad Goodlett, locally headed up the project.

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