PRESTONSBURG, Ky. — The judge presiding over the Amber Spradlin murder trial has granted a request by prosecutors to delay the trial. Special Judge Eddy Coleman issued an order Friday evening canceling the Dec. 1 trial date and ordering attorneys to appear that day for a pretrial conference instead. In his order, Coleman noted that the untested DNA evidence was too important to ignore. He cited precedent for his decision in the case in Manning vs. Commonwealth of Kentucky, in which the Kentucky Supreme Court granted a fourth delay in a complicity to murder and robbery case, even though that […]

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PIKEVILLE, Ky. — A Pike County man arrested last week on 20 counts of possessing child pornography has now seen his case bumped up to federal court. Charles Michael Hopkins, 34, of Virgie, was arrested last week after Kentucky State Police received a tip that he had been uploading and downloading child porn images online. That case has now been moved to federal court. Documents in the federal case provide a more complete picture of the allegations. According to an affidavit by the FBI agent investigating the case, KSP received the first report about Hopkins from the National Center for […]

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FRANKFORT, Ky. – Gov. Andy Beshear invites the public to pay their respects to former Kentucky Gov. Martha Layne Collins, who will lie in state in the Old State Capitol on Sunday, Nov. 9, beginning at noon. Collins’ family will host a public visitation in the Old State Capitol from noon to 4 p.m. Sunday. There will be a memorial service at 4:30 p.m., which will air live on Kentucky Educational Television and at ket.org/live. Collins was the 56th Governor of the commonwealth and its only woman governor to date, serving from 1983 to 1987. She also served as lieutenant governor from […]

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