Laurel County News

Landscape by Laurel Artist Jan Sumac wins art show at London Dave Cazalet, Jr., wins first place portrait, with painting of his wife, Nancy Somerset Community College story Laurel County artist Jan Sumac won the "Best of Show" Award at the Cumberland Valley Art Show held at the Laurel County Public Library during the week of Nov.

Special to The Times-Tribune The new traffic signal at the intersection of KY 192 and the Hal Rogers Parkway in Laurel County will be activated Thursday.

Another methamphetamine lab has been discovered in Laurel County, this time in Piney Grove Apartments on Robert E. Cox Road.

By Carl Keith Greene / Staff Writer On the first day of filing, 32 candidates for local offices in Knox and Laurel counties filed for the May 18 primary election.

A total of 10 children were taken to two hospitals the result of the accident. The driver of the SUV that police say caused the accident was airlifted to UK with some serious injuries.

A census taker found hanging from a tree had named his son as his life insurance beneficiary, and investigators are looking into whether the father manipulated the death scene to make a claim possible, law enforcement officials told The Associated Press Thursday.

On Tuesday, November 10, 2009, at 10:16 PM the Kentucky State Police, Post 11, in London responded to a report of a Methamphetamine lab in an apartment at the Piney Grove Apartments on Robert E. Cox Road in Laurel County, Kentucky.

Police say the driver who crossed the center line and hit a Laurel County school bus Thursday morning was released from the Laurel County Detention Center in February following a DUI arrest and was driving on a suspended license.

We have some breaking news out of London. Transportation officials from the Laurel County school system tell Mountain News a car travelling the wrong direction at a high rate of speed hit a school bus on Highway 1006 in front of Logan's Car Wash.

Shannon L. Johnson will spend two weeks in the Laurel County Detention Center after pleading guilty to prostitution and trespassing charges Friday in Laurel District Court.

On Monday, November 09, 2009, at 00:20 AM Kentucky State Police Trooper Scottie Pennington observed a Toyota truck, with only one headlight, traveling southbound on US 25 in Rockcastle County, Kentucky.

What started as a police chase in Laurel County, ended with a meth lab taken out of operation.

By Carl Keith Greene / Staff Writer In about a 24-hour period this week, Laurel County sheriff's deputies arrested 10 people on trafficking in, making and selling methamphetamine, marijuana and other controlled substances.

A Laurel County couple pleads guilty to threatening a confidential informant. 33-year old Christina Denham and 28-year old Brandon Pitman of Keavy are accused of trying to retaliate against a state police informant that bought drugs off Denham's aunt, Judy Wilder, in January.

By Carl Keith Greene / Staff Writer Late Tuesday night, a Laurel County jury was deliberating the fate of Kenneth Ray Begley, 30, charged in the death of Ed Eversole on Oct.

Hours after a London woman was allegedly raped by a burglar at her home, the Laurel County Major Crimes Task Force charged Tyler Gross, 22, of London with the crime.

The trial of the man accused of killing his uncle is scheduled to begin Monday in Laurel County.

On Friday, October 30, 2009, at approximately 2:19 AM the Kentucky State Police, Post 11, in London was notified by the Laurel County 911 Dispatch Center of a Home Invasion Robbery/Assault on Waterworks Road in Laurel, County.

It seems the woman accused of killing her toddler in Laurel County had two other children removed from her care several years ago.

A London woman died in a single-vehicle crash Monday evening about six miles south of London on KY 229.