10 - April 21, 2016 Your Hometown Newspaper News Outlook
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additionally charged with
By Charles Mattox being a persistent felony
KyNewsGroup offender, 1st degree.
charles@kynewsgroup.com Kentucky State Police
Detective, Wes Prather
worked closely with other
Kentucky State Police De-
in Fleming County will be tectives who were search-
in Fleming Circuit Court ing for Russ since he went
April 22 and court docu- missing in August 2014,
ments indicate DNA anal- and it was Prather who
Two men who face death
if convicted for the 2014
murder of Randolph Russ
near the Grange City Cov-
ered Bridge, where Black
told police Russ was bur-
ied.
Russ had met Krista
Johnson, on Facebook and
was in Fleming County
helping her and Howard
move. It has never been
revealed by investigators
if Johnson was present
ysis on a hair connected gave incriminating testi- when Russ was murdered,
with Russ's body may be mony against the two men but a copy of her subse-
quent polygraph test was
revealed, during each of their pre-
Charles Black 53, of Col- liminary hearings held in
fax and his cousin Kevin October, 2014, in Fleming
Howard, 39, formerly of District Court.
Owingsville, face the death Throughinterviews
penalty if convicted of the with Black and others,
August 2014 murder of along with examining
part-time University of Cin- physical evidence, Prather
cinnati professor, Randall said he established that
Russ, 56. Russ was at Black's home
Each are charged with on or around August 15 of
murder, 1st. degree, kid- this year and Black pro-
napping, robbery, theft, .vided information, includ-
tampering with physical mg taking detectives to
evidence and Howard is the spot along Fox Creek,
provided for the defense,
according to court docu-
ments.
Prather testified during
the preliminary hearing,
that Howard, Black and
Russ, drove tO the Flem-
ing County residence on
or about on August 15 of
this year. During inter-
views Black told Prather
and other detectives that
Howard had asked him to
visit a neighbor, another
relative of the two men,
who lived approximately
150 yards from Black's
residence.
Prather testified that
Black had .earlier bor-
rowed a shovel from that
neighbor.
Howard allegedly yelled
for Black to return after
approximately 45 min-
utes and upon his return
Black saw Russ, without
any clothing on, with duct
tape around his mouth and
face, and bound with tape
at the leg and ankles also.
Black said he felt for a
pulse but did not find one.
The two men drug Russ
through the house using
• a sheet and Howard put
Russ in the Russ vehicle,
they then drove to a lo-
cation near Grange City
Covered Bridge and dug a
grave, placing Russ in the
grave, according to Prath-
er's testimony. A critical piece of evi-
"Mr. Black then said Mr. dence in the case may be
Howard place the shovel the discovery of a single
against Russ's throat and human hair found in con-
kicked it," Prather tesfi- necfion with Russ.
fled. An analysis of the DNA
The two men then drove found may be revealed
Russ's vehicle toward Fort in court Friday April 21
Boonesboro State Park when Howard and Black
and stopped to wash the are scheduled to appear.
vehicle inside and out, Court orders indicate all
even removing carpetanalysis was to be com-
from the vehicle, pleted by this Friday.
Black used Russ's ATM The DNA testing was
card at a bank and a mu- scheduled to occur at
tual acquaintance identi- Bode Laboratories in Lor-
fled Black when she saw ton, Virginia.
the video, according to Det. Prather has since
Prather'stesfimony. been re-assigned to the
When Prather asked Governor's security force
about a possible motive to and Detective Nathan
harm Russ, he was told, Shortridge joined the in-
"Robbery." vestigafion several months
Russ's body was ex- ago.
humed by police and All persons are to be
county coroners' on Oct. presumed innocentuntil
1, 2014 after Black took proven guilty or pleading
detectives to the grave, guilty.
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The winners are Angelida
Angel Arnett (3rd Place).
By Holly Howard, Asst.
Director, Bath Co. Memo-
-,:, riaLLibrary ,:.
Our Summer Reading
T-shirt logo contest con-
tinues to be a huge suc-
cess. Originally an idea of
Director, Michael Richter,
the T-shirt contest will
become an annual event
with this being its sec-
Stewart (1st Place), Nicholas Frizzell (2nd Place), and
end successful year. The
contest is simple; choose
.theme, pick a winner.
OK. So maybe not THAT
simple, but it is well worth
the effort put into it.
Our children's librar-
ian started by picking a
theme, "Fairy Tales: Joust
Read." Her next step was
to choose an age group.
Last year's artists were
3rd - 5th graders so this
year she decided to get
the middle school grades
involved and sent the in-
vitation to the 6th- 8th
grades. In the beginning
participation seemed low,
but after a visit to the
middle school during the
lunch periods and a won-
derful Art teacher (Thank
you Kathy Adams), things
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began to change. We had
a total of 99 entries for the
contest and let me tell you,
they were all AWESOME!
It was extremely difficult
to narrow the field to 10, so
we chose 11. Then those
11 entries were circulated
among the staff, who were
told to pick their top 3 fa-
vorites. The chosen were
tallied and we had 3 very
close winners; 1st place
had 7 votes, 2nd had 6
votes, and 3rd had 5 votes.
From there the logo
gets scanned and adjust-
ed to make it cleaner for
the t-shirt transfers. A te-
dious process that must
be tripled checked and
turned into a usable jpeg,
even then I suggest let-
ting someone else spell
check. But in the end, we
have a great logo=for the
SRP material, an excited
winner with lots of prizes
and bragging rights, and
school and community
participation everyone can
get behind. I can't wait to
see the designs for next
,year!
Gary Hamilton, Coop-
erative Extension Agent for
Agriculture and Natural
Resources
With spring rapidly ap-
proaching, farm work will
get under way in earnest
and that often means mov-
ing equipment along Ken-
tucky's roadways. Colli-
sions on public roadways
involving farm machinery
take place each year es-
pecially during the busy
spring planting and fall
harvest times. Thus, peo-
ple driving farm machinery
and motor vehicles need to
be especially careful and
watchful in the days ahead.
Farmers should remem-
ber thatmany people don't
realize tractors and other
agricultural machinery of-
ten can't travel faster than
25 miles per hour. Also,
these farm vehicles have
limited maneuverability.
To help other motorists
see farm machinery on the
roadways, keep slow mov-
ing vehicle emblems and
extremity markings clean
and bright. Replace weath-
er-faded SMV emblems.
Make sure headlights, tail-
lights and flashing lights
are in proper working or-
der.
Inspect the reflectors
or reflective tape on the
front and rear extremities
of towed equipment. Use
amber or yellow on the
front, and red on the rear.
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By Eddie Mac Stewart
Visitors of Eddia
Mac Stewart were
Vivian Webb, John
Botts, Larry Butcher,
the missionaries, Lida
Tincher, and Miss
Mynear's son. Mon-
day's visitors were
Edith Shrout, Vicki
Lee, and Shredder the
puppy. I am still going
to therapy, and am not
feeling any better. I
will write more news
next time.
Free Dump
Day will be
Thursday,
April 28th.
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The Bath County Board of Elections
will conduct a public inspection of
voting machines on Thursday, April
21, at 10 a.m. at the Bath County
Courthouse.
Published in the Bath County News
Outlook on 04.21.16
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It's especially important to
use front reflectors or tape
when the edges of towed
equipment extend beyond
the left side of the tractor
to alert oncoming traffic of
the protruding equilSment.
When driving farm ma-
chinery, remember to keep
mirrors clean and be sure
they're properly adjusted
for each driver. Use these
mirrors to watch for ap-
proaching motorists. Many
farmers will pull complete-
ly off the road when pos-
sible to let the line of traffic
behind pass.
It's often hard for driv-
ers to anticipate the op-
erational intentions of farm
machinery being driven on
roadways. Remember, trac-
tors towing long-trailing or
wide machines might need
to move to the right to com-
plete a left turn. Thus, be
aware of unmarked field
entrances or other places
the driver might be plan-
ning to turn into. Don't as-
sume the farm equipment
drivers are waiting for you
to pass just because they
move to the right. Only
pass in a designated pass-
ing zone, or when the oth-
er driver signals and pulls
completely off the road.
An ordinance amending the Menifee County budget for fiscal year 2016, to include
unanticipated receipts and to increase expenditures for the LGEA and Senior
Citizen Funds which totals $169,217.78 was adopted by the Menifee County Fis-
cal Court on April 12th, 2016. A copy of the adopted ordinance with full text is
available for public inspection at the office of the county judge/exec during normal
business hours.
Published in the Menifee County News Outlook on 64.21.16
Farmers Mutual Insurance
of Mason County, Kentucky since 1879
Homeowners, Farm Properties,
Mobile Homes, Commercial
Buildings and Churches
Insuring in Bath, Clark, Montgomery
and Menifee Counties
1718 US 68 Maysville KY 41056
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Phone: 606-674-9599
Bath County Clerk Roger Coyle would like to
inform voters that the absentee voting machine
will be open on Wednesday, April 27, at the Bath
County Clerk's office at the courthouse for those
who will be unable to vote on Election Day,
Tuesday, May 17.
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Photos courtesy of Rep. Rocky Adkins
Ground was broken on Monday for the Rowan Tech-
Morehead State University Center for Advanced Manu-
facturing, located at the John Will Stacy MMRC Industrial
Park in the Sharkey community of Rowan County. This
$28 million facility is a partnership betwebn Maysville
Community and Technical College and Morehead State
University and will provide education and training in
advanced manufacturing, robotics, systems controls and
machining. Shown together in the top photo are Russ
Ward, MCTC-Rowan Campus Director; former State
Rep. John Will Stacy; State Rep. Rocky Adkins; and
Dr. Steve Vacik, Maysville Community and Technical
College (MCTC) President. The Rowan Campus has
among the highest enrollment and highest percentage
growth in the state.
ently lost control of his
By Cecil Lawson vehicle, left the roadway,
KyNewsGroup and struck an embank-
cecil@kynewsgr0up.comment near Sour Springs
An Owingsville man Road.
was seriously injured in Adkins was airlifted to
a single vehicle accident the University of Ken-
early Sunday morning in tucky Medical Center,
Olympia.. where he was last listed
Kentucky State Police in stable condition.
report that Justin Adkins, The accident remains
26, of Owingsville, was under investigation by
traveling southbound on Kentucky State Police
Highway 36 early Sunday Trooper Brandon Bur-
morning when he appar- ton.
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• Medicare Part A
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• Medicare Part C
• Medicare Part D
JIM GATES will be at the following
locations:
• Grayson Family Drug:
131 Carol Malone Blvd, Ste. E., Grayson, KY 41143
Monday, May 2, 2016 - 9:30am to 5:00pm
• Family Discount Drugs:
60 Slate Ave., Owingsville, KY 40360 Tuesday, May 3,
2016 - 9:30am to 5:00pm
• Soper Drugs:
102 S. Broadway, Carlisle, KY 40311
Wednesday, May 4, 2016 - 9:30am to 5:00pm
• Ross Drugs:
125 Foxglove Dr., Mt. Sterling, KY 40353 Thursday,
May 5, 2016 - 9:30am to 5:00pm
• Med-Save-Carter:
136 lessica Lane Ste. E, Olive Hill, KY 41164 (The Old
Carter Family), Every Friday - 9:30am to 5:00pm
• Camargo Pharmacy:
3404 Camargo Road, Mt. Sterling, KY 40353 Monday,
May 9, 2016 - 9:30am to 5:00pm
Jim sells other products:
Life Insurance, Obama Care, and HRA
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emall: Gatesiimmie@/ahoo.com
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