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A grand jury has indicted a Bowling Green man accused of breaking into an apartment and raping a woman there. Robert Lee Jones, 54, was formally charged with first-degree rape, second-degree burglary and first-degree sexual abuse. Jones was arrested Oct. 6 by the Bowling Green Police Department after a woman staying at a Chestnut Street […]

By the end of a recent morning, a new hire with the Warren County Sheriff’s Office had visited with an unhoused man accused of throwing a brick at a passing car, gone to a domestic dispute in which one of the involved parties pulled a weapon on the officer and ended a hostage situation in […]

  Less than a month after being shot multiple times while responding to a disturbance at America’s Car Mart, a hospitalized Bowling Green Police Department Officer Matt Davis told two Kentucky State Police detectives that the person who accompanied him to the incident as a civilian ride-along saved his life. Davis made the disclosure during […]

Eighth Circuit Court Judge Chris Cohron has been appointed special judge to preside over the murder case against former Letcher County Sheriff Shawn “Mickey” Stines. Cohron, who hears cases in the circuit covering Warren and Edmonson counties, was named the judge in Stines’ case last week by Kentucky Chief Justice Laurance Vanmeter. Cohron was elected […]

A Simpson County pharmacy owner and his wife each pleaded guilty Monday to multiple crimes related to his business. Joseph Huff, 46, owner of Franklin Pharmacy, entered a guilty plea in U.S. District Court in Bowling Green to 12 counts of health care fraud and one count each of theft of medical products, conspiracy to […]

A Bowling Green man suspected of providing fentanyl to a teenager who died after using received a 15-year prison sentence after pleading guilty Monday. James Bentlee Good, 23, entered the guilty plea in Warren Circuit Court to charges of second-degree manslaughter and first-degree trafficking in a controlled substance. Authorities sought to hold Good responsible for […]

A Bowling Green man who reportedly contacted two women for sex work weeks apart is accused of sexually assaulting and robbing them. A grand jury will hear the case against Jermaris Whiteside, 34, who was arrested Jan. 2 by the Bowling Green Police Department on two counts of kidnapping, two counts of first-degree robbery, two […]

City police arrested a Bowling Green man Sunday who was suspected of fatally shooting another man hours earlier in Ohio. Jason Lee Strain, 43, was arrested on a warrant from Adams County, Ohio, charging him with murder. Strain is suspected of causing the death of James D. Land, 47, of West Union, Ohio. Email newsletter […]

The night before Martin Auto Mart manager Robert Dark was fatally shot at his business, a cell phone tied to the alleged shooter was in service in the area near […]

For hundreds of people who have found themselves under prosecution in the criminal justice system, Kita Clement has offered a lifeline. A social worker and alternative sentencing specialist for the […]

A Simpson County man was sentenced Tuesday to 60 years in prison for multiple sex offenses, resolving a case that the presiding judge termed the worst he had seen. Joseph […]