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FRANKFORT
HIGH COURT RULES ON FATHERHOOD RIGHTS
The Kentucky Supreme Court has ruled that a man who fathers a child during an affair with a married woman has no legal rights to fatherhood. The vote was divided at 4-3, but the ruling upheld the presumption that a child born to a married woman living with her husband is a child of the marriage. Justice Bill Cunningham wrote in the ruling that married couples have a right to be left alone from the claims of "interloper adulterers." The court sided with a Louisville couple, Julia and Jonathan Ricketts. They had sought to block James Rhoades Jr. from trying to establish paternity of a child born during an affair with the woman.
PIKE COUNTY
MINE SEAL FAILS; NO ONE HURT
A seal failed at an abandoned mine in Pike County about 4:50 p.m. Friday, causing a blowout, officials said. No one was injured, but rushing water washed debris onto Ky. 194 and forced officials to close the road. Six families volunteered to relocate temporarily in case one of the other two mine seals failed. State and federal mine safety officials were investigating.
OLIVE HILL
CRUDE-OIL TRUCK CRASHES ON I-64
A tractor-trailer crash closed Interstate 64 at the Carter-Rowan county line Friday morning. By 10:30 p.m., both westbound lanes were open at mile marker 149, one eastbound lane was open, and cleanup efforts were expected to resume at 6 a.m. Saturday, according to the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet. WSAZ-TV in Charleston, W.Va., reported that the truck was carrying more than 7,000 gallons of crude oil and was headed for a Marathon Ashland refinery in Catlettsburg. The station said about half of the cargo spilled. The driver was reported uninjured.
NICHOLASVILLE
MAN SHOT BY POLICE IMPROVES
The condition of a man who was accidentally shot by a Nicholasville police officer was upgraded from critical to fair Friday, according to University of Kentucky Hospital. A police news release said Lt. Bill Jones intended to use his Taser to stop a fight outside the police department, but he mistakenly drew his handgun and shot Michael McCarty, 27, in the side. Jones is on administrative leave pending a Kentucky State Police investigation.
FORT CAMPBELL
3 SOLDIERS KILLED IN TWO DAYS
Three Fort Campbell-based soldiers have been killed in two days in Iraq in separate incidents, according to the Department of Defense. John T. Bishop, 22, of Gaylord, Mich., and 1st Lt. Timothy W. Cunningham, 26, of College Station, Texas, died in Golden Hills, Iraq, on Wednesday from injuries suffered when their vehicle rolled into a canal. Staff Sgt. Shaun J. Whitehead, 25, of Commerce, Ga., was struck and killed by a bomb while patrolling on foot in Iskandariyah on Thursday, the Army said.
WAYNE, W.VA.
LOUISA MAN HAS PREVIOUS DUIS
A Kentucky man accused of a West Virginia drunken driving accident that killed four people had been charged with driving under the influence multiple times before. A search of Kentucky court records by The Herald-Dispatch of Huntington found eight previous DUI charges against Bobby Frazier, 47, of Louisa. In all, the newspaper found nearly 30 criminal complaints brought against Frazier since 1992.
from Herald-Leader Staff, Wire Reports
