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Anderson Co. teacher charged with threatening student

LAWRENCEBURG, Ky. (LEX18)– A former Anderson County teacher has pleaded not guilty to charges of threatening a male student in 2017. According to the Anderson News, 36-year-old Chrystal Graham was charged with second-degree disorderly conduct in the incident. Court documents say that she threatened to “cut off a student’s penis and shove it down his throat” following a kickball game on…

Colorado shooter “always joked about it”

(NBC News) Devon Erickson, the 18-year-old student accused of opening fire on classmates at a Colorado school Tuesday stood before a judge for the first time Wednesday. Erickson and an accomplice, not identified because of her age, face charges including first degree murder and multiple accounts of attempted murder. One student was killed and eight others were wounded in Tuesday’s…

Man accused of setting parents’ house on fire while they were inside

MUNFORDVILLE, Ky. – A Munfordville man is accused of dousing his parents’ mobile home in gasoline before setting it on fire while they were still inside. Steven Glaab, 40, was booked into the Hart County Jail Tuesday night after Kentucky State Police charged him with first-degree arson and first-degree wanton endangerment, online jail records show. When police arrived at the…

Trump claims executive privilege on Mueller report

(NBC News) President Trump is asserting executive privilege over special counsel Robert Mueller’s unredacted Russia report and any supporting documents, marking a dramatic escalation in the White House fight with House Democrats. The president’s decision was announced just as the House Judiciary Committee began a hearing over whether to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt for not complying with…

Trump Admits Massive Tax Write-Offs

(NBC News) President Trump admitted Wednesday to taking massive tax write-offs of $1.17 billion for real estate losses from the mid 1980s to mid 1990s. “Real estate developers in the 1980’s & 1990’s, more than 30 years ago, were entitled to massive write offs and depreciation which would, if one was actively building, show losses and tax losses in almost…

Rescued owl returns to the wild

(WYFF/NBC News) An owl found tangled in fishing line hanging over a South Carolina river has returned to the wild. The 2-year-old male barred owl was rescued last week after he was spotted by fishermen. “We took him and put him in a flight pen, let him stay there a couple days make sure he was eating on his own,…

“Lunch Shaming” to continue

(WJAR) Thousands of students in Warwick, Rhode Island schools might lose their lunch choice because they are behind on payments. While they owe the district money for lunch, school officials have turned down a big donation from a business owner that would have helped pay off any overdue bills. “Everything that I said got shut down,” Angelica Penta says. “Every…