Somerset — Kentucky Supreme Court justices will look at briefings Wednesday, February 22nd on an appeal of House Bill 1, the controversial redistricting bill that has the 2012 election cycle in a quandary. Oral arguments will be heard Friday.

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Somerset — Somerset Police responded to a reported stabbing incident Monday afternoon, but in an unusual twist, no criminal charges have come about as a result. The call about a stabbing involving two different victims came across the 911 dispatch just after 2 p.m. Monday, at an apartment on Sycamore Street in Colonial Village in downtown Somerset.

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Somerset — Three suspects have been arrested in connection with a bizarre home invasion attempt early Sunday morning in northern Pulaski County that left two people injured with gunshot wounds.

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Somerset — Local law enforcement was led on an intense chase through Somerset and Ferguson Monday afternoon, culminating in a wreck with a police cruiser.

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Somerset — An alleged sexual assault at a local grocery store last month turned out to be a hoax, according to Somerset Police — though one that resulted in the arrest of the would-have-been victim.

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Somerset — Pulaski County Public Safety Director Tiger Robinson and Pulaski County 911 Director Lisa Gilbert both appeared in Pulaski County Fiscal Court Tuesday alongside Kurt Steier, with Emergency Communications Network, to pitch a brand new, technologically-advanced emergency call system that would replace the current system.

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Eubank — Burnetta Burkholder didn’t understand why her husband, Hiram, was handing her the family’s cordless phone and telling her to speak to 911 late on Friday afternoon. "I knew something had happened,” she said."  Hiram told his wife that he’d just been robbed at gunpoint by a young male while working in the family’s small goods store, Hillside Pantry, located on Etna Road in Eubank.

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Pine Knot, Ky. — Two McCreary County residents were taken into custody yesterday on multiple charges of animal cruelty. Tina E. Jones, 36, and Jason Jay Greenfield, 34, both of the Pine Knot community in southern McCreary County were lodged in the McCreary County Detention Center after authorities served the couple with arrest warrants stemming from an inspection of the Heaven’s Little Angels Rescue.

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Frankfort, Ky. — It took some blunt testimony and visual evidence and the vote was close, but the Senate Judiciary Committee passed out a bill Thursday to require prescriptions for the purchase of products containing pseudoephedrine.

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Somerset — The plant manager of Somerset Refinery, evolving into Continental Refining Company, is a native Pulaski Countian. Kristopher Gibson is a native of Somerset. So is his wife, the former Kristen Flynn. Both Gibson and his wife are graduates of Somerset High School.

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