Kentucky State Police are searching for two inmates that escaped from the Madison County Detention Center.

Troopers said that Raheym Hill, 20 years old of Lexington, and Marcel Sellars, 24 years old of Lexington, escaped at around 9:00 p.m. On Friday night.

Investigators said both men got away out of a transport van while pulling up to MCDC. Police said Hill was being held after being indicted for three counts of Robbery 1st Degree, Convicted Felon in Possession of a Handgun, Possession of Drug Paraphernalia, and Possession of Marijuana.

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Investigators said Sellars was being held after being indicted for three counts of Robbery 1st Degree.

Hill and Sellars are both approximately 5’8″ tall and weigh about 160 pounds. They were last seen wearing a white and gray shirt with white and black striped pants.

Anyone with information about the possible location of Raheym Hill or Marcel Sellars is asked to contact local law enforcement or the Kentucky State Police at 859-623-2404 or 1-800-222-5555.

A Lexington man indicted in the beating death of an elderly man pleaded not guilty in circuit court Friday.

Cory Etherington is charged in the beating death of 87-year-old John Tully, whose body was found at the Old Farm Apartments on July 11.

Tully was found with various injuries and taken to the University of Kentucky Hospital where he later died.

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Police said they believe someone had attacked the elderly man, hitting him in the head and leaving him bleeding heavily with life-threatening injuries.A neighbor found him in the breezeway of an apartment.

Etherington is also charged with tampering with physical evidence.

He will be back in court Dec. 23.

Police in Laurel County are hoping that a cash reward will help them make an arrest in the robbery of a local business.

The incident happened around 8:30 p.m. Thursday night at the GameStop in London.

Police say a man walked into the store, waited for customers to leave then held up the employees, demanding money from the register.

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The suspect is a man between 25-30 years old. He was wearing a maroon colored hoodie with white lettering, dark jeans, cowboy style boots, black gloves and a camouflage baseball cap.

If you have any information you are asked to contact police.

Jesse James Durham was supposed to be sentenced Friday after admitting to killing his great grandmother with a hammer.

However, the judge wasn’t about to let that happen. Last month, Durham pleaded guilty to beating and killing his great-grandmother at her Campbellsville home and Friday he stood before a judge to learn his sentence.

However, the judge chose not to accept the prosecution’s recommendation for Durham to spend 40 years in prison. He had initially accepted the sentence last month, but changed his mind after reading a letter written by the victim’s son.

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In the letter, the victim’s son recalled walking into his mother’s home days after she was murdered. He recalls just how horrific that was. Her son wrote to the courts to say that 40 years in prison is insufficient punishment for the crime.

Now another court date for a pre-trial conference is set for December 2 to discuss his options. Durham will have the option to withdraw his guilty plea, let the judge sentence him or have a jury decide.

Before Durham pled guilty last month he was facing charges for murder, tampering with physical evidence and theft by unlawful taking.

A Jackson, Mississippi, man was sentenced to 24 months in prison by Chief Judge Joseph H. McKinley Jr, in United States District Court Monday, November 3, 2014, following his conviction for the attempted online extortion of the University of Louisville Athletic Association, announced David J. Hale, United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky.

Thomas E. Ray, age 36, of Jackson Mississippi was convicted of a single count of extortion, by means of threatening communication, by a federal jury in Louisville, on August 13, 2014. The jury deliberated less than two hours before reaching a guilty verdict.

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According to evidence presented at trial, Ray used the alias “Melinda White” when he knowingly sent an e-mail communication from his home in Jackson, to the Commonwealth of Kentucky, on April 23, 2013. Ray’s e-mail was sent to two University of Louisville employees with a threat to injure the reputation of the University of Louisville Athletic Association and a demand for $3.5 million.

Ray was indicted by a federal grand jury in Louisville, on October 16, 2013. The indictment was unsealed on October 24, 2013, following Ray’s arrest in Mississippi, by the U.S. Marshal Service.

Ray faced no more than two years in prison, a maximum fine of $250,000 and a one year period of supervised release.

This case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney A. Spencer McKiness and was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Louisville Metro Police Department, and Office of the Kentucky Attorney General.

A father is behind bars accused of abusing his 5-year-old daughter multiple times, leaving the little girl with bruises and cuts all over her body.

Kentucky State Police say 25-year-old Skylar Wilson admitted to abusing his child when confronted by troopers Friday morning, a few hours after the child was taken to the hospital by the mother.

The 5-year-old was taken to Baptist Health Hospital in Corbin for treatment with multiple bruises, cuts and scabs from the alleged abuse that covered her body.

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Investigators say the child was living with her father in the Girdler community of Knox County at the time of the abuse. Investigators said the father had custody of the girl, and called the mother to go pick her up.

Social Services contacted KSP around 4:30 a.m. Friday and Wilson was found around 7:45 a.m. State police say he admitted to the abuse.

He was arrested and charged with 45 counts of criminal abuse first degree and assault fourth degree (child). He is being held in the Knox County Detention Center.

The case is still under investigation, state police said

Deputies in Boyle County arrested three people in connection with a drug investigation Thursday night.

Officials say deputies doing surveillance found a wanted fugitive leaving the Cheddar’s Restaurant in Danville and made a traffic stop. Deputies say John Ganem, 20, was driving and wanted for drug trafficking. Deputies say they found drugs and drug paraphernalia in the car, and on Ganem and two other people inside.

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Deputies arrested Ganem, Dallas Carlton, 21, and Austin Cox, 21. All three men face multiple drug charges.

A 65-year-old Moore man is in the Cleveland County Jail after police say he placed a graphic sex ad on Craigslist.

Paul Schurman’s been in jail since police picked him up in a restaurant parking lot in Norman just after 11 a.m. Thursday.

Last week, police say Schurman placed his sex-seeking ad on Craigslist. The contents of the ad are sexually suggestive, vile, and targeted boys.

A Moore Police detective posing as a 14-year-old boy made email contact with Schurman, which led to his arrest. Police say this sort of thing happens more than you would think. Schurman’s neighbors are very surprised.

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“He always came off as a really nice guy,” one of them said Thursday evening.

“I’m shocked. I can’t believe it. It’s unreal.”

Morehead Police are issuing an alert after a woman was reported posing as a nurse in an attempt to look at a patient’s medication.

It happened at a home on the west side of Morehead. Police say a woman wearing a white lab coat knocked on a door, saying that she worked with home health services and needed to check the homeowner’s medications.

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This is the only incident reported but police fear it could be a way for people to steal drugs.

If this has happened to you, you are asked to contact Morehead Police.

Neighbors in Lily, in Laurel County, are upset after several homes were broken into yesterday.

Even though police say that front doors were locked in Lily, that didn’t stop a thief or thieves from breaking into homes along 552. Now some neighbors are out thousands of dollars and police are trying to track down whoever is responsible. Officials believe the burglaries happened in broad daylight.

“For us to have 5 or 6, in the same vicinity in the same day,real unusual, and it’s obvious whoever did it tried to catch people away from their homes gone to work or wherever,” says Gilbert Acciardo, Public Affairs Deputy for the Laurel County Sheriff’s Office.

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Neighbors tell LEX 18 that it is alarming that this happened during daylight hours.

Police say that the thief or thieves pried open the front doors of the homes, getting their hands on everything from electronics, guns and even a safe with silver inside. The victims are out as much as $20,000, say detectives.

Officials say the homes that were targeted were off of Hwy 552 between Landfill and Ky. 363. If you saw any unusual activity or vehicles in the area yesterday or days prior the Laurel County Sheriff’s Department would like to hear from you