An Anderson County grandmother accused of abusing a child plead guilty Tuesday morning.

Investigators say Carolyn Case tied a 3-year-old to a bed for up to 16 hours a day as punishment.

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In addition to a guilty plea, Case agreed to testify against her daughter Rebecca Jackson, and child’s step-father Herbert Medley, who are also charged in the case.

An investigation is underway in Taylor County after an apparent murder-suicide involving a cross bow.

Not many details were immediately available, but officials say they are investigating a murder-suicide that happened at a home on East Finley Ridge Road in Taylor County around 10:00 a.m. Tuesday.

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Two deputy coroners were called out to the scene.

Investigators say one witness was taken to the Sheriff’s office for questioning about the incident.

A 21-year-old California woman was sentenced last week to 300 days in jail for using a U-Haul truck to commit insurance fraud and was caught red-handed through Facebook, according to the Sacramento County District Attorney’s office.

Angelique Jones rented a U-Haul truck in 2011 and purposely collided it with a car owned by co-defendant Susan Lee, the district attorney’s office said. Ms. Jones and Ms. Lee, as well as two women who were inside of Ms. Lee’s car during the collision and knew of the scheme, all filed bodily injury claims against U-Haul’s un-named insurer.

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The women denied knowing each other when questioned by the insurance company, the district attorney’s office said. However, the California Department of Insurance searched Ms. Jones’ Facebook page and discovered one of Ms. Lee’s passengers was Ms. Jones’ mother and the mother-in-law of the two other women in the scheme.

Ms. Jones’ accomplices each pleaded guilty to felony insurance fraud and served 180 days in jail, the attorney’s office said. All of the women were sentenced to five years of felony probation.

Police say they’ve recovered the vehicle of a missing 24-year-old College Station man in Laredo.

Brendan John Boyd, a grad student at Texas A&M, was reportedly last heard from via text message on Christmas Day 2013. Investigators said he has ties to the Abilene area, and may have been headed that way for a visit just before Christmas.

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Now College Station Police say they’re teaming up with police in Abilene and Laredo as part of their investigation. Anyone with information is asked to contact the College Station Police Department at 979-764-3600.

The bitterly cold temperatures were too much for an inmate on the run. LEX 18 was there Monday as 42-year-old Robert Vick turned himself into Lexington Police, riddled with frostbite.

Officers took him into custody at the Sunset Motel, only a few miles from the Blackburn Correction Complex where he escaped Sunday night.

People there said Vick showed up freezing and asking to be turned into police. “He was ready to go back ha ha,” said Maurice King who manages the Sunset Motel.

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After Vick walked away from his six-year sentence for burglary and five-year sentence for criminal possession of a forged instrument, Mother Nature had a harsher punishment.

“He’s frostbit, his toes and his fingers,” said Victoria Fugate who was staying at the Sunset Motel. “He was shivering he was really cold,” added King.

The winter weather was too much even for a man desperate for freedom. Sunday night he was asking for help when he showed up to Fugate’s door. “He was hungry the dude knocked on our door, we gave him a ham and cheese sandwich, we gave him some hot chocolate,” said Fugate.

Little did she know, he was on the run. “The next thing you know today (Monday) they are here they are arresting him, he’s frostbit. Our barns out back, I guess he slept there,” said Fugate.

Police said he broke into an abandoned farmhouse, stole some clothes and went to sleep. “He said he stayed in a house up here on a farm,” said King.

Monday morning Vick showed up at the motel, again asking for help. “He said can you call the law on me? and I kind of looked at him I thought he was crazy or something,” said King. However, he called police, and said Robert Vick wanted to turn himself in.

“I don’t even think the dispatcher believed me,” said King. Moments later officers showed up with an ambulance and took Vick to the University of Kentucky Hospital.

Now, the people who helped him have a few words of wisdom. “That was stupid ‘especially in the cold weather’ yeah really stupid,” said Fugate.

Vick was released from the University of Kentucky Hospital, and was back in the Blackburn Correctional Complex Monday night.

Bean Bags? Yup. A surveillance persons favorite friend. Cramped in the back of a van or crawl space for up to 8 hours can reek havoc on your back.

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Bean bags can be conformed to fill any space necessary to get comfy. Broadway show tunes and a bean bag, and I’m good for days.

A man wanted in a Montgomery County robbery from back in June was arrested in Ohio.

Montgomery County deputies went to Cincinnati Sunday night to bring Glen Farrell after police there had arrested him on other charges and found out through database that he was also wanted in Kentucky.

The Montgomery County Sheriff said Farrell robbed a Dollar General in Mt. Sterling on June 10.

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Reportedly, he acted like he was sick and held a bandana over his face while he walked around the store until the last customer walked out to rob the business.

Less than an hour before closing, he was seen on surveillance video walking around the store as if he was looking for something and even asking the clerk where he could find some medicine.

He later got the clerk’s attention while she was stocking shelves out of frame. Speaking low, he insinuated he needed to pay for medicine, and as the clerk leaned forward to better understand him he whipped out a gun and went for the cash.

A Vallejo man is warning customers to check their statements after he said his identity was allegedly stolen by an employee at the Best Buy store in Vallejo.

Police are searching for an inmate who walked away from the Blackburn Correctional Complex in Lexington Sunday night.

Officials say Robert Vick, 42, escaped around 9 p.m.

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Police say Vick is from Hartford, Ky. He was serving a 6-year sentence for burglary and a 5-year sentence for criminal possession of a forged instrument, both out of Boyd County.

If you have information on Vick please contact the Kentucky State Police at 502-227-2221, or 1-800-222-5555, or your local law enforcement agency.

One person died in an early morning two-vehicle crash on I-75 in Laurel County.

Reportedly, a car traveling south bound on I-75 near mile marker 36 around 1:50 a.m. lost control on a patch of black ice causing the vehicle to spin out of control into the path of a south bound tractor trailer.

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The driver of the car, Slavko Frkovic, and the front seat passenger, Sanja Frkovic, were seriously injured. The rear seat passenger, Svetlana Frkovic, was critically injured and transported to UK where she later died. All were from Ontario, Canada.

The driver of the semi, Charles Briwn of Frenchburg, Ky, and his passenger Anthony Thomas, of Saltlick, Ky, were not injured.