Kentucky State Police continue to search for a missing Madison County teen.

On Tuesday, police were on Horse Cove Road in Madison County searched for Brookelyn Farthing, 18, who went missing in June.

They searched the area for about five hours, but found nothing suspicious. It’s not clear exactly how many acres were searched.

Police have already combed through that area in the past since the teen disappeared in June, but went back Tuesday to be proactive in their search.They did not say if they were looking for anything specific.

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According to investigators, Farthing was last seen at a house in Berea. The owner of that home told detectives he left and came back to find the woman missing and a fire inside.

Farthing’s family has since offered a reward and purchased billboards to help in the search.

There’s still no sign of the missing woman.

Lexington Police have identified one of the men in a kidnapping investigation.

Police say Parico Coffey, 21, is one of the suspects seen on surveillance camera of a Speedway gas station near the intersection of Versailles Road and Alexandria Drive around 5:46 a.m. Tuesday morning, when a woman was forced into her car at gunpoint and kidnapped.

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Police say the woman may have been sexually assaulted.

The victim was able to get out of the car about half a mile from the gas station on Bordeaux Drive, where she ran from door to door, naked, knocking and begging for help.

Police have since found the victim’s abandoned Ford Taurus at a store on Alexandria Drive.

Police think the men wanted in the photos were together Tuesday afternoon. They continue looking for the second man.

IMPD is looking for a missing 66-year-old man.

Richard Wyand suffers from Parkinson’s disease and is currently under the care of a physician.

Wyand can experience confusion and disorientation without his medication.

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He was last seen December 16, 2013 during the noon hour wandering away from his home on the 4100 block of Terra Drive.

There is no indication of a direction of travel or his desired destination.

Anyone with information about Wyand’s whereabouts is asked to call 911 or call IMPD Missing Person at 317-327-3811.

Police are searching for the person responsible for fatally shooting a man in Louisville Monday night.

Police say a man was found shot to death around midnight Monday night in Louisville’s Russell neighborhood.

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The man killed is in his 20’s. His identity has not been released.

Police shut down the area for investigation. No arrests have been made, so far.

A man charged in the 2011 death of an Arkansas police dispatcher pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder on Monday.

Kevin Duck is accused of killing his girlfriend Dawna Natzke, a mother of three and a police dispatcher in the central Arkansas community of Hot Springs Village.

Duck appeared in court on Monday and pleaded not guilty, one of his attorneys, T. Clay Janske, said.

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Janske said Duck did not kill Natzke, who was last seen leaving a Christmas party with Duck on Dec. 21, 2011. Volunteer searchers found Natzke’s body days later on New Year’s Eve.

Natzke, 46, died from blunt force trauma and drowning, according to an autopsy report cited in court documents.

A medical examiner said Natzke died within three to four hours of leaving the holiday party.

But prosecutors only recently charged Duck in Natzke’s death.

Prosecutor Steve Oliver said Monday that it took a long time for an FBI expert to analyze cellphone records. Oliver said the case also changed hands from the local police to the county sheriff’s office and then to his office, which conducted more interviews.

“When you take all those things in consideration, it just took a while to get there,” Oliver said.

Authorities arrested Duck, 30, last month in Colorado. He is being held in Garland County jail on $250,000 bond. Janske said Duck is set to have a bond hearing on Dec. 30.

Duck went to the Hot Springs Village police the day after the party and said Natzke was missing, according to court documents. He told authorities that he and Natzke left the party and drove to Natzke’s home.

“He stated he went to bed and Dawna left to go back to the party,” a probable cause document says. “He then states he got up on the morning of December 22, 2011, at 7:30 a.m. and neither Dawna nor her vehicle were at the house.”

A police dispatcher reached out to area hospitals and local law enforcement, but didn’t have any luck, according to the probable cause document.

Then, a police sergeant “advised Duck nothing more could be done and if the agency heard from Natzke, Duck would be notified,” according to the probable cause document.

Natzke didn’t show up for work on Dec. 23, and authorities opened a missing person’s case on her.

Hot Springs Village Police Chief Gary Adams declined to comment on Monday and referred questions to the local prosecutor.

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The Pulaski County Sheriff’s Office has arrested a Somerset teen accused of making threats against a Pulaski County school.

Investigators say a student at Southwestern High School received threatening text messages on Monday, suggesting a fellow student was planning to detonate fire bombs and shoot up the school. The texts contained some specific information as to where the bombs would be placed and a time frame for the detonations. There was no indication of the date the assault was to take place, investigators said.

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The sender of the text messages was identified by investigators as a 15-year-old Southwestern student.

The student admitted to detectives in an interview that he had in fact sent the messages, but could not explain to investigators why he sent them or suggest a motive for the threats.

The teen was taken into custody and charged with terroristic threatening first degree, a class C felony.

He was taken to the Adair County Juvenile Detention Center.

At this point, investigators believe the student was acting alone.

A former high school band director has been indicted on more sex charges in Northern Kentucky.

According to the Grant County News, Kenneth Owens is now facing rape, sodomy and an additional sexual abuse charge. That’s on top of the two he was already facing for an alleged sexual relationship he had with a 16 year-old student.

Owens’ wife, Joann is also facing witness tampering charges over another inappropriate relationship Kenneth allegedly had with a student at a different high school two years before.

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Police say that victim was just 14 years-old.

The Grant County News also reports that Owens could face charges in Rowan County for alleged incidents with one of the victims during band trips.

A Louisville man pleaded guilty in United States District Court this week to charges of sexually abusing a minor under the age of 7 during the production of child pornography, announced David J. Hale, United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky.

According to the five-count indictment, Thomas Evan Middleton, age 50, sexually abused the minor female during the creation of pornography, while babysitting the minor at his home between August 2009 and May 2011.

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This case was initially brought by the Louisiana Attorney General’s Office (LAGO), who contacted law enforcement in Louisville, Kentucky, regarding a peer-to-peer investigation into Louisiana resident Robert Swan. The LAGO had previously executed a search warrant on Swan’s residence on January 30, 2013. During the review process of Swan’s electronic storage devices the LAGO discovered images of Swan and a then unknown individual engaged in the sexual exploitation of a minor. The unknown man had a cross tattoo on his right middle finger and was later identified as Thomas Middleton, through identifying information located on Swan’s computer. During the course of their investigation, thousands of digital images of child pornography were recovered, including images with Swan and Middleton sexually abusing a 4- to 5-year-old female.

On July 24, 2013, a federal search warrant was executed on Middleton’s residence. Several items in the residence appeared to be the same as items observed in some of the sexual abuse images found on Swan’s computer. During the execution of the search warrant, Middleton identified the child victim depicted in the pictures with him.

Middleton faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 25 years in prison and a combined maximum term of imprisonment of 250 years, a fine of $1,250,000, and a period of supervised release of at least five years and up to any number of years including life.

Middleton is scheduled for sentencing before Senior Judge Thomas B. Russell, on March 18, 2014, at 12:15 in Louisville.

This case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney A. Spencer McKiness and is being investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation with assistance from the Louisiana Attorney General’s Office.

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. Led by the United States Attorneys’ Offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who sexually exploit children, and to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.usdoj.gov/psc. For more information about Internet safety education, please visit www.usdoj.gov/psc and click on the tab “Resources.”

The owner of Bluegrass Women’s Healthcare, located in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, was sentenced yesterday in United States District Court by United States District Judge John G. Heyburn to one year probation for a single charge of misbranding, and the corporation, Bluegrass Women’s Healthcare, was sentenced and ordered to pay a fine of $25,000, announced David J. Hale, United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky. The defendant owner, Canh Jeff Vo, was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $50,663.31 to victims.

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Vo, age 45, of Louisville, Kentucky, was the owner, supervising physician, and president at Bluegrass Women’s Healthcare between March 2008 and September 2009 when the violations occurred. Vo offered gynecological and obstetric services to women at Bluegrass Women’s Healthcare, including providing forms of birth control. According to the plea agreement, between March 2008 and September 2009, Vo purchased and inserted into patients, foreign, non-FDA approved (levonorgesteral-releasing intrauterine device). These intrauterine devices or IUDs were misbranded in that their labeling was not in the English language; and their labeling did not bear adequate directions for use. Vo pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor charge of misbranding on September 6, 2013, and agreed to pay jointly and severally with Bluegrass Women’s Healthcare restitution to the victims.

Also, between March 2008 and September 2009, Bluegrass Women’s Healthcare received, brought, and imported into the United States IUDs, knowing that these were misbranded and unlawfully introduced into interstate commerce from various countries, including from Canada. Defendant Vo, as president of Bluegrass Women’s Healthcare, pleaded guilty, on behalf of the corporation, to the felony charge of smuggling and agreed to pay a $25,000 fine.

This case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Lettricea Jefferson-Webb and was investigated by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Office of Criminal Investigations, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Kentucky Office of the Attorney General Office of Medicaid Fraud and Abuse Control.

Manatee County detectives are looking for a man that went missing over the weekend.

Sheriff’s Office officials believe the man, 65-year-old Alfred Kowal, was last seen driving a 2002 Champagne colored Chevy Truck, with a green topper.

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Deputies didn’t say why, but they believe he could be endangered.  He was last seen on Cowpen Lane, off Fruitville Road in eastern Sarasota County.

Anyone with information on his whereabouts is asked to contact the Sheriff’s Office at 941-747-3011.