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A 17th man in a sweep of suspects looking for sex with children was arrested Wednesday in Clay County after authorities announced other arrests.

The pastor charged in a triple murder in Danville pleaded not guilty Wednesday morning.

Kenneth Allen Keith, 48, entered his plea during a video hearing in Boyle County.

Police say Keith was the man who gunned down Mike and Angela Hockensmith, as well as their client, Daniel Smith, inside ABC Gold, Games and More in downtown Danville last month.

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Court officials say Keith will be held without bond due to the nature of the charges.

A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Oct. 23.

A man was taken to UK Hospital with life-threatening injuries after he was hit by an SUV on New Circle Road in Lexington Tuesday night.

Police have since shut down the outer loop of New Circle between Golden Way and Old Paris Pike and expect that portion of the road to be closed until midnight, while the crash reconstruction team finishes their investigation.

Police say around 8:30 p.m. the driver of an SUV collided with a man on the outer loop. When emergency crews arrived, the man was lying in the middle of the road. He was taken to UK Hospital with life-threatening injuries. The driver was not injured and stayed on the scene to help with the investigation.

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“At this point, it appears the person was attempting to cross New Circle Road. We’re not 100% sure which direction, they were in the middle of the outer loop,” said Lt. Chris Young with Lexington Police.

Police say it’s too soon in the investigation to determine if anyone will be charged.

Lincoln County Sheriff’s Deputies are trying to find a man who they say is a danger to the community.

33-year-old Tommy Reynolds Junior is wanted in three counties for drugs and motor vehicle theft.

Lincoln County deputies are posting a wanted flyer all over, but specifically in Crab Orchard. They spent the day searching an apartment complex there, and say they need people who see Reynolds, or know where he is, to speak up.

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“He’s a Lincoln County boy and has been for years, so that’s why I think they will probably catch him in this area somewhere,” said one resident who didn’t want to be identified.

That’s what deputies want, and fast. They say every minute Reynolds is on the run, there’s a risk.

“The dangerous part is that he will do whatever means necessary to get away from capture, whether it means running, fighting, whatever he needs to do,” said Sgt. Ryan Kirkpatrick.

Investigators say Reynolds is wanted in Pulaski, Rockcastle, and Lincoln counties for drugs, as well as stealing cars and motorcycles. But whenever they try to arrest him..

“It’s always a high speed pursuit,” Kirkpatrick said.

Deputies say in August they chased Reynolds on Highway 150, until he crashed his car and got away. The next day it happened again near Crab Orchard Elementary School – causing the school to go on lock-down.

Reynolds drove through a fence, and deputies caught two men in his car but he took off.
“He’s always one step ahead,” Kirkpatrick said. “We want him off the streets.”

After weeks of failed searches, such as the one at the apartment complex Tuesday, investigators aren’t giving up, and neither is the community.

“They will eventually make an arrest,” said resident Lester Hopkins. “And it probably won’t be long now that his picture is being shown everywhere.”

Anyone with information about Tommy Reynolds Jr. can call the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Department at 606-365-2696.

A 16-year-old Weatherford girl disappeared without a trace. One year later, the search to find Jaray Wilson is still far from over.

Investigators say they get several tips a week, but unfortunately, they’re not any closer to solving her missing person case.

“I gotta keep on looking for her and fighting every day to find her,” Jara Wilson, Jaray’s mom said.

Wilson explained she refuses to give up. She said the last year has felt like one long day.

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“It doesn’t seem like it’s been a whole year since I have seen her,” she said.

Her daughter Jaray Wilson vanished on October 15, 2012. The only signs of the teenager since then have been the 1000s of posters they put up around the state.

“I’m frustrated and I’m emotionally drained, but I’m not giving up,” Wilson explained.

Same as the family, the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotic’s Human Trafficking Unit is working to find Jaray Wilson. Investigators initially believed the teenager was sold into the sex trade.

“We still don’t have concrete evidence to point us to human trafficking, kidnapping, or runaway,” OBN spokesperson Mark Woodward said. “We don’t know but somebody out there has the answer.”

Since the day of her disappearance, agents have followed more than 1000 leads and conducted more than 76 interviews. Investigators have also served more than a dozen search warrants in six different states, Maryland, Texas, Nevada, New Mexico, Kansas and Tennessee.

Woodward explained the search warrants are for cell phone records, surveillance video, and photos captured at traffic lights or convenience stores. Investigators say it’s possible her image has changed some since family and friends the day she went missing.

The last known photos of Jaray Wilson were captured at a convenience store in Hydro, Oklahoma, in October 2012.

Still, investigators are optimistic.

“Don’t worry about the clock or the calendar, we need to be focusing on the information and getting someone to speak up and come forward with information about where she is,” Woodward said.

Jara Wilson hopes it’s soon. So she does not have to spend another day without her daughter.

“I wish she was already home, but I know she is out there somewhere,” Wilson said.

Anyone with information is encouraged to call the OBN’s Human Trafficking Tip Line toll free at 855-617-2288. You can remain anonymous. There is also $10,000 reward being offered in the case.

A man in Rowan County has been arrested after police say he allowed a young child to wander around on a busy road.

The incident happened Monday evening at West Main St and KY 519. Police in Morehead said witnesses saw the small child in the road on the cross walk as cars were passing her by. Witnesses got child away from the road, and she began crying. Witnesses tried to find her parents, and couldn’t find any for 15 minutes.

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Eventually the child pointed to a door, and they knocked for five minutes with no response. Officers eventually made contact with the stepfather inside the home, who said he was half asleep on the bed.

Jeffrey McGuire, 27, is charged with 1st degree wanton endangerment. He is being held in the Rowan County Detention Center.

The discovery of Doris Wood’s remains in a Corbin storage unit earlier this month ended a 16-year search for the woman.

Wood was reported missing from Delaware in 1997. The storage unit where her bones were found was previously owned by her husband, Robert Wood, who died in May. The couple’s daughter, Jennifer, was 9 when her mom disappeared. She told Delaware Online that her father always told her that Doris abandoned them.

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One day, Jennifer said she was talking to her father about her mother, when Robert looked his daughter in the eye and asked, “You don’t really think I killed her, do you?”

She said, “I replied, ‘of course not’, “But that was probably the most terrified I’ve ever been in my entire life.”

Two years later, they relocated to Alabama. When Jennifer would try to discuss her mother, she says her dad would say she abandoned them. She told the paper, “he mentioned a few times that she was visiting a mental hospital before her disappearance and that she was bipolar and possibly a schizophrenic.”

Jennifer says, out of fear, she eventually ran away with her boyfriend, never seeing or speaking to her father again.

On September 2, 2013 at approximately 8:30 PM, David Welch, 54, of Manhattan, Kansas left his home in a maroon Pontiac Montana van with Kansas license plates without expressing where he was going to friends and family. Riley County Police were contacted and when made aware, checked areas around Manhattan for Welch but were unsuccessful in locating him. At the time of the initial call to police, there was no reason to believe that he was in danger.

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On September 3, 2013, police were contacted by Welch’s family and informed that he had not returned home. At this time officers confirmed that there was no reason to believe Welch was currently in danger of harm or had known medical issues that may cause him to be in danger. Riley County Police notified law enforcement agencies in areas around the country where it was possible that Welch may have gone. A police information report for missing persons was filed on September 6, 2013. Riley County Police briefed the local media of the filing of this report on September 9, 2013.

On October 1, 2013, regarding the investigation, the Riley County Police Department conducted a search of areas both in and outside of their jurisdiction. Twenty law enforcement personnel, including several members of the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks spent the day conducting searches of areas that would be accessible to Welch. These searches did not turn up any evidence that would suggest the location of this missing person.

Welch is still considered missing and at this time there is no information leading investigators to believe that he may be the victim of foul play. Those with information about or know the whereabouts of David Welch are encouraged to contact the Riley County Police Department (785-537-2112) or the Manhattan Riley County Crime Stoppers (785-539-7777).

Federal authorities in South Florida say a weeklong sweep targeting identity theft-tax fraud crime has resulted in charges against 45 people in 30 separate cases.

Miami U.S. Attorney Wifredo Ferrer says the cases were investigated by the South Florida Identity Theft Tax Fraud Strike Force. That unit includes federal agencies as well as state and local law enforcement.

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Ferrer says those charged were responsible for at least 22,000 stolen or compromised identities. Many were insiders that used jobs at places such as health care providers, restaurants, schools and prisons to gain access to the identities.

The identities were used in attempts to claim more than $38 million in fraudulent tax refunds. Of that amount, about $11.5 million was actually paid out in these latest cases.