Kentucky State Police in Dry Ridge need help identifying two men suspected of cashing fraudulent checks at banks in Fayette and Scott county.

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If you have have any information that may help identify the two, you are asked to contact KSP Post 6 at (859) 428-1212 and ask for Trooper Shayne Currans.

A Madison County man has been arrested for possessing child pornography.

Christopher Smith, 30 of Richmond, was arrested April 15th, according to the office of Attorney General Andy Beshear.

A press release from the office of Attorney General Andy Beshear says Smith was charged with 25 counts of possession of matter portraying a sexual performance by a minor.

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The arrest was the result of the Cyber Crime Unit executing a search warrant of Smith’s home. Investigators say Smith’s computer contained dozens of files depicting sexual abuse of children.

Smith is in the Madison County Detention Center. Bond has not been set.

One person is dead and five people are injured after a wreck in McCracken County. It happened Saturday night around 9 o’clock on Said Road.

Sheriff’s deputies say a car crossed into the opposite lane while going around a curve and hit an SUV. The car then caught on fire, killing the driver.

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That person’s name has not been released.

The people in the SUV were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

A Texas man was in custody Sunday for allegedly firing a real pistol at a weekend water gun fight and striking a 15-year-old girl.

Harris County Constable Lt. Charles Hoover told NBC News that the girl, who was struck in her shoulder near her neck, suffered non-life threatening injuries. It was unclear if she was still hospitalized, he added.

The man, who Hoover declined to identify, was in his 40s and was not related to the victim, Hoover said, adding that he was charged with deadly conduct.

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“We come around here to get home and there’s two people playing, like they’re having a water gun fight,” neighbor Rasheed Seals told NBC affiliate KPRC.

Then one of them – the man in his 40s – went to his car to get dry clothes, another neighbor, Micah Stewart, told KPRC.

“He must have had the gun so he started playing with it. I thought he probably had it on safety and he accidentally shot the girl in her collar bone area,” Stewart said.

“It was crazy, like you would never expect somebody to bring a gun to a barbecue, or a family gathering at all,” Stewart added.

Citing an ongoing investigation, Hoover declined to provide additional details surrounding the shooting.

A bullet also hit a car five houses away, KPRC reported.

A 76-year-old man who a prosecutor says was wrongly convicted in the 1957 killing of an Illinois schoolgirl was released Friday shortly after a judge vacated his conviction, meaning one of the oldest cold cases to be tried in U.S. history has officially gone cold again.

Jack McCullough was sentenced to life in prison in 2012 in the death of 7-year-old Maria Ridulph in Sycamore, about 70 miles west of Chicago. In a review of documents last year, a prosecutor found evidence that supported the former policeman’s long-held alibi that he had been 40 miles away in Rockford at the time of Maria’s disappearance.

Judge William P. Brady said Friday that Maria’s abduction and slaying had haunted the small town of Sycamore for decades, and that he had also lost sleep over the case.

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“I’m not blind to the importance of this proceeding to many people,” he said, minutes before ordering McCullough’s release.

McCullough, in handcuffs, appeared shaken by the decision, rocking back and forth, then taking a deep breath. Family members behind him hugged and cried. Moments later, McCullough, of Washington state, looked back, winked and smiled broadly.

On the other side of the room, Maria’s brother and sister displayed little emotion.

Hours later, McCullough’s stepdaughter, Janey O’Connor, drove him from a jail near the courthouse. McCullough, wearing street clothes, grinned at reporters from the back seat. His request for a first meal out of prison, she said in a phone interview later, was for pepperoni pizza.

O’Connor said she’d been convinced of her stepfather’s innocence from the start.

“Jack was just a normal person doing his grandpa thing, and this happened to him,” she said.

She said he told her he’s looking forward to shopping for his children and grandchildren, because he has “a lot of birthdays and Christmases to catch up on.” She said he has been studying Japanese while in prison and wants to travel to Japan.

DeKalb County State’s Attorney Richard Schmack, who pushed hard for McCullough’s release, told Brady earlier that his office wouldn’t retry McCullough if a retrial was ordered. He said prosecutors were fully convinced of McCullough’s innocence.

Schmack, elected as state’s attorney as McCullough’s 2012 trial was coming to an end, filed a scathing report with the court last month. He had conducted a six-month review of evidence, including newly discovered phone records, and his report picked the case apart, point by point.

He said in an email that he was reviewing the judge’s ruling and would not be commenting Friday.

Maria’s brother, 70-year-old Charles Ridulph, said at the hearing that he would continue to push for a special prosecutor to take over the case. Brady will consider that motion April 22.

McCullough, who was living in the Seattle area when he was arrested, was released on a recognizance bond and isn’t allowed to leave Illinois until the state attorney announces a formal decision on a retrial.

Maria’s disappearance made headlines nationwide in the 1950s, when reports of child abductions were rare.

She had been playing outside in the snow with a friend on Dec. 3, 1957, when a young man approached, introduced himself as “Johnny” and offered them piggyback rides. Maria’s friend dashed home to grab mittens, and when she came back, Maria and the man were gone.

Forest hikers found her remains five months later.

At his trial four years ago, prosecutors said McCullough was the man who called himself Johnny in 1957, noting that he went by the name John Tessier in his youth. They said McCullough, then 18, dragged Maria away, choked and stabbed her to death.

McCullough has maintained his innocence throughout, saying he had “an iron-clad alibi” that he had been in Rockford, attempting to enlist with the U.S. Air Force at a military recruiting station, on the night Maria disappeared.

New phone records, Schmack said, helped to prove McCullough had made a collect call to his parents at 6:57 p.m. from a phone booth in downtown Rockford, which is 40 miles northwest of where Maria was abducted between 6:45 p.m. and 6:55 p.m.

Schmack reviewed police reports and hundreds of other documents, which he said had been improperly barred at trial and contained “a wealth of information pointing to McCullough’s innocence, and absolutely nothing showing guilt.”

He also noted that Maria’s friend had identified McCullough as the killer five decades later from an array of six photographs; McCullough’s picture stood out, partially because everyone but him wore suitcoats and their photos were professional yearbook photos.

McCullough, who was born in Belfast, Ireland, came to the U.S. with his mother in 1946 and settled in Sycamore, where he lived until he was 18, he said in a 2011 interview after his arrest. He said the town had the wholesome feel of the fictional town in the television show “Happy Days.” He served four years in the Air Force and 10 years in the Army, including a stint in Vietnam.

A death investigation is underway in Breathitt County after a body was discovered.

The coroner confirms that a body was pulled from the North Fork Kentucky River on Saturday.

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The body is being transported to Frankfort for an autopsy.

So far, officials have not said if the death is suspicious.

An 18-year-old Ohio woman accused of livestreaming the rape of her 17-year-old friend with a social media app was trying to record the assault as evidence, the woman’s attorney said Friday in a defense a prosecutor flatly dismissed.

Marina Lonina pleaded not guilty Friday to multiple charges including rape, kidnapping, sexual battery and pandering sexual matter involving a minor. A judge set bond at $125,000 for Lonina, a student at New Albany High School, outside Columbus.

Her co-defendant, Raymond Gates, 29, also pleaded not guilty, with a judge setting his bond at $300,000. A public defender representing Gates did not comment about the allegations.

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Lonina and her friend – who attends the same high school – met Gates at a Columbus mall for the first time the day before where he bought them a bottle of vodka and encouraged them to meet him the following day, her lawyer Sam Shamansky said.

He acknowledged his client filmed the February assault of her intoxicated friend but said she was trying to get the girl out of the house where the attack happened.

Lonina is in the habit of filming everything with Periscope, Shamansky said. The app for smartphones allows users to stream live video.

“She does everything possible to contain the situation even to the point of asking while it’s being filmed to these Periscope followers, ‘What should I do now? What should I do now?'” Shamansky said.

Lonina and her friend are naturalized U.S. citizens from Russia, and Gates is also of Russian descent, said Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O’Brien. The comments on the video are in Russian.

O’Brien said Lonina is seen trying to help only briefly during the 10-minute video. O’Brien said the victim was clearly screaming “stop” and “no” during the assault.

Although Lonina told police she was trying to record the assault as evidence, her behavior as people watching via Periscope “liked” the assault painted a different picture, O’Brien said.

“She got, I guess, taken up with all the ‘likes’ that her livestream was getting and therefore continued to do it, and did nothing to aid the victim,” O’Brien said.

Independent of the rape count, Lonina is also charged with livestreaming her friend nude the day before the assault, which is a felony, O’Brien said.

Two people are dead and another was hurt following a triple shooting overnight in Floyd County.

According to EKB News, it happened around 8 p.m. Friday on Route 7 in Hueysville.

Ricky Goble, 51, was treated for gunshot wounds at a hospital, according to authorities. His injuries are described as non-life threatening.

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The identities of the two men, who police say were murdered, have not been released.

Authorities say Ronnie Lee Hall, 49, was arrested and charged with two counts of murder. Hall is being held in the Floyd County Detention Center.

The incident remains under investigation.