Ashland’s police chief is suing the city and mayor after getting placed on leave. Lyn Woolford is filing the suit over an incident involving Mayor Gene Rhorer. The suit says Rhorer suspended Woolford after the chief refused to remove Rhorer’...
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Former trooper dismisses lawsuits in fight for reinstatement
(AP) A former Highway Patrol trooper has dropped his lawsuits, ending his fight to regain his law enforcement license. Anthony Piercy had been fighting for reinstatement to the patrol for a few years now. He was fired from the patrol after an incident ...
Read More »Off-duty officer working 2nd job at Walmart shot in Ferguson
(AP) — A manhunt is ongoing after an off-duty police officer who was working a second job as a Walmart security guard was shot in Ferguson, Missouri. Ferguson Police Chief Jason Armstrong says an off-duty Calverton Park police officer was shot about 7:...
Read More »Two badly hurt in I-70 crash near Columbia
Two Columbia women are badly hurt in an I-70 crash. The Highway Patrol says their car stopped at the end of the eastbound on-ramp at the Midway exit of the interstate west of Columbia at about 1:00 a.m. Sunday. They then tried to turn around on the int...
Read More »Americans who left cruise trade one quarantine for another
(AP) — A group of Americans cut short a 14-day quarantine on the Diamond Princess cruise ship in the port of Yokohama, near Tokyo, to be whisked back to America. But they will have to spend another quarantine period at U.S. military facilities to make ...
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