GREENUP —
Man arraigned on porn charges
GREENUP A former Flatwoods resident charged with 1,000 counts of possessing child pornography was arraigned Friday in Greenup District Court.
Judge Brian McCloud set James K. Raasch’s bond at $500,000 and set a preliminary hearing in the case for 10:30 a.m. Wednesday.
Raasch, 71, was arrested last month in Clearwater, Fla., where he’d recently moved, after large caches of child pornography were found in his former residence in Flatwoods and in a storage unit he’d rented, Kentucky State Police at Ashland said.
Raasch was extradited from Florida on Wednesday and lodged in the Greenup County Detention Center.
Raasch could be sentenced to up to 20 years in prison if he is convicted.
16 sentenced in circuit court
CATLETTSBURG According to the office of Boyd County Commonwealth’s Attorney David Justice, the following defendants were sentenced recently in Boyd Circuit Court:
Tara Payne, 22, of Catlettsburg, five years for burglary.
Chad Elledge, 42, of Ashland, one year for drug trafficking.
Dina Blasko, 29, of Flatwoods, one year for theft.
Rashard Carter, 20, of Ashland, 2 1⁄2 years for drug possession.
Judy Flocker, 51, of Ashland, one year for theft.
Joshua Smith, 20, of Charleston, 15 years for robbery.
Shane Prater 24, of Ashland, one year for receiving stolen property.
Jeremy Howell, 33, of Ashland, three years for facilitation of methamphetamine production.
James Clagg, 23, of Huntington, two years for drug trafficking.
Bryan Clagg, 26, of Huntington, two years for drug trafficking.
Cassie Daniels, 31, of Ashland, one year for criminal abuse.
Randall Donta, 22, of Ashland, two years for theft.
Kendra Hicks, 25, of Ashland, five years for drug trafficking.
Alison Lewis, 30, of Ironton, five years for drug trafficking.
Robert Westmoreland, 34, two years for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
Christopher Woodle, 29, of Greenup, five years for receiving stolen property.
Holiday service is Sunday night
ASHLAND The Ashland Area Ministerial Association will sponsor its annual Community Thanksgiving Service at 7 p.m. Sunday, at First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), 1930 Winchester Ave.
The Rev. TJ Azar, the new rector at Calvary Episcopal Church, will be the preacher for the service. Special music will be provided by violinist Elizabeth Smith, a member of First Baptist Church, and the Rev. Larry Sivis, associate minister and minister of worship at First Christian.
The offering will be introduced by the Rev. Jennifer Johnson, associate pastor at First Presbyterian Church and president of the ministerial association. The offering will support the association’s three constituency agencies: Community Kitchen, Shelter of Hope and CAReS.
For more information, call First Christian Church at (606) 324-5335.
Meetings
Monday
Cannonsburg Elementary council, 3 p.m.
Carter County Board of Education, 6:30 p.m., East Carter Middle School.
Local News
local briefs - 11/17/12
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Autism program is reason for graduate’s progress
The old clipping from 2001 is somewhere ... tucked into a drawer, in a stack on top of the cabinet or boxed up in the back of the closet.
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Helping in the neighborhood
The modest ranch house in the middle of the 2100 block of Sellars Street looked a lot different at 11 a.m. Saturday than it did three hours earlier.
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Beautification project cleans up Ashland
Many of the volunteers who spent their Saturday morning picking up trash downtown don’t even live in Ashland.
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News in brief, 05/19/13
Molly McBride, 21, of Morehead and a sophomore at Morehead State University, was killed early Saturday in a two-vehicle crash on the Bluegrass Parkway near Bardstown in Nelson County.
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Do you win the Powerball jackpot?
The winning numbers for the largest multistate Powerball jackpot are: 22, 10,13,14, 52 and the Powerball number is 11.
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Morehead State student killed in crash
Molly McBride, 21, of Morehead and a sophomore at Morehead State University, was killed early Saturday in a two-vehicle crash on the Bluegrass Parkway near Bardstown in Nelson County, The Morehead News reported..
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Wurtland parents angry over principal's demotion
A number of parents are hopping mad that Wurtland Elementary School principal Barbara Cook has been demoted and plan to confront the school board about it Monday.
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Meth busts in Westwood, Ashland
One man was taken into custody Friday in Ashland by deputies with the Boyd County Sheriff’s Department Drug Task Force, and felony charges are pending against another.
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Womack eliminated in semifinals
Top-seeded Kennedy Womack was eliminated in the semifinals of the State Tournament on Saturday at the University of Kentucky tennis courts.
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Guitar builder Paul Reed Smith to visit Ashland
Paul Reed Smith isn’t a rock star, although he does have legions of fans who revere his contributions to live and recorded performances worldwide and his name or initials grace the headstocks of guitars used by some of the most recognized names in rock, jazz and country music.
The legendary luthier from Maryland will visit Ashland’s 4 O’Clock Rock Guitar Shop on Wednesday to inspect their collection of his instruments. Store owner Dave McCoy said he was almost immediately overwhelmed with responses after announcing Smith will be at the shop at 2328 Greenup Ave., to meet fans and sign autographs starting at 6 p.m. A crowd is expected to be there, McCoy confirmed Friday afternoon, reporting he expects PRS owners, collectors and fans alike to be in the crowd awaiting Smith’s appearance. - More Local News Headlines
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