Kentucky News Now – June 15th 2015

OFFICER-INVOLVED SHOOTING

Video shows man fatally shot swinging flag pole at officer

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A store surveillance video obtained by a TV station shows a man violently swinging a flagpole at a Louisville Metro Police officer before police say the officer fatally shot him.

Police say the officer responded to an assault call Saturday in Old Louisville. The video WHAS-TV says it got from a nearby smoke shop shows the officer talking briefly with the man, who seems to become agitated and walks away from the officer.

The video, broken down into segments, then shows the man advancing toward the officer and swinging a flag pole at the officer. At one point the flag pole breaks.

The video shows the officer pointing his gun at the man, but doesn't show him firing.

Police have declined to identify the slain man or the officer.

OBIT-JOHN CARROLL

John Carroll, former editor of LA Times, Baltimore Sun, dies

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — John S. Carroll, who led the Los Angeles Times to 13 Pulitzer Prizes during a five-year stint as editor, has died. He was 73.

Carroll died Sunday morning at his home in Lexington, Kentucky, where he was once editor of the Lexington Herald-Leader, said his wife, Lee Carroll. He had been suffering from Creutzfeldt-Jakob (KROYTZ'-felt YAK-ohb) Disease, a rare and debilitating neurological disorder.

Prior to taking over at the LA Times, Carroll was editor and senior vice-president at the Baltimore Sun from 1991 until 2000.

He left the Times in 2005, receiving a standing ovation from the newsroom when he announced his resignation.

The paper won 13 Pulitzers during Carroll's tenure, including seven in his final year. It would be his last newspaper job in a journalism career that spanned 40 years.

ARMED ROBBERIES-SENTENCE

Ohio convicted of robbing banks in 4 states sentenced

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio man convicted of armed bank robberies in Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia and Indiana has been sentenced to 18 years in prison.

Federal prosecutors say 49-year-old William J. McBride, Jr., of Columbus, was sentenced this week in U.S. District Court in Columbus. Authorities say he had pleaded guilty in February to six counts of armed robbery.

Court documents say McBride robbed six banks between June 21, 2014 and August 23, 2014 and took more than $21,000 at gunpoint.

A message seeking comment from McBride's attorney was left at her office in Columbus on Sunday.

Authorities say they arrested McBride at a Columbus hotel in Aug. 23 when a witness reported his license plate after the defendant robbed a bank in in St. Clairsville, Ohio.

OFFICER-INVOLVED SHOOTING

Officer fatally shoots man swinging flag pole in Louisville

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Authorities say a police officer fatally shot a man in Louisville on Saturday.

According to media reports, Louisville Metro Police Department Chief Steve Conrad said the man swung a metal flag pole at the officer, who fired two shots. The man died at a hospital.

Conrad said the officer responded to an assault call in Old Louisville. When the officer arrived, he saw a man matching the description of the suspect in the assault.

Conrad said the officer spoke with the man briefly before he grabbed the flag pole and advanced toward the policeman. Conrad said the officer retreated and asked the man to drop the flag pole before firing.

The man who died has not been identified.

Conrad said the department's Public Integrity Unit is investigating the shooting.

TRENCH COLLAPSE

Worker from Tennessee killed in Kentucky trench collapse

(Information in the following story is from: The Courier-Journal, http://www.courier-journal.com)

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Authorities say a construction worker from Tennessee was killed in a trench collapse in Kentucky.

According to The Courier-Journal, officials said 19-year-old Jonathon Moore, of Cedar Grove, Tennessee, died Thursday when dirt and debris caved in on him as he worked in a trench in southwestern Jefferson County in Kentucky. Deputy Coroner Larry Carroll said Moore died of traumatic asphyxia and blunt force impact injuries.

Another construction worker was also trapped from the waist down in the trench but survived the collapse and was rescued.

Officials said the workers were in the trench digging sewer lines when a heavy heap of shifted dirt and concrete on the trench's edge gave way.

The newspaper reports the men worked for LeFevre Construction, based in Jackson, Tennessee.

BABY BAT HABITAT

Baby bats take bite out of I-65 project

(Information in the following story is from: Daily News, http://www.bgdailynews.com)

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) — Baby bats have brought one element of the ongoing widening of Interstate 65 to a halt.

The Bowling Green Daily News reports the presence of northern long-eared bat pups means workers widening I-65 between Bowling Green and Elizabethtown won't be able to clear trees from the right of way for the project until August.

According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service website, the bat was listed as a threatened species in April.

Lee Andrews, a state supervisor for the wildlife agency, says removing trees serving as habitat for the northern long-eared bat is allowed for transportation projects - but not in June or July, when the pups are in trees.

Kentucky Transportation Cabinet spokesman Chris Jessie says the tree-cutting postponement is not expected to delay the road work.