Kentucky News Now – Tuesday April 8th 2014
UK Loss
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Authorities in Lexington say they used tear gas to control rowdy fans and put out 17 couch fires in the streets after Kentucky's defeat by in the NCAA championship basketball match.
A government official, Susan Straub, said at least 17 couch fires were lit overnight in the State Street area of Lexington and there were 18 injuries, most of them minor and treated at the scene. She confirmed seven arrests but had no further details early Tuesday.
She said in a statement that one of the injured was hit by a train and taken to a hospital but she had no further word on that person's condition or identity.
Shirtless youths streamed into the streets and lit fires soon after Kentucky's 60-54 loss to Connecticut on Monday night.
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Connecticut's upperclassmen were too much for the kids of Kentucky.
Poised and experienced, UConn won its second national championship in four years, outlasting Kentucky and its stable of freshmen Monday night.
UConn (32-8) dominated early, withstood a big charge late in the first half and made all the clutch plays down the stretch of a 60-54 victory that made Kevin Ollie the first coach since Michigan's Steve Fisher in 1989 to win a national title in his first NCAA tournament as coach.
Shabazz Napier, the dynamic senior point guard, led the way as he almost always does, finishing with 22 points, six rebounds and three assists to bookend his career with national titles.
Troopers warm of possible phone scam
SEBREE, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky State Police troopers are warning of a possible scam involving a caller offering money because of a medical problem.
Trooper Stu Recke says person contacted troopers in Madisonville after getting a call from Louisiana over the weekend. Recke says a male caller stated that they were going to send the potential victim money from a pharmaceutical company because of faulty mesh from a surgery many years ago.
When the potential victim advised that they had not had surgery, Recke says, the caller stated that it was due to taking anti-depressant drugs related to pregnancy.
After being questioned about the source of their information, the caller from Louisiana responded it came from the Kentucky Department of Health.
Recke says there's been only one report of the call in western Kentucky.
Judge: Lawyers lack basis for appeal in drug case
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A federal magistrate judge is recommending that an appeal by two former Kentucky attorneys convicted of scamming more than 400 clients out of $94.6 million from a $200 million settlement over the diet drug fen-phen be rejected.
U.S. Magistrate Judge J. Gregory Wehrman issued an opinion Monday saying 63-year-old William Gallion and 59-year-old Shirley Cunningham either waited too long to present arguments or presented nothing new in their motions for a new trial filed late last year.
Gallion and Cunningham, the original owners of 2007 and 2008 Horse of the Year Curlin, are in federal prison.
Fen-phen was pulled from the market in 1997. Prosecutors say the lawyers illegally kept the bulk of the settlement, but made more money available to clients after the start of a federal criminal investigation.
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