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Company fined for selling stock after violating order
By Brittany Emerson
Staff Writer
A wireless telecommunications company with a Liberty office has been fined by the state and ordered to stop selling stock while also dealing with financial woes and some local employee layoffs.
Voice, Video and Data Services, Inc., headquartered in Elizabethtown, originally came to Liberty last year, presenting a plan to bring wireless broadband, voice-over-Internet protocol, cellular service and satellite and Internet-protocol television to Casey County. The Liberty office held its grand opening on Sept. 28, 2007.
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At the Fair
The greasy pig contest, held during intermission at the Lone Star Rodeo during the Casey County Fair, was crowd-pleaser. Spectators cheered for the county's volunteer firemen as they competed to see who could round up a greased pig the quickest and trasport him and his holder to a waiting pen. Here, Clementsville Volunteer firemen Eric Brown, left, and Brandon Lange rush their wheelbarrow to the pen as Tyler Elmore holds tight to the squealer. Dunville took top honors .
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Five people injured in two-car accident
By Donna Carman
Editor
Seven people were injured in two separate accidents last week, including five in one vehicle.
The first accident occurred at 5:24 p.m. Thursday when two vehicles hit head on in a curve on Hurricane Ridge Road.
According to a report by Deputy Kevin Roberts, Travis Hatter, 18, of 275 Hurricane Ridge Road, Waynesburg, was traveling west on Hurricane Ridge when his 1999 Mercury Cougar collided in a sharp curve with a 1994 Saturn driven by Tamara S. Gibson, 30, of 432 Hurricane Ridge Road.
Stanford man to serve 7 years after
pleading guilty to burglary
By Donna Carman
Editor
A Lincoln County man has been sentenced to seven years after pleading guilty to burglary and theft charges.
Donald Dean Crosier, 33, of 125 Bowman Spur Road, Stanford, was ordered on May 6 in Casey Circuit Court to serve the seven-year sentence consecutively to another sentence he is now serving. Judge James G. Weddle denied probation, and gave Crosier credit for two days served.
4 enter pleas in Operation Joint Efford case
By Donna Carman
Editor
A father and son who were among 48 people charged in the drug round-up “Operation Joint Effort” were in Casey Circuit Court May 6. One was sentenced after having entered a guilty plea last month, while a trial date was set for the other.
Samuel M. Skaggs, 19, of 1166 Woodrum Ridge Road, Liberty, was sentenced to two and one-half years on four counts of trafficking in a controlled substance, second degree, and trafficking in marijuana less than eight ounces.
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