BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Governor Beshear announced 1,998 new positive cases of COVID-19 on Monday. This brings the states total now to 328,668. Kentucky’s positivity rate is still rising, on Monday it reaches 11.64%. 40 more Kentuckians have died from the virus Monday. That brings the total number of lives lost in Kentucky to 3,167. Here’s a look at the.
Undercover investigation leads to arrest of Kentucky teacher
January 15, 2021 GMT
BROWNSVILLE, Ky. (AP) A Kentucky teacher accused of requesting sexually explicit images from a detective posing as a juvenile has been arrested.
William Oneal Lindsey, 29, of Brownsville was charged Wednesday in a federal criminal complaint that accuses him of attempted production of child pornography and attempted online enticement, U.S. Attorney Russell Coleman said in a statement. He was arrested at Edmonson County High School without incident, the statement said.
The investigation began Jan. 7 when a detective with the Kentucky Attorney General’s office, who was posing as a 15-year-old girl, was contacted on a chat website by a man whom detectives later identified as Lindsey, the Daily News reported, citing an affidavit filed by the detective.
The criminal complaint says the Edmonson Co. teacher began an online conversation that was sexual in nature with an undercover officer with the AG’s office.
FRANKFORT, Ky. (Dec. 29, 2020) – On Tuesday, Gov. Andy Beshear urged Kentuckians to ring in the new year safely and announced two new vaccine allocations, totaling 53,700 doses, for Kentucky the week of Jan. 4: 27,300 doses from Pfizer and 26,400 doses from Moderna. “I ask every single Kentuckian to keep any New Year’s celebration small, preferably your own household.