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Vol. 140 No. 16

Wednesday April 18, 2007

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Missing Owen County

teen found safe

By LAURA HAGAN
lhagan@owentonnewsherald.com

The search for a missing 15-year-old Owen County teen ended happily for his family on Monday.
His concerned family called the Owen County Sheriff’s office after the teen left home Friday and had not returned.

Vandalism reported at

two local businesses

By LAURA HAGAN
lhagan@owentonnewsherald.com

Boards have taken the place of windows in two Owen County businesses.
Windows in both Summer’s Styles Unlimited and Family Billiards were found broken early last Wednesday.
Owenton Police Officer Gary Alcorn said the incidents likely occurred sometime between midnight and 4 a.m. Wednesday morning.

Alcorn also said it was likely that the damage was run-of-the-mill vandalism by teens or young adults.

Arson suspected in Monterey fire

— Photo submitted
Firefighters work to put out a fire Saturday night that broke out in an unoccupied two-story dwelling on Taylor Street. An arson investigator was called in to determine what caused the blaze.

— Photo submitted
Flames creep outward along a utility line as a fire destroys a vacant house on Taylor Street in Monterey. Another house adjacent to the building suffered minor damage.

By JOSHUA COFFMAN
Landmark News Service

A fire at an abandoned house in Monterey Saturday night kept fire crews busy and led firefighters to contact an arson investigator with the Kentucky State Police to look into the matter.
Monterey Fire Chief Larry House said an old house on Taylor Street, which he thinks was a hotel at one distant time, “burned completely down.”

Local retailers, pet owners

react to recall

By JOSHUA COFFMAN
Landmark News Service

Debbie Gibson has five dogs and four cats. And, like many pet owners in Owen County and across the country, last month’s recall on dozens of pet food labels left her scrambling to make sure the food she fed to her animals was safe.

http://www.fda.gov/oc/opacom/hottopics/petfood.html

Suspect sought in

Grant County bank robbery

By Rebecca russo
Landmark News Service

An unidentified woman entered Grant County Deposit Bank, in downtown Williamstown, 10 minutes before its 4 p.m. closing time on Wednesday, April 4 and handed the teller a note.

Three injured in wreck

on Sweet Owen Road

By JOSHUA COFFMAN
Landmark News Service

A single-vehicle crash on Sweet Owen Road (Kentucky Highway 845) Monday afternoon sent three people to the hospital with minor injuries, according to Kentucky State Police Post 5 dispatch.

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