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County clerks donate to local veterans center
by Bailey Richards
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<p>Representatives from the Eastern Kentucky Veteran’s Center received a check for $5000 and $3000 worth of items from two county clerks this week. Haven King from Perry County and Winston Meade of Letcher County work with several different fundraising efforts to help Kentucky veterans.</p>

Representatives from the Eastern Kentucky Veteran’s Center received a check for $5000 and $3000 worth of items from two county clerks this week. Haven King from Perry County and Winston Meade of Letcher County work with several different fundraising efforts to help Kentucky veterans.

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HAZARD — Several county clerks have banded together to help take care of veterans in Kentucky, and on July 10 made a hefty donation to the Eastern Kentucky Veterans Center.

Starting several years ago, Letcher County Clerk Winston Meade began looking for a way to help raise money to donate in honor of the veterans in the area. He came across some birdhouses made out of old license plates and bought one. His father-in-law then took the idea and ran with it, making hundreds if not thousands of bird houses himself.

Over the years these $20 birdhouses have added up, and the proceeds have led to some pretty incredible things for veterans centers and organizations.

The birdhouses are sold across the state in different county clerk’s offices. Meade said that the expenses on the birdhouses is low since his father-in-law does all of the work for free.

“The only expenses that we have out of the birdhouses are the expense to buy the lumber and the nails,” said Meade. “All the labor and everything is donated by my father-in-law, and he works it like a job.”

Currently, the birdhouse fund is working towards giving $5,000 to each of the veterans centers in the state. The first of these centers to receive this money is the Eastern Kentucky Veteran’s Center in Hazard.

“We have raised thousands of dollars that we have spent on them,” said Meade.

Other county clerks and judge-executives have all chipped in and are working to take care of area veterans. Perry County Clerk Haven King works with his organization, Coal Mining our Future, to help purchase items for the center regularly. This time they donated several televisions, razors and other items the center needs.

Along with the work that these clerks have done on their own, one of the major projects of the Kentucky County Clerks Association is the HAVE program. HAVE, or Help A Veteran Everyday, was started by the clerks of Kentucky in 2005.

The money that is a part of the HAVE program is put into a trust fund for the Kentucky Department of Veteran’s Affairs. But for some organizations, funding cuts have created an immediate need for money.

The Eastern Kentucky Veterans Center is one of those organizations that have seen the effects of across-the-board budget cuts throughout all levels of government. Because of this they are relying more on donations.

“Their money is down, and they needed certain things,” King noted.

Along with selling the birdhouses and receiving donations from coal companies, the clerks in the area also host an annual golf scramble that helps to pay for the center’s Christmas party. Letcher County also recently hosted a fundraiser at the Isom IGA that raised $4,500 for veterans.

King said that he and the other clerks feel it is important to take care of our veterans since they have taken care of America.

“It is a shame the thought of our veterans having to do without anything,” said King. “That money is not there, but these veterans shouldn’t have to do without.”

Along with the money and items donated to the Eastern Kentucky Veterans Center on July 10, the clerks and judges also traveled to the Disabled American Veterans buidling in Perry County and donated $1,000.

Anther organization working to help the veterans of the area is the Letcher County Veterans Museum. The museum donates money, but also works to preserve the military history of the area. The museum is open to the public and accepts donations. The museum is open Tuesday through Saturday from nine am to four pm.

One of the major items that the officials at the Eastern Kentucky Veterans Center need are phone cards. Many of the veterans at the center have some from as far away as Louisville, and are not able to get many visitors on a regular basis. The center is accepting donations of phone cards to help keep these veterans in touch with their families.

Along with keeping in contact with their own families, King said that many of the veterans would just love the opportunity to have visitors, and volunteers just to come and spend time at the center are always welcome.

“We need people to come over here and look and see,” King said. “Just spend a little time talking to the veterans. They would enjoy that.”

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Stephon Slone did NOT receive a FAIR trial by any means whatsoever. The prosecutorial misconduct alone is a disgrace little on still convicting an innocent man once a girl recants her story and is PROVEN to be a VIRGIN. The states medical examiner Alisha Cook, did infact do a medical examination to reveal that the girls hymen was indeed still intact in this case and this case is the exact same as the case POOLE v. STATE No. 2009-KA-00420-SCT. Stephon needs to argues the victims testimony is not credible because in describing a forcible rape from the standpoint of his insertion of his penis, there also is no doubt the jury considered Alisha Cooks testimony that her findings as to the condition of the victims hymen would be inconsistent with full penile penetration. Alisha Cooks testimony left no doubt that no full penetration had ever occurred, unless the penetration had been with a penis the size of Alisha Cooks finger. Unfortunately, there was no elaboration as to this or the size of Alisha Cooks finger. However considering Alisha Cook is for the state she did NOT want to say by any means that the alleged victim was infact a virgin the victims testimony was, therefore, suspect and incredible, substantially contradicted by medical testimony. Besides the fact of the communication ex parta between John Hansen and Stephon Slones witnesses which was never addressed or even to be heard about and then Mr. Hansen was laughing at Mr. Slones witnesses on stand and making false accusations about the defendants witnesses and trying to testify to the honesty of those witnesses, I myself was a witness in the case for my brother Stephon and I am willing to take a LIE DETECTORS at anytime and I will pay for it out of my own pocket just to proven John Hansen lied on me and others during the proceeding of this trial period when saying in court on June 11, 2013 in his arguments that all the witnesses aggreed to the exact same thing which was how they were transported to and from the court house and I myself did NOT agree with that by any means and I think its despicable how he tries to intimidate people on the stand and his assistant prosecutor I guess it was got all bent out of shape because I would NOT tell him what he wanted to hear about a letter written by the alleged victim to one of her friends which the friend brought themselves and gave to the defendants side and he argued that it wasnt her handwritting when infact it is and I know this myself and all they needed to do was bring in a handwritting specialist but they would NOT do that, all they did was send an innocent man to prison for along time to get a conviction under their belts, while Timothy Ryan Sizemore also appeared infront of them for the cold blooded murder of Samuel Louive and ONLY got 10 years for taking a mans life, a little girls father, a mothers son, and he gets a 10 year sentence for such a hanus crime and my brother Stephon Slone sits in prison for 20 years on a rape crime he did NOT commit when the victim racanted herself and was found to be a virgin, yet they let a jury member that went to school and hung out with me stay on his trial after me telling them that we knew her, and the alleged victims mother talked continuosly to the jury in and outside the courthouse and nothing was ever said, the vicitm was aloud to lie over and over again with no questioning as to why she was lying or to the honesty of an admitted liar and when she recanted that alone should have ended the case but NO, they gave the prosecution the chance to go talk with her again and talk her up and then it was like "Ohh yeah he did it, I lied when I said he didnt...I dont know why I just did". The tales of the rape went from he raped her so hard she was bleeding(yet her hymen is still intact after such a forcible rape encounter) and that it only happened that 1 time to it happened repeatedly and she had noway out or noone to turn to(yet her hymen is still intact with all that forcible raping going on over and over) so they pulled the card that a hymen could withstand some minor trama and stay intact if the penis was small however even with a penis the size of a tooth pick or ink pen if it was forcibly raping you it would infact tear your hymen so I call bulls**t on the entire trial and the petitions everyone signed for the release of Stephon Slone on a wrongful conviction or Pardon was never aloud to be entered in to the proceedings or be seen or heard about, Humm makes me wonder how a murderer Walks away with merely 10 years while an admitted liar recants, proven to be a virgin and lies repeatedly andStephon still gets 20 years thats a little fishy is you ask me and I dont think its the river running beside Main Street. They are alot of innocent people in prison and I think someone needs to start looking into that. We will never know for sure, but the few studies that have been done estimate that between 2.3% and 5% of all prisoners in the U.S. are innocent (for context, if just 1% of all prisoners are innocent, that would mean that more than 20,000 innocent people are in prison( this comes from the innocent project page under FAQs so it is facts. He was NOT given a fair trial, the rules and regulations wasnt followed as to the BAR anyways because SCR3.130(4.4)Respect for rights of third persons, SCR3.130(3.8)Specal responsibilities of a prosecutor(a)(c)(e), SCR3.130(3.5) Impartiality and decorum of the tribunal (b)(c), SCR3.130(3.4) Fairness to oposing party and counsel (a)(b)(d)(e)(f)(g). And I think Stephon deserves to be released and the alleged victim to come forward and get some real respect and tell the truth about it and just be honest and say "Hey look I didnt want to be there so I lied" Or the actual truth "My mother while in Leslie County Jail told me to get a boyfriend EVERY time I went to see her just so I would end up having sex so I could get him put in jail for rape which my mother has told me to say since I was a little girl everytime I didnt get my way and I also told my brother I would say the same thing about him but I lied on Stephon before I got the chance to lie on my brother thankfully and I did so here we are". That would be nice but we all know thats not gonna happen so we will do what we have to in order to get him out. I am even changing my career path thanks to this as is our cousin, Criminal Justice Law here we come...
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June 19, 2013
Stephon Slone did NOT receive a FAIR trial by any means whatsoever. The prosecutorial misconduct alone is a disgrace little on still convicting an innocent man once a girl recants her story and is PROVEN to be a VIRGIN. The states medical examiner Alisha Cook, did infact do a medical examination to reveal that the girls hymen was indeed still intact in this case and this case is the exact same as the case POOLE v. STATE No. 2009-KA-00420-SCT. Stephon needs to argues the victims testimony is not credible because in describing a forcible rape from the standpoint of his insertion of his penis, there also is no doubt the jury considered Alisha Cooks testimony that her findings as to the condition of the victims hymen would be inconsistent with full penile penetration. Alisha Cooks testimony left no doubt that no full penetration had ever occurred, unless the penetration had been with a penis the size of Alisha Cooks finger. Unfortunately, there was no elaboration as to this or the size of Alisha Cooks finger. However considering Alisha Cook is for the state she did NOT want to say by any means that the alleged victim was infact a virgin the victims testimony was, therefore, suspect and incredible, substantially contradicted by medical testimony. Besides the fact of the communication ex parta between John Hansen and Stephon Slones witnesses which was never addressed or even to be heard about and then Mr. Hansen was laughing at Mr. Slones witnesses on stand and making false accusations about the defendants witnesses and trying to testify to the honesty of those witnesses, I myself was a witness in the case for my brother Stephon and I am willing to take a LIE DETECTORS at anytime and I will pay for it out of my own pocket just to proven John Hansen lied on me and others during the proceeding of this trial period when saying in court on June 11, 2013 in his arguments that all the witnesses aggreed to the exact same thing which was how they were transported to and from the court house and I myself did NOT agree with that by any means and I think its despicable how he tries to intimidate people on the stand and his assistant prosecutor I guess it was got all bent out of shape because I would NOT tell him what he wanted to hear about a letter written by the alleged victim to one of her friends which the friend brought themselves and gave to the defendants side and he argued that it wasnt her handwritting when infact it is and I know this myself and all they needed to do was bring in a handwritting specialist but they would NOT do that, all they did was send an innocent man to prison for along time to get a conviction under their belts, while Timothy Ryan Sizemore also appeared infront of them for the cold blooded murder of Samuel Louive and ONLY got 10 years for taking a mans life, a little girls father, a mothers son, and he gets a 10 year sentence for such a hanus crime and my brother Stephon Slone sits in prison for 20 years on a rape crime he did NOT commit when the victim racanted herself and was found to be a virgin, yet they let a jury member that went to school and hung out with me stay on his trial after me telling them that we knew her, and the alleged victims mother talked continuosly to the jury in and outside the courthouse and nothing was ever said, the vicitm was aloud to lie over and over again with no questioning as to why she was lying or to the honesty of an admitted liar and when she recanted that alone should have ended the case but NO, they gave the prosecution the chance to go talk with her again and talk her up and then it was like "Ohh yeah he did it, I lied when I said he didnt...I dont know why I just did". The tales of the rape went from he raped her so hard she was bleeding(yet her hymen is still intact after such a forcible rape encounter) and that it only happened that 1 time to it happened repeatedly and she had noway out or noone to turn to(yet her hymen is still intact with all that forcible raping going on over and over) so they pulled the card that a hymen could withstand some minor trama and stay intact if the penis was small however even with a penis the size of a tooth pick or ink pen if it was forcibly raping you it would infact tear your hymen so I call bulls**t on the entire trial and the petitions everyone signed for the release of Stephon Slone on a wrongful conviction or Pardon was never aloud to be entered in to the proceedings or be seen or heard about, Humm makes me wonder how a murderer Walks away with merely 10 years while an admitted liar recants, proven to be a virgin and lies repeatedly andStephon still gets 20 years thats a little fishy is you ask me and I dont think its the river running beside Main Street. They are alot of innocent people in prison and I think someone needs to start looking into that. We will never know for sure, but the few studies that have been done estimate that between 2.3% and 5% of all prisoners in the U.S. are innocent (for context, if just 1% of all prisoners are innocent, that would mean that more than 20,000 innocent people are in prison( this comes from the innocent project page under FAQs so it is facts. He was NOT given a fair trial, the rules and regulations wasnt followed as to the BAR anyways because SCR3.130(4.4)Respect for rights of third persons, SCR3.130(3.8)Specal responsibilities of a prosecutor(a)(c)(e), SCR3.130(3.5) Impartiality and decorum of the tribunal (b)(c), SCR3.130(3.4) Fairness to oposing party and counsel (a)(b)(d)(e)(f)(g). And I think Stephon deserves to be released and the alleged victim to come forward and get some real respect and tell the truth about it and just be honest and say "Hey look I didnt want to be there so I lied" Or the actual truth "My mother while in Leslie County Jail told me to get a boyfriend EVERY time I went to see her just so I would end up having sex so I could get him put in jail for rape which my mother has told me to say since I was a little girl everytime I didnt get my way and I also told my brother I would say the same thing about him but I lied on Stephon before I got the chance to lie on my brother thankfully and I did so here we are". That would be nice but we all know thats not gonna happen so we will do what we have to in order to get him out. I am even changing my career path thanks to this as is our cousin, Criminal Justice Law here we come...
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Big Creek Principal Jeff Castle said the damage was not as extensive as it could have been had more water entered the school. He said administrators are waiting for an insurance assessment to be completed for final numbers, however the only damage so far has been to floors and some books that were on lower shelves in some classrooms.
Big Creek Principal Jeff Castle said the damage was not as extensive as it could have been had more water entered the school. He said administrators are waiting for an insurance assessment to be completed for final numbers, however the only damage so far has been to floors and some books that were on lower shelves in some classrooms.
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Volunteers with the Perry County School District spent Wednesday morning and most of the afternoon cleaning up the school after flash floods Monday night left several inches of water and mud in the facility.
Volunteers with the Perry County School District spent Wednesday morning and most of the afternoon cleaning up the school after flash floods Monday night left several inches of water and mud in the facility.
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cgayheart0005
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June 19, 2013
Stephon Slone did NOT receive a FAIR trial by any means whatsoever. The prosecutorial misconduct alone is a disgrace little on still convicting an innocent man once a girl recants her story and is PROVEN to be a VIRGIN. The states medical examiner Alisha Cook, did infact do a medical examination to reveal that the girls hymen was indeed still intact in this case and this case is the exact same as the case POOLE v. STATE No. 2009-KA-00420-SCT. Stephon needs to argues the victims testimony is not credible because in describing a forcible rape from the standpoint of his insertion of his penis, there also is no doubt the jury considered Alisha Cooks testimony that her findings as to the condition of the victims hymen would be inconsistent with full penile penetration. Alisha Cooks testimony left no doubt that no full penetration had ever occurred, unless the penetration had been with a penis the size of Alisha Cooks finger. Unfortunately, there was no elaboration as to this or the size of Alisha Cooks finger. However considering Alisha Cook is for the state she did NOT want to say by any means that the alleged victim was infact a virgin the victims testimony was, therefore, suspect and incredible, substantially contradicted by medical testimony. Besides the fact of the communication ex parta between John Hansen and Stephon Slones witnesses which was never addressed or even to be heard about and then Mr. Hansen was laughing at Mr. Slones witnesses on stand and making false accusations about the defendants witnesses and trying to testify to the honesty of those witnesses, I myself was a witness in the case for my brother Stephon and I am willing to take a LIE DETECTORS at anytime and I will pay for it out of my own pocket just to proven John Hansen lied on me and others during the proceeding of this trial period when saying in court on June 11, 2013 in his arguments that all the witnesses aggreed to the exact same thing which was how they were transported to and from the court house and I myself did NOT agree with that by any means and I think its despicable how he tries to intimidate people on the stand and his assistant prosecutor I guess it was got all bent out of shape because I would NOT tell him what he wanted to hear about a letter written by the alleged victim to one of her friends which the friend brought themselves and gave to the defendants side and he argued that it wasnt her handwritting when infact it is and I know this myself and all they needed to do was bring in a handwritting specialist but they would NOT do that, all they did was send an innocent man to prison for along time to get a conviction under their belts, while Timothy Ryan Sizemore also appeared infront of them for the cold blooded murder of Samuel Louive and ONLY got 10 years for taking a mans life, a little girls father, a mothers son, and he gets a 10 year sentence for such a hanus crime and my brother Stephon Slone sits in prison for 20 years on a rape crime he did NOT commit when the victim racanted herself and was found to be a virgin, yet they let a jury member that went to school and hung out with me stay on his trial after me telling them that we knew her, and the alleged victims mother talked continuosly to the jury in and outside the courthouse and nothing was ever said, the vicitm was aloud to lie over and over again with no questioning as to why she was lying or to the honesty of an admitted liar and when she recanted that alone should have ended the case but NO, they gave the prosecution the chance to go talk with her again and talk her up and then it was like "Ohh yeah he did it, I lied when I said he didnt...I dont know why I just did". The tales of the rape went from he raped her so hard she was bleeding(yet her hymen is still intact after such a forcible rape encounter) and that it only happened that 1 time to it happened repeatedly and she had noway out or noone to turn to(yet her hymen is still intact with all that forcible raping going on over and over) so they pulled the card that a hymen could withstand some minor trama and stay intact if the penis was small however even with a penis the size of a tooth pick or ink pen if it was forcibly raping you it would infact tear your hymen so I call bulls**t on the entire trial and the petitions everyone signed for the release of Stephon Slone on a wrongful conviction or Pardon was never aloud to be entered in to the proceedings or be seen or heard about, Humm makes me wonder how a murderer Walks away with merely 10 years while an admitted liar recants, proven to be a virgin and lies repeatedly andStephon still gets 20 years thats a little fishy is you ask me and I dont think its the river running beside Main Street. They are alot of innocent people in prison and I think someone needs to start looking into that. We will never know for sure, but the few studies that have been done estimate that between 2.3% and 5% of all prisoners in the U.S. are innocent (for context, if just 1% of all prisoners are innocent, that would mean that more than 20,000 innocent people are in prison( this comes from the innocent project page under FAQs so it is facts. He was NOT given a fair trial, the rules and regulations wasnt followed as to the BAR anyways because SCR3.130(4.4)Respect for rights of third persons, SCR3.130(3.8)Specal responsibilities of a prosecutor(a)(c)(e), SCR3.130(3.5) Impartiality and decorum of the tribunal (b)(c), SCR3.130(3.4) Fairness to oposing party and counsel (a)(b)(d)(e)(f)(g). And I think Stephon deserves to be released and the alleged victim to come forward and get some real respect and tell the truth about it and just be honest and say "Hey look I didnt want to be there so I lied" Or the actual truth "My mother while in Leslie County Jail told me to get a boyfriend EVERY time I went to see her just so I would end up having sex so I could get him put in jail for rape which my mother has told me to say since I was a little girl everytime I didnt get my way and I also told my brother I would say the same thing about him but I lied on Stephon before I got the chance to lie on my brother thankfully and I did so here we are". That would be nice but we all know thats not gonna happen so we will do what we have to in order to get him out. I am even changing my career path thanks to this as is our cousin, Criminal Justice Law here we come...
<p>photos by Cris Ritchie | Hazard Herald</p><p>Local officials gathered near the Chavies community Wednesday for a groundbreaking ceremony on a new waste water treatment plant.</p>

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Head custodian at Chavies Elementary Carl Fred Noble worked with another Chavies custodial volunteer, Jerry Campbell, on Wednesday to disinfect the kitchen and bathrooms at Big Creek. Noble said he had not imagined the amount of mud and water he encountered when he began working Wednesday morning.
Head custodian at Chavies Elementary Carl Fred Noble worked with another Chavies custodial volunteer, Jerry Campbell, on Wednesday to disinfect the kitchen and bathrooms at Big Creek. Noble said he had not imagined the amount of mud and water he encountered when he began working Wednesday morning.
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Big Creek Principal Jeff Castle said the damage was not as extensive as it could have been had more water entered the school. He said administrators are waiting for an insurance assessment to be completed for final numbers, however the only damage so far has been to floors and some books that were on lower shelves in some classrooms.
Big Creek Principal Jeff Castle said the damage was not as extensive as it could have been had more water entered the school. He said administrators are waiting for an insurance assessment to be completed for final numbers, however the only damage so far has been to floors and some books that were on lower shelves in some classrooms.
slideshow
Volunteers with the Perry County School District spent Wednesday morning and most of the afternoon cleaning up the school after flash floods Monday night left several inches of water and mud in the facility.
Volunteers with the Perry County School District spent Wednesday morning and most of the afternoon cleaning up the school after flash floods Monday night left several inches of water and mud in the facility.
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cgayheart0005
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June 19, 2013
Stephon Slone did NOT receive a FAIR trial by any means whatsoever. The prosecutorial misconduct alone is a disgrace little on still convicting an innocent man once a girl recants her story and is PROVEN to be a VIRGIN. The states medical examiner Alisha Cook, did infact do a medical examination to reveal that the girls hymen was indeed still intact in this case and this case is the exact same as the case POOLE v. STATE No. 2009-KA-00420-SCT. Stephon needs to argues the victims testimony is not credible because in describing a forcible rape from the standpoint of his insertion of his penis, there also is no doubt the jury considered Alisha Cooks testimony that her findings as to the condition of the victims hymen would be inconsistent with full penile penetration. Alisha Cooks testimony left no doubt that no full penetration had ever occurred, unless the penetration had been with a penis the size of Alisha Cooks finger. Unfortunately, there was no elaboration as to this or the size of Alisha Cooks finger. However considering Alisha Cook is for the state she did NOT want to say by any means that the alleged victim was infact a virgin the victims testimony was, therefore, suspect and incredible, substantially contradicted by medical testimony. Besides the fact of the communication ex parta between John Hansen and Stephon Slones witnesses which was never addressed or even to be heard about and then Mr. Hansen was laughing at Mr. Slones witnesses on stand and making false accusations about the defendants witnesses and trying to testify to the honesty of those witnesses, I myself was a witness in the case for my brother Stephon and I am willing to take a LIE DETECTORS at anytime and I will pay for it out of my own pocket just to proven John Hansen lied on me and others during the proceeding of this trial period when saying in court on June 11, 2013 in his arguments that all the witnesses aggreed to the exact same thing which was how they were transported to and from the court house and I myself did NOT agree with that by any means and I think its despicable how he tries to intimidate people on the stand and his assistant prosecutor I guess it was got all bent out of shape because I would NOT tell him what he wanted to hear about a letter written by the alleged victim to one of her friends which the friend brought themselves and gave to the defendants side and he argued that it wasnt her handwritting when infact it is and I know this myself and all they needed to do was bring in a handwritting specialist but they would NOT do that, all they did was send an innocent man to prison for along time to get a conviction under their belts, while Timothy Ryan Sizemore also appeared infront of them for the cold blooded murder of Samuel Louive and ONLY got 10 years for taking a mans life, a little girls father, a mothers son, and he gets a 10 year sentence for such a hanus crime and my brother Stephon Slone sits in prison for 20 years on a rape crime he did NOT commit when the victim racanted herself and was found to be a virgin, yet they let a jury member that went to school and hung out with me stay on his trial after me telling them that we knew her, and the alleged victims mother talked continuosly to the jury in and outside the courthouse and nothing was ever said, the vicitm was aloud to lie over and over again with no questioning as to why she was lying or to the honesty of an admitted liar and when she recanted that alone should have ended the case but NO, they gave the prosecution the chance to go talk with her again and talk her up and then it was like "Ohh yeah he did it, I lied when I said he didnt...I dont know why I just did". The tales of the rape went from he raped her so hard she was bleeding(yet her hymen is still intact after such a forcible rape encounter) and that it only happened that 1 time to it happened repeatedly and she had noway out or noone to turn to(yet her hymen is still intact with all that forcible raping going on over and over) so they pulled the card that a hymen could withstand some minor trama and stay intact if the penis was small however even with a penis the size of a tooth pick or ink pen if it was forcibly raping you it would infact tear your hymen so I call bulls**t on the entire trial and the petitions everyone signed for the release of Stephon Slone on a wrongful conviction or Pardon was never aloud to be entered in to the proceedings or be seen or heard about, Humm makes me wonder how a murderer Walks away with merely 10 years while an admitted liar recants, proven to be a virgin and lies repeatedly andStephon still gets 20 years thats a little fishy is you ask me and I dont think its the river running beside Main Street. They are alot of innocent people in prison and I think someone needs to start looking into that. We will never know for sure, but the few studies that have been done estimate that between 2.3% and 5% of all prisoners in the U.S. are innocent (for context, if just 1% of all prisoners are innocent, that would mean that more than 20,000 innocent people are in prison( this comes from the innocent project page under FAQs so it is facts. He was NOT given a fair trial, the rules and regulations wasnt followed as to the BAR anyways because SCR3.130(4.4)Respect for rights of third persons, SCR3.130(3.8)Specal responsibilities of a prosecutor(a)(c)(e), SCR3.130(3.5) Impartiality and decorum of the tribunal (b)(c), SCR3.130(3.4) Fairness to oposing party and counsel (a)(b)(d)(e)(f)(g). And I think Stephon deserves to be released and the alleged victim to come forward and get some real respect and tell the truth about it and just be honest and say "Hey look I didnt want to be there so I lied" Or the actual truth "My mother while in Leslie County Jail told me to get a boyfriend EVERY time I went to see her just so I would end up having sex so I could get him put in jail for rape which my mother has told me to say since I was a little girl everytime I didnt get my way and I also told my brother I would say the same thing about him but I lied on Stephon before I got the chance to lie on my brother thankfully and I did so here we are". That would be nice but we all know thats not gonna happen so we will do what we have to in order to get him out. I am even changing my career path thanks to this as is our cousin, Criminal Justice Law here we come...
<p>photos by Cris Ritchie | Hazard Herald</p><p>Local officials gathered near the Chavies community Wednesday for a groundbreaking ceremony on a new waste water treatment plant.</p>

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Head custodian at Chavies Elementary Carl Fred Noble worked with another Chavies custodial volunteer, Jerry Campbell, on Wednesday to disinfect the kitchen and bathrooms at Big Creek. Noble said he had not imagined the amount of mud and water he encountered when he began working Wednesday morning.
Head custodian at Chavies Elementary Carl Fred Noble worked with another Chavies custodial volunteer, Jerry Campbell, on Wednesday to disinfect the kitchen and bathrooms at Big Creek. Noble said he had not imagined the amount of mud and water he encountered when he began working Wednesday morning.
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Big Creek Principal Jeff Castle said the damage was not as extensive as it could have been had more water entered the school. He said administrators are waiting for an insurance assessment to be completed for final numbers, however the only damage so far has been to floors and some books that were on lower shelves in some classrooms.
Big Creek Principal Jeff Castle said the damage was not as extensive as it could have been had more water entered the school. He said administrators are waiting for an insurance assessment to be completed for final numbers, however the only damage so far has been to floors and some books that were on lower shelves in some classrooms.
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Volunteers with the Perry County School District spent Wednesday morning and most of the afternoon cleaning up the school after flash floods Monday night left several inches of water and mud in the facility.
Volunteers with the Perry County School District spent Wednesday morning and most of the afternoon cleaning up the school after flash floods Monday night left several inches of water and mud in the facility.
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June 19, 2013
Stephon Slone did NOT receive a FAIR trial by any means whatsoever. The prosecutorial misconduct alone is a disgrace little on still convicting an innocent man once a girl recants her story and is PROVEN to be a VIRGIN. The states medical examiner Alisha Cook, did infact do a medical examination to reveal that the girls hymen was indeed still intact in this case and this case is the exact same as the case POOLE v. STATE No. 2009-KA-00420-SCT. Stephon needs to argues the victims testimony is not credible because in describing a forcible rape from the standpoint of his insertion of his penis, there also is no doubt the jury considered Alisha Cooks testimony that her findings as to the condition of the victims hymen would be inconsistent with full penile penetration. Alisha Cooks testimony left no doubt that no full penetration had ever occurred, unless the penetration had been with a penis the size of Alisha Cooks finger. Unfortunately, there was no elaboration as to this or the size of Alisha Cooks finger. However considering Alisha Cook is for the state she did NOT want to say by any means that the alleged victim was infact a virgin the victims testimony was, therefore, suspect and incredible, substantially contradicted by medical testimony. Besides the fact of the communication ex parta between John Hansen and Stephon Slones witnesses which was never addressed or even to be heard about and then Mr. Hansen was laughing at Mr. Slones witnesses on stand and making false accusations about the defendants witnesses and trying to testify to the honesty of those witnesses, I myself was a witness in the case for my brother Stephon and I am willing to take a LIE DETECTORS at anytime and I will pay for it out of my own pocket just to proven John Hansen lied on me and others during the proceeding of this trial period when saying in court on June 11, 2013 in his arguments that all the witnesses aggreed to the exact same thing which was how they were transported to and from the court house and I myself did NOT agree with that by any means and I think its despicable how he tries to intimidate people on the stand and his assistant prosecutor I guess it was got all bent out of shape because I would NOT tell him what he wanted to hear about a letter written by the alleged victim to one of her friends which the friend brought themselves and gave to the defendants side and he argued that it wasnt her handwritting when infact it is and I know this myself and all they needed to do was bring in a handwritting specialist but they would NOT do that, all they did was send an innocent man to prison for along time to get a conviction under their belts, while Timothy Ryan Sizemore also appeared infront of them for the cold blooded murder of Samuel Louive and ONLY got 10 years for taking a mans life, a little girls father, a mothers son, and he gets a 10 year sentence for such a hanus crime and my brother Stephon Slone sits in prison for 20 years on a rape crime he did NOT commit when the victim racanted herself and was found to be a virgin, yet they let a jury member that went to school and hung out with me stay on his trial after me telling them that we knew her, and the alleged victims mother talked continuosly to the jury in and outside the courthouse and nothing was ever said, the vicitm was aloud to lie over and over again with no questioning as to why she was lying or to the honesty of an admitted liar and when she recanted that alone should have ended the case but NO, they gave the prosecution the chance to go talk with her again and talk her up and then it was like "Ohh yeah he did it, I lied when I said he didnt...I dont know why I just did". The tales of the rape went from he raped her so hard she was bleeding(yet her hymen is still intact after such a forcible rape encounter) and that it only happened that 1 time to it happened repeatedly and she had noway out or noone to turn to(yet her hymen is still intact with all that forcible raping going on over and over) so they pulled the card that a hymen could withstand some minor trama and stay intact if the penis was small however even with a penis the size of a tooth pick or ink pen if it was forcibly raping you it would infact tear your hymen so I call bulls**t on the entire trial and the petitions everyone signed for the release of Stephon Slone on a wrongful conviction or Pardon was never aloud to be entered in to the proceedings or be seen or heard about, Humm makes me wonder how a murderer Walks away with merely 10 years while an admitted liar recants, proven to be a virgin and lies repeatedly andStephon still gets 20 years thats a little fishy is you ask me and I dont think its the river running beside Main Street. They are alot of innocent people in prison and I think someone needs to start looking into that. We will never know for sure, but the few studies that have been done estimate that between 2.3% and 5% of all prisoners in the U.S. are innocent (for context, if just 1% of all prisoners are innocent, that would mean that more than 20,000 innocent people are in prison( this comes from the innocent project page under FAQs so it is facts. He was NOT given a fair trial, the rules and regulations wasnt followed as to the BAR anyways because SCR3.130(4.4)Respect for rights of third persons, SCR3.130(3.8)Specal responsibilities of a prosecutor(a)(c)(e), SCR3.130(3.5) Impartiality and decorum of the tribunal (b)(c), SCR3.130(3.4) Fairness to oposing party and counsel (a)(b)(d)(e)(f)(g). And I think Stephon deserves to be released and the alleged victim to come forward and get some real respect and tell the truth about it and just be honest and say "Hey look I didnt want to be there so I lied" Or the actual truth "My mother while in Leslie County Jail told me to get a boyfriend EVERY time I went to see her just so I would end up having sex so I could get him put in jail for rape which my mother has told me to say since I was a little girl everytime I didnt get my way and I also told my brother I would say the same thing about him but I lied on Stephon before I got the chance to lie on my brother thankfully and I did so here we are". That would be nice but we all know thats not gonna happen so we will do what we have to in order to get him out. I am even changing my career path thanks to this as is our cousin, Criminal Justice Law here we come...
<p>photos by Cris Ritchie | Hazard Herald</p><p>Local officials gathered near the Chavies community Wednesday for a groundbreaking ceremony on a new waste water treatment plant.</p>

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Local officials gathered near the Chavies community Wednesday for a groundbreaking ceremony on a new waste water treatment plant.

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Head custodian at Chavies Elementary Carl Fred Noble worked with another Chavies custodial volunteer, Jerry Campbell, on Wednesday to disinfect the kitchen and bathrooms at Big Creek. Noble said he had not imagined the amount of mud and water he encountered when he began working Wednesday morning.
Head custodian at Chavies Elementary Carl Fred Noble worked with another Chavies custodial volunteer, Jerry Campbell, on Wednesday to disinfect the kitchen and bathrooms at Big Creek. Noble said he had not imagined the amount of mud and water he encountered when he began working Wednesday morning.
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Big Creek Principal Jeff Castle said the damage was not as extensive as it could have been had more water entered the school. He said administrators are waiting for an insurance assessment to be completed for final numbers, however the only damage so far has been to floors and some books that were on lower shelves in some classrooms.
Big Creek Principal Jeff Castle said the damage was not as extensive as it could have been had more water entered the school. He said administrators are waiting for an insurance assessment to be completed for final numbers, however the only damage so far has been to floors and some books that were on lower shelves in some classrooms.
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Volunteers with the Perry County School District spent Wednesday morning and most of the afternoon cleaning up the school after flash floods Monday night left several inches of water and mud in the facility.
Volunteers with the Perry County School District spent Wednesday morning and most of the afternoon cleaning up the school after flash floods Monday night left several inches of water and mud in the facility.
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cgayheart0005
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June 19, 2013
Stephon Slone did NOT receive a FAIR trial by any means whatsoever. The prosecutorial misconduct alone is a disgrace little on still convicting an innocent man once a girl recants her story and is PROVEN to be a VIRGIN. The states medical examiner Alisha Cook, did infact do a medical examination to reveal that the girls hymen was indeed still intact in this case and this case is the exact same as the case POOLE v. STATE No. 2009-KA-00420-SCT. Stephon needs to argues the victims testimony is not credible because in describing a forcible rape from the standpoint of his insertion of his penis, there also is no doubt the jury considered Alisha Cooks testimony that her findings as to the condition of the victims hymen would be inconsistent with full penile penetration. Alisha Cooks testimony left no doubt that no full penetration had ever occurred, unless the penetration had been with a penis the size of Alisha Cooks finger. Unfortunately, there was no elaboration as to this or the size of Alisha Cooks finger. However considering Alisha Cook is for the state she did NOT want to say by any means that the alleged victim was infact a virgin the victims testimony was, therefore, suspect and incredible, substantially contradicted by medical testimony. Besides the fact of the communication ex parta between John Hansen and Stephon Slones witnesses which was never addressed or even to be heard about and then Mr. Hansen was laughing at Mr. Slones witnesses on stand and making false accusations about the defendants witnesses and trying to testify to the honesty of those witnesses, I myself was a witness in the case for my brother Stephon and I am willing to take a LIE DETECTORS at anytime and I will pay for it out of my own pocket just to proven John Hansen lied on me and others during the proceeding of this trial period when saying in court on June 11, 2013 in his arguments that all the witnesses aggreed to the exact same thing which was how they were transported to and from the court house and I myself did NOT agree with that by any means and I think its despicable how he tries to intimidate people on the stand and his assistant prosecutor I guess it was got all bent out of shape because I would NOT tell him what he wanted to hear about a letter written by the alleged victim to one of her friends which the friend brought themselves and gave to the defendants side and he argued that it wasnt her handwritting when infact it is and I know this myself and all they needed to do was bring in a handwritting specialist but they would NOT do that, all they did was send an innocent man to prison for along time to get a conviction under their belts, while Timothy Ryan Sizemore also appeared infront of them for the cold blooded murder of Samuel Louive and ONLY got 10 years for taking a mans life, a little girls father, a mothers son, and he gets a 10 year sentence for such a hanus crime and my brother Stephon Slone sits in prison for 20 years on a rape crime he did NOT commit when the victim racanted herself and was found to be a virgin, yet they let a jury member that went to school and hung out with me stay on his trial after me telling them that we knew her, and the alleged victims mother talked continuosly to the jury in and outside the courthouse and nothing was ever said, the vicitm was aloud to lie over and over again with no questioning as to why she was lying or to the honesty of an admitted liar and when she recanted that alone should have ended the case but NO, they gave the prosecution the chance to go talk with her again and talk her up and then it was like "Ohh yeah he did it, I lied when I said he didnt...I dont know why I just did". The tales of the rape went from he raped her so hard she was bleeding(yet her hymen is still intact after such a forcible rape encounter) and that it only happened that 1 time to it happened repeatedly and she had noway out or noone to turn to(yet her hymen is still intact with all that forcible raping going on over and over) so they pulled the card that a hymen could withstand some minor trama and stay intact if the penis was small however even with a penis the size of a tooth pick or ink pen if it was forcibly raping you it would infact tear your hymen so I call bulls**t on the entire trial and the petitions everyone signed for the release of Stephon Slone on a wrongful conviction or Pardon was never aloud to be entered in to the proceedings or be seen or heard about, Humm makes me wonder how a murderer Walks away with merely 10 years while an admitted liar recants, proven to be a virgin and lies repeatedly andStephon still gets 20 years thats a little fishy is you ask me and I dont think its the river running beside Main Street. They are alot of innocent people in prison and I think someone needs to start looking into that. We will never know for sure, but the few studies that have been done estimate that between 2.3% and 5% of all prisoners in the U.S. are innocent (for context, if just 1% of all prisoners are innocent, that would mean that more than 20,000 innocent people are in prison( this comes from the innocent project page under FAQs so it is facts. He was NOT given a fair trial, the rules and regulations wasnt followed as to the BAR anyways because SCR3.130(4.4)Respect for rights of third persons, SCR3.130(3.8)Specal responsibilities of a prosecutor(a)(c)(e), SCR3.130(3.5) Impartiality and decorum of the tribunal (b)(c), SCR3.130(3.4) Fairness to oposing party and counsel (a)(b)(d)(e)(f)(g). And I think Stephon deserves to be released and the alleged victim to come forward and get some real respect and tell the truth about it and just be honest and say "Hey look I didnt want to be there so I lied" Or the actual truth "My mother while in Leslie County Jail told me to get a boyfriend EVERY time I went to see her just so I would end up having sex so I could get him put in jail for rape which my mother has told me to say since I was a little girl everytime I didnt get my way and I also told my brother I would say the same thing about him but I lied on Stephon before I got the chance to lie on my brother thankfully and I did so here we are". That would be nice but we all know thats not gonna happen so we will do what we have to in order to get him out. I am even changing my career path thanks to this as is our cousin, Criminal Justice Law here we come...
<p>photos by Cris Ritchie | Hazard Herald</p><p>Local officials gathered near the Chavies community Wednesday for a groundbreaking ceremony on a new waste water treatment plant.</p>

photos by Cris Ritchie | Hazard Herald

Local officials gathered near the Chavies community Wednesday for a groundbreaking ceremony on a new waste water treatment plant.

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Head custodian at Chavies Elementary Carl Fred Noble worked with another Chavies custodial volunteer, Jerry Campbell, on Wednesday to disinfect the kitchen and bathrooms at Big Creek. Noble said he had not imagined the amount of mud and water he encountered when he began working Wednesday morning.
Head custodian at Chavies Elementary Carl Fred Noble worked with another Chavies custodial volunteer, Jerry Campbell, on Wednesday to disinfect the kitchen and bathrooms at Big Creek. Noble said he had not imagined the amount of mud and water he encountered when he began working Wednesday morning.
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Big Creek Principal Jeff Castle said the damage was not as extensive as it could have been had more water entered the school. He said administrators are waiting for an insurance assessment to be completed for final numbers, however the only damage so far has been to floors and some books that were on lower shelves in some classrooms.
Big Creek Principal Jeff Castle said the damage was not as extensive as it could have been had more water entered the school. He said administrators are waiting for an insurance assessment to be completed for final numbers, however the only damage so far has been to floors and some books that were on lower shelves in some classrooms.
slideshow
Volunteers with the Perry County School District spent Wednesday morning and most of the afternoon cleaning up the school after flash floods Monday night left several inches of water and mud in the facility.
Volunteers with the Perry County School District spent Wednesday morning and most of the afternoon cleaning up the school after flash floods Monday night left several inches of water and mud in the facility.
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cgayheart0005
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June 19, 2013
Stephon Slone did NOT receive a FAIR trial by any means whatsoever. The prosecutorial misconduct alone is a disgrace little on still convicting an innocent man once a girl recants her story and is PROVEN to be a VIRGIN. The states medical examiner Alisha Cook, did infact do a medical examination to reveal that the girls hymen was indeed still intact in this case and this case is the exact same as the case POOLE v. STATE No. 2009-KA-00420-SCT. Stephon needs to argues the victims testimony is not credible because in describing a forcible rape from the standpoint of his insertion of his penis, there also is no doubt the jury considered Alisha Cooks testimony that her findings as to the condition of the victims hymen would be inconsistent with full penile penetration. Alisha Cooks testimony left no doubt that no full penetration had ever occurred, unless the penetration had been with a penis the size of Alisha Cooks finger. Unfortunately, there was no elaboration as to this or the size of Alisha Cooks finger. However considering Alisha Cook is for the state she did NOT want to say by any means that the alleged victim was infact a virgin the victims testimony was, therefore, suspect and incredible, substantially contradicted by medical testimony. Besides the fact of the communication ex parta between John Hansen and Stephon Slones witnesses which was never addressed or even to be heard about and then Mr. Hansen was laughing at Mr. Slones witnesses on stand and making false accusations about the defendants witnesses and trying to testify to the honesty of those witnesses, I myself was a witness in the case for my brother Stephon and I am willing to take a LIE DETECTORS at anytime and I will pay for it out of my own pocket just to proven John Hansen lied on me and others during the proceeding of this trial period when saying in court on June 11, 2013 in his arguments that all the witnesses aggreed to the exact same thing which was how they were transported to and from the court house and I myself did NOT agree with that by any means and I think its despicable how he tries to intimidate people on the stand and his assistant prosecutor I guess it was got all bent out of shape because I would NOT tell him what he wanted to hear about a letter written by the alleged victim to one of her friends which the friend brought themselves and gave to the defendants side and he argued that it wasnt her handwritting when infact it is and I know this myself and all they needed to do was bring in a handwritting specialist but they would NOT do that, all they did was send an innocent man to prison for along time to get a conviction under their belts, while Timothy Ryan Sizemore also appeared infront of them for the cold blooded murder of Samuel Louive and ONLY got 10 years for taking a mans life, a little girls father, a mothers son, and he gets a 10 year sentence for such a hanus crime and my brother Stephon Slone sits in prison for 20 years on a rape crime he did NOT commit when the victim racanted herself and was found to be a virgin, yet they let a jury member that went to school and hung out with me stay on his trial after me telling them that we knew her, and the alleged victims mother talked continuosly to the jury in and outside the courthouse and nothing was ever said, the vicitm was aloud to lie over and over again with no questioning as to why she was lying or to the honesty of an admitted liar and when she recanted that alone should have ended the case but NO, they gave the prosecution the chance to go talk with her again and talk her up and then it was like "Ohh yeah he did it, I lied when I said he didnt...I dont know why I just did". The tales of the rape went from he raped her so hard she was bleeding(yet her hymen is still intact after such a forcible rape encounter) and that it only happened that 1 time to it happened repeatedly and she had noway out or noone to turn to(yet her hymen is still intact with all that forcible raping going on over and over) so they pulled the card that a hymen could withstand some minor trama and stay intact if the penis was small however even with a penis the size of a tooth pick or ink pen if it was forcibly raping you it would infact tear your hymen so I call bulls**t on the entire trial and the petitions everyone signed for the release of Stephon Slone on a wrongful conviction or Pardon was never aloud to be entered in to the proceedings or be seen or heard about, Humm makes me wonder how a murderer Walks away with merely 10 years while an admitted liar recants, proven to be a virgin and lies repeatedly andStephon still gets 20 years thats a little fishy is you ask me and I dont think its the river running beside Main Street. They are alot of innocent people in prison and I think someone needs to start looking into that. We will never know for sure, but the few studies that have been done estimate that between 2.3% and 5% of all prisoners in the U.S. are innocent (for context, if just 1% of all prisoners are innocent, that would mean that more than 20,000 innocent people are in prison( this comes from the innocent project page under FAQs so it is facts. He was NOT given a fair trial, the rules and regulations wasnt followed as to the BAR anyways because SCR3.130(4.4)Respect for rights of third persons, SCR3.130(3.8)Specal responsibilities of a prosecutor(a)(c)(e), SCR3.130(3.5) Impartiality and decorum of the tribunal (b)(c), SCR3.130(3.4) Fairness to oposing party and counsel (a)(b)(d)(e)(f)(g). And I think Stephon deserves to be released and the alleged victim to come forward and get some real respect and tell the truth about it and just be honest and say "Hey look I didnt want to be there so I lied" Or the actual truth "My mother while in Leslie County Jail told me to get a boyfriend EVERY time I went to see her just so I would end up having sex so I could get him put in jail for rape which my mother has told me to say since I was a little girl everytime I didnt get my way and I also told my brother I would say the same thing about him but I lied on Stephon before I got the chance to lie on my brother thankfully and I did so here we are". That would be nice but we all know thats not gonna happen so we will do what we have to in order to get him out. I am even changing my career path thanks to this as is our cousin, Criminal Justice Law here we come...
<p>photos by Cris Ritchie | Hazard Herald</p><p>Local officials gathered near the Chavies community Wednesday for a groundbreaking ceremony on a new waste water treatment plant.</p>

photos by Cris Ritchie | Hazard Herald

Local officials gathered near the Chavies community Wednesday for a groundbreaking ceremony on a new waste water treatment plant.

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