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WINCHESTER POLICE Charged ? Phillip Brandenburg, 21, of 3 Hiawatha Trail, was charged Tuesday with theft by unlawful taking. ? Russell Gentry, 22, of 606 Cambridge Square, was charged Tuesday with theft by unlawful taking. ? Donald Crowe, 64, of 3 Sycamore St., was charged Tuesday with first-degree trafficking in a controlled substance. ? Aaron L. Fuller, 21, of 302 Skylark Drive, was charged Tuesday with no regisration plate, license to be in possession, failure to produce insurance card and fourth-degree assault.

Winchester Fire/EMS and Winchester Municipal Utilities will be flow testing hydrants on the following streets Thursday. West Lexington Avenue Vine Street Bon Haven Avenue East Washington Street Andover Drive Jefferson Street Whitney Court Smith Avenue Willow Drive Park Avenue McCann Drive Jackson Street Floyd Clay Drive New Street Waveland Avenue Sylvania Avenue ...

Winchester Fire/EMS and Winchester Municipal Utilities will be flow testing hydrants on Thursday on the following streets: Abbeywood Court Belmont Avenue Abbeywood Drive Boone Avenue Ascot Avenue Bristol Place Buckingham Circle Citation Court Buckingham Lane Colby Road Bullion Boulevard Crescent Avenue Bypass Road Fair Avenue Colby Ridge Boulevard Fairholme Way ...

Winchester Fire/EMS paramedics Gary Conn, top photo, left, and Dan Gurecky, right, and Roger Smallwood with Winchester Municipal Utilities check the flow pressure of a hydrant at the corner of South Main and Hickman streets. Winchester Fire and WMU check hydrants once a year to insure they are operating correctly, to check the flow pressure and to flush the lines of sediment and rust. Smallwood, left photo, uses a quick method to check the chlorine amount in the water. Crews will check over 1,200 city hydrants over the next couple of weeks.

Winchester Fire/EMS firefighter Greg Harrison uses a sledge hammer to take down a brick support post on the front of Hilltop Terrace. The post was all but knocked down when it was hit by a car Monday afternoon. Holding a heavy tarp to protect the window of Minuteman Press are firefighters' Chris Crockett, left, and Lt. Brad Case. After several blows the brick column came crashing to the pavement. The car's driver, Sierra Layne, accidentally hit the gas pedal instead of the brake. No injuries were reported.

Winchester Fire-EMS Fire Marshal Major Neal Oliver asks for a show of hands as to how many have smoke detectors in their homes during a fire prevention and fall prevention class at the Generations Center. Oliver encouraged the people to get a carbon monoxide detector for their homes. He also spoke to the seniors about things they could do to reduce the risk of falls and how to improve fire safety in the home, including devising an escape plan.

WAYNESBURG - A three-car collision about 10:30 a.m. Monday in Lincoln County resulted in two people being extricated from a vehicle and three going to the hospital. Courtney Little, 21, of Somerset, was traveling north in a 2006 Mitsubishi Eclipse on U.S. 27 when she struck another vehicle, which had stopped to turn onto Ky. 501. Steven Spencer, 47, of Waynesburg, was driving a 1996 Chevy S-10 when Little's vehicle struck the truck in the rear, and Kentucky State Police say both vehicles sustained severe damage.

A gruesome, single-car crash killed two people Tuesday and shut down a rain-slick U.S. 27 near Bryantsville for four hours. A man and a woman, both apparently in their early 20s, died when their Saturn left the road and slammed into a tree. "In my 27 years of service with EMS that's the worst car I've ever seen wrapped around a tree," said Mike Mullins, a senior lieutenant with Garrard County EMS. The car looked, he said, "like you wrapped a towel around the tree. " The victims had not been identified by this morning.