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Officials say a security guard assaulted over the weekend while reporting to an alarm likely scared off the perpetrator. About 9:20 p.m. Saturday, Danville police officers responded to an audible alarm at Ephraim McDowell Diagnostic Center on Southtown Drive. According to a police report, officials checked the premises and determined it was secure. About 20 minutes later, the alarm sounded again, the press release stated. Police officers communicated with McDowell personnel and learned that security officer Bobby Potts was checking the premises.

HARRODSBURG - Donald Barnett was honored twice at the Mercer Chamber of Commerce banquet Tuesday night for an act that may have saved many lives. Barnett was the security guard on duty at the Corning plant on the night of Aug. 29-30 when he noticed someone acting strangely in the plant's parking lot. Barnett called the Harrodsburg Police Department and reported a man had parked his vehicle in the lot and was removing weapons from it. The man, Kevin Paul Crum, was arrested on weapons charges and later was charged with six counts of attempted murder.

A Junction¿City man was arrested Friday for second-degree robbery after allegedly hitting a Walmart security guard who tried to detain him for shoplifting, Danville Police Chief Tony¿Gray said. David A. Price, 32, allegedly tried to steal a Blu-Ray player and was stopped by a Wal Mart security guard, according to Gray. Price allegedly struck the employee and ran away from the scene. Witnesses saw Price enter a white convertible with a black top.¿A Danville police officer saw a vehicle matching that description and stopped it on South Town Drive near Daniel¿Drive.

LIBERTY - Friends and co-workers of Ron Whited, who spent most of his career on the local police force, called him a hard worker, dedicated and honest. The 58-year-old Liberty police chief died Tuesday at Veterans Affairs Hospital in Lexington after a 20-year battle with leukemia. Whited had served 22 years as officer and chief of Liberty Police Department, three years as part-time security guard at the Casey County Judicial Center, and worked part-time at Bartle Funeral Home.

HARRODSBURG - A former employee of Trim Masters Inc. has confessed to a string of burglaries and computer thefts that began in November of last year. Roger Criss, 31, of Lancaster was arrested Monday and charged with three counts of burglary and theft by unlawful taking over $300 after a night watchman chased him from the Industry Road factory that makes automotive interiors. Harrodsburg Police Lt. Gary Bradshaw said that that after responding to a call police found Criss in the parking lot of the plant.

Ikey L. Scroggins, 64, of Madison, Ind., died Tuesday, March 18 at King's Daughters' Hospital in Madison. He was born July 30, 1943 in Madison to Harold and Mary Gladys Fredenburgh Scroggins. Mr. Scroggins worked in construction most of his life, having been employed by the former J.D. Skake Construction until 1982 when he formed his own construction company. He retired in 1994, but worked for a few years after that as a security guard for the Ameriform in Carrollton, Ky. Survivors include a companion, Mary Johnson of Madison, two daughters, Lucretia "Cricket" Hager of Nicholasville and Joy Zeilger of Columbus, Ind., four sons, Jason Scroggins of Nicholasville, Shawn Handlon of Taylor Mill, Ky., Jeffrey Handlon of Madison, and Lewis Handlon of Hanover, Ind., three brothers, Jerry Scroggins of Lacey Spring, Ala., Bob Scroggins of Madison, and Charlie Scroggins of Madison, three sisters, Barb Boggs of Madison, Phyllis and husband Donnie Logsten of Scottsville, Ky. and Carolyn Ackers of Scottsville, KY. Additional survivors include 13 grandchildren and 1 great-grandchild.

LANCASTER — Marvin Beghtol never thought he would need a high school degree. He never graduated high school, but he landed a job in 1994 at the Red Wing plant in Danville. For a long time, Beghtol had everything he needed to get by. But as the economy worsened, Red Wing announced plans to shutter its Danville operations. Red Wing eventually changed course and decided to maintain a reduced presence in the city, but not before Beghtol became one of more than 100 people laid off from the plant in 2010.

A former Lawrenceburg and Champagne, Ill., police officer pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges in connection with a plot to kill a Harrodsburg woman and her family one year ago. He now faces a possible sentence of 18 years in prison. Kevin Crum's plea comes after Circuit Judge Darren Peckler recently ruled against his attorney's motion to suppress evidence recovered during his arrest Aug. 30, 2003, in the Corning parking lot in Harrodsburg. A security guard had alerted police that he saw Crum, wearing body armor, pull a long object from the trunk of a vehicle just after 2 a.m. Crum's guilty plea is conditional.

Stadium Gates: Commonwealth Stadium gates open two hours before game time. Security at Commonwealth Stadium: Every entry point into the stadium will have a security guard to check all bags and items entering the stadium. Once items have been approved, patrons will proceed into the stadium at ticket checkpoints. This policy is to ensure the safety of all fans and the security of the stadium and will remain the same throughout the 2005 season. Items which cannot be brought in the stadium include artificial noisemakers, glass containers, alcoholic beverages, aluminum containers, food, portable heaters, firearms, ice chests, bags of ice, large bags, oversize stadium seats, or any object considered dangerous to patrons in Commonwealth Stadium.

March 8, 1982 Los Angeles (AP) - John Belushi, the beefy comedian who played a manic Samural warrior on TV's original "Saturday Night Live" and a slobby fraternity brother in the movie, "Animal House," apparently choked to death, says a security guard who saw the body. Belushi's body was found about 12:15 a.m. Friday in bed in a $200-a-day bungalow the 33-year-old actor rented behind the Chateau Marmont Hotel on Sunset Strip. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Gov. John Y. Brown Jr. presented a check for $29,427.

Officials say a security guard assaulted over the weekend while reporting to an alarm likely scared off the perpetrator. About 9:20 p.m. Saturday, Danville police officers responded to an audible alarm at Ephraim McDowell Diagnostic Center on Southtown Drive. According to a police report, officials checked the premises and determined it was secure. About 20 minutes later, the alarm sounded again, the press release stated. Police officers communicated with McDowell personnel and learned that security officer Bobby Potts was checking the premises.

DUNNVILLE - A preliminary autopsy has determined that Wendell Pyles was murdered Wednesday night as he worked alone in a building at Tarter Manufacturing, but police are releasing no additional information on the shooting today. “I think we have some things to go on and the investigation is progressing, but we're keeping it pretty close to the vest. We can't compromise where we are at this point,” Trooper Billy Gregory, spokesman for Kentucky State Police Post 15 in Columbia, said this morning.

A Junction¿City man was arrested Friday for second-degree robbery after allegedly hitting a Walmart security guard who tried to detain him for shoplifting, Danville Police Chief Tony¿Gray said. David A. Price, 32, allegedly tried to steal a Blu-Ray player and was stopped by a Wal Mart security guard, according to Gray. Price allegedly struck the employee and ran away from the scene. Witnesses saw Price enter a white convertible with a black top.¿A Danville police officer saw a vehicle matching that description and stopped it on South Town Drive near Daniel¿Drive.

LANCASTER — Marvin Beghtol never thought he would need a high school degree. He never graduated high school, but he landed a job in 1994 at the Red Wing plant in Danville. For a long time, Beghtol had everything he needed to get by. But as the economy worsened, Red Wing announced plans to shutter its Danville operations. Red Wing eventually changed course and decided to maintain a reduced presence in the city, but not before Beghtol became one of more than 100 people laid off from the plant in 2010.

HARRODSBURG - A former employee of Trim Masters Inc. has confessed to a string of burglaries and computer thefts that began in November of last year. Roger Criss, 31, of Lancaster was arrested Monday and charged with three counts of burglary and theft by unlawful taking over $300 after a night watchman chased him from the Industry Road factory that makes automotive interiors. Harrodsburg Police Lt. Gary Bradshaw said that that after responding to a call police found Criss in the parking lot of the plant.

WINCHESTER POLICE Charged - Christie L. Herald, 23, of Hazard, was charged Sunday with speeding, reckless driving and no insurance. - James E. Curtis, 22, of 1135 Dale Drive, Apt. 3, was charged Sunday with second-degree assault and theft in a Scott County warrant. - Stanley B. Isaacs, 26, of 50 N. Main St., Apt. 103, was charged Thursday with theft by unlawful taking. Reports - At 5:04 p.m. Friday, a security guard at EDS called police and said he allowed a known male and a former EDS employee into the facility Thursday afternoon with a note purportedly from another employee to retrieve a check from her desk.

Ikey L. Scroggins, 64, of Madison, Ind., died Tuesday, March 18 at King's Daughters' Hospital in Madison. He was born July 30, 1943 in Madison to Harold and Mary Gladys Fredenburgh Scroggins. Mr. Scroggins worked in construction most of his life, having been employed by the former J.D. Skake Construction until 1982 when he formed his own construction company. He retired in 1994, but worked for a few years after that as a security guard for the Ameriform in Carrollton, Ky. Survivors include a companion, Mary Johnson of Madison, two daughters, Lucretia "Cricket" Hager of Nicholasville and Joy Zeilger of Columbus, Ind., four sons, Jason Scroggins of Nicholasville, Shawn Handlon of Taylor Mill, Ky., Jeffrey Handlon of Madison, and Lewis Handlon of Hanover, Ind., three brothers, Jerry Scroggins of Lacey Spring, Ala., Bob Scroggins of Madison, and Charlie Scroggins of Madison, three sisters, Barb Boggs of Madison, Phyllis and husband Donnie Logsten of Scottsville, Ky. and Carolyn Ackers of Scottsville, KY. Additional survivors include 13 grandchildren and 1 great-grandchild.

LIBERTY - Friends and co-workers of Ron Whited, who spent most of his career on the local police force, called him a hard worker, dedicated and honest. The 58-year-old Liberty police chief died Tuesday at Veterans Affairs Hospital in Lexington after a 20-year battle with leukemia. Whited had served 22 years as officer and chief of Liberty Police Department, three years as part-time security guard at the Casey County Judicial Center, and worked part-time at Bartle Funeral Home.

March 8, 1982 Los Angeles (AP) - John Belushi, the beefy comedian who played a manic Samural warrior on TV's original "Saturday Night Live" and a slobby fraternity brother in the movie, "Animal House," apparently choked to death, says a security guard who saw the body. Belushi's body was found about 12:15 a.m. Friday in bed in a $200-a-day bungalow the 33-year-old actor rented behind the Chateau Marmont Hotel on Sunset Strip. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Gov. John Y. Brown Jr. presented a check for $29,427.

It definitely wasn't typical week-before-Christmas weather yesterday. But the number of shiny, new bicycles wheeled out of Wal-Mart couldn't trick you into thinking it was anything but the holidays. Not long after sunrise yesterday, 132 police officers and other volunteers met with 252 children and their parents in the sunny lot of the Winchester store for the 14th annual Shop With a Cop program. "It was a whole lot warmer than it usually is," said Berl Perdue, president of the local Fraternal Order of Police.