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FRANKFORT - A Stanford banker and his wife who have invested millions in area restoration and business projects will receive an award for excellence in local preservation this weekend. Preservation Kentucky, a statewide nonprofit that works to preserve "historic and prehistoric places" in Kentucky, will present Jess T. and Angela Correll with its Linda Bruckheimer Excellence in Rural Preservation Award in Frankfort on Saturday. Jess Correll is the founder and chairman of First Southern Bancorp Inc., the parent company of Stanford-based First Southern National Bank.

STANFORD - A highly visible business along U.S. 27 has closed its Stanford doors after decades in Lincoln County. The local Clayton Mobile Homes branch, with its prominent blue sign on a hill just north of the intersection of U.S. 27 and U.S. 150, closed for business earlier this month. Billboards on display at the location now say the business has relocated to Somerset, where a Clayton Mobile Homes branch already exists. No one who worked at the local business was available for comment.

A Stanford man is in custody for allegedly trying to run down a man with his vehicle Sunday night, Danville police said. Bryan Biggs, 36, is being held in the Boyle County Detention Center on felony second-degree assault and misdemeanor marijuana charges. As of this morning, he was being held without bond awaiting arraignment. The charges stem from an incident Sunday night at the CVS pharmacy, police said. Biggs and William Sharp had an altercation in the parking lot, said Police Chief Tony Gray.

Monday afternoon, a crowd gathered at the steps of the Lincoln County Courthouse in Stanford to celebrate the life of American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.  From there they took to the street, marching down Main Street, turning onto Martin Luther King Jr Blvd and congregating at the First Missionary Baptist Church. People from across the county reflected on the contributions from King and how there was still much work to be done. A common message of unity resonated throughout the event.

STANFORD - A prisoner who escaped from a Louisville correction center Monday was recaptured by Stanford police Wednesday afternoon, Lincoln County Sheriff Curt Folger said. Louis Taylor, 24, was captured at Logan Trace Apartments on the east side of Stanford around 4 p.m., Folger said. Police had been looking for Taylor since Monday, and considered him dangerous, according to reports. Taylor had been in contact with Folger on Tuesday, claiming he would turn himself in at the sheriff's office Wednesday morning, but that never happened.

STANFORD - A Lincoln County man and his daughter were airlifted with unknown injuries after a car flipped upside down north of Stanford Sunday night. Doug Rayborn was driving his vehicle east on U.S. 150 around 6:45 p.m. when the wreck happened just outside Stanford city limits. Lincoln County Deputy Sheriff Ryan Kirkpatrick said Rayborn's vehicle traveled out of its lane and dropped off the left shoulder of the road "for an undetermined reason. " "It went into a 180-degree slide, hitting a culvert, which caused the vehicle to flip onto its roof," Kirkpatrick said.

STANFORD - A church hayride accident seriously injured an 8-year-old Stanford boy Sunday, but few details are known and officials have not yet released any information about the incident. Jalen Smith was injured Sunday evening during a church hayride at the Lincoln County Fairgrounds.  According to a WKYT report, the boy suffered a serious leg injury in the accident and was airlifted to the University of Kentucky Children's Hospital. A spokeswoman said Tuesday that Jalen was listed in serious condition.

STANFORD - A Lincoln County grand jury has indicted a Stanford man on the charge he shook a 6-week-old infant. The infant's mother has also been indicted for complicity to assault. Lucas Vinyard, 29, of 108 Star Ave. in Stanford, is accused of shaking the infant daughter of Kisha Gosser on Aug. 17. He has been charged with first-degree assault. Police had not previously said anything about charges against Gosser, of 124 Star Ave., but the grand jury indicted her on one count of complicity to first-degree assault.

Getting a streak-free shine on windows isn't easy, but Paul F. Moore of Stanford has been doing that for more than 35 years, 23 of those in the area, as a window washer. “I don't believe in leaving streaks behind,” he said smiling. Moore originates from the Boston area and came to the region in 1990, moving to Lincoln County, after he said he got tired of the winters in New England. He had visited the region some in the 1980s as a Jehovah's Witness. With that memory, he relocated, settling first in the Waynesburg area, before later buying a house in Stanford in 1995.