Lisa Autry

A month after an off-duty Warren County court security officer shot a killed another man, details are being released about what led up to the shooting. 

Attorney Alan Simpson says his client Tommy Brown acted in self-defense when he shot Brandon Bradshaw on February 26th in a parking lot on the 31-W Bypass. 

Wednesday at 5 p.m., Warren County Commonwealth’s Attorney Chris Cohron will release results of the Kentucky State Police investigation and whether charges will be filed against Brown.

WKU Public Radio will be at the announcement, and we will update our website, Facebook page, and Twitter feed with details as soon as we learn them.

Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear doesn't know if he will allow hemp legislation to become law.  In a last-minute deal, House and Senate leaders agreed Tuesday night on a compromise bill to license farmers to grow hemp.  Licensing would be done by the Kentucky Industrial Hemp Commission, which is under the control of the state agriculture department.  Beshear told WKU Public Radio he can't say yet if he will veto the legislation or sign it into law.

"It was like 11:45 last night and we didn't have a copy of it, so I haven't really seen it yet," explained Beshear.  "We're going to take a good objective look at it.  I'll talk with state police and see it this bill strike a better balance."

Law enforcement has been against legalizing industrial hemp because the crop closely resembles marijuana.  Police fear it could hamper eradication efforts.

An illegal alien living in Kentucky has been sentenced to seven years in prison for a sex trafficking ring that spanned several counties. 

Adulfo De Aquaino-Cancino pled guilty last December to federal charges relating to the sex trafficking of minors.  According to an affidavit, he recruited and transported females for commercial sexual encounters that he benefited from financially. 

In an interview with Kentucky State Police, the 28-year-old illegal immigrant living in Taylor county, admitted he picked up underage girls in Campbellsville and took them to different locations where they would have sex with his friends.  The acts occurred in Taylor, Green, Adair, and Barren counties.

The owner of a women’s clinic in Elizabethtown is facing health care fraud and other federal charges. A grand jury this week indicted 45-year-old Canh Jeff Vo.  As the owner of Bluegrass Women’s Healthcare, Vo offered gynecological and obstetric services, including birth control. 

According to the federal indictment, the physician purchased and inserted into patients foreign, non-FDA approved Mirenas. 

The interuterine devices were misbranded because the labeling was not in the English language and did not bear adequate directions for use. Vo allegedly submitted false claims to Kentucky’s Medicaid program and other insurers as if he were using the FDA-approved version of Mirena, at a greater cost, when he was actually using IUDs not approved for sale in the U.S.  He supposedly imported the birth control devices from Canada and other countries. 

If convicted at trial, Vo faces life in prison.

Update at 6:30pm:  Following two hours of deliberation, a jury of seven men and five women convicted Lindsey Lowe of felony murder, premeditated murder and aggravated child abuse. She was immediately sentenced to life in prison by the judge.

Update at 1:00pm:  Closing arguments have concluded. Jury is out to lunch and will begin deliberations thereafter. 

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A jury in Gallatin, Tennessee will decide Tuesday whether to convict a young woman who killed her newborn twins.

Twenty-six-year-old Lindsey Lowe is accused of smothering the twin boys after giving birth to them in a bathroom of her parents' upper-middle-class home in Hendersonville.  Her father, Mark Lowe, testified Monday that he was in such shock after finding a dead baby inside his home that he waited 15 minutes before calling for help.  He said no one in the family knew Lindsey was pregnant.

Prosecutors have said she told police she smothered the twins so her parents would not hear their cries.  Lowe, who graduated from WKU in 2008, was engaged at the time, although paternity tests revealed her fiancé was not the father of the babies.