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A judge has sentenced a 16-year-old boy who pleaded guilty to killing his guardians to 20 years in prison.

The Glasgow Daily Times reports that Christopher Endicott received the sentence during a hearing Tuesday in Metcalfe County.

He pleaded guilty in October in the 2011 slayings of his legal guardians, Gary and Barbara Holloway. The couple was found fatally shot in their Edmonton home. He also entered guilty pleas to robbery, tampering with evidence and fleeing from police.

The 101st Airborne Division and the 2nd Brigade Combat Team will hold a memorial on Wednesday, the anniversary of the crash of a flight carrying 248 soldiers from Fort Campbell in 1985.

The memorial will be held at the post on the Tennessee-Kentucky state line on the 27th anniversary of the crash of Arrow Airlines Flight 1285 in Gander, Newfoundland, on Dec. 12, 1985.

A Kentucky sheriff who is offering his own reward money in hopes of solving three murder cases is being asked to turn over his information in one of the slayings.

Commonwealth's Attorney G.L. Ovey has filed a motion asking Trigg County Sheriff Ray Burnam to appear in court Wednesday and bring his file in the Chantell Humphries murder case.

Humphries' body was found on a Trigg County cattle farm a decade ago. A trial earlier this year ended in a mistrial.

A Daviess County family is planning to restore a cemetery that's the resting place for a Revolutionary War soldier who counted Thomas Jefferson among his friends.

Charles Evans tells the Messenger-Inquirer the plans are to set the tombstones back up in the family plot and to fence it off. Evans also plans to apply for a historical marker.

Evans' great-great-great-grandfather, Capt. Benjamin Field, is buried there. Field was commissioned as a captain in the American Revolution by Jefferson, who was governor of Virginia at the time.

The founder of USA Harvest is due in court later this month to answer to charges of stealing money from the charity for personal gain.  Stan Curtis of Louisville faces charges of mail fraud, money laundering and filing false income tax returns.

It's cases like this that angers Tammy Delaney who is with Elizabethtown-based Feeding America: Kentucky's Heartland.

"We're in the business to keep our name clean and help people and do the right thing with our funds," remarks Delaney.  "When that sort of thing happens, it can cause confusion and it can cause people to want to hang on to their dollars versus giving it sometimes.  That's just hard to overcome for non-profits in general."