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READERS SUBMIT FIRST DAY OF GET YOUR BALLOT SCHOOL PHOTOS, A8-10 INSIDE! Sports editor says California law hits new level of insanity, B1 TheTThehe AndersonAAndersonnderson NewsNNewsews Setting standards of excellence since 1877 Lawrenceburg, Kentucky Wednesday, August 21, 2013 75 cents Man stabbed in Walmart parking lot Sunday afternoon in the renceburg man Michael serious injuries, police said, Sunday afternoon when he 28-year-old man Walmart parking lot, several Aaron Joseph, 28, 1777 Bypass and as of Monday afternoon, saw Joseph, who had been witnesses told South, for first degree assault Washington was recuperat- shopping with his wife at arrested, charged with city police. after he stabbed Cedric ing from surgery in the hos- Walmart. Then one of Washington, 29, of Lawrence- pital. The two men started talk- first degree assault the men yelled burg once in the stomach According to Lt. Mike ing in the parking lot, not too By Meaghan Downs that he’d been with a small hunting knife Schell of the Lawrenceburg far away from the grocery News staff stabbed and to in the Walmart parking lot. police department, Wash- entrance of the store. call 911. Washington was trans- ington said he had finished Washington’s girlfriend The two men looked like City police ported to the University of eating at Subway with his buddies catching up on a arrested Law- Joseph Kentucky medical center for girlfriend around 4:30 p.m. See ASSAULT, Page A2 WELCOME BACK, ANDERSON COUNTY STUDENTS! Man saves grandson, gets run over by tractor Best airlifted for serious injuries in accident on Wooldridge Spur By Meaghan Downs News staff A Lawrenceburg man pushed his two-year-old grandson out of the way before being run over by a trac- tor on Wooldridge Spur last Friday evening. According to the Anderson County sheriff’s office, 57-year-old Bobby Best and 53-year-old Robert Riley, both of Lawrenceburg, were working on Best’s property on Wool- dridge Spur Road at about 7:30 p.m., attempting to get a tractor to start while Best’s two-year-old grandson watched nearby. Photo by Bria Granville See TRACTOR, Page A2 Car riders make their way outside last week at the end of the second day of school at Anderson County Middle School. Although the school board won’t finalize its overall budget until September, individual school councils already know how much they’ll receive through the board’s annual allotment for classrooms, office supplies, technology and other school expenses. Woman According to Finance Officer How much See how district’s site-based Nick Clark, site-based decision mak- councils plan to use annual funds ing councils, commonly referred to indicted for by the shorthand acronym SBDM, will your By Meaghan Downs compile their own school budgets at News staff the end of every school year. As the school board finalizes its Each school receives a certain receiving $44K school spend budget in September — and sets a allotment (known as Section 6 fund- new tax rate in the meantime — ing according to Kentucky state stat- individual Anderson County schools ute) from the Board of Education in benefits this year? already know how much money based on enrollment numbers and By Meaghan Downs they’ll be able to spend this school a percentage of Support Education News staff year. See SCHOOLS, Page A12 A Lawrenceburg woman was indicted by the Anderson Grand Jury on Aug. 6 for allegedly giving false information to receive about $44,000 in public assistance benefits Police chief conducts ‘internal investigation’ from the Cabinet for Health and Family Services. Amy G. Moore, 32, of 201 Lynn after cops allegedly omit drug bust evidence Drive, was charged with two counts of false statements and misrepre- By Meaghan Downs dismissed involving Bixler. in this case.” sentations in order to receive public and Ben Carlson cocaine “I’m deeply concerned Atkins said in a phone assistance benefits, a Class D felony. News staff traffick- that critical information, interview last Friday According to the Anderson Grand City Police Chief Chris ing charges really exculpatory infor- morning that he is current- Jury indictment, Moore allegedly Atkins said an internal against Law- mation in favor of the ly looking into the “whole made false statements between May investigation is being renceburg defendant, was omitted realm” of what happened 2010 and December 2012 to receive conducted after two city man Shanta purposely by the police in the courtroom last Mon- $40,266.04 in Medicaid benefits from cops allegedly withheld Bixler, 31, Atkins department,” Hickman said day, as well as the officers’ the Cabinet for Health and Family evidence during a cocaine of 505 East last Monday before dis- conflicting testimonies Services. drug bust. Woodford missing cocaine trafficking about the unreported traf- Moore also allegedly misrepre- Circuit Court Judge Street, after learning city charges against Bixler. fic stop. sented her qualifications for public Charles Hickman recently cops failed to include infor- “A grave miscarriage of See COPS, Page A3 See INDICT, Page A2 mation about a traffic stop justice could have occurred www.theandersonnews.com Index Weekend Forecast Like us Vol. 136 No. 19 • Two sections Friday: Partly cloudy. High: on Facebook! Calendar ........................A15 Opinion ........................A4-5 Lower 80s. Low: Upper 50s. Classifieds ....................B5-6 Real Estate ...................B8-9 Saturday: Mostly sunny. High: Lower 80s. Low: Upper 50s. Court .............................A11 Society ..........................A15 Sunday: Partly cloudy. High: You could Faith ..............................A14 Sports ..........................B1-4 Mid-80s. Low: Lower 60s. win an online Obituaries .......................A6 Way We Were ................A11 subscription! A2 Wednesday, August 21, 2013 The Anderson News FROM THE FRONT Were you at Walmart ASSAULT Sunday afternoon? Continued from Page A1 Lt. Mike Schell asks anyone who was walking to her may have witnessed the Wal- vehicle and Joseph’s mart assault Sunday afternoon wife was waiting in the to call the Lawrenceburg police car as the men engaged department at 502-839-5125 in casual conversation, and ask for either Lt. Schell or Schell said. Det. Jeremy Cornish. The victim told police that one minute he was talking with made its way to the Joseph, who Washing- scene, Schell said. ton considered to be a City police requested friend. the assistance of a “Then all of a sud- Kentucky State Police den [Washington] sees a K-9 unit to track down knife come at him and Joseph, and the Ander- he gets stabbed,” Schell son County sheriff’s said. office also assisted with Several witnesses the search. said at first it looked Schell said he went as though Washington to a Bypass South got punched, but then address to speak with Washington yelled that Joseph’s family, and he’d been stabbed and found Joseph there for someone to call 911. about an hour after the Photo furnished Schell and Det. assault. Pictured, from left, are Kentucky Blood Center phlebotomist Alex Bellot and blood donor Kim Wright during last week’s Jeremy Cornish of Joseph, who Schell blood drive held at the First Baptist Church. the city police depart- said cooperated with ment responded to the police, said he and scene Aug. 18 and were Washington had dis- told by witnesses that agreed in the past in Lawrenceburg gives back in blood drive Joseph had taken off Franklin County. on foot into the field Schell said the exact From staff reports Kentucky Blood Center, between the Anderson cause of the assault is The Kentucky Blood presented a $100 gift County community still unclear, and the Center reported in a card to Jana Terrell, park and Walmart. incident remains under news release that 76 who won the gift card Washington, who was investigation by city people registered to at the blood drive. still conscious and lying police. give blood in a recent A Kentucky Blood in the parking lot, was Joseph was arrested blood drive held Aug. Center bloodmobile able to identify the sus- and charged with first 13 at First Baptist will be at the Law- pect for police, Schell degree assault, but may Church. renceburg Walmart on said. face additional charges, Frank Rowe, chair- Aug. 24 from 10 a.m. to A nurse shopping at Schell said. man of the Anderson 2 p.m. All donors will Walmart was able to County Community receive a T-shirt, event assist with Washing- Comment at thean- Blood Drive for the organizers said. ton’s injuries as EMS dersonnews.com. copter to the University of Kentucky Medical TRACTOR Center. Continued from Page A1 Robbie Best, Bobby’s son, said his father The John Deere trac- broke his pelvis, ribs, tor, still in gear, lunged sternum and shoulder forward unexpectedly in Friday’s accident. Photo furnished as the men were work- Robbie Best said as Pictured, from left, are Frank Rowe, chairman of the Ander- ing on it. of Monday afternoon, son County Community blood drive for the Kentucky Blood Best managed to his father was sedated, push his two-year-old Penny Burke holds up a T-shirt for donating blood at the Center, and Jana Terrell, who won a $100 gift card during but stable and respon- Kentucky Blood Center’s drive held last week. grandson to safety sive. the drive. before the tractor Riley was arrested rolled over Best, accord- for outstanding war- ing to the sheriff’s rants unrelated to the office. tractor accident, the CASA kids’ golf scramble set for Saturday “From as much as sheriff’s office stated in we can gather, [Best] a news release. From staff reports lunch starts at 11:30 a.m. door prizes. You do not release. “Be a champion pushed his grandson The Anderson The fourth annual and consists of smoked have to be present to for abused and neglect- out of the way,” Deputy County sheriff’s office, Champions for CASA pork loin, slaw and win.