www.middlesborodailynews.com Saturday, October 8, 2011 Serving the Tri-State community Printed on 100% Recycled Newsprint 14 Pages, 50¢ INSIDE Three car accident, 2 drivers flown out for treatment BY ANTHONY CLOUD Staff Writer PINEVILLE — A three car accident occurred Thursday evening in front of Pineville Hospital that resulted in injuries for two people. According to Pineville police, Christopher Law- son, driving a white mini-van, was headed north- bound on Hwy. 25E when he crossed into the south- bound lane. He collided with Bobby Baker head-on, who was headed southbound. Baker was driving a Nissan Versa. Jameson Frye was traveling behind Baker when, in an attempt to miss the Versa, swerved out of the way and hit the mini-van. Frye was driving a black Geo Tracker. Bobcats blank Baker was flown to UT Hospital from the scene of the accident. Lawson was transported to the Clay; Lions win; Pineville Emergency Room and later flown out to losses for UK Hospital. Frye was sent to the Pineville ER, MHS & CG where he was treated. — Pages 10, 11 & 14 There are currently no reports on the condition of Lawson or Baker. YOUR Anthony Cloud is a staff writer for the Middlesboro Daily News. He can be contacted via e-mail at [email protected]. COMMUNITY EMILY GREENE | Middlesboro Daily News Judge lowers bond Fed grant to buy, demolish 26 homes in Pikeville on eastern PIKEVILLE, Ky. ed a $2.5 million grant ing the homes to be elated to receive this transfers, these proper- KY pastor (AP) — More than two to Kentucky to buy 26 greater than 50 percent money from FEMA and ties will be demolished dozen homes in eastern homes in the Raccoon of the market value. finally the agency has HARLAN, Ky. — A Kentucky will be pur- Creek area of Pike The grant comes from realized it is time to stop and forever dedicated to judge lowered the bond chased and residents County. one of two applications relocating people back being bare land. for an eastern Kentucky relocated after two Homes in that area from Pike County. The into a flood plain." pastor charged with floods struck the area in were most recently hit other application, which Property owners "This is so exciting," committing sex acts with recent years. by flooding in May is for the 2010 flood, is included in this mitiga- Pike County Housing a girl younger than 14- Pike County Judge 2009. still under review. tion grant voluntarily years-old. Executive Wayne T. Rutherford said "I think most people chose to have their Authority Executive Harlan County Spe- Rutherford said the Fed- FEMA inspected the will agree that is a wise homes purchased by Director Gaye Newsome cial Judge James Bowl- eral Emergency Man- structures and deter- way to spend money," Pike County. Upon com- ing on Thursday lowered agement Agency award- mined the cost of repair- Rutherford said. "We are pletion of property said. pastor Jeremy Caraway's bond so that he could be released after posting $5,000 instead of having Scenes from the 2011 to pay $50,000 in cash. Caraway, who had been pastor at Loyall Church of God, was charged in July with Appalachian Crafts Fair nine counts, including second-degree rape and first-degree sexual CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: abuse. John Hendrickson sits and works on a new His attorney, Linda hand crafted wood carving. West, told the Harlan Daily Enterprise that Charlie Nagle assist a customer. Caraway's family left Joe and Tammy Beason set their craft tent up Harlan County because on the front side of the Pineville Court for sell- of threats after the ing a variety of products. charges were filed. Caraway pleaded not Mickey Wilder performs in front of a group of guilty at arraignment in young people as the Appalachian Craft Fair August. gets underway. ___ ANTHONY CLOUD| Middlesboro Daily News Information from: Harlan Daily Enterprise Mine worker killed in eastern Kentucky FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — State mining officials are investigat- ing a mining fatality in Letcher County in east- ern Kentucky. The state Energy and Environment Cabinet says 23-year-old Richard Coots Jr. was killed about 2 a.m. EDT Friday while repairing a conveyor chain that had broken. The state says Coots crawled under a mobile bridge that fell, pinning him underneath. Coots was an electri- cian/repairman who worked for Owlco Ener- gy LLC. Investigators from the state Office of Mine Safety and Licensing will interview others who were working in the mine when Coots was killed. The mine remains closed until the investi- gation is complete. www.middlesborodailynews.com PAGE 2 THE DAILY NEWS |SATURDAY | OCTOBER 8, 2011 Today's Weather TODAY IN BRIEF Local 5-Day Forecast Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed — National News — 10/8 10/9 10/10 10/11 10/12 Feds announce commercial operations." He said that Calif. pot dispensary includes farmland where marijuana is being grown. crackdown Groups ask fed court to halt Ala. 83/47 82/52 81/56 74/56 75/54 SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Sunshine. Highs in Mostly sunny. Highs Partly cloudy. Highs Showers possible. Chance of showers. Federal prosecutors in California are immigration law the low 80s and lows in the low 80s and in the low 80s and Highs in the mid 70s Highs in the mid 70s ordering dozens of medical marijuana in the upper 40s. lows in the low 50s. lows in the mid 50s. and lows in the mid and lows in the mid dispensaries to shut down in 45 days and ATLANTA (AP) — A coalition of 50s. 50s. warning their owners and landlords they immigrant support groups has asked a face criminal charges or seizure of their federal appeals court to block enforce- Sunrise Sunset Sunrise Sunset Sunrise Sunset Sunrise Sunset Sunrise Sunset assets if they do not comply. ment of Alabama's new immigration law. 7:36 AM 7:09 PM 7:37 AM 7:07 PM 7:38 AM 7:06 PM 7:38 AM 7:04 PM 7:39 AM 7:03 PM The state's four U.S. attorneys The coalition said it filed the petition announced at a Sacramento news confer- to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ence Friday that they have stepped up in Atlanta several hours after the federal efforts to curtail both marijuana cultiva- government filed its challenge. tion and retail sales of pot conducted The filing said the new law has under the cover of California's 15-year- brought "chaos" to Alabama. It was old medical marijuana law. brought by a coalition that includes the Kentucky At A Glance U.S. Attorney Benjamin Wagner, who American Civil Liberties Union and the represents California's Central Valley, Southern Poverty Law Center. said not all of the thousands of storefront Alabama's law is considered by many pot dispensaries thought to be operating to be the toughest immigration law in the in the state are being targeted. U.S. It allows authorities to detain people Louisville Instead, federal officials are initially suspected of being in the country illegal- going after pot shops located close to ly and lets officials check the immigra- 83/53 Frankfort schools, parks, sports fields and other tion status of students in public schools. places where there are a lot of children State officials say the law is needed to 81/46 and what Wagner termed "significant protect the jobs of legal residents. Lexington Paducah 80/49 — World News — 82/50 Israel arrests to remain silent, Keidar said. Bowling Green suspect in mosque In August, Israeli authorities barred 83/49 him from going to the settlement, he arson added. The suspect was one of 12 people Middlesboro served administrative orders on suspi- JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police cion of planning violent attacks against 83/47 said Thursday they have arrested a sus- Palestinians. pect in a mosque burning that sparked In Monday's attack, the assailants Area Cities violent protests in an Arab village earlier scrawled the words "price tag" on the City Hi Lo Cond. City Hi Lo Cond. City Hi Lo Cond. this week. mosque — a reference to a Jewish settler Ashland 81 47 sunny Glasgow 82 45 sunny Murray 83 51 sunny Police gave few details about the sus- tactic of attacking Palestinian targets to Bowling Green 83 49 sunny Hopkinsville 82 48 sunny Nashville, TN 82 50 sunny pect, but his lawyer identified him as an protest government activities against set- Cincinnati, OH 83 51 sunny Knoxville, TN 80 47 sunny Owensboro 83 49 sunny 18-year-old seminary student with ties to tlements. Authorities periodically dis- Corbin 80 45 sunny Lexington 80 49 sunny Paducah 82 50 sunny one of the most hardline Jewish settle- mantle illegally built structures in the Covington 82 53 sunny Louisville 83 53 sunny Pikeville 82 52 sunny ments in the West Bank. West Bank. Cynthiana 82 47 sunny Madisonville 84 50 sunny Prestonsburg 80 47 sunny Monday's arson attack in Tuba- The West Bank has experienced a Danville 80 47 sunny Mayfield 84 50 sunny Richmond 81 48 sunny Zangria, a Bedouin village in northern jump in settler violence, including arson Elizabethtown 82 48 sunny Middlesboro 83 47 sunny Russell Springs 81 46 sunny Israel, set off a protest that were dis- and graffiti attacks on mosques and van- Evansville, IN 84 52 sunny Morehead 79 46 sunny Somerset 79 45 sunny persed by police. The blaze damaged car- dalism of Palestinian farmland. The Frankfort 81 46 sunny Mount Vernon 79 46 sunny Winchester 80 49 sunny pets and interior walls inside the mosque, arson attack was a rare case of settler vio- and Israeli media said copies of the lence inside Israel proper.