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KSP CHECKPOINTS ANNOUNCED FOR JULY, 2024
ASHLAND, Ky. (July 1, 2024) – The Kentucky State Police, Ashland Post 14, which provides coverage for Boyd, Carter, Lawrence and Carter counties, will be conducting periodic traffic safety checkpoints approved by the Kentucky State Police Policy and Procedures Manual. These checkpoints will be conducted in an effort to enforce the traffic laws of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Special attention will be paid to seatbelt usage, sobriety, insurance and registration violations.
Smith pleads not guilty in 104 crash that killed four
PORTSMOUTH- A Piketon man pleaded not guilty Monday on dozens of charges connected to the May vehicle crash deaths of a mother and three children. On Friday, May 24, Gage Smith, 22, was behind the wheel of a 1998 Chevrolet Cavalier alleged to have crossed left of center to pass another vehicle. Smith’s vehicle then hit a pickup truck southbound on Ohio 104 in Morgan Township. He is also alleged to have been driving impaired when he lost control trying to pass another northbound vehicle.
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