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By HAYLI MORRISON The Daily News Kenny Roy Miller, 42, pleaded guilty to murder and other charges in Warren Circuit Court on Wednesday, nine months after a federal appeals court overturned the life sentence Miller had received in a 1992 jury trial in the case. In exchange for his plea, Miller received a total recommended sentence of 28 years. Taking into account time already served, Miller will spend a maximum of 14 more years in jail, Warren County Attorney Chris Cohron said. The higher decision to overturn the sentence was based on the fact that a juror knew one of the key witnesses for the prosecution after having served time with her in Warren County Regional Jail. Warren Circuit Judge Steve Wilson, who prosecuted Miller as Warren County Attorney in the 1992 trial, said the Court of Appeals decided attorney, William Skaggs, was aware of the situation.

That awareness caused the court to rule counsel was ineffective. something that came Wilson said. was known from the beginning and during the Miller would have faced a new trial in the case later this year, but instead pleaded guilty to murder, attempted murder, first- degree burglary and being a persistent felony offender. sides obviously had a lot to lose if this proceeded to Cohron said, adding that Miller could have faced another life sentence and prosecutors risked having to let a dangerous man go free. Roy Miller is considered one of the most dangerous men ever to come through Warren Cohron said.

could- run the risk of him getting charges were based on an Oct. 13, 1990, incident in which he entered the apartment of Leon Gray and fatally shot the man and also fired one shot to the head of Linda Cline, who survived. Cline has since died in an automobile accident and the loss of her testimony would have made it more difficult to prosecute Miller, Cohron said. obviously would have caused us some difficulty with the star witness being he said. (other) witnesses were uncooperative during the first trial and memories fade, and we felt we did not want to run the risk of Mr.

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Jeff Forgy said. going to ride it KENNYROYMILLER Pleads guilty to murder By JIM GAINES The Daily News The Medical Center is buying two adjacent pieces of property along U.S. 31-WBy-Pass, and will clear the buildings to prepare for an as-yet- undetermined use. The hospital is buying Travel Inn, 409 U.S. 31-W By-Pass, and the building next door at 411 U.S.

31- WBy-Pass, which houses Oriental Grocery, from Bowling Green residents Ravchand and Laxmi actually have not purchased the property said Doris Thomas, vice president of marketing for Commonwealth Health Corporation, the nonprofit entity that owns The Medical Center. have entered into a purchase agreement with the current owner and will probably take possession in The Medical Center already owns property on three sides of the site, she said. The main entrance is now off the bypass, so an area of considerable interest for any expansion of The Medical Center. have any current plans for the property, other than to make it into a nice grassy area, and then have it for future Thomas said. Last week, workers removed furniture and fittings from Travel rooms.

The building is now thoroughly stripped and ready for demolition. Ravchand Patel said that about 10 or 15 hotel guests were given notice that they had to be out within a day or so. The properties are valued at a total of $619,000 for property tax purposes, a figure which is usually lower than market price. Hospital to buy hotel By GREG WELLS The Daily News BROWNSVILLE Construction is about to begin on the $1.6 million sewer project in Edmonson County, just across the Green River from Brownsville, and there is word of more work to come. Nelson Sanders, manager of the Edmonson County Water District, said the project will establish a local collection and pumping system for the sewage from the businesses and homes across the river to the sewer plant.

be serving 55 new customers to Sanders said. is our first sewer project out in the Funding came from a $1.5 million state infrastructure grant and a $100,000 loan from the U.S. Department of Rural Development Program. Nelson Sanders added that Sen. Richie Sanders, R-Franklin, worked hard on the project funding.

feel like Richie has gone way beyond the call of duty, helping us get this project Nelson Sanders said. Richie Sanders moved to Franklin a few years ago from his home in Edmonson County. Especially important, Nelson Sanders added, was the additional $500,000 in state funding the senator was able to secure for the project during the last session of the General Assembly, when the project was in desperate need of the additional funding. Richie Sanders deflected praise and the applause of the 40 or so people gathered Wednesday for the ground breaking. He said many people helped move the project forward.

He drew a comparison to a recent trip made out West. giant redwood trees have amazingly shallow he said, adding that the massive trees are able to weather the storms because their roots spread out and intertwine with the other trees, locking them all together. is what you have he explained, saying that the cooperation between the city, county, state and federal leaders in this area is what has lead to the strengthening of the area through this and other projects to come. The additional wastewater load of this expansion will bring the sewage treatment plant to about 60 percent capacity, said Tim Houchin, mayor of Brownsville. He said the plant was built in the and will be able to take this increase without difficulty, but the expansion being suggested toward Chalybeate will be more than that plant will be able to accommodate.

Houchin said that if such an expansion progresses, then a new sewer plant may have to be in the works for the city. When they were in the early stages of planning a sewer expansion, the fastest expansion was north of the river and that was why this project was the first to come in, Nelson Sanders said. Now, he explained, growth is spreading south, toward the Chalybeate area. looked at about a $5 million project in the south of the he said. already received a $960,000 grant to begin that There are concerns about the pressure they would be putting on the sewage plant.

looking at working with the city to see if it is feasible to (expand their Nelson Sanders said. would be advantageous to us for them to expand their The project they are just now beginning, though, was the focus of discussion at the gathering. is a major project for this said Edmonson County Judge-Executive N.E. Reed. Reed said this project has been six years coming, and that the hope is to serve the sewer needs as well as the district does the water needs, serving 98 percent of all homes.

And this infrastructure expansion is not a simple process of trenching in a few pipes, in this hilly, rocky county. is not like putting in a water Nelson Sanders said. He suggested that the trench may be 13 feet deep in places in order to stay on grade, since sewage is gravity flow, rather than pressure fed. He also mentioned the rock quarry just down the road, indicating that blasting for the pipeline will likely be necessary. Louis B.

Robbins, engineer for the firm designing and overseeing the project, GRW, Elrod and Dunson, said this project will involve direct boring beneath the river to get to the sewage to the plant, on the other side. The design uses relatively new polyethylene piping, which has fused joints and is therefore much less likely to leak, he said, adding that the only disadvantage to such pipe is that it is lighter than water, so even full it would float in the river if not bored in deeply enough to prevent it. The project involving just under two miles of piping, two sewage pumping stations and driving the pipe beneath the river is planned for completion late fall this year, Nelson Sanders said. by December well have everybody connected, and be cleaning he added. Edmonson starts sewer project By HAYLI MORRISON The Daily News Butler County High football field will feature an extra yard line painted in blue this season.

The blue stripe will mark the 4-yard-line, in memory of No. 4, Dallas Alexander Foster, who died Tuesday morning in a single-vehicle crash on Flint Springs Road in Butler County. Foster, 16, of Rochester was northbound at about 2:20 a.m. when the vehicle dropped off the left shoulder and Foster overcorrected, according to the Butler County Department. vehicle skidded about 125 feet across the road and hit an embankment, then flipped several times as it crossed the road again, according to the accident report.

Foster was not wearing a seat belt, nor was a passenger, 18-year-old Micheal Johnson of Morgantown. Both teens were thrown from the vehicle. Johnson was uninjured and Foster was pronounced dead at the scene. foot got caught in the vehicle, causing him to be dragged, according to Butler County Sheriff Kenneth Morris. Johnson told officers he and Foster had been drinking alcohol at a home before the accident, but no alcohol was found in or around the vehicle, Morris said.

determine for sure if there was alcohol involved until the preliminary comes back on the Morris said. Foster, a rising junior who played last season offensively and defensively for both the junior varsity and varsity teams, was a candidate for varsity quarterback this year, according to School Resource Officer John Ford, who helped coach the football teams. was a player who showed a lot of potential and had improved a Ford said. was a wonderful person. He had a smile every time you saw him.

He was just a good, big-hearted Foster also played on the Bears basketball team. Members of the football team, who recently concluded two-a-day practices with Foster by their side, met today with counselors on hand. All players will wear number on their helmets throughout the season to remember their former classmate. was a great kid. He had a great work ethic he was going to a speed clinic this summer to get said Bears football coach Robert Tuck.

went that extra mile and the same in the classroom. We expected great things from him and be greatly Butler County football marks passing.