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Cows are still being rounded up after getting loose from a farm in western Kentucky.
Lyon County Sheriff Kent Murphy says 63 cows from Millikan Farms smashed through a gate Thursday night and poured onto Kentucky 373, prompting a state “open range warning.” Murphy says makeshift wranglers had found most of them by Friday morning, but they were still searching for more than a dozen.
Murphy says the cows may have been spooked by gusty winds.
He says neighbors on horseback helped the owners round them up.
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PADUCAH — Chad Toy’s escape from jail wasn’t what shocked his jailers; it was his plea to be let back in.
“When I rang the bell at the jail and told them who I was, they were surprised,” Toy told The Paducah Sun newspaper. “I guess they haven’t seen that before.”
Toy, 21, was in the McCracken County Regional Jail in western Kentucky awaiting trial on charges stemming from a July home invasion. He’s also serving a four-year sentence for theft.
Officials said he escaped early Monday while on a cleanup detail in the lobby. He bolted after a guard unlocked the front doors to clean trash from a breezeway.
But Toy returned that afternoon, wet and covered with grime. He told authorities his sister had persuaded him to surrender because his family feared for his safety.
Jailer Bill Adams said he doubts Toy’s account. He thinks the escapee spent his brief liberty hiding beside the Tennessee River.
Adams said it was the first time in his 14 years as a deputy and jailer that he’s seen an escaped convict willingly return.
Toy told the newspaper, “It was a spur of the moment decision. I saw an open door and just ran through it.”
He added, “I am sorry about what I did. If I had it to do over again, I would have never run out the door.”
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WEST LIBERTY — Kentucky State Police say a man who escaped from an eastern Kentucky jail last month will face murder charges if he survives a bullet wound.
Police received a call about shots being fired at a residence Monday morning in Morgan County.
Trooper Ralph Lockard says the suspect was gone when they arrived but they learned that the man had taken one of the residents, Melissa Patrick, against her will.
Lockard says the 38-year-old Patrick was fatally shot by Robin Maple, who was also shot. Maple is in critical condition at the University of Kentucky Hospital. Lockard says police have not determined how Maple, who has a child with Patrick, was shot.
Lockard says Maple faces murder, kidnapping and other charges if he survives.
Maple escaped from the Montgomery County Jail in October.
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