EDGEWOOD — A Fort Mitchell man has been accused of breaking into an Edgewood home last week and raping an acquaintance.

        Paul Armstrong, 32, of the 100 block of Grace Court in Fort Mitchell is charged with first-degree rape, second-degree burglary and alcohol intoxication. He is being held at the Kenton County Detention Center on a $50,000 bond. Edgewood Police Chief Tony Kramer said Mr. Armstrong broke into an Edgewood home at 3:30 a.m. Friday and sexually assaulted a 57-year-old woman. He said the two knew each other, but were not dating.

        Neighbors heard screams and called police. But before a squad car arrived, the woman also called police to report that she had been assaulted.

        An officer with the Crestview Hills/Lakeside Park Police Authority arrested Mr. Armstrong near the home a short time later.

        A preliminary hearing in the case is scheduled at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, before Kenton County District Judge Douglas Grothaus.

Henry County will stop shooting dogs

        NEW CASTLE - Henry County will euthanize stray dogs by lethal injection for now instead of shooting them after recent public attention focused on the practice.

        “All the calls I got, that's what they want,” Magistrate John Allgeier said of his constituents. “They think it's inhumane and cruel.”

        Judge-Executive Tommy Bryant said the county disposed of its unwanted strays by shooting them until Tuesday.

        The county fiscal court decided Tuesday night to use lethal injection for two months while it re-examines its policy, Mr. Allgeier said.

        Fiscal court members made their decision at a standing-room-only meeting.

        Henry County resident Mike Crowe has been videotaping the county's animal shelter every day for two months from a friend's land.

        Mr. Crowe said he has seen dogs live after being shot, only to be mistaken for dead and thrown onto a pile of carcasses.

        State law allows animal control workers to dispose of unwanted strays in a humane manner. And a Kentucky attorney general's opinion found that killing dogs by shooting them does not constitute cruelty as long as the animals die instantly, said William E. Smith, program coordinator for the Kentucky Dog Law program, which is part of the state's agricultural commission.

        Though attention is focused on Henry County, dog pounds in other counties also kill dogs by shooting them, said Eric Blow, director of Jefferson County Animal Control and Protection.

Paper seeks files in diocese suit

        LEXINGTON - A lawyer for the Lexington Herald-Leader said records in a sex-abuse lawsuit against the Catholic dioceses of Lexington and Covington should be unsealed.

        The newspaper is challenging the sealing of records in the lawsuit. It filed the challenge Monday and a supporting memorandum Tuesday in Fayette Circuit Court. A hearing is scheduled for Friday.

        Robert F. Houlihan Jr., the newspaper's lawyer, said the records should be unsealed because of the news media's rights under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution to gather and report the news.

        Last week, in keeping with Judge Mary Noble's preliminary order, plaintiffs' attorney Robert Treadway filed a motion to keep the case sealed.

        However, Mr. Treadway said Tuesday he does not object to the Herald-Leader's desire to keep the records open as long as the plaintiffs' identities remain confidential in a “John and Jane Doe” case.

        John Famularo, the attorney for the Lexington diocese, said he could not comment on the Herald-Leader's motion because of the preliminary order to seal the case. Kurt Philipps, the Covington diocese's attorney, could not be reached for comment.

        Mr. Treadway filed the lawsuit May 30.

        It alleges that when the plaintiffs were minors, they were sexually abused by priests who have worked for both dioceses.

        Catholic churches in the Lexington area were part of the Covington diocese until 1988, when the Lexington diocese was created.

Louisville smog violations investigated

        LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The Jefferson County Air Pollution Control District will investigate what caused the Louisville metropolitan area to surpass a federal smog standard.

        Under an air-quality-maintenance agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the district will investigate the source of Monday's high smog reading at the Shepherdsville monitoring station in Bullitt County. It will determine whether additional pollution-control measures should be enacted.

        The review will determine if smog-causing pollutants came from inside or outside the metro area. Results could take several weeks.

Neighborhood bans sales of booze

        LOUISVILLE - Voters in the Toonerville neighborhood chose to ban the sale of alcohol in their precinct.

        Unofficial results in Tuesday night's vote showed 144 favored the ban and 39 opposed it.

        The ban will take effect within 60 days, after Jefferson County and the state certify the vote, said Deputy Commissioner Dan Gahafer of the Kentucky Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control.

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