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Laurel County Sheriff’s deputies arrested a North Carolina man who was cursing at and threatening people with a tree limb in the parking lot of a north Corbin business Wednesday night. Michael W. Richardson, 52, of Ridgecrest, North Carolina, was charged with second-degree disorderly conduct, menacing and third-degree terroristic threatening. Deputy Gilbert Acciardo, the department’s public affairs officer, said K-9/Shift Sgt. Gary Mehler responded to the scene on West Cumberland Gap Pkwy. ...

London, KY, USA / SAM 103.9 FM WWEL | Todays Pop Hits Apr 23, 2021 12:26 PM Laurel County Sheriff John Root says Deputy Greg Poynter and K-9/Shift Sgt. Gary Mehler were called out to a business off Highway 490 where a possibly intoxicated man was causing a disturbance. While they were on their way they received another complaint about the same man saying he had indecently exposed himself to a woman and children from the railroad tracks in the area. Deputies found 45-year-old Anthony Wood of Eas...

London, KY, USA / SAM 103.9 FM WWEL | Todays Pop Hits Apr 14, 2021 11:40 AM The Laurel County Sheriff’s Office says K-9/Shift Sgt. Gary Mehler and Deputy Marcus Stigall  responded to a call of an abandoned car on McWhorter Road that was blocking traffic. When they arrived, they found the car in a blind curve with no lights on and no one in the front seat, but a four-year-old girl was in the back seat alone and crying. When deputies started to get into the car to get the child, a woman, later...

By Jarrod Mills Staff Writer Apr 8, 2021 Rep. Derek Lewis LAUREL COUNTY - A local state representative has had a jury trial scheduled in Laurel County District Court after being arrested and charged for operating a motor vehicle under the influence back in April of last year. Two months later, Derek Lewis, who represents Kentucky’s 90th District, pleaded not guilty to the single charge. Lewis was scheduled to stand trial back in September and October of last year, but they were...

London, KY, USA / SAM 103.9 FM WWEL | Todays Pop Hits Apr 7, 2021 11:09 AM Laurel County Sheriff John Root says K-9/shift Sgt. Gary Mehler was called out to a business off Keavy Road where a customer had left the car running while going into the business and saw a man get into the car attempting to back out. The car owner ran outside and grabbed the door handle breaking it off as the man drove the 2018 Chevrolet Spark out of the parking lot. The investigation led to 22-year-old Edgar Sizemore o...

London, KY, USA / SAM 103.9 FM WWEL | Todays Pop Hits Mar 10, 2021 12:03 PM Laurel County Sheriff John Root says K-9/Shift Sgt. Gary Mehler along with Deputy Hunter Disney, Deputy Dustin Saylor and Deputy Brent France were called out to a business parking lot off Highway 312 where two men were reportedly passed out in a vehicle. Deputies arrived to find 25-year-old Kylen Lovett of Barbourville and 37-year-old Christopher George of McKee apparently passed out in a car. Officers had to make seve...

An East Bernstadt man died Wednesday evening after striking a bridge underpass while driving his motorcycle.

London, KY, USA / SAM 103.9 FM WWEL | Todays Pop Hits Mar 1, 2021 12:12 PM Laurel County Sheriff John Root says deputies were called out to a home on Echo Valley Road where 44-year-old Freddy Humfleet allegedly beat a woman severely, causing the woman to have a miscarriage of a 10-week old fetus. Humfleet is accused of hitting the woman with a wooden board, choked her, and punched her leaving the woman with cuts and severe bruising. The woman showed police where she had buried the fetal remains...

LAUREL COUNTY — A London man was arrested Friday after it was reported a woman had a miscarriage caused by being severely beaten by the man.

London, KY, USA / SAM 103.9 FM WWEL | Todays Pop Hits Feb 24, 2021 12:09 PM Laurel County Sheriff John Root says K-9/Shift Sgt. Gary Mehler and Deputy Brent France made an arrest in a stolen vehicle case. It all started when a man left his truck to go into a business on US 25. When he returned the truck was gone, but a friend who was there and witnessed the theft went after the truck. The friend lost sight of the truck but later found it at a home off Old Slate Road. The owner called police and...