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Apr 2nd, 2025 👍 4443

Jerrod Whelchel, a man from Mexico, was charged with Armed Criminal Action and Unlawful Use of Weapon—Exhibiting after he showed a handgun during a road rage incident on Highway 63 on Friday at 7:48 a.m. when a victim in a work van, who had his four-year-old in the car, reported that the driver sped alongside him near Paris Road.

Apr 2nd, 2025 👍 4932

Applications for the Boone County Senior Real Estate Tax Relief Program open today for residents 62 or older who did not apply last year and must be submitted with notarized forms—a deadline to apply is 5 p.m. on June 30 and forms can be sent online or dropped off at the Collector’s Office.

Apr 2nd, 2025 👍 4691

A Versailles woman was charged on Monday with four felony counts after she allegedly tried to kill her spouse by putting rat poison in lemonade in December and antifreeze in tea in January (no bond was set).

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