As we get ready for June it will continue to feel more like summer, we’ll have forecast details in a few.
Trooper Island Camp was developed by the Kentucky State Police in 1965 and has served kids across the state since then. KSP Post 13 Trooper Matt Gayheart said they still have a few spots left for kids, ages 10 to 12, to apply to join them at Trooper Island. The camp is at Dale Hollow Lake from June 10 until the 14, and the application is still open. ” It’s a really fun place to be, and the kids really enjoy it. It is a 32-acre island in Clinton County where they can just free roam and have a great time. We do some fishing and kayaking and all kinds of other fun activities,” Gayheart said.
New data from the CDC shows that overdose deaths are dropping nationwide, down three percent from December of 2022 to December of 2023. In Kentucky, those tragedies have reduced by nearly eight percent, well out-pacing the national average. But the latest CDC data indicates both Kentucky and the country may be turning a corner. Kentucky’s Office for Drug Control Policy is set to release its own annual data on overdoses in June. The state also has a new website called findnaloxone.ky.gov to help people in need of Narcan with finding it.
A man from Johnson County is behind bars after his girlfriend reportedly found sexual photos and videos of her 14-year-old daughter on his phone. 45-year-old Jason Ryan Campbell of Hager Hill was arrested Friday afternoon on charges of promoting a minor in a sexual performance, video voyeurism and sex offender videoing a minor without consent. The woman said she had taken Campbell’s phone and handed it over to police, who got a search warrant. On the phone, they said they found a hidden folder containing hundreds of pictures and videos of young girls, including the woman’s daughter. Moreover, there were also other pictures of girls walking around the trailer park where he lives taken from a distance. This isn’t Campbell’s first brush with the law, he was previously convicted of first-degree sexual abuse of a 12-year-old in Floyd County back in 2010 and given a five-year suspended sentence. Kentucky State Police and the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office then went to arrest him and found him shirtless with two young boys in the home. They also found him with a broken phone, which one of the boys said he broke when police started to come inside. He’s being held in the Big Sandy Regional Detention Center on a $10,000 bond.
(Jason Ryan Campbell)
State police from Post 9 in Pikeville executed a search warrant at a Pike County man’s home and found what they described as a large amount of meth, fentanyl, and crack cocaine. 42-year-old Chris Springfield was arrested and charged with trafficking meth and cocaine and aggravated trafficking of fentanyl. He’s in the Pike County Detention Center on a 10,000 bond.
(Chris Springfield)
Hero’s walk among us every day, and most of the time we don’t realize it until they’re called on. This particular one doesn’t wear a cape, she’s a food service worker at Evarts Elementary School in Harlan Kentucky. Her name is Lexie Adkins and on May 10th, it was like any other Friday, until an aid brought a choking child to her, a small Kindergarten child who was already turning purple. Adkins said there was no time to think, only seconds to act, and she did just that, and a brief flash of what she said was, “ok, this is really going on.” Adkins said from the second she saw the child choking there was no time to strategize or think, only time to do. Lexie saved the child using a device called Life-vac, something she was trained to do at the start of the school year. Training that food service director Jack Miniard said paid off. An act that saved a young child’s life, and this humble woman simply felt it was a part of her job. Leslie Adkins is a hero. She was honored with the Superintendent’s teamwork award.
(Lexie Adams)