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“I’m a recovering addict, but I’ve been sober seven years,” said Will Smoot, standing before more than 150 of his neighbors, family, friends and strangers last week.
The crowd broke into applause.

Smoot started to speak, but had to choke back tears as he told of his downward spiral into heroin addiction; a story that he had never publicly shared.

Joan Mead, the 85-year-old woman who was charged with 11 counts of animal cruelty after police and animal control officers seized nearly a dozen animals from her Grant County property is in trouble again in Kenton County.

Kenton County Animal Control officers removed 11 Pomeranians from a home owned by Mead in Latonia after executing a search warrant of her property on Sept. 20.
The animals were in poor health and infested with fleas.

The former band director at Grant County High School and his wife, the former band director at Grant County Middle School, have both been indicted by a Grant County grand jury on Sept. 18.
Kenneth David Owens, 34, is charged with two counts of sexual abuse and tampering with a witness.
JoAnn Owens, 32, was indicted for two counts of tampering with a witness.
Both charges are Class D felonies.
David Owens is accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a former student at GCHS. The contact occurred in 2011 when the girl was 16 years old.

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