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🌱 How police responded to a reported graduation threat involving a Hazard teen
Hazard, Kentucky Patch AM: a 3 min readGood morning Hazard! We're back in your inbox this morning to keep you in the loop with what's happening in and around town. Grab a cup of coffee and read on. ☀️
In today's newsletter:
- How police responded to a reported graduation threat involving a Hazard teen
Also on today's calendar: Artistic Explorations and 5 more events.
Today's riddle: What did the carpenter ant say when he walked into the bar? 🤔 (Answer below!)
- Wednesday: Mostly sunny, with a high of 80 and low of 56 degrees.
- Thursday: Mostly sunny and warm, temps: high: 85, low: 63.
- Friday: Partly sunny and warm, with a high of 85 and low of 63 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• KSP: Man arrested after alleged threat tied to graduation (wymt.com) — A teenager from Hazard was arrested after Kentucky State Police investigated reports that he threatened to shoot his juvenile girlfriend and others at an eighth-grade graduation in Perry County. School officials alerted troopers before the event, and the suspect was later taken into custody and charged with second-degree terroristic threatening. 
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🗞 Nearby News
Cumberland
- Several arrests reported around the county during busy weekend (harlanenterprise.net)
- Russell County unemployment below 4 percent in April (lakercountry.com)
- FEMA approves assistance for 18 Ky. counties from January storm damage (kentuckytoday.com)
Martin
- Driver Licensing Regional Offices to close June 4-5 for system upgrade (mountaincitizen.com)
- Floyd man arrested after woman stabbed (mountain-topmedia.com)
- Nelcie Combs Obituary (mountaincitizen.com)
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-- The Patch AM Team
P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Is the bar tender here? (Thank you W. M. for sending it in!)
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