Kentucky’s jobless rate drops to 10.4 percent in May

Posted by John Humphress on Jun 17, 2010

FRANKFORT, Ky.  — Kentucky’s seasonally adjusted preliminary unemployment rate fell to 10.4 percent in May 2010 from a revised 10.6 percent in April 2010, according to the Office of Employment and Training (OET), an agency of the Kentucky Education and Workforce Development Cabinet.

Preacher charged with sex crimes

Posted by John Humphress on Jun 14, 2010

(Columbia, KY.) – 42-year-old Carlos Mendez-Almendra of 2227 Cane Valley Road in Columbia has been indicted in Taylor and Adair Counties for sex crimes.   Mendez-Almendra was indicted by the Taylor County Grand Jury for First Degree Sexual Abuse and Intimidating a Witness and by the Adair County Grand Jury for First Degree Rape and Sexual misconduct in related cases.

The investigation is on-going and the indictments are the result of complaints filed in mid April of this year.  Mendez-Almendra was the preacher at a Spanish speaking church, Apostoles Prophetas, on Ky 531 in Adair County. The church has been closed.  Detective B.J. Burton is investigating.