EXCLUSIVE: University Of Kentucky Offers To Violate State Law To Trans Kids — Changes Tune When Reporter Notices
EXCLUSIVE: University Offers To Violate State Law To Trans Kids — Quickly Changes Tune When Reporter Takes Notice
Footage from the arrest of PGA Tour star Scottie Scheffler revealed strange conversations between the golfer and police, including an officer asking how good Tiger Woods really is.
Scheffler, the world's No.1-ranked golfer, was arrested in May 2024 and charged with felony assault after refusing to stop at the scene of an accident near the entrance of the Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky. Scheffler was trying to get into the PGA Championship tournament, but police said at the time that he was trying to drive around the crash scene despite an officer telling him to stop.
Scheffler apparently kept driving until a cop attached himself to the side of Scheffler's car, an ESPN report stated.
The charges were dropped nearly two weeks later.
'Nothing to drink this morning at all?'
Bodycam footage from the Louisville Metro Police Department has since been released by "Full Swing," a golf docuseries on Netflix.
The previously unseen footage starts with commentary from No. 26 golfer Tom Kim, who says, "I'm warming up, and all I see is my friend handcuffed, walking to a police car."
The video then cuts to Scheffler being handcuffed by police as he provides his own recollection of the events.
"First of all, I was freaking out because I somehow went from driving into the golf course to a jail cell, and I still don't really know how that happened exactly," Scheffler explains. "I don't think it ever really felt real."
Speaking to an officer from the back of a police car, Scheffler is shown telling an officer, "I'll be honest. I didn't think this was ever a position I'd be in."
The officer replied, "Usually, people never do."
Other contentious points in the footage showed presumably the same arresting officer having an exchange with Scheffler about whether or not he had been drinking.
"Nothing to drink this morning at all?" the officer asked.
"Mouthwash," Scheffler bluntly replied. "I try not to drink too much before I go play golf at 8:00 a.m."
With the officer seemingly having no idea who the golfer was — despite being just feet from the entrance to the tournament — he noted that Scheffler must be "pretty good" if he plays in the PGA.
"I'm all right, yeah," Scheffler answered.
The officer then asked, "Is Tiger [Woods] as good as they say he is? Or is that ..."
Scheffler cut him off: "He's pretty dang good."
Aside from the untimely arrest, Scheffler had an outstanding 2024, winning the PGA Tour championship and even a gold medal at the Summer Olympics in Paris.
In 2025, he remains the world No. 1 golfer but sits 13th on the money list with $1.8 million. Sweden's Ludvig Aberg tops that list with $4.8 million.
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A juvenile fatally shot a pair of armed home intruders over the weekend, the Kentucky State Police said.
State police said they received a call just before 4:30 a.m. Saturday about a shooting in Manchester, which is about 170 miles southeast of Louisville.
'Hope the kid doesn’t have guilt or any kind of trauma. They got what they deserved.'
Manchester police responded to the scene and found two individuals who had been shot, state police said, adding that Manchester police requested the investigative help of state police in regard to the shooting.
Arriving troopers determined that the two males found shot had forcibly entered a residence with the intention of stealing firearms from a safe, state police said.
During the break-in, a juvenile resident of the home discovered the intruders and saw them holding firearms, state police said.
The juvenile, acting in self-defense, retrieved a handgun and shot both males before escaping through a bedroom window, state police said.
The two males who were shot later were identified as 51-year-old Jeffrey M. Allen and 44-year-old Roger D. Smith, state police said.
Allen, of Manchester, was pronounced dead at the scene, state police said, adding that emergency medical services took Smith, of McKee, to Advent Health Manchester, but he also died.
The Clay County coroner pronounced both males dead, state police said, adding that the medical examiner was to perform their autopsies Monday.
State police also said Detective Logan Gay is leading the investigation.
Authorities didn't disclose the juvenile's age and gender.
Commenters reacting to the state police Facebook post praised the juvenile and also worried about how the young person will deal with the fatal shootings going forward.
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A Kentucky sheriff who was accused of fatally shooting a district judge in his chambers two months ago was indicted for murder Thursday.
Prosecuting attorney Jackie Steele said after a grand jury returned the indictment that he couldn't comment on an alleged motive, although police previously said Shawn “Mickey” Stines — then-sheriff of Letcher County — and Judge Kevin Mullins had argued just before the Sept. 19 shooting, the Lexington Herald-Leader reported.
'Everything seemed fine between them. There was no clue that anything was wrong at all. You wouldn't have guessed there was the slightest problem.'
Judge Julia H. Adams received the indictment and set Stines’ arraignment for next Monday, the paper said.
Stines turned himself in after the shooting and was charged with first-degree murder, the New York Times reported, citing police. He retired as sheriff less than two weeks after the shooting.
Stines — who's accused of shooting Mullins eight times — pleaded not guilty to the murder charge.
The shooting was captured on surveillance video. You can view the surveillance clip here; it omits the actual shots being fired, and it's included in a larger video report about the shooting. Spectators cried out in the Morgan County courtroom as the video played during a hearing last month, WDKY-TV reported.
Kentucky State Police Detective Clayton Stamper testified that the full video of the shooting shows Stines using his own phone to make multiple calls, then using the judge’s phone to make a call, the Louisville Courier Journal reported, adding that the shooting followed.
Stamper testified that the calls were to Stines’ daughter, the Courier Journal noted, and he said the phone number of Stines' daughter had been saved in the judge's phone and was called before the shooting. Stamper also said Stines stood up from his chair in the judge’s office after looking at Mullins’ phone and shot him seconds later, the Herald-Leader said.
The shooting is particularly curious since Stines and Mullins reportedly had been decades-long friends.
Image source: Letcher County Sheriff's Office Facebook page (left); letchercounty.ky.gov (right)
What's more, the pair went to lunch at the Streetside Grill & Bar on Main Street just hours before the shooting, the Daily Mail reported. A restaurant employee told the outlet that Stines and Mullins ordered their usual lunch — both having chicken wings with salad.
"Everything seemed fine between them. There was no clue that anything was wrong at all," an employee said. "You wouldn't have guessed there was the slightest problem."
A woman who reportedly works for the Letcher County Sheriff’s Office also gave her phone to investigators for examination, WDKY said, adding that Stamper testified that she was one of Stines’ employees and believed she’d received text messages from Stines that noted what occurred at lunch and led to the shooting.
Under cross-examination, Stamper said that when Stines "was taken into custody, I was told by one of the other officers that were there that he made the comment, ‘They’re trying to kidnap my wife and kid,'" WDKY added.
More from the Herald-Leader:
The crime could be eligible for the death penalty if Stines is convicted because Mullins was a public official. Steele, who is prosecuting the case with Attorney General Russell Coleman’s office, said there had been no decision yet on whether to seek the death penalty against Stines if he is convicted. However, Stines’ attorney, Jeremy Bartley, has said that he does not think the murder is the appropriate charge in the case.
Bartley said at the Oct. 1 hearing that the evidence offered there pointed to the shooting as being an act of “extreme emotional disturbance” in reaction to something Stines had seen on Mullins’ phone.
There was no information at the hearing about what was on the phone. If a jury decided Stines acted out of extreme emotional disturbance, he couldn’t be convicted of murder, but rather first-degree manslaughter or a lesser crime. The death penalty would not be an option in that case.
You can view a video report here about Thursday's murder indictment.
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Footage showing a Kentuckian attempting to vote for President Donald Trump but having her selection switched to a vote for Kamala Harris went viral this week, prompting concerns about possible vote rigging as well as about potentially deceptive video edits — with some partisans prematurely concluding, "This never happened."
Laurel County Clerk Tony Brown (R) initially suggested Thursday that the apparent malfunction reported at the Laurel County courthouse annex in London could not be recreated but later confirmed the video was in fact genuine and that the glitch was replicable.
"The Attorney General's office has been to the vote center to check the device that has been shown across social media today," Brown noted on Facebook. "In full disclosure, after several minutes of attempting to recreate the scenario, it did occur."
'It went back into service.'
Brown indicated that the glitch took place when "some area in between the boxes" was touched. Although officials observed the issue reoccur on one occasion, Brown noted that "after that we tried for several minutes to do it again and could not."
The county clerk clarified that the ballot marking device seen in the video shows voters their selections for every race and issue, then confirms that they are satisfied before printing the ballot. If the printed ballot contains an error, voters can spoil it and receive a new one. However, Brown indicated Kentucky law permits only two spoiled ballots.
Brown shared a video where the same machine allegedly functioned "with no issues," indicating that while it was temporarily taken out of service until a representative from the state attorney general's office arrived to investigate, there have been no issues "since it went back into service."
'I hate that this has occurred here in Laurel County.'
Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman stated, "The Kentucky Attorney General’s Department of Criminal Investigations (DCI) quickly responded to the complaint from Laurel County. Detectives have been in touch with the county clerk and recommended they change out the voting machine."
"All Kentucky voters can have confidence that our elections are secure and any potential issues will be addressed quickly," added Coleman.
Brown added that the voter whose selection was ostensibly switched from Trump to Harris ultimately "did cast her ballot which she said was correct."
"I hate that this has occurred here in Laurel County," continued Brown. "We strive to have accurate, secure and safe elections that we are proud to provide to our citizens."
Kentucky Secretary of State Michael Adams stressed shortly after Brown confirmed the glitch was replicated at least once that "there is no 'vote-switching,'" reiterating that the voter who took the video ended up with a ballot correctly printed "as marked for the candidate of her choice."
"Get your voting information from legitimate sources, not TikTok or cat turds," added Adams.
Adams appears to have been referencing a viral post of the malfunction video on TikTok, which has over 241,000 likes, as well as a post by Phillip Buchanan, the individual behind the popular Catturd account on X, that had netted over 2.3 million impressions by Friday morning.
Michon Lindstrom, Adams' spokeswoman, indicated the secretary's office "has received no complaints about 'vote switching' or other long-ago debunked rumors," reported the Lexington Herald-Leader.
Laurel County overwhelmingly voted for Trump over then-candidate Joe Biden in 2020, 23,237 to 4,475. Trump won the state by over 25 points that year.
Coleman implored Kentuckians to report suspected election law violations to his office's election fraud hotline at (800) 328-VOTE, noting, "Our dedicated team of investigators, prosecutors and support staff is working tirelessly to protect every vote."
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