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Traffic

• Jama Lynn Vaughn, failure of owner to maintain required insurance, proof filed, defendant stipulated probable cause, dismissed with leave to reinstate.

A Campbellsville man has been arrested and charged with receiving stolen property and sheriff's deputies are searching for the man's partner in crime.

According to a Taylor County Sheriff's Office report, deputies received a call last Tuesday at about 10 p.m. that items were falling out of a trailer being pulled by a truck traveling east on New Lebanon Road.

As deputies attempted to stop the vehicle, the driver turned onto Sportsman Lake Road. The report states that the vehicle was found abandoned about two miles away.

A Campbellsville man has been arrested and charged with abusing a child.

Last Monday, the Campbellsville Police Department received a report of possible child abuse.

After an investigation, Joseph "Joey" H. Cooper, 26, of Sunset Drive, was arrested and charged with second-degree criminal abuse of a child age 12 or younger.

According to Cooper's arrest citation, a 7-year-old boy was found in his care with several bruises, including under his eye and on his chest, biceps and back.

During the month of October, Kentucky State Police troopers working in the Post 15 area of Taylor, Adair, Casey, Clinton, Cumberland, Green, Marion, Metcalfe, Monroe, Russell and Washington counties investigated 26 traffic collisions.

There were three fatal crashes in October in the Post 15 area.

Dianna L. Cheser, 44, of Springfield, was killed on Oct. 4 in Washington County.

Billy Grider, 41, of Columbia, was killed on Oct. 7 in Adair County.

And Mackenzie Bryant, 17, of Jamestown, was killed on Oct. 11 in Russell County.