Court/Criminal

 Sex offender registries allow public viewing of sex offenders’ names, faces, addresses and crimes, which let people know if the polite man across the street or the sweet lady next door actually committed a sex crime.

Pursuant to KRS 17.580, the Kentucky State Police provides sex offender registration information to the public through the SOR website, said Sgt. Rick Saint-Blancard, public affairs commander for Kentucky State Police.

 A Hodgenville man was charged Oct. 20 with two counts of second-degree burglary, third-degree criminal mischief and third-degree terroristic threatening.

 LaRue County residents facing a minor traffic citation have a new option: the LaRue County Attorney Traffic School or LCATS.

 Christopher Brown, 22, of Buffalo, was sentenced to five years incarceration for second-degree burglary in Nelson Circuit Court.

He was denied probation because his discharge would unduly depreciate the seriousness of the defendant’s crime.

On or about Dec. 1, 2011, Brown unlawfully entered someone’s house with the intent to commit a crime while armed with a deadly weapon and tampered with evidence by dumping a gun safe and other items in a creek with intent to impair its availability in the official proceeding.