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Boone art students and Kroger honor veterans Chris Mayhew cmayhew@communitypress.com
BURLINGTON – Kroger Co. and Boone County High School students paid tribute to military veterans with a wall-sized mural of an American flag and an “Honoring Our Heroes” photo wall. A group of six art students from teacher Rita Grant’s class painted a flag waving in the wind within sight of the checkout lanes inside Kroger off Ky. 18 in Burlington. Over the mural are the words “Thank You For Your Service” Students signed the bottom of the wall mural at the front of the store during a March 24 unveiling ceremony. Burlington Kroger store manager Trevor Curren asked Boone County art students to paint a mural next to an honor wall where customers and store employees are invited to place framed pictures of local veterans. Curren said the store wanted to involve students and veterans in filling a blank wall created after a new walled-off area was built to help fill the store’s See VETERANS, Page 2A
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Boone County High School students Kendall South, McKayla Fischer, Camryn Rogers, Micaela Stroud, Carlos Delgado and Nathan Knox stand underneath an American flag mural they painted inside the Burlington Kroger.
Boone GOP opts not to call for prosecutor's resignation Scott Wartman swartman@nky.com
BURLINGTON – Embattled Boone County prosecutor Linda Tally Smith still has some support among Boone County Republicans. The Boone County Republican Party Monday night voted to not ask her to resign until a judge decides whether she did anything wrong in the prosecution of one of Northern Kentucky’s most highprofile murder cases. It wasn’t unanimous and the Fiscal Court Chambers where the GOP meets seemed divided. Boone County Attorney Bob Neace called for Tally Smith to resign. “In the 31 years of practicing law, this is the most bizarre, unbelievable thing I’ve ever seen,” Neace said. But Boone County Republican and lobbyist Marc Wilson made the motion to
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Boone County Commonwealth's Attorney Linda Tally Smith, left, talks with her attorney, Luke Morgan, before a hearing on Friday, March 17.
hold off on judgment against Tally Smith. When the votes were tallied, the motion won. “We want to give proper due process,” Wilson said. An affair with a lead detective has
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raised questions about Tally Smith’s prosecution of David Dooley for the 2012 murder of Michelle Mockbee. It garnered national attention, including an episode of Dateline. A jury convicted Dooley of her murder in 2014. Dooley hopes to get a new trial if his attorneys convince a judge evidence was withheld. In a weeklong hearing last month, Tally Smith and former Boone County Sheriff’s detective Bruce McVay admitted to an affair that developed months after Dooley’s 2014 trial. Dooley’s attorneys have claimed a surveillance video on the scene of the murder showing a mysterious stranger was not given to the defense. Tally Smith claimed on the stand she didn’t know about the video until afterward. Rather, she said she disclosed to the defense more than the law required. Some Republicans believe her credi-
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bility is damaged beyond repair. The Boone County attorney asked her twice in March to resign. “Our system of government rests on the foundation of the criminal justice system,” Neace said. “If we don’t have faith that a prosecutor is doing the right thing, that foundation is going to crumble.” Mockbee’s sister, Jennifer Schneider, believes Dooley killed her sister. She thinks Tally Smith got the case right and the affair with the detective doesn’t change that. She showed up Monday night at the Boone County GOP meeting to express support. “I support Linda Tally Smith,” Schneider said. “I think she’s an excellent prosecutor. She was always very morally on top of things. She was very careful about everything about the case.”
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