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A Radcliff man has been charged with Murder following the death of a child that was in his care.

The Elizabethtown Police Department arrested Terrance D. Corbin Thursday evening.

According to the EPD, Corbin was providing childcare for two children at a residence in Elizabethtown Tuesday afternoon. At approximately 4 p.m., Corbin contacted the  children’s mother and told her the 18-month-old was breathing abnormally. Corbin called 911 a few minutes later to report that the child was no longer breathing.

The EPD says officers who responded to the scene recognized the child was in dire condition and in need of immediate medical treatment, and transported the child to the Baptist Health Hardin emergency room. The child was then airlifted to Norton Children’s Hospital in Louisville.

The EPD says medical evaluation of the child revealed “substantial swelling and bleeding in the soft tissue around her scalp and face, subdural hemorrhaging at multiple sites, and multiple skull fractures,” and a pediatrician who specializes in child abuse “noted the child’s skull fractures were the worst they had encountered during their time practicing medicine.” The child died from her injuries Thursday afternoon.

Corbin was arrested and charged with Murder. He remains incarcerated in the Hardin County Detention Center, where he is being held on a $500,000 cash bond. Corbin is due back in Hardin District Court on January 15.

(Photo Credit: Hardin County Detention Center)

Unemployment rates across the Lincoln Trail Area Development District were up in November from where they were the year prior. 

The Kentucky Center for Labor Statistics says unemployment rates increased in 119 of the state’s counties in November.

The state unemployment average for November was reported at 4.8 percent. That is a slight increase from the 4.7 percent average seen in October, and it is up from the 3.8 percent average that was reported in November of 2023. Five counties in the Lincoln Trail District had November unemployment rates higher than the state average, with three counties below the state average.

Hardin County’s unemployment rate for November 2024 was slightly above the state average at 4.9 percent. That’s a slight increase from the 4.8 percent rate reported in October and an increase from the 3.7 percent rate reported in November 2023.

Breckinridge County posted the highest unemployment rate in the Lincoln Trail District for November at 5.6 percent. Marion and Washington counties had the lowest rate in the district, and tied for the third-lowest rates in the state, at 3.9 percent.

Learn more about how the unemployment rate is calculated and find more labor market information by visiting kystats.ky.gov.

The jury trial date for Crystal Rogers investigation suspect Steven Lawson has been moved.

During a hearing in Nelson Circuit Court Thursday morning, Nelson Circuit Judge Charles Simms III granted a motion for a continuance filed by Lawson’s defense to delay the start of his trial on Conspiracy to Commit Murder and Tampering with Physical Evidence charges. The trial was moved from February 11 to May 27.

Lawson’s attorney Darren Wolff told Simms that he had concerns when assigned to the case on August 22 that he and co-counsel Zack Buckler would not have enough time to review the large amount of discovery to review in the case in time for a February trial. Wolff asked for the trial to be moved to late summer so that they would have enough time to look through the more than 10 terabytes of data in the case and in order to ensure Lawson received proper counsel.

Special Prosecutor Shane Young said moving the trial back would have multiple impacts including on the witnesses that have been subpoenaed in the case, the Warren County Justice Center where the trial is to take place, and Young’s cases in Hardin County that have been scheduled around the Rogers case trials. Young also said while Lawson has trial rights, so does the victim and her family, and delaying the trial impacts that.

Simms said he was also concerned that not giving the defense enough time to prepare would give potential support for an ineffective counsel claim should Lawson be successfully prosecuted, but said he would not delay the case to late summer and settled on the May 27 date. A pretrial conference for status review was scheduled for February 27.