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An “extreme amount” of crystal methamphetamine intended for sale in Lawrenceburg never hit the streets after three Georgia residents were stopped for speeding last Friday evening.
Police searched the vehicle and discovered nearly 3.5 ounces of the potent drug with a street value of $15,000, according to Lawrenceburg Detective Jeremy Cornish.
“It was quite a lick,” Cornish said Monday afternoon. “It’s the biggest bust of my career.”

Senior center raffling Indy 500 tickets
The cash-strapped Anderson County Senior Citizens Center is raffling off four tickets for Sunday’s running of the Indianapolis 500, the agency announced.
Raffle tickets are $25 each, and available at the senior center, located at 160 Township Square, organizers said.
Hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
The raffle includes the Woodford County senior center, as well, which will share in the proceeds.
A drawing is scheduled for Friday at 3 p.m., and the winner will be notified.

He’s flying.
A two-second superman in black and purple pleather pants, Jimmy Lamb slams his body into a wrestler roughly twice his size and at least 20 years younger.
Chris Majors, his 22-year-old, 305-pound opponent, crashes to the floor of the ring.
Majors doesn’t move.
The referee smacks his palm against the mat once, twice —
It’s unclear if anyone could possibly count the rest over the crowd’s shouts as Jimmy Lamb defeats one of the hated princes of King Hustle’s Court.

A trash and feces-filled home police said just 10 days ago was one of the worst they’d ever seen is now clean as a whistle and ready to be lived in.
Dozens of co-workers and members of Hope Community Church shoveled, scrubbed, cleaned and repaired a residence at 104 Beth Drive that made headlines across the region last Friday when police removed two children from the home and charged their parents, Anna Mauer and Michael Hutchens, with second-degree wanton endangerment.