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For the second time in nearly three months, a Hardin County Detention Center deputy jailer is behind bars.

Kentucky State Police arrested Shadrick Blackmon, 32, on Friday following an undercover operation that allegedly discovered the deputy jailer took cash from a cooperating witness.

Blackmon is charged with one count of bribery of a public servant. Jailer Danny Allen said the deputy had been working for the jail since August 2010 and his employment will be terminated.

Dancers tentatively clasped hands and walked paths around folding chairs during a free lesson offered last Monday at the Hardin County Fair Squares building on Hodgenville Road in Elizabethtown.

A caller directed the dancers to promenade, circulate and sashay.

Move by move, he showed new dancers the basic steps that make up modern square dancing during one of the short series of free lessons the Fair Squares offer annually.

Alice Akers of Sonora paced along East Western Avenue in her hometown with an arm full of small American flags.

Akers was one of about 20 volunteers Thursday night who showed up at a plot of land that is being converted into a memorial park to honor veterans from the Sonora, Upton and Glendale areas.

“They’re doing this for Sonora, and I wanted to do this to help,” she said. “I’ve lived here all my life, and I just wanted to help.”

An unknown person calls your home phone and says your grandchild has been arrested and needs bond money. Even though you don’t know this person, it sounds convincing because he knows your grandchild’s name. The caller tells you to wire the money somewhere and warns you not tell anyone.

The next thing you know, you’ve lost several thousand dollars in a grandparents scam.

Though not all financial scams target seniors as directly as this one, seniors, more often than young people, fall victim to scams, police officials say.