This is WMMT’s Regional Roundup, a compilation of news from around the region, as reported in area newspapers.

Poor oversight and inadequate record-keeping resulted in an 85,000 dollar deficit in the budget of the Magoffin County sheriff’s office. That’s the finding of the Kentucky state auditor. According to the Lexington Herald-Leader, an audit found that Sheriff Randall Jordan bought three police cruisers that he could not afford and earned more than 17,000 dollars worth of bank overdraft fees and insufficient funds charges. He also apparently used almost 70,000 dollars in employee withholding taxes to run the office.

A Pikeville man was injured when the small airplane he was flying crashed in Bell County, Kentucky. According to the Harlan Daily Enterprise, Emory Hurley was flying a single-engine Cessna when it clipped power lines and crashed in the community of Shilalah, near Pineville. He was taken to the University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville. Pikeville attorney and pilot Michael deBourbon told the Appalachian News-Express that Hurley had flown his plane to Middlesboro to be worked on. DeBourbon said – quote – He’s a very, very experienced pilot and very careful. Something must have gone wrong with his airplane – end quote.

A southwest Virginia dentist has been found guilty in federal district court of defrauding the Medicaid program, the Coalfield Progress reports. Roy Silas Shelburne of Pennington Gap was convicted of 10 felony charges, including racketeering, health care fraud and money laundering. The prosecutor said Shelburne performed unnecessary dental procedures on patients and billed for procedures he never performed. He faces a fine of more than a million dollars and up to 20 years in prison.

Eight people are losing their jobs at the Kentucky River Regional Jail as a result of rising expenses in operating the jail, which serves Perry and Knott counties. Assistant administrator Dale Richardson told the Hazard Herald – quote – Basically the expenses started outweighing the revenue that was coming in. We hate to let anybody go, but the bills have to be paid – end quote. Richardson cited sharp increases in food, gas and electricity.

A candidate for state representative in the May Democratic primary in Floyd County, Kentucky, has withdrawn from the race. Charles Chuck Meade announced his candidacy in December before the former representative James Spencer stepped down and gave his support to the appointment of Greg Stumbo to the seat. Stumbo served in the house for more than 20 years before going on to become state attorney general and flirting with a run for governor. The Democratic party chose him to fill his old seat until the spring primary. Meade said that with Stumbo’s entry into the race – quote – the complexion of the race changed dramatically – end quote.

Buchanan County has a new public water facility and its first real backup water system, according to the Virginia Mountaineer. County officials recently celebrated the opening of the Kennel Gap facility, which is located near Keen Mountain Correctional Center. Public Service Authority director Darrell Cantrell said the facility initially has the capability of producing about a half-million gallons of water per day and the potential to produce up to a million gallons a day.

An inmate in the Floyd County, Kentucky, detention center thought for a while that he had won a Get-Out-Of-Jail-Free card. Not so. The Prestonsburg man, who was serving time for a number of charges, managed to get his hands on a document that indicated his bond had been changed and he could get out of jail, according to the Floyd County Times. He allegedly forged a circuit court judge’s signature and gave it to jail officials. But those folks had seen the judge’s signature enough times to know this was not it. So charges of forgery and attempted escape were added to the man’s record.