A Kentucky jury awarded Republican Sen. Rand Paul more than $580,000 Wednesday in a lawsuit against his next-door neighbor who tackled the two-term senator, breaking six of his ribs during a 2017 landscaping dispute outside Paul’s home. The neighbor, 60-year-old anesthesiologist Rene Boucher, pleaded guilty in March to assaulting Paul, who he says was stacking brush near his yard in a gated Bowling Green community. Boucher said Paul repeatedly piled brush near the border of the two properties and the day before the incident Boucher had ignited a brush pile left by Paul with gasoline, causing an explosion that left the neighbor with burns. The next day, the long-simmering lawn care dispute boiled over when Paul again cleared brush and Bouche said he’d “had enough.”
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