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News Headlines for: 3/10/10
CHRISTIAN COUNTY JAILER BRAD BOYD SAYS A COST-CUTTING MEASURE IN THE CORRECTIONS CABINET IN WHICH 2,000 NON-VIOLENT FELONS WILL BE RELEASED WILL MERELY TRANSFER THE COST TO THE COUNTIES.
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CHRISTIAN COUNTY SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT BRADY LINK SAYS THE SCHOOL BOARD WILL BE ASKED TO APPROVE A FINAL CALENDAR FOR THE CURRENT SCHOOL YEAR AT NEXT WEEK'S MEETING, CALLING FOR SCHOOL TO END THE LAST FRIDAY IN MAY.
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THREE HOPKINSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS WERE ARRESTED YESTERDAY IN CONNECTION WITH POSSESSION OF TWO 'SOFT-PELLET' AIR-POWERED GUNS.
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OUT OF CONSIDERATION FOR SCHOOL SYSTEMS WHICH HAVE LITTLE TO OFFER IN THE WAY OF ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION FOR OLDER STUDENTS, THE BILL RAISING THE HIGH SCHOOL 'DROP OUT' RATE FROM 16 TO 18 HAS BEEN DEFERRED.
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PENNYROYAL HOSPICE HAS A NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, WITH KELLY MARTIN BRINGING OVER 20 YEARS EXPERIENCE IN THE HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY FROM FLORIDA.
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CHRISTIAN FISCAL COURT MAGISTRATES APPROVED A $149,000 PAYMENT OF STATE MONEY FOR THE TRILOGY CENTER FOR DRUG-DEPENDENT WOMEN AND ALMOST $96,000 ON THE ROOFING PROJECT AT THE JAIL AS THEY MET TUESDAY.
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HOPKINSVILLE RESIDENT AMY WATSON WAS PRESENTED AN 'EMMY' FOR EXCELLENCE DURING THE RECENT MID-SOUTH AWARDS BANQUET FOR HER PART IN THE TELECAST OF THE 4TH OF JULY 'LET FREEDOM RING' RIVERFRONT CELEBRATION TELECAST BY WTVF, CHANNEL 5, WHERE MS. WATSON CO-ANCHORS THE 'MORNING NEWS'.
News Headlines for: 3/09/10
FORMER LONG-TIME HOPKINSVILLE CITY COUNCILMAN RICHARD COVINGTON SAYS HE WILL RUN AN 'OPEN ADMINSTRATION' WITH NO INFLUENCE FROM 'SPECIAL INTERESTS' IF HE'S ELECTED MAYOR, WITH COVINGTON KICKING OFF HIS CAMPAIGN AT THE FORMER TOM WADE'S MEN'S STORE DOWNTOWN MONDAY NIGHT.
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THE BRAZEWAY CORPORATION, WHICH OPERATES A PLANT IN HOPKINSVILLE, IS MENTIONED IN AN ARTICLE IN FRIDAY'S 'NEW YORK TIMES',WHICH POINTS OUT THAT THE MANUFACTURER OF TUBING FOR REFRIGERATORS HAS 'TRIMMED' ITS WORKFORCE BY MORE THAN 30-PERCENT OVER THE PAST TWO YEARS.
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THE HOPKINSVILLE KIWANIS CLUB IS LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR THEIR ANNUAL TWO-DAY SOAP BOX DERBY EVENT, WHICH WILL BE HELD ON BETHEL STREET, NEXT TO THE LIBRARY, ON JUNE 11TH AND 12TH.
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A TWO VEHICLE CRASH ON FT. CAMPBELL BOULEVARD AT THE PENNYRILE PARKWAY MONDAY MORNING SENT THE DRIVERS, 34-YEAR OLD JOHN DAWSON OF DAWSON SPRINGS AND 61-YEAR OLD EDITH STIRSMAN OF MUHLENBERG COUNTY, TO JENNIE STUART MEDICAL CENTER.
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CITY POLICE ARRESTED 39-YEAR OLD HENRY LEE BURTON OF FOXFIELD DRIVE FOR BURGLARY EARLY TUESDAY MORNING AFTER HE ENTERED AN APARTMENT AT PENNYRILE VILLAGE WHERE HE WAS NOT KNOWN.
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STATE TROOPER MARK FRANKLIN CHARGED 26-YEAR OLD JAMES T. MITCHELL AND 23-YEAR OLD CHARLES E. DANIELS OF HOPKINSVILLE WITH MANUFACTURING AND TRAFFICKING METHAMPHETAMINES FOLLOWING A TRAFFIC STOP FOR SPEEDING ON THE SHAW-OVIL ROAD MONDAY AFTERNOON.
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IF YOU FELT LIKE IT WAS A 'COLDER WINTER' THAN USUAL, YOU'RE RIGHT, ACCORDING TO THE PADUCAH OFFICE OF THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WHICH SAYS THE 2-THOUSAND 9/2-THOUSAND 10 'METEROLOGICAL WINTER', WHICH IS DEFINED AS THE THREE MONTH PERIOD FROM DECEMBER TO FEBRUARY, IS THE 6TH COLDEST ON RECORD FOR PADUCAH, WHERE RECORDS HAVE BEEN KEPT SINCE 1937.
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THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE HAS COME UNDER CRITICISM FROM CONGRESS FOR ITS SUSPENSION OF A PROGRAM AIMED AT GIVING THE SPOUSES OF SOLDIERS MORE 'PORTABLE' SKILLS WHICH WILL HELP THEM AS THEIR SPOUSES ARE TRANSFERRED.
News Headlines for: 3/08/10
THERE’S NEW INFORMATION ABOUT AN EARLY MONDAY MORNING FIRE. THE KENTUCKY NEW ERA QUOTES HOPKINSVILLE FIRE INSPECTOR CECILIA CLOOS AS SAYING THE BLAZE WHICH DESTROYED AN EAST FIRST STREET RESIDENCE IS DEFINITELY SUSPICIOUS IN NATURE. CLOOS ADDS NO ONE WAS LIVING AT THE RESIDENCE. SHE ALSO SAYS HOPKINSVILLE POLICE ARE TAKING EVIDENCE SAMPLES TO SEND TO KENTUCKY STATE POLICE AND POLICE WILL ALSO BE LOOKING FOR SUSPECTS.
THE KENTUCKY STATE POLICE POST IN MADISONVILLE HAS A NEW LIEUTENANT. JEREMY V. THOMPSON BEGAN HIS NEW DUTIES MARCH FIRST. THOMPSON HAS BEEN WITH STATE POLICE SINCE 1998 AND MOST RECENTLY WAS THE INVESTIGATIVE SEARGENT AT POST FOUR IN ELIZABETHTOWN.
PRELIMINARY STATISTICS FROM KENTUCKY STATE POLICE INDICATE FIVE PEOPLE DIED IN TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS IN KENTUCKY LAST WEEK WHICH ENDED SUNDAY. 102 PEOPLE HAVE LOST THEIR LIVES IN TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS THIS YEAR, COMPARED TO 129 THROUGH THE SAME PERIOD LAST YEAR. 50 VICTIMS WERE NOT WEARING SEAT BELTS AND 23 FATALITIES HAVE RESULTED FROM CRASHES INVOLVING THE SUSPECTED USE OF ALCOHOL.
THE KENTUCKY TRANSPORTATION CABINET REPORTS REPAIR WORK IS UNDERWAY ON THE WESTERN KENTUCKY PARKWAY. K-T-C OFFICALS SAY THE WORK IS CAUSING EASTBOUND TRAFFIC TO BE REDUCED TO ONE LANE WHILE WORK IS BEING DONE TO MAKE REPAIRS ON THE RAILROAD BRIDGE JUST EAST OF THE DAWSON SPRINGS EXIT AT KENTUCKY 109. THE REPAIRS ARE EXPECTED TO TAKE TWO WEEKS.
THE KENTUCKY TRANSPORTATION CABINET ALSO SAYS LANE RESTRICTIONS HAVE BEEN SET UP IN OWENSBORO AS WORK IS TAKING PLACE ON THE U-S 60 BYPASS. OFFICIALS SAY THE RESTRICTION WILL BEGIN NEAR THE VEACH ROAD OVERPASS AND EXTEND TO THE WEST END OF THE BYPASS. ALL WESTBOUND TRAFFIC WILL BE MOVED TO THE RIGHT LANE. THE K-T-C SAYS THIS WORK IS PART OF A ONE POINT FIVE MILLION DOLLAR PROJECT FOR BOTH THE U-S 60 WEST BYPASS AND AUDUBON PARKWAY. WORK ON BOTH ROADS IS EXPECTED TO BE COMPLETED BY THE END OF JUNE.
A HENDERSON MAN IS JAILED AFTER AUTHORITIES CLAIM HE STOLE A CAR IN HENDERSON AND RAN A TRAFFIC STOP IN EVANSVILLE. W-E-H-T T-V SAYS 30-YEAR-OLD CORY RICHMOND WAS ARRESTED AROUND 12-30 MONDAY MORNING. HENDERSON POLICE SAY THE VEHICLE WAS ALLEGEDLY TAKEN FROM THE 500 BLOCK OF 8TH STREET. IT WAS LATER DISCOVERED ABANDONED AT AN EVANSVILLE CONVIENENCE STORE.
MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY BOARD OF REGENTS MEMBER DOCTOR LAXMAIAH MANCHIKANTI HAS RESIGNED HIS BOARD POSITION. THE MURRAY LEDGER AND TIMES REPORTS MANCHIKANTI SUBMITTED HIS RESIGNATION LAST FRIDAY. MANCHIKANTI IS FROM PADUCAH AND WAS APPOINTED BY FORMER GOVERNOR ERNIE FLETCHER IN AUGUST, 2007. MANCHIKANTI SAYS HIS WORK SCHEDULE AS A PHYSICAN LIMITS THE TIME HE CAN SPEND WORKING WITH THE BOARD.
News Headlines for: 3/08/10
STATE SENATOR JOEY PENDLETON(D-HOPKINSVILLE) AND REPRESENTATIVES MYRON DOSSETT(R-PEMBROKE) AND JOHN TILLEY(D-HOPKINSVILLE) ARE MOVING TO AVOID A REPEAT OF LAST THURSDAY'S INCIDENT AT CHRISTIAN COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL WHERE A STUDENT INGESTED THE 'K-2' SYNTHETIC MARIJUANA BEFORE TAKING A PRESCRIPTION MEDICATION WHICH PRODUCED A VIOLENT REACTION IN WHICH HE ATTACKED THE SCHOOL NURSE. THAT WAS ONE OF THE TOPICS DISCUSSED DURING SUNDAY'S LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM, WTIH SEVERAL OTHER ITEMS CONSIDERED, INCLUDING THE BUDGET WHICH THE LEGISLATORS SAY WILL GO TO A 'CONFERENCE COMMITTEE' LATE THIS WEEK.
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CITING WHAT HE CALLED OAK GROVE CITY COUNCILMAN BEA BURT'S 'POLITICAL AGENDA', MAYOR DAN POTTER HAS REMOVED HER FROM THE 'COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT' COMMITTEE, WITH MS. BURT TELLING THE 'EAGLE POST' NEWSPAPER THAT HER REMOVAL WAS RETALIATION FOR HER QUESTIONING THE 'OAK GROVE VILLAGE' MEGA-MALL PROJECT AND THE CITY'S WATER RATE INCREASE.
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HOPKINSVILLE CITY COUNCILMAN DAVE FERNANDEZ SAYS THE PENNYROYAL AREA MUSEUM, WHERE HE SERVES AS BOARD CHAIR, IS SEEKING INFORMATION ABOUT AN OVERGROWN CEMETERY ON VINE STREET WHICH IS THE FINAL RESTING PLACE OF SOME AFRICAN-AMERICAN CIVIL WAR VETERANS,WITH THE LAST BURIAL NOTED ABOUT 19-35.
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A CLARKSVILLE MAN WAS TAKEN TO GATEWAY MEDICAL CENTER FOLLOWING A TWO VEHICLE CRASH ON U.S.41-A JUST NORTH OF I-24 JUST BEFORE MIDNIGHT FRIDAY, WITH 22-YEAR OLD JAMESON STANFELL OF HAYES STREET TRAVELLING SOUTH WHEN A PICKUP TRUCK DRIVEN BY 24-YEAR OLD TYLER JARVIS OF NORTH ELM STREET, HOPKINSVILLE, PULLED INTO HIS PATH FROM I-24 CHEVRON, WITH JARVIS CHARGED WITH D-U-I AND NO INSURANCE.
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CITY POLICE ARRESTED 38-YEAR OLD MELISSA GOODE AND 41-YEAR OLD TAMMY HARDISON AT THEIR RESIDENCE AT 5-0H-4 RIVERWOOD DRIVE AROUND MID-DAY SUNDAY ON CHARGES OF POSSESSION OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE AFTER OFFICERS WENT TO THAT RESIDENCE TO VERIFY SOME INFORMATION THEY HAD RECEIVED FROM A FEMALE WHO WAS DETAINED ON FORT CAMPBELL BOULEVARD AFTER TELLING POLICE SHE WAS 'WALKING TO NASHVILLE', THOUGH SHE WAS CLAD ONLY IN PAJAMAS....
ALSO FROM POLICE IS THE REPORT OF A SUMMONS SERVED ON 43-YEAR OLD ANGELA MATLOCK OF 2-13 MC-LEAN AVENUE ALLEGING THAT SHE MADE FALSE STATEMENTS TO OBTAIN INCREASES IN STATE BENEFITS... SHERIFF'S OFFICIALS ARE INVESTIGATING BURGLARIES AT THE HOME OF GAIL CHILTON ON PEMBROKE ROAD AND MONTY GUIER OF THE PEMBROKE-OAK GROVE ROAD, WITH ITEMS VALUED IN EXCESS OF 2-THOUSAND DOLLARS TAKEN FROM EACH LOCATION LATE LAST WEEK.
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FIRST DISTRICT CONGRESSMAN ED WHITFIELD(R-HOPKINSVILLE) IS SEEKING ENTRIES IN THE ANNUAL CONGRESSIONAL ART COMPETITION, WITH THE WINNING ENTRIES FROM CONGRESSMAN WHITFIELD'S DISTRICT TO BE DISPLAYED IN THE TUNNEL TO THE NATION'S CAPITOL, WHICH THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE UTILIZE DAILY.
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STATE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT SPOKESMAN KEITH TODD REMINDS MOTORISTS THAT A CONTRACTOR CONTINUES TO CLEAR BRUSH AND TREES ALONG I-24 IN TRIGG, CALDWELL, AND LYON COUNTIES IN THE PENNYRILE, WITH WORK TO CONTINUE ALL THE WAY TO THE OHIO RIVER IN MCCRACKEN COUNTY ON THE 4-LANE HIGHWAY.
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THE STATE PUBLIC COMMISSION WILL BE HOSTING PUBLIC MEETINGS IN THE AREA SERVED BY KENTUCKY UTILITIES TO HEAR COMMENTS ON A PROPOSED 14-PERCENT RATE INCREASE.
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MONDAY IS THE BIG DAY FOR MEETINGS FOR THE FIRST FULL WEEK OF MARCH, WITH NO FEWER THAN 6 GATHERINGS OF NOTE, INCLUDING THE ANNUAL AWARDS DINNER OF THE CHRISTIAN COUNTY CONSERVATION DISTRICT AND THE ANNUAL DINNER MEETING OF THE REGIONAL TOURISM PROMOTION GROUP, KENTUCKY'S WESTERN WATERLANDS, WHILE THE BOARDS DIRECTORS OF BOTH THE PENNYRILE ALLIED COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY AND THE PENNYRILE AREA DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT WILL BOTH MEET MONDAY.
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