News Headlines 7.1.11

A HEARING IN THE MURDER TRIAL OF TODD COUNTY RESIDENT GARRETT DYE SCHEDULED FOR TODAY WAS POSTPONED.  THE HEARING TO DETERMINE A CHANGE OF VENUE AND WHETHER TO ALLOW DYE'S TAPED CONFESSION HAS BEEN TENATIVELY SCHEDULED FOR JULY 22ND ACCORDING TO THE TODD COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE.  DYE IS ACCUSED OF KILLING HIS NINE YEAR OLD SISTER AMY WITH A HYDRAULIC JACK HANDLE IN EARLY FEBRUARY NEAR THEIR TRENTON HOME.

ONE OF THIS WEEK'S CRIMESTOPPERS FUGITIVES OF THE WEEK HAS BEEN ARRESTED.  HOPKINSVILLE POLICE SAY 21-YEAR-OLD BILLY LEE OLIVER IS CHARGED WITH A DRUG COURT VIOLATION AND CONTEMPT OF COURT.  OLIVER IS BEING HELD IN THE CHRISTIAN COUNTY JAIL.

THE MAN FOUND WITH NOTHING BUT HIS UNDERWEAR ON IN THE MEDIAN OF THE 29-HUNDRED BLOCK OF FORT CAMPBELL BOULEVARD THURSDAY AFTERNOON HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED.  HOPKINSVILLE POLICE SAY 39-YEAR-OLD JAMES MICHAEL LOYD OF MADISONVILLE WAS CHARGED WITH DISORDERLY CONDUCT.

AN EARLINGTON WOMAN HAS BEEN INDICTED BY A HOPKINS COUNTY GRAND JURY ON MURDER CHARGES.  THE MADISONVILLE MESSENGER REPORTS 28-YEAR-OLD ALEXIS MAYES IS ACCUSED OF THE DEATH OF TWO YEAR OLD KALEIB HIGGINS AT AN EARLINGTON RESIDENCE SHE SHARED WITH HER BOYFRIEND.  MAYES IS BEING HELD IN THE HOPKINS COUNTY JAIL ON A 500-THOUSAND DOLLAR CASH BOND, WITH HER NEXT APPEARANCE FOR A PRE TRIAL CONFERENCE SET FOR AUGUST 8TH.

THE BODY OF A MISSING BOWLING GREEN FISHERMAN HAS BEEN FOUND IN NEIGHBORING BUTLER COUNTY.  THE BODY OF 50-YEAR-OLD DOUGLAS MILLER WAS FOUND WEDNESDAY EVENING ON THE GREEN RIVER NEAR MORGANTOWN, SOME 28 MILES AWAY.  MILLER HAD BEEN MISSING SINCE EARLY SUNDAY.

KENTUCKY STATE POLICE WILL BEGIN PATROLS THIS EVENING LOOKING FOR IMPAIRED DRIVERS OVER THE LONG FOURTH OF JULY HOLIDAY WEEKEND.  LAST YEAR, SEVEN PEOPLE DIED IN TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS ON KENTUCKY ROADWAYS.  MORE THAN 12 HUNDRED ACCIDENTS OCCURED LAST YEAR, WITH 66 OF THOSE ALCOHOL RELATED WITH 12 INJURIES AND ONE FATALITY.