THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A HEAT ADVISORY FOR THE AREA TODAY. HEAT INDEXES COULD REACH 105 DEGREES DURING THE HOTTEST PORTION OF THE DAY. THE HEAT ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT UNTIL SEVEN THIS EVENING.

THREE PEOPLE WERE INVOLVED IN A TWO VEHICLE ACCIDENT EARLY WEDNESDAY IN CALLOWAY COUNTY, WITH ONE DRIVER ARRESTED. KENTUCKY STATE POLICE SAY THE ACCIDENT HAPPENED AT 1:15 A-M WEDNESDAY AT THE INTERSECTION OF RADIO ROAD AND ALMO ROAD.

INVESTIGATORS SAY 34-YEAR-OLD BRYNE H. MCDOUGAL OF ALMO WAS WESTBOUND ON ALMO ROAD WHEN HE CROSSED THE CENTER LINE AND HIT A VEHICLE HEAD ON OPERATED BY 43-YEAR-OLD RACHEL A. STOCKWELL, ALSO OF ALMO.

STOCKWELL WAS TAKEN TO VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER FOR TREATMENT OF AN ANKLE INJURY, WHILE HER 12-YEAR-OLD DAUGTHER EMILY WAS TREATED AT MURRAY-CALLOWAY COUNTY HOSPITAL.  MCDOUGAL REFUSED MEDICAL TREATMENT AND WAS ARRESTED ON NUMEROUS OFFENSES INCLUDING D-U-I. MCDOUGAL IS IN THE CALLOWAY COUNTY JAIL.

ALTHOUGH LAFAYETTE AND FAIRVIEW’S POST OFFICES ARE NOT ON THE LIST OF THOSE THE U-S POSTAL SERVICE PLANS TO CLOSE, TWO IN HOPKINS COUNTY MADE THE LIST.

THE MADISONVILLE MESSENGER REPORTS THE ST. CHARLES AND WHEATCROFT POST OFFICES ARE ON THE LIST OF SOME ALMOST 37-HUNDRED ACROSS THE NATION THE U-S-P-S COULD CLOSE.

A MILITARY JURY HAS FOUND SEARGENT DERRICK MILLER GUILTY OF PREMEDITATED MURDER IN THE DEATH OF AN AFGHANI CIVILIAN.

MILLER’S ATTORNEY ARGUED DURING TWO DAYS OF HEARINGS AT FORT CAMPBELL MILLER ACTED IN SELF DEFENSE IN SHOOTING THE MAN. HOWEVER, DEFENSE ATTORNEYS PRODUCED WITNESSES WHO SAID MILLER THREATENED THE MAN BEFORE SHOOTING HIM IN THE HEAD.

SENTENCING IS SCHEDULED FOR TODAY AT FORT CAMPBELL. MILLER COULD FACE A MAXIMUM SENTENCE OF LIFE IN PRISON.

MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY IS LISTED AS ONE OF THE TOP COLLEGES IN KENTUCKY TO WORK FOR IN A SURVEY FROM THE CHRONICLE ON HIGHER EDUCATION.

MURRAY STATE AND EASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY ARE AMONG TEN LARGE FOUR YEAR COLLEGES OR UNIVERSITIES THAT MADE THE CHRONICLE’S LIST.  A TOTAL OF 111 COLLEGES NATIONWIDE WERE RECOGNIZED IN THE REPORT.

THE CLARKSVILLE CITY COUNCIL WILL MEET THIS AFTERNOON TO RECONSIDER AN EAST-WEST CORRIDOR WHICH WOULD STRETCH FROM GOVERNOR’S SQUARE MALL TO GATE ONE AT FORT CAMPBELL.

THE LEAF CHRONICLE REPORTS A RESOLUTION TO BE PROPOSED CALLS FOR BUILDING THE ROAD, BUT IT DOES NOT CALL FOR ANY FUNDING AS OF YET.

THE FOUR-30 MEETING IS AN EXECUTIVE MEETING FOR DISCUSSION ONLY. THE COUNCIL IS EXPECTED TO VOTE ON THE RESOLUTION NEXT WEEK.

CLARKSVILLE POLICE HAVE RELEASED PICTURES AND VIDEO OF THE TRUCK WHICH WAS INVOLVED IN THE ATTEMPTED KIDNAPPING OF A CLARKSVILLE TEENAGER SUNDAY.

AROUND 10-30 A-M, A WHITE MALE WAS SPOTTED IN AN OLDER MODEL WHITE PICKUP CRUISING THE WALMART PARKING LOT ON MADISON STREET. THE SUSPECT THEN PULLED A GUN ON A 17-YEAR-OLD GIRL AND FORCED HER INTO HIS TRUCK.

THE GIRL WAS ABLE TO ESCAPE THE SUSPECT, THANKS TO THE HELP OF ANOTHER WOMAN IN THE PARKING LOT.

THE LEAF CHRONICLE REPORTS POLICE ARE LOOKING FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE VEHICLE AND THE SUSPECT, DESCRIBED AS A WHITE MALE, FIVE FEET FIVE TO FIVE FEET SIX WITH RED HAIR AND WEIGHING 300 POUNDS OR MORE. HE WAS ALSO DESCRIBED AS HAVING A PENCIL THIN MUSTACHE.

ANYONE WITH INFORMATION IS ASKED TO CALL THE TIPSLINE AT 931-645-84-77.