NEWS HEADLINES 12/24

NO SOONER THAN CITY POLICE PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER PAUL RAY ISSUED A REMINDER TO RESIDENTS TO LOCK THEIR PARKED VEHICLES AND TO REMOVE VALUABLES BECAUSE OF INCREASED BREAKINS TO CARS AND TRUCKS, THE THURSDAY EVENING SHIFT ARRESTED TWO TENNESSEANS FOR A SERIES OF THEFTS FROM VEHICLES. TAKEN INTO CUSTODY AT THEIR LOCAL ADDRESS ON HILLCREST DR. WERE 24-YEAR OLD ROBERT WAYNE SWIFT OF WHITE HOUSE, TENNESSEE, AND 24-YEAR OLD CARRIE JYNELL NAVE OF NASHVILLE, WITH BOTH CHARGED WITH 3 COUNTS OF RECEIVING STOLEN PROPERTY AND A SINGLE COUNT OF POSSESSION OF DRUG PARAPHERNALIA.
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ALSO ARRESTED BY CITY POLICE  WAS 19-YEAR OLD SHAQUOIA EWING OF HOPKINSVILLE, WHO ALLEGEDLY HIT  20-YEAR OLD CAMERON WALTON OF HOPKINSVILLE WITH A SMALL WOODEN BAT AS PART OF A LARGER FIGHT AT THE PENNYRILE APARTMENTS, THOUGH THE ARREST WAS MADE AT THE NEARBY COOPERFIELD APARTMENTS..
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WESTERN KENTUCKY MAY NOT BE THE ONLY SITE OF A ''WHITE CHRISTMAS'' IN THIS AREA, WITH THE ''LEAF CHRONICLE'' SPEAKING WITH A METEOROLOGIST FROM THE NASHVILLE OFFICE OF THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WHO SAYS CLARKSVILLE IS IN LINE FOR ONE TO TWO INCHES OF SNOW BY CHRISTMAS DAY, PRECEDED BY A LIGHT 'RAIN-AND-SNOW'' MIX CHRISTMAS EVE.
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AFTER THE RETIREMENT OF DR. WADE KADEL AS DIRECTOR OF THE RENOWNED MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY BREATHITT VETERINARY CENTER, SANTA CLAUS MOVED HIS DIAGNOSTIC BUSINESS ELSEWHERE, BUT THE MEMORIES LINGER OF DR. KADEL'S ANNUAL REPORT TO THE WORLD THAT RUDOLPH AND HIS 8 COMPANIONS WERE ''HALE AND HEARTY'' AND PREPARED FOR A WORLD-WIDE FLIGHT. DR. KADEL WOULD ALWAYS INCLUDE THE OUTLOOK FOR THE SIZE OF THE LOAD, BASED ON THE ECONOMIC CONDITIONS PREVAILING AT THE TIME,BUT EVEN WITH SOME OF THE FINEST MINDS IN THE VETERINARY SCIENCE BUSINESS EQUIPPED WITH RESOURCES WHICH INCLUDED THE ONLY ELECTRON MICROSCOPE IN A WORKING VETERINARY FACILITY IN THE UNITED STATES, DR. KADEL AND HIS STAFF WERE NEVER ABLE TO QUITE FIGURE OUT ''HOW'' THE REINDEER ARE ABLE TO FLY,BUT LIKE THE REST OF US, THEY KNEW ''WHY''.
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THOUGH STILL SUFFICIENTLY WARY NOT TO COUPLE HIS IDENTITY WITH HIS SEXUAL ORIENTATION, A GAY SOLDIER AT FORT CAMPBELL EXPRESSED HIS ''RELIEF'' THAT THE ''DON'T ASK-DON'T TELL'' MILITARY POLICY ON HOMOSEXUALS HAS BEEN REPEALED.
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MEANWHILE, THE SEGMENT OF THE AMERICAN MILITARY ONCE REFERRED TO AS ''WEEKEND WARRIORS'', BUT IS INCREASINGLY RELIED ON DURING THE ''GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR'', HAS FEWER TROOPERS ON DUTY THIS WEEK THAN LAST, WITH ALMOST 1200 FEWER NATIONAL GUARDSMEN AND RESERVISTS ON ACTIVE DUTY THIS WEEK.
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A CITY OF HOPKINSVILLE ''GARBAGE TRUCK VERSUS UTILITY POLE'' CRASH ON THE PENNYRILE PARKWAY CLOSED THE SOUTHBOUND LANES FOR A WHILE ON THURSDAY MORNING.
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JUST OVER HALF THE COUNTIES IN KENTUCKY SHOWED FEWER WORKERS UNEMPLOYED LAST MONTH THAN A YEAR EARLIER.
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WHILE MOTORISTS IN HOPKINSVILLE MAY BE LAMENTING THE ''SPIKE'' IN GAS PRICES FROM $2.65 A GALLON IN RECENT WEEKS TO THE CURRENT $2.95, IT'S NOT AS BAD AS LOUISVILLE, WHERE THE AVERAGE PRICE EARLIER THIS WEEK WAS $3.02 A GALLON.
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