HOPKINSVILLE POLICE WERE KEPT BUSY INVESTIGATING A PAIR OF STABBINGS WHICH OCCURED LAST NIGHT AND EARLY THIS MORNING.  THE FIRST INCIDENT OCCURED JUST AFTER NINE AT 1316 HONEYSUCKLE LANE WHEN 21-YEAR-OLD DEDRIS D. PENDLETON WAS ALLEGEDLY STABBED DURING AN ALTERCATION WITH 48-YEAR-OLD GLENDA S. MALONE OF CADIZ.  MALONE WAS ARRESTED ON SECOND DEGREE ASSAULT CHARGES AND LODGED IN THE CHRISTIAN COUNTY JAIL.

THE SECOND INCIDENT OCCURED JUST AFTER ONE THIS MORNING AT 309 BRADEN STREET.  25-YEAR-OLD KEVIN S. POLLARD OF ELKTON WAS FOUND BY POLICE LYING IN A FLOOR AND WAS FIRST TAKEN TO JENNIE STUART MEDICAL CENTER, THEN TRANSFERRED TO VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER IN NASHVILLE.  26-YEAR-OLD KIMBERLY HARRELL--ALSO OF ELKTON--WAS SEEN LEAVING THE RESIDENCE BY WITNESSES.  SHE WAS LATER ARRESTED ON FIRST DEGREE ASSAULT CHARGES AND LODGED IN THE CHRISTIAN COUNTY JAIL.

A FORMER CIRCUIT COURT JUDGE IN WESTERN KENTUCKY DIED EARLY THIS MORNING IN A BALLARD COUNTY TRAFFIC ACCIDENT.  NOT MANY DETAILS ARE KNOWN CURRENTLY, BUT 79-YEAR-OLD WILL SHADOAN DIED AT DEACONESS HOSPITAL IN EVANSVILLE AFTER BEING TRANSPORTED FROM THE SCENE ON KENTUCKY 286.  SHADOAN'S WIFE KITTY WAS TREATED FOR MINOR INJURIES AND RELEASED.  SHADOAN RETIRED FROM THE BENCH FIVE YEARS AGO.

A MURRAY MAN IS DEAD FOLLOWING A TWO VEHICLE ACCIDENT THURSDAY NIGHT IN CALLOWAY COUNTY.  KENTUCKY STATE POLICE SAY THE MISHAP OCCURED AROUND 9:45 ON KENTUCKY 80 WEST AT THE INTERSECTION OF BRINN ROAD WHEN A MOPED OPERATED BY 42-YEAR-OLD PAUL W. STEWART CROSSED ONTO KENTUCKY 80 AND HIT A VEHICLE OPERATED BY 22-YEAR-OLD JOSHUA K. CROSBY OF CRAYNE.  STEWART WAS THROWN FROM THE MOPED INTO THE MEDIAN OF KENTUCKY 80 WEST.  STEWART WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT MURRAY-CALLOWAY COUNTY HOSPITAL, WHILE CRAYNE WAS ADMITTED FOR TREATMENT.

THE KENTUCKY OFFICE OF HIGHWAY SAFETY SAYS HIGHWAY FATALITIES DROPPED TO AN 11 YEAR LOW IN 2010.  STATISTICS INDICATE THERE WERE 760 FATALITIES LAST YEAR, DOWN 31 FROM 2009.  IT'S THE FIFTH STRAIGHT YEAR HIGHWAY FATALITIES HAVE DECLINED IN KENTUCKY.

A-T AND T OFFICIALS ANNOUNCED THIS WEEK THE EXPANSION OF ITS MOBILE BROADBAND NETWORK IN PORTIONS OF MURRAY AND CALLOWAY COUNTY.  THE ACTIVIATION OF MOBILE BROADBAND ON EIGHT CELLULAR TOWERS WILL ENHANCE WIRELESS COVERAGE NOT ONLY TO PART OF MURRAY AND CALLOWAY COUNTY, BUT THE ENTIRE CAMPUS OF MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY.