Someone who thought he or she was doing a good deed contributed to a wreck on West 7^th Street yesterday.

The incident happened around 3:30 when a stopped vehicle waved 25-year old Stephen Evans of Hopkinsville out of the Subway parking lot and into traffic. Witnesses say Evans didn’t pause to look for oncoming traffic and pulled into the path of 22-year old Tiffaney Powell of Hopkisnville.

Ms. Powell’s vehicle struck the front left side of Evans’ car, causing severe damage.

Evans went uninjured, while Ms. Powell was taken by ambulance to Jennie Stuart Medical Center.

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03/28/2012/am

The Christian County Sheriff’s Office is investigating an alleged instance of sexual abuse from the south Christian area last week.

The alleged incident happened last Tuesday on Bell Station Road, according to the 27-year old female victim, who told deputies she was visiting the suspect along with her children and that they drank alcohol together until about 7:30am.

The victim said she got tired and went to bed with her children and locked the bedroom door. She woke up to find the suspect in bed with her, with the suspect’s hands allegedly in her pants.

The suspect is named on the report and the investigation continues.

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03/28/2012/am

A conference committee of state representatives and senators continues to work in Frankfort on hammering out a two-year budget—but progress is slow.

The committee is working into the evening tediously going over every small and large disagreement between the two budgets passed in both chambers and State Representative Myron Dossett of Pembroke says progress is slow—but there is progress.

The General Assembly came home without a budget in 2010 after the two chambers couldn’t fix their differences, but Representative Dossett says there is much more optimism that a compromise will be had this time around.

Unlike the federal government, the General Assembly must pass a balanced budget and the relative lack of funds available compared to previous sessions is reportedly helping negotiations because less money means less to argue over.

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03/28/2012/am

Preliminary statistics released by Kentucky State Police indicate that four people died in four separate wrecks on Kentucky roadways between Monday, March 19^th and Sunday.
Three of the fatalities reportedly involved motor vehicles and one victim was not wearing a seat belt.
State Police say there were no reports of fatalities in the Pennyrile region, but single-fatality wrecks occurred in Ballard, Nelson and Pike Counties and a fatality involving a pedestrian occurred in Fayette County.
Through March 25th, preliminary statistics indicate that 136 people died on Kentucky roadways, which is six less fatalities than reported for the same time period in 2011.   
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