A CADIZ MAN WAS TAKEN TO AN AREA HOSPITAL BY HELLICOPTER TODAY AFTER HITTING A TREE IN THE CERULEAN AREA.

            ACCORDING TO THE TRIGG COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE, CHASE ALEXANDER OF CADIZ WAS SOUTHBOUND ON COBB ROAD WHEN HE LOST CONTROL OF HIS PICKUP, OVER-CORRECTED AND RAN OFF THE ROAD—HITTING A TREE.

            COBB WAS TAKEN BY PRIVATE VEHICLE TO A LOCATION IN CALDWELL COUNTY, WHERE AN AMUBLANCE MET THE DRIVER AND TRANSPORTED COBB TO CALDWELL COUNTY HOSPITAL.

            AN AIR-EVAC HELLICOPTER TOOK COBB FROM THERE TO AN EVANSVILLE HOSPTAL, ACCORDING TO A SHERIFF’S DEPUTY.

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            CADIZ POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING FOUR VEHICLE BREAK-INS IN BROAD DAYLIGHT FROM SUNDAY, WITH TWO BIBLES AMONG THE STOLEN ITEMS.

            THE INCIDENTS HAPPENED BETWEEN 12:30 AND 1:30 AT CRACKER BARREL AND WENDY’S, ACCORDING TO A NEWS RELEASE FROM THE CADIZ POLICE DEPARTMENT, WHICH SAYS THE SUSPECT OR SUSPECTS USED A TOOL TO ENTER THE VEHICLES. THE SUSPECTS REPORTEDLY BROKE AWINDOW TO GET INTO ONE OF THE CARS.

            ONE OF THE VICTIMS, WAYNE WOODRUFF OF HOPKINSVILLE, HAD A PURSE AND TWO HANDGUNS STOLEN FROM HIS VEHICLE. A BANK CARD WAS ALSO STOLEN, WHICH WAS USED TO BUY GAS LATER IN THE DAY IN ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

            A BIBLE AND PHONE WERE STOLEN FROM THE VEHICLE OF JIMMY PARKER OF HOPKINSVILLE—WHILE A CELLPHONE, LAPTOP AND ROADSIDE EMERGENCY KIT WERE TAKEN FROM JUDITH BILYEAU OF NASHVILLE.

            A PHONE CHARGER, BAG AND LEATHER CASE CONTAINING A BIBLE WERE STOLEN FROM KIMBERLY JONES OF CADIZ. CADIZ POLICE ASK ANYONE WHO MAY HAVE SEEN ANYTHING SUSPICIOUS BETWEEN 12:30 AND 1:30 SUNDAY TO CONTACT THEM AT 522-8369.

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MUSARRA

            KENTUCKY STATE POLICE ARRESTED A MAN WHO REPORTEDLY ADMITTED TO MURDER IN WEBSTER COUNTY MONDAY NIGHT.

            A NEWS RELEASE SAYS 43-YEAR OLD MICHAEL MUSARRA OF PROVIDENCE ADMITTED TO GOING TO THE HOME OF HIS EX-GIRLFIREND—43-YEAR OLD ERIKA HUTCHASON OF PROVIDENCE—AND SHOOTING HER JUST AFTER 10 O’CLOCK.

            MUSARRA THEN ALLEGEDLY STABBED HER MALE COMPANION, 39-YEAR OLD ANTHONY CULP OF CLAY. BOTH VICTIMS WERE TAKEN TO AREA HOSPITALS, WHERE THEY DIED OF THEIR INJURIES.

            MUSARRA WAS ARRESTED AT HIS MOTHER’S HENDERSON COUNTY HOME AND CHARGED WITH MURDER AND BURGLARY. HE IS LODGED IN THE WEBSTER COUNTY DETENTION CENTER.

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MIKE KEM

         CHRISTIAN COUNTY CLERK MIKE KEM SAYS VOTER TURNOUT HAS BEEN LIGHT THIS MORNING, WITH ONLY ONE NOTED PROBLEM IN THE ELECTION.

         A MACHINE MALFUNCTIONED AT THE CONCORD PRECINCT, BUT THAT WAS QUICKLY DEALT WITH AND THE VOTE PROCESSING MACHINE HAS SINCE BEEN REPLACED, ACCORDING TO KEM.

         KEM SAYS HE’S STICKING WITH IS PREDICTION OF A 17 TO 18 PERCENT TURNOUT, BUT SAYS THERE ARE DOUBTERS WHO BELIEVE THOSE NUMBERS MAY BE HIGH. KEM SAYS HE MAY HAVE TO CHANGE HIS PROGNOSTICATION LATER IN THE DAY IF THINGS DON’T PICK UP.

          ONE BRIGHT SPOT WAS VOTER TURNOUT AT THE COURTHOUSE PRECINCT AS OF ABOUT 9AM—WHERE 20 VOTERS HAD CAST BALLOTS IN THE FIRST THREE HOURS. KEM SAYS THAT IS PRETTY HIGH FOR THAT PRECINCT.

            KENTUCKY RESIDENTS CAN VOTE UNTIL 6 P.M. FOR THEIR STATEWIDE CONSTITUTIONAL OFFICERS AND ELECTION COVERAGE WILL BEGIN ON THE WHOP FAMILY OF STATIONS AT 6 P.M.

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   Davis                             Hoskins                 Gray

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            HOPKINSVILLE POLICE HAD BEEN INVESTIGATING SEVERAL VEHICLE BREAK-INS FROM THE LAST FEW DAYS AND CAUGHT THREE ALLEGED PERPETRATORS THIS MORNING.

            IT’S NOT IMMEDIATELY KNOWN IF THE THREE ARE THE PERPETRATORS FROM THE WEEKEND INCIDENTS IN VARIOUS RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOODS, BUT OFFICERS ARRESTED 19-YEAR OLD BOBBY ROSS HOSKINS, 26-YEAR OLD SCOTT GRAY, JR. AND 18-YEAR OLD GREGORY DAVIS OF HOPKINSVILLE.

            OFFICERS HAD RESPONDED TO A VEHICLE BREAK-IN NEAR BARK RIDGE CIRCLE AND FOUND A VEHICLE ATTEMPTING TO LEAVE THE AREA WITH THREE MEN INSIDE. ONCE STOPPED, POLICE REPORTEDLY LOCATED SEVERAL SCREW DRIVERS, PAIRS OF GLOVES AND A FLASHLIGHT.

            THE TRIO WAS CHARGED WITH RECEIVING STOLEN PROPERTY AND POSSESSION OF BURGLARY TOOLS. POLICE SAY THEY ALSO FOUND STOLEN CAR SPEAKERS IN THE VEHICLE THE SUSPECTS WERE RIDING IN.

            OFFICER PAUL RAY SAYS THE THREE ARE BEING LOOKED AT AS POSSIBLE SUSPECTS FROM THE PREVIOUS BURGLARIES. HE ALSO SAYS THE ONE THING MOST OF THE VICTIMS HAVE HAD IN COMMON IS THAT THEY ALL LEFT THEIR VEHICLES UNLOCKED.

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