CHRISTIAN COUNTY CORONER DORRIS LAMB SAYS THE MAN WHO LOST HIS LIFE NEAR THE 1900 BLOCK OF SOUTH MAIN STREET THIS MORNING WHEN A TREE FELL ON HIS VEHICLE WAS 73-YEAR OLD EDWARD MAJOR OF HARTON PLACE, WHO WAS THE OWNER OF METCALFE’S WHOLESALE.
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ANOTHER 200 FORT CAMPBELL SOLIDERS RETURNED TO POST FROM AFGHANISTAN WEDNESDAY, WITH THE MEN AND WOMEN SAYING PROGESS CONTINUES IN THE WAR-TORN COUNTRY.
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CLARKSVILLE POLICE SAY 20-YEAR OLD TYLER HODGES BROWN OF PARADISE HILL ROAD, CLARKSVILLE HAS TURNED HIMSELF INTO POLICE FOR ALLEGEDLY FIRING SEVERAL ROUNDS FROM A HANDGUN AT A GROUP OF PEOPLE STANDING ON CIRCLE DRIVE LATE LAST MONTH, NOT HITTING ANYONE.
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A REAR-END COLLISSIION ON FORT CAMPBELL BOULEVARD YESTERDAY SENT 31-YEAR OLD APRIL ROJAS AND 44-YEAR OLD WENDY OFFUTT—BOTH OF HOPKINSVILLE—TO JENNIE STUART MEDICAL CENTER.
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A TWO-VEHICLE WRECK ON SOUTH VIRGINIA STREET YESTERDAY AFTERNOON RESULTED IN A TRIP TO JENNIE STUART MEDICAL CENTER FOR 55-YEAR OLD JAMES GRABLE, JR. OF HOPKINSVILLE, WHILE THE OCCUPANTS OF THE OTHER VEHICLE WENT UNINJURED.
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BROWN

            THE MAN ACCUSED OF FIRING GUNSHOTS AT A GROUP OF PEOPLE IN CLARSKVILLE LATE LAST MONTH TURNED HIMSELF IN TO POLICE THIS MORNING.

            A NEWS RELEASE FROM CLARKSVILLE POLICE SAYS 20-YEAR OLD TYLER HODGES BROWN OF PARADISE HILL ROAD, CLARKSVILLE TURNED HIMELF IN AT THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY JAIL.

            BROWN AND TWO OTHER MALES ARE ACCUSED OF WALKING UP TO FIVE INDIVIDUALS ON CIRCLE DRIVE OCTOBER 24^TH AND ASKING ONE OF THE MALE SUBJECTS TO “WALK DOWN THE HILL.”

            WHEN THE MALE DECLINED, BROWN AND THE TWO MEN WITH HIM WALKED AWAY, BEFORE BROWN ALLEGEDLY TURNED AROUND AND FIRED SEVERAL ROUNDS FROM A HANDGUN, NOT HITTING ANYONE.

            BROWN HAD BEEN SOUGHT ON FOUR WARRANTS FOR ASSAULT SINCE THE INCIDENT BEFORE TURNING HIMSELF IN.

Crews work to remove tree from vehicle and roadway Thursday. (photo by Adam May)

            ONE PERSON IS DEAD AFTER A LARGE TREE FELL ONTO A MOVING VEHICLE ON SOUTH MAIN STREET THIS MORNING.

            THE INCICIDENT HAPPENED AROUND 8:15 NEAR THE 1900 BLOCK, ACCORDING TO HOPKINSVILLE POLICE PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER PAUL RAY, WHO SAID THE VEHICLE WAS SOUTH BOUND WHEN THE TREE FELL AND KILLED THE DRIVER ON IMPACT.

            CHRISTIAN COUNTY CORONER DORRIS LAMB IDENTIFIES THE VICTIM AS 73-YEAR OLD EDWARD MAJOR OF HARTON PLACE, HOPKINSVILLE. MAJOR WAS THE OWNER OF METCALFE’S WHOLESALE IN HOPKINSVILLE. LAMB SAYS THE CAUSE OF DEATH WAS BLUNT FORCE TRAUMA.

            SEVERAL HOPKINSVILLE ELECTRIC SYSTEM CUSTOMERS LOST POWER AS THE TREE ALSO KNOCKED DOWN LINES. LAMB SAYS THE TREE WAS ROTTEN INSIDE AND WAS AN “ACCIDENT WAITING TO HAPPEN.”

            THE LARGE TREE COULD NOT HAVE HIT A WORSE PORTION OF THE DRIVER’S VEHICLE, AS IT CRUSHED THE DRIVERS SIDE WINDOW AREA. THE ROADWAY WAS CLOSED FOR SOME TIME WHILE CREWS WORKED TO MOVE THE TREE AND CLEAR THE SCENE.

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            THE FORMER FORT CAMPBELL SOLDIER ACCUSED OF PRESENTING HIS WIFE’S TORTURED AND KILLED DOG TO HER IN A BAG LAST YEAR FOUND HIMSELF IN TROUBLE WITH THE LAW AGAIN WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.

            43-YEAR OLD MARC STALEY OF CLARKSVILLE WAS CITED FOR LEAVING THE SCENE OF AN ACCIDENT IN THE PARKING LOT OF THE HOPKINSVILLE WAL-MART JUST BEFORE 1 O’CLOCK.

            POLICE SAY STALEY WAS IN A WRECK WITH A PARKED VEHICLE AND CONTINUED ON TO ANOTHER PARKING SPACE.

            STALEY WAS ARRESTED DECEMBER 28^TH ON ANIMAL CRUELTY CHARGES AFTER ALLEGEDLY BUTCHERING THE ANIMAL AND GIVING IT TO HIS WIFE AT HER DOOR.

            THE ANIMAL CRUELTY CHARGES STALEY WAS FACING WERE AMENDED TO FELONY ANIMAL TORTURE CHARGES EARLIER THIS YEAR.

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