Christian Fiscal Court conducts business Tuesday/photo by Adam May

            CHRISTIAN FISCAL COURT ISN’T THE LARGEST GOVERNMENT BODY IN THE COUNTY, BUT AT LEAST ONE MAGISTRATE BELIEVES THE GROUP SHOULD BE SMALLER.

            FIFTH DISTRICT MAGISTRATE JIM FLEMMING TOLD COURT AT TUESDAY MORNING’S MEETING THAT HE’S BEEN TO SEVERAL MEETINGS OF COUNTY LAWMAKERS ACROSS THE COMMONWEALTH AND HAS FOUND CHRISTIAN FISCAL COURT TO BE LARGER THAN MANY OTHER BODIES AT EIGHT MEMBERS.

            SQUIRE FLEMMING SAYS THE POLITICS COULD BE REMOVED FROM THE PROCESS BY ELIMINATING TWO SEATS AS CURRENT MAGISTRATES DECIDE TO NOT RUN AGAIN OR RETIRE.

            THE ULTIMATE BENEFIT TO THE COUNTY WOULD BE A SAVINGS OF FUNDS FROM TWO LESS SALARIES AND BENEFIT PACKAGES, ACCORDING TO FLEMMING.

            JUDGE-EXECUTIVE STEVE TRIBBLE TOLD COURT THEY COULD THINK ON THE MATTER AMONGST THEMSELVES AND COUNTY ATTORNEY MIKE FOSTER COULD GIVE DETAILS ON THE PROCESS IF THEY SO DESIRED.

            IN OTHER BUSINESS, COURT TABLED THE JAIL’S QUARTERLY REPORT DUE TO WORDING ABOUT LEAKS IN THE JAIL ROOF. REPAIRS WERE MADE TO THE ROOF LAST YEAR AND MAGISTRATES BELIEVED THOSE STATEMENTS MAY HAVE BEEN ENTERED IN ERROR.

            COURT ALSO APPROVED ALLOWING CONSTABLE MIKE HADDOCK AND DEPUTY CONSTABLE DICKEY REESE TO PLACE BLUE LIGHTS ON THEIR VEHICLES AS THEY COMPLETED THE MANDATED TRAINING.

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            GOVERNOR STEVE BESHEAR WILL BE IN HOPKINSVILLE THIS (TUESDAY) AFTERNOON FOR AN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ANNOUNCEMENT.

            A SOURCE CLOSE TO THE SITUATION HAS CONFIRMED THE ANNOUNCEMENT WILL BE RELATING TO THE PROPULSYS PLANT, ALSO KNOWN AS WHITE HYDRAULICS, ON BILL BRYAN BOULEVARD.

            THE ANNOUNCEMENT IS SET FOR 2 O’CLOCK, WITH DETAILS FROM THE EVENT TO FOLLOW IN LATER NEWSCASTS.

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            NOONE WAS INJURED IN A SHOOTING INCIDENT ON CAVE STREET EARLY THIS MORNING.

            CHRISTIAN COUNTY SHERIFF’S CAPTAIN CHRIS MILLER SAYS DEPUTIES RESPONDED TO 285 CAVE STREET, LOT 9 JUST BEFORE 1 THIS MORNING IN RESPONSE TO A BURGLARY, WHERE SHOTS WERE FIRED.

            THE RESIDENTS, 18-YEAR OLD WILLIAM KENDRICK, JR. AND 18-YEAR OLD TEVIN ROBINSON TOLD DEPUTIES THAT UPON RETURNING HOME THEY HEARD UNUSUAL NOISES AND BELIEVED SOMEONE WAS IN THEIR HOUSE.

            THE PAIR RAN FROM THE HOME TO GET AWAY AND HEARD SEVERAL GUNSHOTS COMING FROM INSIDE TOWARD THEIR GENERAL DIRECTION.

            DETECTIVES HAVE SPOKEN TO WITNESSES AND NEIGHBORS IN AN EFFORT TO GATHER MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE INCIDENT. NO ONE WAS INJURED AND POLICE SAY THERE APPEARS TO BE NO MISSING PROPERTY.

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         STATE POLICE HAVE FOUND AND ARRESTED THE COUPLE WANTED FOR QUESTIONING RELATING TO A MAN FOUND DEAD FROM AN ARROW WOUND IN BUTLER COUNTY SATURDAY.
         A NEWS RELEASE SAYS JASON AND SHARON BRITT WERE FOUND ON AN ABANDONED OHIO COUNTY PROPERTY JUST AFTER 6PM MONDAY. THE PAIR WAS ARRESTED ON UNRELATED CHARGES ON A BOND REVOCATION FROM A PENDING METHAMPETAMINE CHARGE.
        THE BRITTS’ WERE THE LAST TO SEE 51-YEAR OLD RONALD LEE OF MORGANTOWN ALIVE SATURDAY AND POLICE HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR THEM SINCE. STATE POLICE SPOKESMAN TROOPER JONATHAN BIVEN SAID MONDAY THE COUPLE ARE NOT OFFICIALLY SUSPECTS, THEY WERE ONLY BEING LOOKED FOR TO ANSWER QUESTIONS.
        SUSPICIONS HAVE LIKELY GROWN, HOWEVER, AS THE PAIR BECAME MORE AND MORE DIFFICULT TO FIND.
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            A YOUNG WOMAN IS IN VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER AFTER A MAJOR PILE-UP IN CLARKSVILLE THIS MORNING.

            THE INCIDENT HAPPENED JUST BEFORE 8, ACCORDING TO THE REPORT FROM THE TENNESSEE HIGHWAY PATROL, WHICH SAYS 40-YEAR OLD DANNY HUGHES OF AUBURN, KENTUCKY WAS ATTEMPTING TO TURN HIS TRACTOR-TRAILER HAULING CHICKEN FEED OFF OF HIGHWAY 13 ONTO STATE ROUTE 149.

            HIS RIG OVERTURNED, LANDING ON TOP OF CARS DRIVEN BY 18-YEAR OLD CHRISTINE MARTIN OF MCEWEN, TENNESSEE AND 45-YEAR OLD TANIA BURNS OF CLARKSVILLE.

            MS. MARTIN WAS TAKEN BY HELLICOPTER TO VANDERBILT, WHERE SHE IS LISTED IN STABLE CONDITION. THE OTHER TWO DRIVERS ESCAPED SERIOUS INJURY.

TRAFFIC WAS REPORTEDLY DIVERTED FOR SEVERAL HOURS DUE TO CHICKEN FEED PILED UP ON THE ROAD AND HUGHES WAS CITED FOR FAILURE TO EXERCISE DUE CARE.

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