HOPKINSVILLE POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING ARSON AT A CITY APARTMENT COMPLEX WHICH DID LITTLE DAMAGE.

            OFFICERS RESPONDED TO 406 EAST 1^ST STREET AROUND 1:30 THIS MORNING FOR THE REPORT OF FIRE. A WITNESS TOLD POLICE HE OBSERVED FLAMES COMING FROM THE REAR OF APARTMENT 1 AND THEN WATCHED AN UNIDENTIFIED BLACK MALE RUN SOUTH DOWN CLAY STREET.

            A BURNT SHIRT WAS FOUND LAYING ACROSS THE CROSS-BEAM FOR THE WOODEN STAIRS AT THE REAR OF THE APARTMENT, WITH DAMAGE DESCRIBED AS “MINIMAL, BUT PRESENT.”

            THE RESIDENT, 54-YEAR OLD ALLEN BURNS OF HOPKINSVILLE, WAS ABLE TO PUT THE BLAZE OUT BY DOUSING IT WITH WATER. A SUSPECT IS LISTED ON THE REPORT.

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            IN AN INCIDENT WHICH WASN’T REPORTED TO POLICE FOR NEARLY A WEEK, A 2-YEAR OLD WAS TREATED AT JENNIE STUART MEDICAL CENTER WEDNESDAY AFTER BEING RUN OVER BY A CAR ON AMANDA DRIVE.

            THE REPORT FROM HOPKINSVILLE POLICE SAYS THE INCIDENT HAPPENED AROUND 5PM LAST WEDNESDAY WHEN 2-YEAR OLD IRMA GUTTIEREZ LARIOUS WAS HIT BY A VEHICLE DRIVEN BY 46-YEAR OLD WILLIAM CROSSETT OF HOPKINSVILLE.

            CROSSETT TOOK THE TODDLER AND HER MOTHER TO JENNIE STUART AND ASSURED THEM HE’D REPORT THE INCIDENT TO POLICE, WHICH HE NEVER DID.

            HOPKINSVILLE POLICE WENT TO HIS RESIDENCE YESTERDAY AND WAS TOLD BY 65-YEAR OLD BRENDA PIKE THAT CROSSETT WAS AT WORK. THE CHILD, MEANWHILE, WAS TREATED AND RELEASED FROM JENNIE STUART FOR INJURIES TO THE HEAD AND FACE.

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            THE TODD COUNTY WATER DISTRICT MAY SOON BE OPERATEING INDEPENDENTLY.

            CITY OF ELKTON UTILITIES SUPERINTENDENT TERRY FROGUE TOLD COUNCIL MEMBERS LAST NIGHT HE SPOKE WITH OFFICIALS WITH THE WATER DISTRICT, WHO REPORTEDLY TOLD HIM THROUGH A LETTER THEY PLAN TO CUT TIES AND OPERATE INDEPENDENTLY.

            ACCORDING TO FROGUE THE DECISION WOULD BE DETRIMENTAL TO THE CITY OF ELKTON.

            MEANWHILE, COUNCIL MEMBERS APPROVED TO GIVE THE TODD COUNTY INDUSTRIAL FOUNDATION 10-THOUSAND DOLLARS TO HELP RECRUIT MORE INDUSTRIES INTO THE CITY.

            SEVERAL COUNCIL MEMBERS EXPRESSED THEIR CONCERNS, BUT THE MOTION ULTIMATELY PASSED.

            IN OTHER ACTION, COUNCIL MEMBERS TOOK NO ACTION IN AWARDING A BID FOR ASBESTOS ABATEMENT, LEAD PAINT REMOVAL AND GENERAL CLEANING, BUT UNANI MOUSLY APPROVED A BID WORTH OVER 57-THOUSAND DOLLARS TO CIRCLE C CONSTRUCTION TO RENOVATE THE CITY-COUNTY PARK.

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           A WRECK IN EASTERN CALDWELL COUNTY THIS AFTERNOON CLAIMED THE LIFE OF A DAWSON SPRINGS WOMAN.
           THE REPORT FROM STATE POLICE SAYS 78-YEAR OLD ELIZABETH SMITH OF DAWSON SPRINGS WAS ATTEMPTING TO DRIVE FROM A NEIGHBOR’S DRIVEWAY INTO HER DRIVEWAY AROUND 4:30 ON HIGHWAY 672 AND PULLED INTO THE PATH OF A VEHICLE DRIVEN BY 32-YEAR OLD SERENA SON OF DAWSON SPRINGS.
          MS. SON WAS UNABLE TO AVOID A COLLISSION AND STRUCK MS. SMITH’S PASSENGER SIDE DOOR.POLICE SAY MS. SMITH WAS TAKEN BY AMBULANCE TO CALDWELL COUNTY HOSPITAL, WHERE SHE SUCCUMBED TO HER INJURIES.
MS. SON WENT UNINJURED IN THE INCIDENT.
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            A CLARKSVILLE TODDLER WAS TAKEN BY LIFEFLIGHT HELICOPTER TO VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER THIS AFTERNOON AFTER REPORTEDLY BEING RUN OVER BY AN SUV ON KELSEY DRIVE IN CLARKSVILLE.
           ACCORDING TO CLARKSVILLE POLICE SPOKESMAN JIM KNOLL, THE TWO-YEAR OLD GIRL WAS ALERT AND CONSCIOUS ON THE SCENE AND HER EXTENT OF INJURIES IS UNKNOWN.
           THE TODDLER WAS REPORTEDLY IDENTIFIED AS KYLIE WATTS AND POLICE CONFIRMED SHE RAN OUT IN FRONT OF THE SUV THAT WAS DRIVEN BY HER FATHER RYAN WATTS.
           IN ADDITION, THE POLICE SPOKESMAN SAYS NO CHARGES ARE PENDING AT THIS TIME AGAINST THE TODDLER’S FATHER.
           HOWEVER, DCS WAS NOTIFIED AND KNOLL SAYS IT’S A NORMAL COURSE OF ACTION WHEN A CHILD IS INJURED.
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