STATE POLICE HAVE NOW RELEASED DETAILS REGARDING YESTERDAY’S WRECK ON THE PEMBROKE-FAIRVIEW ROAD.

            THE INCIDENT HAPPENED AROUND 1:30 JUST NORTH OF THE BELL CHAPEL ROAD INTERSECTION, WHEN 26-YEAR OLD SUSAN HEUSS OF OAK GROVE APPROACHED A TRACTOR PULLING A GRAIN BUGGY FROM BEHIND AND SWERVED TO MISS IT.

            MS. HEUSS’S VEHICLE OVERTURNED INTO A DITCH JUST OFF THE NORTHBOUND SHOULDER. MS. HEUSS AND HER PASSENGER, 27-YEAR OLD BRANDI BEATTIE OF FORT CAMPBELL, WERE BOTH TAKEN TO JENNIE STUART MEDICAL CENTER.

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            TALKING ON THE PHONE WHILE DRIVING LIKELY CONTRIBUTED TO A SINGLE VEHICLE WRECK ON GRACEY HERNDON ROAD LAST NIGHT THAT SENT A HOPKINSVILLE MAN TO JENNIE STUART MEDICAL CENTER.

            THE REPORT FROM THE CHRISTIAN COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE SAYS 45-YEAR OLD KENNETH WOOD OF 66-70 LAFAYETTE ROAD WAS SOUTHBOUND AROUND 7 O’CLOCK WHEN HE RAN OFF THE ROAD, OVER-CORRECTED, AND THEN RAN BACK OFF THE OTHER SIDE BEFORE HITTING SEVERAL TREES.

            WOOD, WHO WAS TAKEN TO JENNIE STUART BY AMBULANCE, TOLD POLICE HE HAD BEEN TALKING ON HIS CELL PHONE BEFORE RUNNING OFF THE ROAD.

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            FIRST RESPONDERS IN CALDWELL COUNTY WERE ON THE SCENE OF A SINGLE-VEHICLE WRECK NEAR PRINCETON THIS MORNING.

            THE INCIDENT HAPPENED AROUND 15 MINUTES BEFORE 11 O’CLOCK NEAR THE 17-THOUSAND BLOCK OF DAWSON ROAD.

            INITIAL REPORTS INDICATE A 54-YEAR OLD FEMALE RAN OFF THE ROAD, HER VEHICLE WENT DOWN AN EMBANKMENT AND OVERTURNED.

            THE WOMAN WAS COMPLAINING OF BACK PAIN, WITH RESPONDERS FROM PRINCETON RESPONDING TO THE INCIDENT.

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            HOPKINSVILLE POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING A STABBING FROM WEDNESDAY NIGHT THAT SENT A LOCAL MAN TO THE HOSPITAL.

            THE INCIDENT HAPPENED AROUND 9:30 AT 1400 EAST 19^TH STREET, ACCORDING TO THE REPORT, WHICH SAYS A SUSPECT WAS IN AN ALTERCATION WITH 45-YEAR OLD JAMES BOYD OF HOPKINSVILLE AND STABBED HIM IN THE BACK JUST UNDER HIS LEFT SHOULDER WITH A STEAK KNIFE.

            BOYD WAS TREATED FOR NON-LIFE-THREATENING INJURIES AT JENNIE STUART MEDICAL CENTER, WHILE THE SUSPECT LEFT THE SCENE BEFORE POLICE ARRIVED.

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            FIRE DUES BEING INCLUDED ON THIS YEAR’S CHRISTIAN COUNTY PROPERTY TAX BILLS HAS CAUSED MORE CONTROVERSY THAN MOST EVER ANTICIPATED.

            PUBLIC COMMENTS LASTED WELL OVER 30 MINUTES AT THIS MORNING’S CHRISTIAN FISCAL COURT MEETING, WITH CROFTON AREA RESIDENT JACKIE WILKINS USING A MAJORITY OF THAT TIME.

            MS. WILKINS TOLD COURT SHE GOT A REGULAR BILL FROM THE CROFTON FIRE DEPARTMENT AND THEN WAS BILLED A SECOND TIME ON HER PROPERTY TAX BILL, THOUGH JUDGE-EXECUTIVE STEVE TRIBBLE SAID THE PROPERTY TAX BILL IS FOR NEXT YEAR’S COVERAGE.

            THE FIRST BILL WAS FOR 30 DOLLARS AND THE SECOND FOR 50, WHICH 8^TH DISTRICT MAGISTRATE TERRY BOWMAN SAID WAS AN UNAUTHORIZED HIKE IN RATES BY THAT FIRE DEPARTMENT. JUDGE TRIBBLE SAID MULTILPLE DEPARTMENTS CHOSE TO RAISE DUES AFTER COURT INCLUDED THEM ON THE PROPERTY TAX BILL, WHICH HE SAID HE WOULD NOT HAVE DONE IN THEIR POSITION.

            PEMBROKE MAYOR PAULETTE STEWART SPOKE ON BEHALF OF HER CITIZENS WHO WERE SUPPOSED TO BE EXEMPT FROM SEEING DUES ON PROPERTY TAX BILLS. MAGISTRATE JACK LACKEY EXPLAINED THEY ALREADY PAID THEIR DUES IN CITY PROPERTY TAXES, BUT A CLERICAL ERROR PLACED THE DUES ON THE COUNTY BILL.

            SQUIRE LACKEY SAYS IF YOU LIVE IN THE CITY LIMITS OF PEMBROKE, DEDUCT THE DUES FROM YOUR COUNTY PROPERTY TAX BILL WHEN YOU PAY.

            SHERIFF LIVY LEAVELL SAYS HE WILL WORK WITH THE PVA OFFICE TO REFUND PEMBROKE RESIDENTS WHO HAVE ALREADY PAID THEIR DUES ON THE PROPERTY TAX BILL.