A Marshall County Grand Jury has re-indicted a Clarksville woman for crimes she allegedly committed after inhaling bath salts.
According to court documents, the western Kentucky grand jury handed down a superseding indictment this week for 29-year old Cynthia Palmer of Clarksville with first-degree assault, public intoxication, wanton endangerment, DUI and possession of drug paraphernalia.
The Paducah Sun reports the wanton assault charge will replace a previous charge that would have required one of Palmer's sons to testify against her.
As previously reported, the 28-year old is accused of leaving her 5-year old son in the middle of the Interstate after she inhaled and undisclosed amount of bath salts.
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A vehicle versus light pole wreck downtown late this morning caused some traffic problems.

The incident happened just after 10:30 at 6^th and Main, with the female driver taken to Jennie Stuart Medical center for minor injuries.

Hopkinsville Electric System was called to the scene to inspect the pole and traffic was diverted around the scene while the area was cleaned up. We’ll have more details on the incident as they become available.

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01/05/2011/am

A single-vehicle wreck on the Western Kentucky Parkway last night injured a small child.

Kentucky State Police say the incident happened around 11:42pm near the 25 mile-marker. 23-year old Rebecca Salkeld of New Albany, Indiana was reportedly westbound when a deer ran into her path.

She swerved to miss the animal and then over-corrected in an attempt to regain control of her vehicle. Ms. Salkeld’s SUV ran off the left side of the roadway and into the median, crossing the eastbound lanes and coming to final rest in a ditch.

Ms. Salkeld and passenger 31-year old Paul Schmidt of State College, Pennsylvania were uninjured—though 3-year old Trinitie Salkeld of New Albany had to be taken to Regional Medical Center in Madisonville.

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01/05/2012/am

The number of wrecks in the city limits of Hopkinsville dropped by over a hundred last year.

Final numbers show there were 1,138 traffic collisions—137 less than the 1,275 in 2010. Numbers provided by the Hopkinsville Police Department show 160 of those wrecks caused injury and three people lost their lives in wrecks in the city.

The month with the most wrecks last year was September, when there were 108 collisions and April featured the least amount of wrecks at 77. One would think there would have been a spike in wrecks in the snowy months of January and February, but both months were well below 2010 numbers at 84 and 102, respectively.

The opening of the Pennyrile Parkway extension combined with an increased presence by Hopkinsville Police in high volume traffic areas likely deserve credit for the drop off in.

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01/05/2011/am

Three Hopkinsville men were summonsed to court yesterday morning on charges of hunting on someone’s property without permission.

A criminal Summons was issued by the Kentucky Fish and Wildlife Department for 20-year old Ethan Calvert, 25-year old Jeffery Johnson and 19-year old Dylan Colley, all of Hopkinsville.

Calvert and Johnson were found and summonsed at 403 West 9^th Street and Colley at 211 Dell Drive. The warrants don’t say where the men were caught allegedly trespassing, but says all three were found killing five “water fowl” on December 17^th on land where they did not have permission to hunt.

The land they were on was reportedly fenced in and is a working farm.

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