A VIDEO PRODUCED BY STUDENTS AT HOPKINSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL IS IN THE RUNNING FOR A NATIONAL AWARD.

            A NEWS RELEASE SAYS THE CONTEST IS TITLED “GIVE YOURSELF SOME CREDIT” AND THAT A GROUP OF STUDENTS FROM KELLY SCHEUHER’S MONEY SKILLS CLASS HAS QUALIFIED AS A TOP FIVE FINALIST.

            LORI ANN FORBES, DEE KILLABREW, CRYSTAL KILLABREW, ALEX DOSS AND DARREL OATES HAVE ALREADY EARNED THEIR CLASS A FLIP VIDEO CAMERA AND 500 DOLLARS CASH, BUT COULD WIN 1,500 DOLLARS CASH AND A PAID TRIP TO TUSCON, ARIZONA FOR THEIR TEACHER.

            THE PUBLIC CAN VOTE FOR THE VIDEO, TITLED “BORROWED LUNCH MONEY” THROUGH FRIDAY,WITH THE WINNER TO BE ANNOUNCED MONDAY. CLICK HERE TO SEE THE VIDEO AND VOTE.

11/16/2011/AM

            THREE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENTS QUICKY DOUSED A SPREADING FIELD FIRE JUST NORTH OF HOPKINSVILLE THIS AFTERNOON.

            THE CALL WENT OUT CLOSE TO 1:30 FOR A FIELD FIRE AT THE DEAD END OF MORGAN LANE—WHICH IS ABOUT A HALF MILE WEST OF MADISONVILLE ROAD OFF THE MOUNT ZOAR-LATHAM ROAD.

            ABOUT TWO ACRES BURNED, BUT CHRISTIAN COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT DIRECTOR RANDY GRAHAM SAID THE FIRE-FIGHTERS FROM WEST SIDE, HIGHLAND AND LACY DID A GOOD JOB OF PUTTING THE BLAZE OUT QUICKLY.

            THE WINDS WEREN’T AS STRONG AS THEY WERE EARLIER IN THE WEEK WHEN CREWS REMAINED BUSY WITH NUMEROUS FIRES. THE RECENT RAINFALL ALSO KEPT THE FIRE FROM SPREADING AS QUICKLY, AS WELL.

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11/17/2011/AM

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            A HOPKINSVILLE MAN IS CHARGED AGAIN WITH INDECENT EXPOSURE.

            ACCORDING TO CLARKSVILLE POLICE, 58-YEAR OLD GREGORIO GONZALEZ JR OF 48-70 MADISONVILLE ROAD, HOPKINSVILLE ENTERED A WILMA RUDOLPH BUSINESS THIS MORNING AND WAS CAUGHT INSIDE THE STORE INAPPROPRIATELY TOUCHING HIMSELF.

            GONZALEZ IS ON THE SEX OFFENDER REGISTRY IN KENTUCKY AND

WAS BOOKED INTO THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY JAIL AND IS CHARGED WITH INDECENT EXPOSURE AND WAS SERVED WITH A WARRANT ASSOCIATED A PREVIOUS INDECENT EXPOSURE CHARGE.

A PREVIOUS INDECENT EXPOSURE WARRANT WAS SERVED WHEN HE WAS BOOKED INTO JAIL.

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11/17/2011/MF

            IT WAS RAINING, BUT THAT DOESN’T APPEAR TO BE A FACTOR IN A WRECK THIS MORNING AT LAFAYETTE ROAD AND THE BYPASS.

            THE REPORT FROM HOPKINSVILLE POLICE SAYS 34-YEAR OLD ASHLEY WRIGHT OF CADIZ HAD A GREEN ARROW TO TURN ONTO THE BYPASS JUST AFTER 7 O’CLOCK.

            WHEN MS. WRIGHT PROCEEDED, SHE WAS STRUCK BY A VEHICLE DRIVEN BY 48-YEAR OLD BELINDA WALDRON OF HOPKINSVILLE. A WITNESS SAID MS. WALDRON DROVE THROUGH A RED LIGHT INTO THE INTERSECTION.

            BOTH DRIVERS WENT UNIJURED, BUT MS. WRIGHT’S PASSENGER—8-YEAR OLD AUSTIN WRIGHT OF CADIZ—WAS TAKEN BY AMBULANCE TO JENNIE STUART MEDICAL CENTER.

11/16/2011/AM

            HOPKINSVILLE POLICE INVESTIGATED A WRECK WITH INJURIES THAT OCCURRED YESTERDAY ON EAST 1^ST STREET.

            ACCORDING TO POLICE, 23-YEAR OLD AKITA BROWN OF OAK GROVE TURNED ONTO WEST 1^ST STREET FROM SOUTH VIRGINIA STREET AND APPLIED HER BRAKES, BUT SKIDDED AND THEN STRUCK THE VEHICLE DRIVEN BY 35-YEAR OLD BARBARA LOY OF HOPKINSVILLE WHO WAS DRIVING ON EAST 1^ST STREET WHEN THE WRECK OCCURRED.

            BROWN WAS TRANSPORTED BY AMBULANCE TO JENNIE STUART MEDICAL CENTER FOR NON-LIFE THREATENING INJURIES WHILE LOY AND HER PASSENGER, 17-YEAR OLD GALLAGHAR LOY, REFUSED TREATMENT.

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