HOPKINSVILLE POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING AN ARMED ROBBERY FROM SATURDYA MORNING.

            THE VICTIM, IDENTIFIED ON THE REPORT AS 44-YEAR OLD SHERRY CROFT OF HOPKINSVILLE, TOLD OFFICER SHE HAD JUST FINISHED COLLECTING RENT FROM AN APARTMENT AT THE INTERSECTION OF HAZEL AND 21^ST STREETS WHEN AN UNKNOWN BLACK MALE APPROACHED HER, BRANDISHING A HANDGUN.

            THE SUSPECT DEMANDED MONEY AND FLED BEHIND THE APARTMENT WITH 240 DOLLARS CASH IN HAND.

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11/06/2011/AM

            A WRECK INVOLVING A DEER ON THE BYPASS SATURDAY AFTERNOON SENT THE RIDER OF A MOTORCYCLE TO BLANCHFIELD ARMY COMMUNITY HOSPITAL.

            THE INCIDENT HAPPENED AROUND 3:18, ACCORDING TO THE REPORT FROM HOPKINSVILLE POLICE, WHICH SAYS 24-YEAR OLD WILLIAM CRONIN OF MESA, ARIZONA WAS WESTBOUND ON THE BYPASS ON HIS MOTORCYCLE IN THE RIGHT LANE WHEN THE DEER RAN INTO THE ROADWAY.           

            THE ANIMAL BROADSIDED THE RIGHT SIDE OF CRONIN’S BIKE, CAUSING HIM TO LOSE CONTROL AND TO TIP OVER. CRONIN WAS TAKEN BY AMBULANCE TO BLANCHFIELD FOR TREATMENT OF MULTIPLE INJURIES.

            THE REPORT INDICATES HE WAS WEARING A HELMET.

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11/06/2011/AM

            AN ELKTON WOMAN WAS TAKEN BY HELICOPTER TO VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER SATURDAY NIGHT AFTER A WRECK ON STOKES CHAPEL ROAD IN TODD COUNTY.

            ALL OF THE DETAILS AREN’T KNOWN, BUT THE INCIDENT HAPPENED AROUND 6:20, WITH THE TODD COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE, RESCUE SQUAD AND EMS ASSISTED ON THE SCENE BY KENTUCKY STATE POLICE.

            43-YEAR OLD ALICE HARRIS OF ELKTON REPORTEDLY RAN OFF THE ROAD AND STRUCK A TREE, WITH HER MINIVAN OVERTURNING. RESCUE CREWS EXTRICATED MS. HARRIS FROM THE VEHICLE, WITH AN AIR-EVAC HELICOPTER LANDING ON U.S. 68-80 TO TAKE HER TO THE HOSPITAL.

            OFFICIALS AT VANDERBILT SAY MS. HARRIS WAS TREATED AND RELEASED.

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ZACHARY HAWKINS

            A YOUNG CROFTON MAN WAS KILLED SATURDAY NIGHT AFTER HITTING A DEER ON MADISONVILLE ROAD.

            STATE POLICE SAY THE INCIDENT HAPPENED AROUND 6 O’CLOCK ABOUT 4 MILES SOUTH OF CROFTON, WHEN 21-YEAR OLD ZACHARY HAWKINS WAS NORTHBOUND IN A PICKUP AND COULDN’T AVOID STRIKING THE DEER.

            THE DEER TRAVELED THROUGH THE FRONT WINDSHIELD OF THE VEHICLE, STRIKING HAWKINS. THE CHRISTIAN COUNTY CORONER’S OFFICE PRONOUNCED HAWKINS DEAD ON THE SCENE.

            A 14-YEAR OLD FEMALE PASSENGER WAS TAKEN BY AMBULANCE TO JENNIE STUART MEDICAL CENTER FOR TREATMENT OF HER INJURIES.

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            THREE CLARKSVILLE MEN WERE ARRESTED THURSDAY NIGHT ON ROBBERY CHARGES, AFTER AN ALLEGED INSIDE ROBBERY JOB AT A FORT CAMPBELL BOULEVARD BUSINESS.

            A NEWS RELEASE FROM CLARKSVILLE POLICE SAYS THE INCIDENT HAPPENED AROUND 8:15 IN THE 1300 BLOCK OF THE BOULEVARD IN CLARKSVILLE, WHEN THREE MEN ENTERED THE BUILDING WITH A STUN GUN, DEMANDING CASH.

            POLICE SAY 30-YEAR OLD MELVIN BANKS OF SOUTH LANCASTER ROAD USED THE STUN GUN ON THE CLERK DURING THE ROBBER, THOUGH THE CLERK SOON ATTEMPTED TO RUN OUT THE FRONT DOOR. POLICE SAY BANKS WAS ALSO CARRYING A HANDGUN.

            THE CLERK STRUGGLED WITH BANKS AND FLED OUT THE FRONT DOOR, BUT WOULD BE CAUGHT BY BANKS AND DRAGGED BACK IN THE BUILDING. THE OTHER MASKED MAN COMMITTING THE ROBBERY WAS ALLEGEDLY 20-YEAR OLD DEVION STANFORD OF LANCASTER ROAD. STANFORD WAS AN EMPLOYEE OF THE BUSINESS AND REPORTEDLY PLOTTED THE INCIDENT.

            THE FINAL SUSPECT ARRESTED WAS 25-YEAR OLD DONALD RAINS, JR. OF LANCASTER ROAD, WHO ALLEGEDLY DROVE THE PAIR AND WAITED OUTSIDE WHILE THE ROBBERY OCCURRED.

            BANKS IS CHARGED WITH ROBBERY AND KIDNAPPING, WHILE THE OTHER TWO ARE CHARGED WITH ROBBERY. ALL THREE MEN WERE LODGED IN THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY JAIL.

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