TURNOUT ISN’T EXPECTED TO BE HIGH, BUT THERE ARE 41,653 ELIGIBLE VOTERS WHO COULD GO TO THEIR POLLING PLACE TUESDAY.

            THE MOST UP TO DATE VOTER STATISTICS IN CHRISTIAN COUNTY SHOW 25,410 OF THOSE REGISTERED VOTERS ARE DEMOCRATS, 12,777 ARE REPUBLICAN AND 3,466 ARE REGISTERED AS “OTHER.”

            IT DOESN’T MATTER WHAT PARTY YOU ARE REGISTERED AS TOMORROW, AS ALL VOTERS CAN VOTE IN THE GENERAL ELECTION, WHICH IS FOR STATEWIDE CONSTITUTIONAL OFFICERS—INCLUDING A THREE-WAY RACE FOR GOVERNOR.

            22,987 OF CHRISTIAN COUNTY’S REGISTERED VOTERS ARE FEMALE AND 18,666 ARE MALE. THE COUNTY’S LARGEST PRECINCT POPULATION-WISE IS OAK GROVE WEST AND THE SECOND LARGEST IS OAK GROVE EAST.

            CHRISTIAN COUNTY MIDDLE SCHOOL IS THE LARGEST PRECINCT IN THE CITY OF HOPKINSVILLE—WITH 1,595 REGISTERED VOTERS. IF YOU CAN’T MAKE IT TO THE POLLING PLACE TOMORROW, YOU CAN STILL VOTE ABSENTEE BETWEEN 8 AND 4 TODAY AT THE CHRISTIAN COUNTY CLERK’S OFFICE.

            WE’LL HAVE LIVE ELECTION COVERAGE ON THE WHOP FAMILY OF STATIONS BEGINNING TOMORROW EVENING AT 6 O’CLOCK.

MCKNIGHT

            A HOPKINSVILLE MAN WAS ALREADY ARRESTED FOR DUI SUNDAY MORNING WHEN HIS CIRCUMSTANCES GOT WORSE AT THE JAIL.

            ACCORDING TO THE ARREST CARD, STAFF AT THE CHRISTIAN COUNTY JAIL SEARCHED 32-YEAR OLD MACKSEY MCKNIGHT OF HOPKINSVILLE AROUND 7:30 YESTERDAY MORNING AS HE WAS BEING BOOKED IN FOR DRIVING IMPAIRED.

            POLICE SAY AN AMOUNT OF COCAINE LARGE ENOUGH TO CHARGE HIM WITH TRAFFICKING WAS FOUND IN MCKNIGHT’S PANTS POCKET IN A PLASTIC BAGGIE.

            MCKNIGHT WAS CHARGED WITH TRAFFICKING IN COCAINE, POSSESSION OF COCAINE AND DUI.

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LEAVELL

             A LOCAL WOMAN HAS BEEN SERVED WITH A WARRANT ALLEGING SEX CRIMES AND FALSELY REPORTING AN INCIDENT.

            TAKEN INTO CUSTODY FRIDAY AFTERNOON WAS 24-YEAR OLD JAMAISA LEAVELL OF HOPKINSVILLE, WITH THE WARRANT OBTAINED BY CITY POLICE DETECTIVE SCOTT RAUP ALLEGING THAT MS. LEAVELL FALSELY REPORTED THAT HER HOME WAS BURGLARIZED BY A NAMED FEMALE JUVENILE.

            THE WARRANT SAYS THE INVESTIGATION DETERMINED THAT THE YOUNGSTER HAD REMOVED SOME CLOTHING FROM THE RESIDENCE;HOWEVER, IT BELONGED TO HER AND THAT SHE AND MS. LEAVELL WERE INVOLVED IN AN ''INTIMATE PHYSICAL RELATIONSHIP'' WHILE THE GIRL WAS 13.

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            A VEHICLE FIRE ON MILLBROOKE DRIVE FROM SATURDAYMORNING IS BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN SET INTENTIONALLY.

            HOPKINSVILLE POLICE RESPONDED TO 504 MILLBROOKE JUST AFTER 6 O’CLOCK SATURDAY MORNING TO FIND THE 1984 CADILLAC BELONGING TO 35-YEAR OLD JERVONN STEELE OF HOPKINSVILLE ON FIRE.

            THE REPORT SAYS AFTER SPEAKING TO MS. STEELE AND LOOKING AT EVIDENCE, AN ARSON INVESTIGATION WAS OPENED—THOUGH NO SUSPECTS ARE LISTED ON THE REPORT.

            THE VEHICLE WAS VALUED AT $5,000.

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            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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