Heide and Bailey Rafferty Photo provided by Clarksville Police

            A 3-YEAR OLD CLARKSVILLE BOY IS BEING LAUDED AS A HERO AFTER CALLING 911 YESTERDAY AFTER HIS MOTHER FELL DOWN A FLIGHT OF STAIRS.

            MONTGOMERY COUNTY DISPATCHER REBECCA BLACKSTOCK RECEIVED A CALL AROUND 2:30 FROM 3-YEAR OLD BAILEY RAFFERTY, WHO SAID HIS MOTHER HAD FALLEN DOWN THE STAIRS. DISPATCHERS DETERMINED HIS ADDRESS AND PARAMEDICS SOON FOUND THE CHILD AND HIS MOTHER WHO HAD, IN FACT, FALLEN DOWN THE STAIRS AND WAS UNCONCIOUS.

            THE MOTHER, HEIDE RAFFERTY, WAS TAKEN TO GATEWAY MEDICAL CENTER WHERE SHE WAS TREATED AND RELEASED.

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            A HOPKINSVILLE WOMAN WAS ARRESTED ON ROBBERY AND SEXUAL ABUSE CHARGES LAST NIGHT.

            THE ARREST WARRANT SAYS 29-YEAR OLD JENNIFER DENISE BURSE OF HOPKINSVILLE APPROACHED A MAN SATURDAY AS HE RETURNED HOME AND ASKED FOR MONEY.

            WHEN HE OPENED HIS DOOR, BURSE ALLEGEDLY SAID SHE’D GET MONEY ANY WAY SHE COULD AND ALLEGEDLY UNZIPPED HIS PANTS AND PUT HER HAND INSIDE.

            THE VICTIM RESISTED AND TRIED TO CALL 911, BUT BURSE ALLEGEDLY TOOK HIS PHONE AWAY AND TOOK A MONEY CLIP IN HIS POCKET. THE VICTIM ULTIMATELY GOT HIS MONEY BACK, BEFORE BURSE FLED THE SCENE THREATENING TO “TAKE CARE OF HIM.”

            BURSE WAS ARRESTED LAST NIGHT AROUND 11 O’CLOCK AT THE INTERSECTION OF EAST 19^TH AND OAK STREETS ON SEXUAL ABUSE, ROBBERY AND UNLAWFUL IMPRISONMENT CHARGES.

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              KENTUCKY STATE POLICE INVESTIGATED A FATAL WRECK IN CALLOWAY COUNTY YESTERDAY.

            THE VICTIM WAS IDENTIFIED AS 69-YEAR OLD WESLEY PARR OF NEW CONCORD, KENTUCKY.

            ACCORDING TO STATE POLICE, PARR WAS TRAVELING SOUTH ON KENTUCKY 4-44 WHEN HIS VEHICLE DROPPED OFF THE SHOULDER OF THE ROADWAY, OVERCORRECTED AND CROSSED INTO THE NORTHBOUND LANE AND THEN HIT A TREE.

            POLICE SAY PARR WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE BY CALLOWAY CORONER, RICK HARRIS.

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            GOVERNOR STEVE BESHEAR WILL BE MAKING A SIGNIFIGANT ANNOUNCEMENT LATER THIS MONTH CONCERNING THE INTERSTATE 69 CORRIDOR.

            OFFICIALS SAY REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION AND OFFICIALS FROM NEIGHBORING STATE TRANSPORTATION AGENCIES ARE EXPECTED TO ATTEND THE EVENT.

            THE ANNOUNCEMENT WILL TAKE PLACE 12:30 P.M. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25^TH AT SOUTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AT 92-20 HOPKINSVILLE ROAD, NORTONVILLE KENTUCKY.

            OFFICIALS SAY WHILE THIS EVENT IS AT A HOPKINS COUNTY LOCATION, THE ANNOUNCEMENT WILL PERTAIN TO THE ENTIRE KENTUCKY I-69 CORRIDOR.

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         THE HOPKINSVILLE STORMWATER UTILITY BOARD TOOK NO ACTION TONIGHT REGARDING THE POSSIBLE REFINANCING OF 4.8 MILLION DOLLARS IN BONDS.

            THE BOARD DISCUSSED THE MATTER FOR NEARLY AN HOUR AFTER HEARING A RECOMMENDATION TO GO TO A FIXED RATE BY CITY FINANCIAL OFFICER ROBERT MARTIN.

            THE SHORT TERM IMPLICATIONS WOULD MEAN A HIGHER RATE AND HIGHER PAYMENTS, BUT MARTIN SAID IT WOULD COME WITH LONG-TERM STABILITY AND SECURITY.

            CITY COUNCIL WILL DISCUSS THE SAME POSSIBILITY THURSDAY NIGHT AT THE COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE MEETING AND BOARD MEMBER AND COUNCILMAN PAUL HENSON SAID HE’D LIKE TO WAIT UNTIL THEN TO DECIDE.

            THE MOVE WOULD BE TIED TO THE CITY HALL, POLICE DEPARTMENT AND HWEA GAS LINE BONDING, WITH COUNCILMAN HENSON SAYING HE WOULD HAVE TO SEE MORE DETAILS ON THOSE PROJECTS BEFORE VOTING IN FAVOR OF THEM.

            HENSON SAID THE ANTICIPATED COST OF THE CITY HALL PROJECT HAS CHANGED NUMEROUS TIMES AND THAT CAUSES CONCERN.

            THE BOARD WILL LIKELY HAVE A SPECIAL SESSION, SHOULD THEY DECIDE TO GO WITH THE FIXED RATE.

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