Month: June 2019

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Local Sports

Golf Roundup

Inbee Park had five straight birdies in a 9-under 62 to take the first-round lead Friday in the LPGA Tour’s Walmart Northwest Arkansas Championship. Princeton’s Emma Talley had a one over par 72 and tees off at 7:48 Saturday morning. Nate Lashley shot a 5-under 67 on Friday to top the PGA Tour’sRocket Mortgage Classic leaderboard for the second straight day. Lashley has a 14-under 130 total after two rounds […]

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Local News

Todd Fiscal Court purchases ladder truck as Novelis project continues

Todd Fiscal Court voted during a special-called meeting Friday afternoon to purchase a ladder truck for the county’s volunteer fire departments. Departments currently only have the capability to provide fire suppression at heights of up to 20 feet, but that will change with the purchase of a 1992 Spartan 104 foot aerial ladder fire truck from Command Fire Apparatus out of Landisville, Pennsylvania. The truck will be stationed at Guthrie, […]

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Local News

One killed, 13 injured in I-24 crash in Lyon County

https://www.facebook.com/KYTCDistrict1/videos/1307043079454512/ One person was killed and 13 were injured in a wreck involving 12 vehicles Friday afternoon on I-24 in Lyon County. Kentucky State Police say it happened at 4:38 p.m. as traffic was very slow or stopped near the 51 mile-marker eastbound due to construction ahead. A tractor-trailer operated by 42-year old Coleman Strachman of North Carolina was approaching and inattention is listed as the reason he ran into […]

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Local News

US 41 Yard Sale underway, continues Saturday

The Highway 41 Yard Sale is underway and continues Saturday from Guthrie to Henderson. Dozens of yard sales are set up along the route in Todd and Christian County—Jane Meacham of Madisonville Road says they were swamped with eager bargain hunters Friday. https://media.socastsrm.com/wordpress/wp-content/blogs.dir/1411/files/2019/06/0628meachamyardsale.mp3 Christian County has the most mileage along the route and sales are also set up at the Trail of Tears Park on East Ninth Street in Hopkinsville. […]

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Local News

Princeton PD: Man stabbed mother during argument

The Princeton Police Department arrested a man Friday morning after he allegedly stabbed his mother when an argument turned violent. According to a news release, officers responded to a residence on North Jefferson Street in Princeton for reports of a disturbance and found the victim, 41-year old Amanda Eison in the front yard. She reportedly had severe lacerations to her face, neck, leg and hands. Eison told officers that her […]

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Local News

Dispatchers graduate from DOCJT training, three from HPD

Eighteen law enforcement dispatchers graduated Friday from the Public Safety Dispatch Academy at the Kentucky Department of Criminal Justice Training, including three from the Hopkinsville Fire Department. According to a news release, Taylor Adams, Jordan Kelly and Jennifer Robinson of the Hopkinsville Police Department recently graduated the five week training program consisting of 205 hours of academy instruction. Taylor and Kelly were also classified as Trainees of Distinction. To earn […]

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Local News

Victim identified in Trigg Co. I-24 semi crash

The Trigg County Sheriff’s Department has released the identity of the man injured Thursday when the semi-truck he was operating went off I-24. Trigg County Sheriff’s Deputy Danielle Adams identifies the victim as Thomas Masters of Dalton, Georgia. As previously reported, Masters had been driving the tractor-trailer westbound near the 56 mile marker in Trigg County when the load he was hauling shifted, causing him to lose control of the […]

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Local News

Riley Fort at national Distinguished Young Women competition

Riley Fort, who won the Christian County and Kentucky Distinguished Young Woman competitions, is in Mobile, Alabama this weekend participating in the national competitions. The evaluation process includes scholastics, interview, fitness, talent and self-expression. Each of the 50 participants were set to compete in self-expression, fitness and talent during the preliminary stages Thursday and Friday and the field will be narrowed down to eight finalists Saturday. For her talent presentation, […]

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Local News

Wisconsin group completing volunteer work in Hopkinsville

A group from Wisconsin has been back in Hopkinsville this week helping with some much-needed work. Officials say Sidekick Missions is a group comprised from different Methodist rural churches near Boscobel, Wisconsin. It was their fourth visit to Hopkinsville, having come once in 2009 and twice in 2010. During those three trips they completed 26 residential projects and five community projects. They brought 99 people this time, youths and adults, […]

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