Month: January 2020

The Kentucky Historical Society intends to unveil a new state historical marker in Madisonville celebrating the oldest African American church in Hopkins County. According to a news release, the Zion Temple A.M.E. Zion Church was established in a log schoolhouse that Hubbard Lunsford, an abolitionist, gave to the congregation in 1868. In 1905, the congregation began constructing a two-story brick building on North Church Street. A year later, the building […]

A Murray man was killed in an accident Thursday night in Calloway County. It happened about 8:15 p.m. and the Calloway County Sheriff’s Department says 38-year old Jonathan McClure of Murray was northbound on Flint Road when his pickup crossed the center line and went off the left side of the pavement. The truck hit two culverts and rolled twice. McClure was pronounced dead at the scene.

Hopkinsville police are asking for the public’s help to identify a man who confronted a woman at Walmart while impersonating a store employee Thursday night. The black male wearing a dark-colored t-shirt, dark-colored jacket and a brown toboggan approached the woman and told her she needed to empty her pockets because he she was captured on video stealing merchandise. When the woman said she wasn’t stealing, the man reportedly told […]

A Christian County Grand Jury returned an indictment Friday morning for rape and unlawful imprisonment against a local man. The indictment against 44-year old James Sanders of Hopkinsville also includes a charge of intimidating a participant in a legal process. The original arrest citation from December says he and the female victim were in an argument at a Younglove Street home that turned physical when Sanders grabbed the woman and […]

The Kiwanis Club of Hopkinsville is inviting the public to come enjoy breakfast Saturday morning at their annual pancake breakfast fundraiser. It will take place at the War Memorial Building in Hopkinsville and Terry Rudd with the Kiwanis Club says there will be plenty of pancakes, sausages and beverages. https://media.socastsrm.com/wordpress/wp-content/blogs.dir/1411/files/2020/01/0131terrypancakes.mp3 Tickets are $6.50 apiece and Rudd says the majority of the food was donated from local sources, and will be […]

A joint effort between Kiwanis, Rotary, the Hopkinsville Human Relations Commission and Pioneers, Inc. will bring back United in Praise for a fourth time to benefit local non-profit agencies. According to a news release, the next United in Praise will take place February 22 at the Alhambra Theatre, where choir groups from across the community will share 10 minute musical sets of gospel music.  It will encompass various styles of […]