Month: July 2023

A head-on collision involving a semi-truck early Friday morning closed the roadway for several hours on Interstate 24 in Trigg County and sent three people to the hospital. According to Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, Trigg County Emergency Management reported that a pickup truck was traveling east in the westbound lanes, and a driver of a tractor-trailer tried to avoid a head-on collision. The two still collided, and the semi ran into […]

One person was injured in a two-vehicle crash on the Bradshaw Pike Extension Thursday afternoon. According to a report from the Hopkinsville Police Department, a vehicle operated by 18-year-old Dakota Strader of Elkton was turning left onto Pembroke Road from the Atlas Fitness gym and did not see an oncoming vehicle. He reportedly pulled into the path of the vehicle driven by 55-year-old Gina Bailey of Hopkinsville, who was unable […]

A Hopkinsville man is facing a second-degree assault charge following a road rage incident where he reportedly put a gun to someone’s head. According to the Hopkinsville police report, the victim told officers he was driving east bound in the area of East Parkview Drive and Mosley Drive when he passed a parked car while another vehicle was traveling towards him.  The driver of that car, identified as 20-year-old Famarion […]

Leon Grimes, the man facing a murder charge in the 2021 fatal shooting of Calvin Buckner, will head to trial as planned on Monday following a brief hearing Thursday morning. The evidentiary hearing had been to allow for the questioning of witnesses in relation to a gun that had been found on or near the victim, and two bullet magazines, where a witness contends they may have seen Grimes place […]