Month: January 2024

Two Madisonville residents were injured in a crash involving a deer on the Pennyrile Parkway early Tuesday morning. According to the Christian County Sheriff’s Department, it happened near the 13-mile-marker in the southbound lanes, when a deer reportedly entered the path of a vehicle driven by 32-year-old Jordan Givens of Madisonville, who was unable to avoid a collision.  Givens and a passenger, 33-year-old Krisina Givens of Madisonville, were transported to […]

An apartment building was extensively damaged in a fire early Tuesday morning in Oak Grove and several residents have been displaced. Speaking with WHOP News, Christian County Emergency Management Director Randy Graham says the fire likely began in the kitchen of one of the units of the Metrovilla Apartments on Pembroke-Oak Grove Road and quickly spread—everyone was able to safely evacuate. The Oak Grove Volunteer Fire Department, Pembroke Volunteer Fire […]

The 2024 session of the Kentucky General Assembly officially starts Tuesday, and when the gavel sounds, work will begin almost immediately on crafting and passing a two-year budget. That means a lot of time and effort spent on negotiations, number crunching, policy considerations and making and more, with every legislator having their own priorities and goals they want to see make it into that spending plan. Senator Whitney Westerfield of […]

The Clarksville Police Department is investigating after a person was killed in a shooting on Fort Campbell Boulevard early Sunday morning. According to a news release, Clarksville police responded to the 2051 block of Fort Campbell Boulevard in Clarksville for reports of a shooting in progress. Officers found evidence of shots being fired in the parking lot of Club Pressuh, and while they were on scene, a victim arrived at […]