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The Kentucky State Police is investigating a fatal collision in Meade County Thursday. According to KSP Post Four, at around 10:30 a.m. on August 21 troopers from Post Four and the KSP Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Division responded to a request from Meade County Dispatch to assist with the investigation of a crash near the 14,000 block of U.S. 60. The KSP says the preliminary investigation indicates that a tractor-trailer operated […]

Hardin County/Ninth Judicial Circuit Commonwealth’s Attorney Shane Young is receiving some special recognition. Young received the 2025 Outstanding Commonwealth’s Attorney Award at the Kentucky Prosecutors Conference in Lexington Wednesday. “Personally, it’s gratifying, but really, I think it’s a reflection on what the office does,” Young said. “Not just me, but I have seven other prosecutors that work with me, and I’ve been lucky enough to assemble what I think is probably the […]

A fire at a city-owned building Tuesday night resulted in significant losses for the Vine Grove Fire Department. Vine Grove Mayor Pam Ogden said it appears the fire at 203 North Mill Street began after the building was struck by lightning. “We have video cameras that watch the buildings and we can see about 9 p.m. last night where a plume started coming from the building, so I think it took […]

Kentucky will be getting a new area code as an overlay complex is introduced in the 502 region. The Kentucky Public Service Commission has announced that residents in the 502 area code region will soon be seeing a second area code: 761. According to a release from the commission, the North American Numbering Plan Administrator estimates that available telephone numbers will soon be exhausted in the 502 region, with projections indicating […]

Just under four years after the September 2021 announcement of the Glendale-based project, BlueOval SK on Tuesday announced that production has officially begun at the Kentucky 1 plant. “In just three short years, we transformed a once empty field in Glendale, Kentucky, into a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility for building batteries for the EV industry,” said BlueOval SK CEO Michael Adams in audio provided by the company. “Thousands of people’s work went into […]

The Radcliff City Council met for their second meeting of the month Tuesday. Neil Crawford with QK4, which provides engineering services for the city, provided an update on the North Logsdon Parkway project. Crawford said work had begun on clearing the land and construction was set to begin in September, but the city was told by the state grant manager to pause all work after the period of performance for the FEMA […]

As the Labor Day holiday approaches, state officials and law enforcement agencies are reminding drivers to “drive sober or get pulled over.” Now through September 1, the Kentucky Office of Highway Safety is joining the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and area law enforcement agencies for the Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over enforcement campaign. According to the KOHS, there were more than 4,000 crashes across Kentucky in 2024 that […]

Sentencing for two men convicted in the Crystal Rogers investigation will have to wait another month. Brooks Houck and Joseph Lawson were scheduled to be sentenced in Nelson Circuit Court this Thursday, but an order from Nelson Circuit Judge Charles Simms III issued Monday continued the sentencing hearing to September 17. The order reads: “Unfortunately, the court must continue the final sentencings due to the ongoing serious health issues of […]

The Elizabethtown City Council met for their second meeting of the month Monday. Four ordinances were approved on their second readings. Two amended the zoning of 201 and 202 North Main Street from Neighborhood Office and Urban Residential General to Downtown Mixed Use (C-5). An ordinance approving amendments to the city’s code of ordinances concerning signs was approved, as was an ordinance approving the city’s annexation of 1331 Hayden School Road, with […]