Local News

Motorists traveling on KY 1257 in Union County need to be aware a section of the road will be closed Friday.

The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet plans to restrict traffic to one lane along a section of KY 56 in Daviess County on Friday morning, November 20, 2015.

Autopsies are scheduled today on the family of four whose bodies were found after a house fire police now say was set intentionally.

FRANKFORT, Ky. (Nov. 19, 2015) — Kentucky’s preliminary October 2015 unemployment rate dipped to 4.9 percent from a seasonally adjusted 5 percent in September 2015, according to the Office of Employment and Training (OET), an agency of the Kentucky Education and Workforce Development Cabinet.

Evansville Police are trying to Identify a man who burglarized the Drone’s Gas Station at 410 N Tekoppel on November 17th.

The Kentucky State Police Professional Association District 16 is currently conducting a fundraiser to help disadvantaged children in the area just in time for the Holidays.

A Marion, Kentucky man was injured in a single-vehicle wreck in Crittenden County Wednesday morning.

Gibson County Sheriff’s Office say while the deputy was speaking with the driver and passenger 44 year old Haywood E. Hester of Princeton he smelled the odor of synthetic marijuana and observed drug paraphernalia laying in plain view.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Ed Whitfield (KY-01), Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Energy and Power, was the recipient of the “Senator Robert C. Byrd Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award” yesterday during the Washington Coal Club’s Annual Luncheon.

Police are investigating a burglary that occurred Tuesday night at a residence in Henderson.

Two Henderson men and a juvenile have been charged with wanton endangerment after police say the trio vandalized a mailbox in the 7000 block of Rucker Road by using a homemade explosive device.

On the heels of the four-way stop sign study at 5th and Main Streets in Sturgis, Kentucky Transportation Cabinet District 2 engineers have announced they will be conducting another study to determine if the traffic signal at the intersection of KY 109/5th Street and Adams Street should remain operational or be removed.

A woman arrested for shoplifting at a food store Monday night is also facing drug possession charges.

Governor-elect Bevin made the following statement regarding the resettlement of Syrian refugees in Kentucky:

Governor Steve Beshear and federal highway officials along with state and local leaders gathered in Madisonville Monday to unveil a new shiny red, white and blue highway sign marking the long-sought designation of Interstate 69 for a section of the Edward T. Breathitt Pennyrile Parkway.