Local News

 A Hodgenville woman was injured Dec. 18 when she lost control of the truck she was driving on Old E’town Road.

Patricia Crume, 49, was driving a 2000 Chevrolet Silverado four-wheel drive pickup west toward Elizabethtown near the intersection with Carter Brothers Road, according to Deputy Brian Smith’s report. About 11:30 a.m., the tires dropped off the right edge of the roadway.

Crume overcorrected and the truck ran into a ditch and flipped about six times, coming to rest on the driver’s side in a cornfield.

 When the Supreme Court upheld federal health reform but said states could opt out of the expansion of Medicaid to people with incomes above the poverty line, to be funded with generous federal subsidies, one of the first questions was whether a state had to go all the way: to 133 percent of poverty (138 percent with an official fudge factor). Now the Obama administration has answered "no." And that could make the decision tougher for Kentucky, which is the only state The Washington Post listed this month as leaning toward expansion.

To help save lives this holiday season, Hodgenville City Police Department is launching a special “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” crackdown to stop impaired drivers and to save lives on our roadways.

Officers will be aggressively looking for impaired drivers and will arrest anyone caught driving impaired. Enforcement efforts will include sobriety checkpoints and saturation patrols. The special enforcement crackdown will run through Jan. 1.