Local News

Meeting at the courthouse in Hodgenville Nov. 25, LaRue County Fiscal Court magistrates appointed Gordon Conner and Mae Burden to serve on the Extension District Board, January 2009 through December 2111.

In other business, the court concurred with Land of Lincoln Planning and Zoning’s approval of three rezoning requests: 1.2 acres at 128 River Road belonging to Ralph Trumbo, from A1 to R1B; 1.76 acres on South Otter Creek Road belonging to Chris Brewer, from A1 to R1-A; 0.7 acre at 348 Bud’s Lake Road owned by Wesley and Norma Jean McDonald, from A1 to R1B.

The case of a LaRue County man, charged with escaping from the custody of Jailer Mac Trumbo, will be heard by a grand jury in January.

According to court records, a bench warrant was issued for James Walter Hoback III, 23, of River Road, New Haven, for non-payment of funds. Records indicate he failed to make restitution in a criminal mischief case from two years ago. Hoback turned himself in to the LaRue County Sheriff’s office on the warrant. He was escorted to the district courtroom by a deputy and placed in the custody of the jailer.

A New Haven woman has entered a guilty plea to several drug-related charges in LaRue Circuit Court

Deborah “Debbie” Kay Mayo, 44, of 4185 Cissal Hill Road, pleaded guilty to first-degree trafficking in a controlled substance; second-degree trafficking and third-degree trafficking.

Recommended sentence is eight years on the first two counts; five years on the third, to run concurrently.

Probation is recommended by the Commonwealth’s attorney. Another case is pending in Nelson County.

A Brownsville woman was injured in a single-vehicle crash Monday on Bardstown Road near Athertonville.

Heather Seward, 30, lost control of the 1989 Chevrolet S-10 she was driving just after 7 p.m. The front tire dropped off the shoulder of the roadway and Seward overcorrected, according to LaRue County Sheriff’s Deputy Matt Darst. The vehicle “ran up the ditch on the right side of the road” and came to rest on its side.