Today's News

Seven representatives of Main Street Hodgenville attended the celebration of the Kentucky Main Street Program’s 30th anniversary celebration Feb. 16 in Frankfort. Nearly 100 local main street managers and board members from across the Commonwealth heard a salute honoring the oldest and one of the largest statewide main street revitalization programs in the nation.

Officer Donald Jewell was patrolling the outskirts of the city early Thursday when he spotted something unusual.

The headlights on his cruiser revealed something big and black and four-legged walking along the edge of the roadway on KY 1618 – the connector road of Lincoln Parkway.

Jewell radioed dispatch to report what he thought was a black bear wearing a red collar.

“I thought I’d lost my mind,” he said.

“When he heard the radio, he turned sideways and looked at me,” added Jewell.

Since graduating from LaRue County High School in 2003, Charlee Doom has experienced more adventures than Indiana Jones.

She has swum with dolphins and whale sharks in Tanzania, survived a bout with malaria while living there in mud huts and tree houses and has been bitten by a kangaroo in Australia. 

The quest continues as she embarks on her next venture – to serve as a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar at the University of Western Australia in Perth.

A Hodgenville woman was injured in a two-vehicle crash Wednesday afternoon.

A 1990 Dodge Ram pickup, driven by Bobby Reece, 64, of Greensburg, was traveling on Greensburg Street and failed to stop at the intersection with East Main Street, city police reported.

Reece’s vehicle collided with a 1990 Chevrolet pickup driven by Bonnie Hurt, 65, of Howardstown Road. Hurt’s truck was northbound on East Main Street. Both vehicles came to rest in a parking lot near the intersection.