Today's News

At the New Haven Board of Commissioners’ meeting June 19, renaming private roads in the area was one of the main discussions. While nothing was listed on the agenda about the Street Department, Commissioner Freddy DeWitt brought up an issue that New Haven, and the rest of the county, is facing.

DeWitt said private roads that do not have separate names from the street or road they are connected to will have to be renamed because they do not comply with E-911 addressing guidelines. He gave the example of a small connector on Henry Street.

Timothy Aaron Ball, 29, of New Haven, was sentenced to eight years in prison for attempt to manufacture methamphetamine and 12 months in jail for possession of drug paraphernalia. Ball was granted probation for a period of five years following set conditions serve 240 days in the Nelson County Jail and pay restitution to the Greater Hardin County Narcotics Task Force. On May 16, Ball attempted to manufacture methamphetamine and possessed drug paraphernalia.

The special judge appointed to hear a lawsuit contesting the validity of a race in the May 20 primary election ordered the ballots impounded.

Special David A. Tapp, a 28th Judicial Circuit judge who resides in Somerset, will preside over the case after two other judges were disqualified.

Tapp will hold a preliminary hearing in the case July 8 in his Pulaski Circuit Courtroom. Tapp’s first order, issued June 19, was to impound the ballots in the 24th District House of Representatives race.

Five people were injured early Monday in a crash on Interstate 65.

Maria Bartolome, 27, of Cookeville, Tennessee, lost control of the 2001 Toyota passenger car she was driving near the 78-mile marker, according to LaRue County Deputy Russell McCoy. The vehicle went off the right shoulder of the roadway, struck a culvert and went airborne, striking a tree.