Area News

By Dave Taylor A Cloverport man is facing up to five years imprisonment after leading police on a high-speed chase that stretched over two counties. Cody Dwayne Rowland, 37, was arrested late Monday after fleeing from an attempted traffic stop in front of Bill’s IGA and hitting 115 mph before finally being apprehended in Breckinridge…

FRANKFORT – For several decades now, many of Kentucky’s brightest middle and high school students have willingly spent part of their summer vacation back in the classroom. The gifted-education programs the students attend, however, are much different than what they experience during the school year.  Classes are held on college campuses, there are no report cards…

Yager Materials truck overturns A driver for Yager Materials suffered injury when his truck overturned on state Route 334, five miles west of Hawesville. The accident happened on July 10 at roughly 1 p.m. Hancock County Sheriff’s Deputy Aaron Emmick filed the report. Richard M. Harris, of Fordsville, told Emmick he just left the Yager…

By Ralph Dickerson Thelma Robertson does not let a little ole thing like age slow her down. Though not able to get around as well as she once did, she continues to live by herself in her home in Hawesville, and gets outside as often as possible to do some yard work. “I mowed my…

Hancock County District Court Arraignment Docket for Wednesday, July 8, 2020. The Honorable JB Hines presiding. Probate court The estate of Thomas F. Ball, probate hearing scheduled. The court set the bond, oath administered and order signed. The estate of Susan Gail Greenfield, review scheduled. Proof of recording with the county clerk filed. The state…

By Dave Taylor A former Hawesville man was arrested Sunday after police say he purposely crashed his car into a ditch to hurt his wife, and then fled the scene taking the couple’s cat before breaking into a nearby church and smearing blood on the inside. Richard Carl Voyles, 51, who currently lives in Saint…

By Dave Taylor Hancock County’s top dog Artus earned his keep Friday by tracking down a man facing a lengthy prison sentence for serious sex crimes who’d fled on foot from police and disappeared into the thick brush. Artus, a K9 officer who works alongside his handler, sheriff’s deputy Gary Mattingly, was able to track…

    Kentucky reported 299 new cases of the coronavirus Friday, one of the highest daily numbers yet, and four additional deaths, raising the state’s pandemic death toll to 585.

Perhaps more worryingly, covid-19 hospitalizations in Kentucky rose to 455, and the number of those in intensive care rose to 99. Gov. Andy Beshear has said…

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Moving a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis from the Kentucky Capitol to Davis’ birthplace in western Kentucky is costing the state $225,000.

The state Finance and Administration Cabinet recorded the no-bid contract with America Industrial Contractors on June 12, the day the Historic Properties Advisory Commission voted 11-1 to remove the…

The brilliant lights and booming sounds were part of the July 4th Fireworks display at the Windward Heights County Club Saturday.  Golfers played a scramble and then had a barbeque feast of roasted pork. Other fireworks in Hancock County were displayed over the City of Lewisport.