Local News

The widening of North Miles Street is slated to be finished by late September, but the road will be inaccessible for two weeks in June.

Chris Jessie, public information officer for the Transportation Cabinet District 4 office, said North Miles between Pear Orchard Road and Colonial Drive will close for 14 days starting June 3 as crews start phase two of construction.

Lora Carson still has the last letter Lt. John Douglas Hale wrote her before he was lost in Vietnam.

The Brandenburg man’s letters were usually brief and down-to-earth.

Carson, of Brandenburg, dated the man before he was deployed, and she still has the journal entries she wrote when he left and when word came that the helicopter he was on was shot down March 8, 1971.

A U.S. Navy SEAL was killed during a training accident this week at Fort Knox. Seven other service members were injured.

Special Warfare Operator 3rd Class Jonathan H. Kaloust, 23, died Wednesday when the Humvee he was in overturned during a training exercise, according to a news release from the Naval Special Warfare Group Two.

Seven others received minor injuries in the accident, according to the news release.

Hodgenville police are investigating what may have been an attempted child abduction.

Chief Steven Johnson said he received a call Monday from a woman who said her son was walking after school on  South Lincoln Boulevard near Citizens Union Bank in Hodgenville when a tan GMC truck stopped near him.

The 12-year-old boy told his mother the man driving pulled the truck up to the curb but didn’t roll down the window. Then, he started signaling for the boy to approach, Johnson said.