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Today's News

  • Woman trapped under her disabled vehicle has died

    Shannon Gales, who was critically injured Thursday night while trying to push her disabled SUV, died Saturday at University Hospital in Louisville.

    Kentucky State Police said the 1995 GMC SUV Gales was driving ran out of gas near the 200 block of Larue Lane in Elizabethtown. Gales, 25, and her passenger got out and attempted to push the vehicle to Gales’ mother’s house. Gales’ 2-year-old daughter was strapped in a car seat still inside the vehicle.

  • BBQ, BLUES & BIKES: Thousands rumble, revel

    An organizer of BBQ, Blues & Bikes said the event was lightning in a bottle, but downtown Elizabethtown sounded more like thunder Saturday afternoon.

    Engines rumbled on motorcycles that lined the streets and wove slowly through the thick crowd.

    The sounds mingled with sultry and up-tempo tunes from a music tent and the smell of slow-cooked meat and other treats from  food vendors.

    Rik Hawkins, one of the organizers, said the event more than exceeded planners’ expectations.

  • Full slate of Memorial Day ceremonies offered

    Agencies and organizations around Hardin County on Monday will formally recognize those lost to commemorate Memorial Day.

    American Legion Post 113’s annual Memorial Day parade and ceremony returns to American Legion Park in Elizabethtown while Kentucky Veterans Cemetery Central and Fort Knox will host their own traditional ceremonies.

  • Farmers hopeful despite last year's drought

    Hot and dry conditions last year left Hardin County farmers with stunted, shriveled ears of corn that made for the worst season most of them have experienced.

    For Bob Wade Jr., the difference water makes was visible.

    He pulled a plump ear of corn out of a bag during Farm-City Day in November to show visitors the difference the extra water made for the 15 percent of his crop that was irrigated last summer. He then produced an ear with small, dented kernels that made up some of the fields that did not have that advantage.

  • Bardstown police officer shot, killed

    A Bardstown police officer, Jason Scott Ellis, was shot and killed sometime before 2:40 this morning as he was on his way home from work.

    Kentucky State Police officers are investigating the shooting, which happened on the Exit 34 ramp on the Blue Grass Parkway at Bloomfield Road. The officer was in uniform and was found outside his police car.

  • Local police to run for Special Olympics

    Rain or shine, local police will run across the county Tuesday as part of the annual Special Olympics’ Torch Run.

    Torch Runs have raised money for Kentucky’s Special Olympics for nearly 30 years. A run has been held locally for 22 years, said Darrell Brangers, dispatch supervisor at Elizabethtown Police Department and coordinator of the Hardin County Torch Run.

    As many as 25 officers have run in the past, he said, but Brangers remembers making EPD’s 8-mile run with as few as four.

  • Artifacts bring collectors together

    Don West, of Bumpus Mills, Tenn., found his first American Indian arrow head as an 11-year-old tilling his parents’ garden in Christian County.

    After that, the history of that culture fascinated him. That love grew throughout his life and contributed to the accumulation of an extensive collection of other arrow heads, bone needles and bone banners.

    Many of the collectors at the Green River Archaeological Society’s annual artifact show Saturday had similar stories.

  • Ky. 1136 bridge replacement work starts Tuesday

    Bridge replacement on Ky. 1136 over Western Kentucky Parkway is scheduled to begin Tuesday. The project requires closure of the road at the bridge, according to a Kentucky Transportation Cabinet news release.

    During demolition and construction phases, motorists must access locations east of the bridge by using a detour: U.S. 31W Bypass north to U.S. 62 east to U.S. 31W south to Ky. 1136. Motorists on Ky. 1136 needing to access locations west of the bridge must use the same detour, but in reverse order.

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  • Woman wrecks car after driving wrong way on I-65

    A Louisville woman avoided injuring herself and others Friday night after driving the wrong way for six miles on Interstate 65 and wrecking her vehicle.

    Joanne Gonzalez, 64, said she took a wrong turn, accidentally entering onto the interstate via the off ramp at exit 94 in a silver SUV, said Norm Chaffins, Kentucky State Police public affairs officer.