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‘Colors of life’
By RITA DUKES
Leader-News Editor
editor@ky-leadernews.com

    GREENVILLE — More than 4,000 pink and blue flags adorn the lawn in front of the Pathway of Hope Crisis Pregnancy Center in Greenville. Each represents the average number of lives ended in the U.S. each day through legal abortion.
    Volunteers placed the flags there last week to acknowledge National Sanctity of Human Life Day Jan. 21.

Pathway of Hope Executive Director Diana Anderson, right, and center volunteer Nancy Miller look over the approximate 4,000 pink and blue flags which were placed on the center’s lawn for National Sanctity of Human Life Day Jan. 21. (Leader-News Photo/Rita Dukes)

 

Jewelry store robbery suspects caught after chase

    Two Hopkinsville men have been charged in the Jan. 28 burglary of Broadway Jewelers in Central City.
    Leslie Johnson Jr., 44, and Ronnie R. Moss, 46, stole nearly $20,000 in jewelry before leading Kentucky State Police officers on a car chase to the Pennyrile Parkway exit from the Western Kentucky Parkway.

Construction begins to correct dangerous ‘Dead Man’s Curve’

    Construction began Monday on safety improvements at the curve on U.S. 431S near Belton known as “Dead Man’s Curve”.
    According to the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet Chief District Engineer Ted Merryman, work at the site is on a fast track with completion expected by mid-summer.
School board member continues duties elected to do

By SAMANTHA CARVER
Leader-News Staff Writer
reporter@ky-leadernews.com

    Although there are questions regarding one of the newly-elected members, it is business as usual for the members of the Muhlenberg County Board of Education until they are told otherwise.
    Board member Eddie Brake, who was elected in November, may not be able to serve out his term due to a regulation that prohibits school board members from serving in certain public offices.
Local businessman, wife, employee charged for drugs


    A Bremen couple was arrested, along with an Owensboro man, when Kentucky State Police discovered methamphetamine after executing search warrants Jan. 24.
    At about 11:43 a.m., KSP troopers and detectives executed a warrant at Austin Towing and Recovery on Kentucky 189 and located methamphetamine. KSP also executed a warrant at the home of Thomas A. Austin, 41, and Sonja G. Austin, 31, on Kentucky 175 in Bremen, and located methamphetamine, various drug paraphernalia, pills and a firearm.

Thomas Austin

Sonja Austin



An unidentified man sits in the back of a Kentucky State Police cruiser at the home of Thomas and Sonja Austin in Bremen. KSP was executing a search warrant of the couple’s home on Kentucky 175 and also another warrant at Austin Towing and Recovery on Kentucky 189 in Central City Jan. 24. (Leader-News Photo/Rita Dukes)

01/31/07

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