A widespread power outage Monday affected Kentucky Utilities customers in Caldwell, Crittenden and Lyon counties. The Crittenden Press reports a cut line in Caldwell County was the reason for the outage. The city of Marion was without power during the outage. Power was restored to all customers early this morning.
A Paducah man was arrested on traffic and drug related charges Monday. The McCracken County Sheriff’s Department says 35-year-old Dennis Miller was arrested and charged after almost 120 grams of crystal methamphetamine and other drugs and paraphanelia were discovered in his vehicle along with $298 in cash. Miller was lodged in the McCracken County jail.
Paducah’s St. Mary School system canceled classes Monday after authorities say the school received a potential threat. Investigators say two 11 year old juveniles with no connection to St. Mary’s were responsible for the threat. The investigation is continuing and classes are set to resume today.
Monday marked the 37th anniversary of the deaths of 248 Fort Campbell soldiers and eight crew members as their plane crashed in Gander, Newfoundland. The troops were coming home from a peace keeping mission in the Siani Peninsula. Ceremonies were held at both Fort Campbell and in Hopkinsville.
New figures from a school data service show Kentucky has closed three times as many schools due to illness as the rest of the country. Infection has forced at least 385 schools in 44 Kentucky districts to cancel in-person classes for a day or more. Education officials say they cannot explain the high number. Most of the cancellations this year have been caused by the flu and not COVID-19. The CDC reports that flu spread in Kentucky has been among the highest in the country. Ten other states are also at a high state of risk from the flu.
