Slaughters News

Madisonville, KY - The Kentucky State Police of Post 2 in Madisonville report a motorcycle accident Saturday morning in Hanson.

A search warrant leads authorities in Hopkins county to arrest a man on a number of drug-related charges.

A good portion of Webster County's eighth-graders exceeded state averages and at least met national averages on a newer set of state-mandated tests in math, English, reading and science.

Chris Knight's version of Americana songwriting rings truer than most, and you can trace that directly to growing up in Slaughters, Ky., a coal-mining community that defines small-town, hardscrabble living.

Sebree, Onton and Slaughters residents may be interested in a free program where volunteers with the Christian Aid Ministries clear limbs and trees from yards.

A house fire that killed a Hopkins County woman late Friday night was caused by a portable propane heater placed too close to some curtains, state police said.

Both the shelters, and the amount of people staying in them, seem to be shrinking in Henderson and Webster counties.

Officials said a 51-year-old Hopkins County woman was killed in a fire started by a propane heater and an Anderson County man died when he fell off his roof while trying to clean ice from his gutter.

Widespread power outages are giving many Western Kentucky students nearly two weeks off school.

The winter storm has caused anogther boil advisory; this time in Webster County.