Smiths Grove News

Stephen Barry Wooten was arraigned in Barren County Circuit Court on Monday on more charges related to a June 12 arrest by the Barren County Sheriff's Office.

ACTIONS: The board approved the following: two change orders at North Jackson Elementary to install speed bumps on the main entrance for $2,950 and make a price adjustment to the electrical contract for ; project closeout forms for NJE; Kentucky Education Technology System offer of assistance; declaration of surplus property for sale; minutes of ...

When it comes to reminding youngsters about polite manners, moms come in handy. Occasionally, though, it takes something else.

A Barren County teenager accused of shooting his father to death appeared in Barren Circuit Court Monday for a status conference.

A Kentucky State Police trooper was hurt Saturday in a crash on Interstate 65 near Smiths Grove while chasing a stolen motorcycle.

The Barren-Edmonson County Drug Task Force served warrants on three individuals Monday in separate incidents.

Police arrested three Barren County residents and a Warren County man Friday after discovering two methamphetamine laboratories in a residence on MillsTown Road.

A letter from a Barren County teenager accused of killing his father says he could kill again.

Three people were injured in a head-on collision Tuesday afternoon on Tompkinsville Road.

Randall Creek has been found "competent to stand trial." The former Simpson County Sheriff's Deputy is facing a murder trial September 22, in the shooting death of "Debbie Rediess of Smiths Grove last October.

A 1995 Ford Mustang driven by Christopher R. Priddy, 25, of Glasgow, was damaged when it struck a trailer hauled by a pickup truck.

A Smiths Grove couple has had over fifty children over the years, with 48 of those being through foster care.

Two people were injured slighty in a two-vehicle collision Tuesday. John G. Madison, 62, of 102 Arthur Rd., Brownsville, was traveling east on East Main Street in a 1996 Lincoln Towncar shortly before 11 a.m. Tuesday when Berri S. Humphrey, 38, of 2551 Rocky Hill Rd., Glasgow, backed a 1999 Chevrolet Silverado from a driveway into his path, ...

Lynn Woodward with Western Kentucky University's Office of Continuing Education, left, chats with Crystal Nuckols, an academic adviser at WKU's Glasgow Campus during the 'One Stop Shop Service Fair' sponsored by the United Way of Southern Kentucky. The service fair was at the Barren County Extension Office.

Last October Debbie McKinney Rediess was shot and killed at her home in Smiths Grove.

Blue mold has been found in eastern Kentucky, according to officials with the Kentucky Department of Agriculture.

ACTION: Magistrates took the following action: Approved minutes of the June 18 meeting; agreed to list in minutes the 911 dispatchers and jail deputies hired by the county; approved first reading of an ordinance adopting an amendment to the general fund and federal grant accounts in the amount of $2,903,218; awarded a bid to Cybex/Gills for the ...

Safety is an ongoing concern for the parents of children who clamber to board the various amusement park and carnival rides found at county fairs each summer.

Names have been released in connection with a wreck involving an Amish buggy on Ky.

A standoff between deputies of the Barren County Sheriff's Office and a Glasgow man ended peacefully Thursday with the man in custody after about an hour of negotiations.