The Hopkins County Health Department now considers the giardia outbreak closed. It began in July. 100 of the 131 cases were linked to the El Tapatio restaurant in Madisonville. Officials say they are not able to pinpoint the exact cause of the outbreak but there are many indicators that seem to tie the health crisis to the restaurant. Inspectors say their walk-in refrigerator was not as cold as it should have been. Since El Tapatio has reopended, no new giardia cases have been reported.
A Madisonville woman is charged with trespassing and with being intoxicated in a public place. The police say Josie Crafton was loitering on a porch on Lynn Street. The police report describes her speech as incoherent. Crafton admitted to the officer that she had been told never to return to the property. An empty alcoholic shooter bottle was discovered in her shoe.
In Hopkins County, Heroes Walks at different schools are in honor of our first responders, veterans, and active-duty military. They are intended as a way for the community to show appreciation for those who serve. The schools are also participating in an annual flag fundraiser to benefit the Patrick Rudd Project. The walk schedule is on the Facebook page of the Hopkins County Schools.
Better phone service is coming to Earlington. Here is mayor Albert Jackson. (Clip in audio below)
The Madisonville police are announcing the arrest of a driver who ran a red light and then almost collided with a police car. It took Timothy Gaskill almost a mile to pull over for the traffic stop. After Gaskill was determined to be under the influence of some drug, he was found to be in possession of marijuana. He was then placed under arrest and transported to the county jail.
The false and alarming statements to the office staff of a Hopkins County school by a parent is what led the school to go into lockdown yesterday morning. The sheriff’s office arrested and charged Carrie Gamblin with three crimes in Nortonville at Southside Elementary at 92-20 Hopkinsville Road. The lockdown ended when the school resource officer and school officials concluded that there was no immediate threat. One of Gamblin’s charges is falsely reporting an incident which generates an emergency response.
In Washington, the House Rules Committee chairman is out with details about the investigation of Jeffrey Epstein and (guh-lane) Ghislaine Maxwell. Congressman James Comer says subpoenas have been issued to Maxwell, the Department of Justice, and ten former federal officials. He also said… (Clip in audio below)
The cold case of the woman missing from Newburgh Beach 30 years ago this week is just as cold as ever. The bones that might have given investigators a new clue about the disappearance of Heather Teague turned out to be deer bones. The determination was made by an anthropologist.
From the C-Plant Federal Credit Union Newsroom, I’m Boyce Tate.
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