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EPD collecting school supplies for Hope Academy

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The Elizabethtown Police Department is partnering with Hope Academy for Kids Inc. for their annual school supply drive, which is now under way.

“You can drop off donations in our lobby at 300 South Mulberry Street,” said EPD Public Information Officer Chris Denham.

Suggested donations include flash drives, backpacks, crayons, markers, folders, loose-leaf notebook paper, colored pencils, mechanical pencils, scissors, glue sticks, index cards, water bottles, and other school supplies.

“All supplies will go directly to the students of Hope Academy to help them start the school year off strong,” Denham said. “For any additional questions or for details, you can contact me, Chris Denham, by calling 270-765-4125.”

Find more information on the EPD and Hope Academy for Kids Inc. Facebook pages.

Radcliff-Elizabethtown MPO collecting feedback on Public Involvement Plan update

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Public comments are still being accepted on the latest update to the Radcliff-Elizabethtown Metropolitan Planning Organization’s Public Involvement Plan.

Radcliff-Elizabethtown MPO Coordinator Jake Zimmerer says a Public Involvement Plan update is required every four years.

“It’s just a brief and not super long, but not super short, plan of what all of our efforts are going to be to involve the public in the transportation planning process over the next four years,” Zimmerer said.

The public comments period on the plan update is open until June 30.

“We’re hoping to just let anyone and everyone look over the plan and say if what we’re doing is adequate,” Zimmerer said. “Are we actually able to reach out with you? Do you have any recommendations for additional stuff we could do to keep the public involved in the process? Any feedback from essentially anyone in our region is helpful and we’ll try to incorporate it into the plan.”

After reviewing the update at www.radcliff-elizabethtown-mpo.org, interested participants can send their comments to Zimmerer.

“All they have to do is email me, jake@ltadd.org, with recommendations and comments, and I’ll work it in any way I can,” Zimmerer said.

A link to the update can also be found on the Radcliff-Elizabethtown Metropolitan Planning Organization Facebook page.

State Theater’s Summer Movie Series offers family fun

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Don’t forget to head out to the Historic State Theater for their Summer Movie Series, which continues Tuesday afternoon and evening.

“We try to make it very affordable for families, and it’s great fun,” said Priscilla Scarborough with the City of Elizabethtown’s Events staff. “The movie selection this year has been great because it is ‘The Summer of Sequels.’”

Tuesday’s movie is Moana, with showings at noon and 7 p.m. Other movies on tap for the summer series include Moana 2, Sing 1 and Sing 2, Paddington 1 and Paddington 2, and Inside Out 1 and Inside Out 2.

Admission is only $1 with special concessions available.

“We like to call them ‘the world famous $3 Kids Pack,’ so that gives you this fantastic little tray with popcorn, a beverage, and fruit snacks,” Scarborough said.

Tickets and more information are available at www.thestate270.org.

Trials for Houck and Lawson set to begin next week

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The trials of the next two suspects charged in the Crystal Rogers investigation will begin next week at the Warren County Justice Center in Bowling Green.

Brooks Houck, who was dating Rogers at the time of her disappearance, was arrested on September 27, 2023 on two charges: one for Murder and one for Tampering with Physical Evidence. The Murder count in Houck’s indictment reads that on July 3 and/or on July 4, 2015, in Nelson County Houck “acting alone or in complicity with another, committed the offense of Murder by intentionally or under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to human life wantonly causing the death of Crystal Rogers.”

Houck’s arrest came about three weeks after the arrest of Joseph Lawson, who is charged with Conspiracy to Commit Murder and Tampering with Physical Evidence as part of the investigation. Nelson Circuit Judge Charles Simms III ordered for Houck and Lawson’s trials to be consolidated in November of 2024. The trial date of June 24 was also set that November.

The trials come about four weeks after a jury in Warren County found Lawson’s father Steven Lawson guilty of Conspiracy to Commit Murder and Tampering with Physical Evidence. Steven Lawson’s trial was separated from the other two suspects due to concerns with the use of Lawson’s grand jury testimony as evidence in his case creating undue prejudice against Joseph Lawson and Houck.

Crystal Rogers was last seen on July 3, 2015.

17-year-old dead after crash in LaRue County

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The Kentucky State Police is investigating a fatal collision that occurred in LaRue County Saturday.

According to KSP Post Four, at approximately 12:20 p.m. on June 14 the LaRue County Sheriff’s office requested the KSP investigate a single-vehicle collision near the 9000 block of KY 210.

The KSP says the preliminary investigation indicates that a 17-year-old from Campbellsville was operating a vehicle going east on KY 210 when for unknown reasons the vehicle exited the roadway, struck a guardrail, and overturned several times.

The 17-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene by the LaRue County Coroner’s Office. An adult and two juvenile passengers were transported to Taylor Regional Hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries.

The KSP says the affected portion of KY 210 was closed for several hours for accident reconstruction. The investigation of the collision remains ongoing.