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Today is the last day for registered voters in Kentucky to submit a request for an absentee ballot.
Any absentee ballot postmarked by November 3rd will count in the general election. There will be several other opportunities to vote, including early in-person voting, which begins next Tuesday.
With the death of legendary rock star Eddie Van Halen this week, one Elizabethtown man is looking back on the guitarist’s legacy. Kevin Thomas, a lifelong fan of Van Halen, has amassed quite the collection of memorabilia, from guitars and amps all the way down to magazines.
Thomas even got to meet the man himself during a pre-concert event at Freedom Hall several years back. Eddie Van Halen died this week from throat cancer at the age of 65.
Governor Andy Beshear announced 884 new cases of covid-19 in the state.
In addition, 11 more deaths were announced last night, bringing the total of those who have died from the virus to 1,234. The positivity rate for the over 1.5 million tests conducted sits at 4.1% as of press time last night. However, it is reported that at least 13,113 Kentuckians have recovered from the virus, though the number is believed to be higher.
A backlog of cases added to Governor beshear’s daily covid-19 report yesterday. The Governor announced 2,398 new cases of the virus in the Commonwealth, however over 1,400 of these cases were backlogs from Fayette county, meaning that 926 cases were new. Locally, nearly 50 new cases were reported. 18 from Hardin, 3 from LaRue, and 7 from Meade county.
A Hardin county woman was arrested Wednesday after she allegedly stabbed her husband and poured boiling water on him.
According to arrest citations, upon arriving to the scene, the victim was standing outside holding a towel to his chest. The victim appeared to have severe burns to his left side and chest. He advised he had been sleeping when his wife, Megan Wilson, poured boiling water on him. When the victim attempted to get out of the bed to escape Wilson, she stabbed him in the center of the chest with a large knife she had also been holding. The victim managed to get to a neighbor’s house to call 911. Wilson was apprehended, and had a strong smell of an alcoholic beverage coming from her person. The knife was located sitting in water, in what officers concluded may have been an attempt to wash away blood. The victim was flown to University of Louisville Hospital for the stab wound and third degree burns on a large portion of his body. Wilson faces charges of assault and tampering with physical evidence. She was lodged in the Hardin County Detention Center.
