WQXE News

A Two Vehicle Collision Took Place In New Haven On Monday. Nelson County Police Say A Driver Was Traveling East On Balltown Road, When They Allegedly Crossed The Center Line, Striking A Second Vehicle Head On. The Driver Of The First Vehicle Was Entrapped With Life Threatening Injuries And Was Airlifted To University Of Louisville Hospital. The Operator And Passenger Of The Second Car Were Transported To Flaget Hospital By Nelson County Ems. Deputy Ferrie With The Nelson County Sheriff’s Office Is Investigating.

Two People Have Been Indicted For Using Counterfeit Money At An Elizabethtown Restaurant. According To Arrest Records, The Two Left Long John Silvers After Police Responded To A Call About A Counterfeit 100 Dollar Bill. When Police Searched The Pair’s Car, They Found 2 Additional Counterfeit Bills. Both Face Charges Of Criminal Possession Of A Forged Instrument 1st Degree.

A Rineyville Man Was Arrested Last Week After Police Say He Pointed A Gun At A Woman’s Face. According To Arrest Records, Keith Krieger Allegedly Pointed The Gun At The Woman’s Face, Then Turned The Weapon Away To Fire A Shot In The Air. Neighbors Nearby Say They Heard Someone Yelling For Kreiger To Put The Gun Down. Krieger Is Charged With 1st Degree Wanton Endangerment And Was Held In The Hardin County Detention Center.

New Measures Are Being Taken To Stop Out Of Country Scam Calls. Attorney General Andy Beshear Says His Administration Has Returned Over Two Million Dollars To Kentuckians Through His Office Of Senior Protection, But That This Bipartisan Effort Will Seek To Eliminate The Calls Coming Through In The First Place. Americans Received Almost 18 Billion Scam Calls In 2018.

An Elizabethtown man was arrested and charged with assaulting his father last week. The Hardin County Sheriff’s Office says, Brian Young went to his father’s house in White Mills Thursday afternoon to borrow a trailer when a verbal altercation happened. Young was charged with wanton endangerment and criminal mischief.

The Hardin County Chamber of Commerce has expanded their work ethic certification program to include more local schools. Their Golf Scramble for the program is May 24th at the Etown Country Club. Registration information is available at HardinChamber.com

The Larue County Middle School Is Partnering With The Larue County Public Library For Literacy Night, Tomorrow From 5p-m Until 7p-m. Several Student Groups from The School Like The Washing Dc Trip Folks, Beta, And Greenhouse Group Will Have Informative Booths That Recap The School Year For People To Come See. The Come And Go Visiting Is From 5 To 6:30 And From 6:30 To 7, The Library Will Be Advertising Their Summer Teen Programs.

Contract crews will be working along northbound I65 between mile points 91-98 beginning tonight. Traffic will be reduced to one lane between 7pm and 6am tomorrow. All work should be completed by 6am Wednesday.

The city of Elizabethtown will have a new chief of Police in June. The City Council approved the hiring of Jeremy Thompson at a special called meeting yesterday. Current Chief, Jamie Land, announced in February that he planned to retire June 1st.

The Kentucky State Police and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) are partnering tomorrow to encourage citizens to remove potentially dangerous medicines from their homes and dispose of them safely. The collections will be held at all KSP post across the state from 10am until 2pm.

Kentucky Justice Secretary, John Tilley, spoke at the 2019 RX Drug Abuse and Heroin Summit yesterday about the innovative reforms and initiatives that are underway in Kentucky to lower overdoses and save lives. Programs such as the Kentucky Help Call Center, Local-Option Syringe Exchange Programs, and the new CAN HEAL Project among many more efforts, was his topic of discussion.

A student from Helmwood Heights had the opportunity to be Mayor for the day, earlier this week. Allyssa Levee spent the entire day with Mayor Gregory learning the in’s and out’s of our local Government.