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A fire in Hodgenville resulted in a man’s arrest.
The Hodgenville Police Department was the first agency on the scene Monday morning for a reported structure fire at a residence on the 400 block of Campbellsville Road. Upon arrival shortly after 4:30 a.m., responding officers saw a garage on the property was on fire and alerted the Hodgenville Fire Department.
The fire spread from the garage to an adjacent trailer on the same property. Surrounding homes were also damaged in the blaze. The two structures that caught fire directly were deemed a total loss.
Nobody was located at the property at the time of the fire and no injuries were reported. The HPD says the investigation eventually revealed that Jimmy Puckett, the property’s resident, started the fire, and told officers he “set the fire in order to go to jail.”
The investigation into the incident is ongoing. Puckett was lodged in the LaRue County Detention Center on a Second Degree Arson charge.
The Kentucky Secretary of State’s Office says this November’s election could have the highest voter turnout in decades as January marked the tenth consecutive month of increased voter registration.
The Secretary of State’s Office says 6,700 new voter registrations were made in January, while 6,156 were removed. Of those removed, about 5,000 were for deceased voters, 578 were for voters convicted of felonies, and 325 moved out of state.
The Secretary of State’s Office says Republican registration rose by 2,111 in January, bringing total Republican registration in the state to about 46 percent of the electorate. Democratic registration in January decreased by 2,751, with Democratic registration representing about 44 percent of the electorate. Other party registration went up 1,184 in January.
The deadline to register for the May 21 primary election is April 22. Ahead of that, voters in three Hardin County precincts will cast ballots in a special election on March 19 to fill the vacated Kentucky House of Representatives District 26 seat. Today is the deadline for write-in candidates to register for that race.
Visit the state election website, govote.ky.gov, or contact your county clerk’s office for more election information.