Drakesboro News

Crews are scheduled to begin cleaning up a coal slurry and acid mine drainage that's polluting a creek in Muhlenberg County next month.

Three men are in jail after the Muhlenberg County Sheriff's Department makes a meth bust in Drakesboro.

Officers of the Muhlenberg County Sheriff's Department were investigating drug activity at a home on State Route 176 in Drakesboro when they learned that a working methamphetamine lab was in the back yard.

Muhlenberg County Deputy Sheriff Patrick Putnam, age 40 of Greenville, KY, was on patrol in a 2008 Dodge Charger traveling northbound on North 2nd Street when a 2006 Chevrolet Malibu operated by Rickey L. Bishop, age 52 of Drakesboro, KY, failed to yield the right of way and turned left onto North 2nd Street from the Old National Bank entrance in ... (more)

Deputies say 52-year-old Rickey L. Bishop of Drakesboro, KY, failed to yield the right of way and hit Muhlenberg County Deputy Sheriff Patrick Putnam, who was on patrol in a 2008 Dodge Charger.