Graves County News

A bill to allow Amish buggies to use reflective tape rather than a slow-moving vehicle emblem sailed through the Kentucky Senate Tuesday.

A group of Amish men who have been fined and jailed for refusing to hang orange traffic signs on their horse-drawn buggies will argue their religious freedom case before the Kentucky Supreme Court in March.

Marshall County is the number one team on everyones schedule this season, especially at a fired up Eagles Nest gymnasium at Graves County High School.

It couldn't have been a better weekend for Coach Joseph Simmons and his Lady Marshals as they completed a two game sweep of Graves County on Friday then returned home Saturday to play Murray High, winning the second game of that series 41-39 over the Lady Tigers.

Redmon says his office received information from the sheriff in Pendleton County that he had a victim of fraudulent credit card use.

Dana Wyatt won $8,200 and a trip to St. Thomas on the nationally-syndicated game show Wheel of Fortune.

It's looking more and more like the commonwealth will be accommodating an Amish group whose members have faced jail time for refusing to use state-mandated orange-red safety triangles on their horse-drawn buggies.

Graves County Sheriffs deputies and Federal DEA agents have arrested a Mayfield man who they say could be the biggest cocaine supplier in Graves County.

John Smith has a common name, but somehow a background check company found crimes attached to his social security number he says he didn't commit.

The Graves County Sheriff's Department arrested De Angelo "Lil Moose" Collins on Tuesday after an investigation into the largest supplier of cocaine in Mayfield and Graves County.

The Amish in Kentucky would not have to display reflective safety triangles on their horse-drawn buggies if a proposal by a state legislator becomes law.

On Jacob Gingerich's farm in western Kentucky, there is no phone or electricity for his family of 12 children.

According to the Graves County Sheriff's Office, deputies responded to a crash on US 45 South just south of Boyd Road around 5:55 p.m. Friday.

A judge who dealt jail sentences to Amish men who refused to pay traffic fines in a dispute over the use of reflective safety triangles on their buggies handed down an unnecessary punishment, a lawyer for the men says, noting the Kentucky Supreme Court will hear their appeal.

An attorney representing a group of Amish men says it was "unnecessary" for a western Kentucky judge to send the men to jail for refusing to pay recent traffic fines when they have a case on appeal to the Kentucky Supreme Court.

Logan County state senator Joey Pendleton, along with six other state senators, introduced Senate bill 75 to the legislature on Jan.

A Graves County man has been arrested after his car collided with an Amish buggy over the weekend.

Saturday's crash comes after nine Graves County, Ky., Amish men have been jailed for refusing to pay fines over the safety symbol, which they object to on religious grounds.

Jacob Gingerich, member of a conservative Amish community, has been cited and jailed for refusing to place an orange safety triangle on the back of his buggy, parked here on his farm near Mayfield.

A group of Amish men in western Kentucky have been jailed after refusing to put reflective triangles on the back of their horse-drawn carts.