A 38 year old man involved in a two vehicle accident involving a Mayfield Fire Department ambulance has died.

Paducah police reported that Kyle Young died Tuesday afternoon at a Paducah hospital.

The accident occurred Saturday evening in Paducah, when the ambulance driver, 25 year old Adam Miller of Murray, traveled through an intersection on Jackson street, with his lights and sirens activated.

The ambulance then collided with a 2018 Chevrolet Malibu operated by 76 year old John Young, of Paducah.

Young, his 71 year old wife Geneva and 40 year old Kenneth Caldwell, were transported to Mercy Health for treatment of their injuries, with Ms. Young later flown to a Nashville hospital

Kyle Young was transported to a Paducah hospital.

No injuries were sustained to the ambulance staff, or patient, from the wreck.

 

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A fundraiser will be held Thursday in Union City to help the athletes of West Tennessee’s Special Olympics.

Members of Westate Corrections Network will hold their annual sack lunch fundraiser from 11:00 until 1:00, at their location of 128 East Main Street.

The lunch sack will include a hamburger, chips, drink and cookie for a $5.00 donation.

Westate employees are seeking to raise $1,000 to benefit the Special Olympics athletes, and will also have a team of jumpers for the February 9th Polar Plunge in Union City.

To better assist the community, Westate Assistant Program Manager David Maddox said large orders can be delivered by calling 885-3411.

 

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Three Dresden men charged with kidnapping and beating another Dresden man entered not guilty pleas Tuesday in Weakley County Circuit Court.

C.J. Allen, Trever James Bradberry, and Cody Wayne Brown, all 18, and all from Dresden, appeared before Circuit Court Judge Jeff Parham Tuesday morning, where they pleaded not guilty to charges of Aggravated Kidnapping, Aggravated Assault, and Evading Arrest.

The charges stem from an incident in November where the three men allegedly kidnapped a 19-year-old Dresden man, tied him to a chair in a shed, and beat him with a wooden table leg.

After the three men left, the victim was able to free himself and flag down a motorist for help on Highway 89 between Dresden and Sharon.

At the time of the incident, Allen was out of jail on bond for a September shooting incident in Dresden.

Brown is free on a $2,500 dollar bond, while Allen and Bradberry are each being held in the Weakley County Jail on a quarter million dollar bond.

All three are set to make their next court appearance on March 11th.

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Teachers of the Year, and the upcoming school calendar were highlighted during the Union City School Board meeting this week.

Director of School’s Wes Kennedy made an introduction of the honored teachers, with a gift presented by School Board Chairman Karl Ulrich.

Director Kennedy also gave highlights of the school calendar for the 2019-20 academic year.

 

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Two more arrests have been made in connection with a search of a home Monday in Gleason.

Weakley County Sheriff’s Captain Randall McGowan says deputies searched a home on Holland Street in Gleason on January 4, and found meth and drug paraphernalia in the bedroom of 34-year-old Rebecca Lynn Todd Hogan, who was not at home at the time, but warrants were drawn for her arrest.

When investigators searched another Holland Street home Monday, making two arrests there, they learned Hogan had just left the residence in a green Jeep.

Deputies later found the vehicle parked at another house on Holland Street, where 32-year-old Amberley Hicks was standing outside and gave deputies false information about where Hogan was and who had been driving the Jeep.

Hogan was found inside the house and arrested for Simple Possession of Meth and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia.

Hicks was charged with Filing a False Report.

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Three people are facing drug charges after two separate home searches in Weakley County.

Sheriff’s Captain Randall McGowan says 58-year-old Randy Allen Ellis was arrested after Weakley County Sheriff’s investigators, deputies, and Dresden Police officers searched a residence on Oakdale Street in Dresden and found 11 grams of crystal meth, numerous items of drug paraphernalia, and a firearm.

McGowan says Ellis was taken to West Tennessee Healthcare Volunteer Hospital from the lobby of the Sheriff’s Department and will be charged with Possession of Meth with Intent to Resale and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia.

Monday, Sheriff’s investigators also searched a home on Holland Street in Gleason and found three grams of meth, loaded hypodermic needles, digital scales, and $723 dollars in cash.

41-year-old Jason Miles Sprouse and 59-year-old Charles Randall Bolin are charged with Possession with Meth with Intent to Resale and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia.

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Employee assistance at the Union Hall for Goodyear’s United Steelworkers Local 878 in Union City has come to an end.

Local Union President Ricky Waggoner told Thunderbolt News the doors closed for services on January 1st.

Following the closure of the Union City tire plant on September 11th of 2011, Waggoner said the Union Hall became the site of many services for those who were affected by the shutdown.

Despite the beginning of the year closing, Waggoner said the Union City location was able to stay open for assistance longer than any other site in the nation.

Waggoner said the building is owned by the Steelworkers Union, and will continue to be the site of nine yearly meetings of the Steel Workers Active Retirees.

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