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Brandenburg Looking For Christmas By the River Vendors
With high temperatures in the 90s again this week, it might be difficult to think about Christmas; but the truth is that the holiday...
Alex Allen
Aug 26, 20241 min read
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Meade County Schools To Host Community Safety Event Before Friday Night's Football Game
The Centegix safety solutions company has partnered with Meade County Schools to host a special Community Safety Event this Friday,...
Alex Allen
Aug 20, 20242 min read
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Police Chief releases statement on juvenile who tragically jumped from Matthew E. Welsh Bridge in Brandenburg
The following statement was released by the Brandenburg Police Department and Chief Brian Haag in regard to the tragic incident that took...
Chad Hobbs
Aug 19, 20242 min read
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Developing: Shooting at Hardin County Courthouse
WMMG has learned more details regarding a shooting at the courthouse in Hardin County that took place Monday morning. Elizabethtown...
Alex Allen
Aug 19, 20241 min read
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City council remembers Bill Basham; looks to fill his vacancy on council before resuming employee occupational tax ordinance in September
On Monday evening, August 12, the Brandenburg City Council met for their regularly scheduled August meeting. The council originally...
Chad Hobbs
Aug 13, 20241 min read
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Multiple unions strike at Monument Chemical for the first time since 1977
This morning, as many across our community prepared for temperatures possibly reaching over 100 degrees today, workers at Monument...
Chad Hobbs
Jul 3, 20242 min read
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No taxation without representation — it's time for a Brandenburg Tea Party
One of the most notable opening acts of the Revolutionary War was the Boston Tea Party. American colonists under the banner of "no...
Chad Hobbs
Jun 22, 20244 min read
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Man stabbed at Meade County bar
On Saturday, June 15, shortly after midnight, Meade County Dispatch received a call about an altercation occurring at Bob’s Bar at 6419...
Chad Hobbs
Jun 17, 20241 min read
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Chase through Flaherty ends with two arrests on Sandridge
Typically, around 10 am on a Wednesday morning in Flaherty, the children are at school, most adults are at work and all is pretty quiet....
Chad Hobbs
May 22, 20242 min read
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Iron horses would lead to the demise of the Big Spring horse track
There was a time, back before trains, planes and automobiles, when the now-sleepy town of Big Spring in southern Meade County,...
Chad Hobbs
May 4, 20243 min read
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A multitude of arrests and citations were made during last weekend’s traffic safety checkpoint
According to Meade County Sheriff Phillip Wimpee, on Saturday, April 20, Deputies with the Meade County Sheriff's Office along with...
Chad Hobbs
Apr 22, 20242 min read
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Meade County's oldest Catholic Church is severely vandalized by two juveniles for the second time in as many days
The Meade County Sheriff's Office responded to St. Theresa of Avila in Rhodelia, the oldest Catholic church in Meade County, this...
Chad Hobbs
Apr 9, 20242 min read
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The pastor of a Brandenburg church destroyed during the 1974 tornado was interviewed by great-grandson
Reverend Dr. Billy Marcum and his wife Betty were interviewed by their great-grandson Alex Bates when he was a freshman in high school....
Melissa Robinson
Apr 3, 20241 min read
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Meade County Sheriff's Office gives update on Aebersold homicide investigation
Meade County Sheriff Phillip Wimpee gave the following update on the homicide investigation of Rhonda Aebersold: Detectives are still...
Chad Hobbs
Apr 3, 20242 min read
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April 3, 1974 — a day that has lived on in infamy for Meade County
April 3, 1974 started much like every other day before or since here in Meade County. The birds chirped, the sun shined and many men,...
Chad Hobbs
Apr 3, 20242 min read
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Meade County Sheriff's Office issues warrants for two of the counterfeiters
The Meade County Sheriff's Office has identified two suspects of the subjects responsible for the counterfeit $100 bills that have been...
Chad Hobbs
Mar 28, 20241 min read
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Businesses beware — counterfeit $100 bills that pass marker test are in Meade County
Numerous counterfeit $100 bills have been used at multiple Meade County businesses over the last two days, and multiple establishments...
Chad Hobbs
Mar 26, 20241 min read
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Deadly wreck leaves one dead and two critically injured after man flees from trooper in Flaherty area
A deadly crash involving two vehicles occurred on Sunday, March 10, just outside Big Spring in Breckinridge County after a Radcliff man...
Chad Hobbs
Mar 11, 20241 min read
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Breckinridge County man who unleashed terror on Judicial Center, sending multiple members of Sheriff’s Office to hospital, is charged
On Tuesday, February 20, Christopher Pascoe, of Irvington, entered the Breckinridge County Judicial Center and unleashed terror when he...
Chad Hobbs
Feb 21, 20241 min read
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Sheriff and Deputies sent to the hospital after a man attempted to take over the Breckinridge County Judicial Center with homemade concoction in garden sprayer
Updated: 4:55 p.m. The Breckinridge County Justice Center was closed today after an incident at approximately 10 a.m. central time that...
Chad Hobbs
Feb 20, 20242 min read
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