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Meade County Parks and Recreation to take over Otter Creek Campground
Meade County is preparing to take over the campground at Otter Creek on March 1. The 2,200-acre park has been owned and operated by the...
Chad Hobbs
Feb 6, 20242 min read
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Lanesville YouTuber is served with five new charges from Meade County after being extradited back to Kentucky
In October of last year, Chris Reiter and Tiffany Napier, of Lanesville, IN, were arrested for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest...
Chad Hobbs
Feb 5, 20243 min read
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Two women are dead within 12 hours of each other with ties to the same Meade County residence
On Wednesday, January 31, just before 6 p.m., Meade County EMS was dispatched to a residence on Battletown Road. According to a 911 call...
Chad Hobbs
Feb 2, 20241 min read
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Meade County Sheriff's Office seizes large amount of narcotics in multiple busts this week
The Meade County Sheriff’s Office Detectives and Deputies have been working diligently, yielding excellent results in removing illicit...
Chad Hobbs
Feb 2, 20242 min read
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Meade County man arrested and charged with murder
On Thursday, February 1, Detectives with the Meade County Sheriff's Office began an investigation into the death of Crystal Fetch of...
Chad Hobbs
Feb 2, 20241 min read
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A look back on Otter Creek Park's formation and glory days
The Otter Creek Park area has had a precarious past when it comes to ownership. It was once part of Hardin County. Then when Meade County...
Chad Hobbs
Feb 1, 20243 min read
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DO NOT DRIVE: Toyota announces that certain vehicles could be too deadly even to drive for recall repair
Toyota has issued a “do not drive” advisory for 2003-2004 Corolla, 2003-2004 Corolla Matrix, and model year 2004-2005 RAV4 vehicles...
Chad Hobbs
Jan 30, 20241 min read
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Meade County's first Judge and why the position is now called Judge/Executive
Daniel Boone and his brother, Squire, explored much of Meade County long before it became a county. Squire Boone's son, Enoch, would...
Chad Hobbs
Jan 25, 20242 min read
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A view from behind the badge with Chief Deputy Ray Whited
And now for the rest of the story: Part 3 This series has delved into what happened leading up to the Lanesville couple being arrested...
Chad Hobbs
Jan 25, 20245 min read
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Lanesville YouTuber arrested on Felony warrants out of Meade County
(Updated on January 25 at 10:46 a.m.) On Wednesday, January 24, Christopher Reiter of Lanesville, IN was arrested near his residence by...
Chad Hobbs
Jan 25, 20241 min read
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Multi-county high-speed chase ends in Meade County
Late Monday evening, Jan. 22, a police chase entered Meade County from Hardin County. Timothy Briar Quiggins, 27, of Fairdale, drove a...
Chad Hobbs
Jan 23, 20241 min read
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Road Crews Prepare for more Wintry Weather
Just as road conditions clear up from the previous round of wintry weather across the area earlier in the week, transportation officials...
Alex Allen
Jan 18, 20242 min read
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What a pickle — pretrial hearing for Indiana YouTube couple is the real "dill"
On Tuesday, January 16, the Meade County Courthouse parking lot could have been confused for a Vlasik commercial set if you did not know...
Chad Hobbs
Jan 17, 20243 min read
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Man charged with murder after a shooting near Hog Wallow
On Sunday evening, January 14, at just after 10 p.m., Meade County Dispatch received a call from a man stating that he had shot someone...
Chad Hobbs
Jan 15, 20242 min read
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A view from behind the badge with Chief Deputy Ray Whited
And now for the rest of the story: Part 2 The vast majority of society wakes up, leaves their house for work, and at worst, worries about...
Chad Hobbs
Jan 11, 20246 min read
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A view from behind the badge with Chief Deputy Ray Whited
And now for the rest of the story: Part 1 For most of October 17, 2023, it was a business-as-usual kind of day at the Meade County...
Chad Hobbs
Jan 10, 20245 min read
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Meade County's 2024 ballot starting to come into focus
This November's general election will have a national focus on the presidential race, but here locally, in Meade County, there will be...
Chad Hobbs
Jan 4, 20242 min read
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New Year's Day wreck on Fairgrounds Road ends in fatality
On New Year's Day at approximately 6:43 p.m., a two-car collision in Meade County resulted in a fatality. The collision occurred on KY...
Chad Hobbs
Jan 2, 20241 min read
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Muldraugh Police Hosting Drug Take-Back Event
The Muldraugh Police Department is hosting a Drug Take-Back Event, encouraging citizens to turn in their unused or expired prescriptions...
WMMG
Dec 27, 20231 min read
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How Meade County obtained its name
This Sunday, December 17, 2023, is the 200th year anniversary, or bicentennial, of Meade County’s creation. In the coming days, we will...
Chad Hobbs/Bruce Stith
Dec 15, 20234 min read
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