Men in the same Graves County Jail cell where an inmate was found unresponsive and later died and another was treated for an apparent overdose have been medically evaluated.

Mayfield Police Chief Nathan Kent reported the following arrests and warrants served over the past week:

A Mayfield man charged with following a girl into a house, pushing her on a bed and sexually abusing her faces trial next month unless he reaches a plea deal in the case before then.

Kentucky State Police and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) are partnering to encourage local residents to remove potentially dangerous medicines from their homes and dispose of them safely.

Construction will begin next month on an extension of Ky. 80 that will create a four-lane southern bypass around Mayfield.

Dispatch telecommunications personnel at Kentucky State Police Post 1 were honored along with more than 200,000 of their peers across the USA during National Public Safety Telecommunications Week this week.

State police arrested a Paducah man after a chase Friday in Graves County.

Mayfield Police Chief Nathan Kent announced the following arrests and warrants served during the past week:

A few dry patches in between rainstorms have allowed farmers to get into their fields finally, but that means more tractors on the roads.

Mayfield's Code Enforcement Department issued citations for the following violations from April 1-12:

A Hickory man was taken by ambulance to Mercy Health-Lourdes Hospital in Paducah Tuesday after he lost control of his motorcycle on Ky. 1820 near Wheeler Road and crashed into a ditch.

The Symsonia Community Development Corporation has been notified that it is eligible for a federal grant up to $540,848 to construct about 2 miles of sidewalk, allowing residents safe passage to important destinations in the small, north Graves County community.

If you feel like teens are talking a different language, you may be right.

Twenty-nine law enforcement officers gathered in Mayfield on Wednesday to learn how to bring to their own communities a program that has had success at the Mayfield Police Department.

Two Dublin residents face drug charges following an attempt by the Graves County Sheriff's Office to serve a warrant.

Mayfield Mayor Kathy O'Nan recalled Robert Barclay as being a mountain of a man. But describing him went beyond the physical stature of a football player.

Mayfield Police Chief Nathan Kent reported the following arrests and warrants served during the past week:

A man who tried to cut a 72-year-old woman's throat and rape her and her 13-year-old granddaughter could spend the next 15 years in prison.

A 16-year-old male was charged with stealing firearms from a Wingo home following an investigation by the Graves County Sheriff's Office.

Intravenous drug users can get clean needles, be tested for Hepatitis C and HIV and have access to treatment, all anonymously, beginning today at the Graves County Health Department.

The Graves County Piecemakers Quilt Guild is featuring an extensive display of local quilting art at Mayfield's Icehouse Gallery through Saturday, April 27.

A student studying electricity at the Mayfield/Graves County Area Technology Center has been honored along with several of his peers by Associated General Contractors of Western Kentucky officials and awarded a $500 prize for his technical expertise.

A Graves County grand jury has indicted a woman on a new charge in connection with a fatal December hit-and-run wreck.

FRANKFORT -- Gov. Matt Bevin followed up his pledge to call a special legislative session so lawmakers can pass a modified version of the pension relief bill he vetoed Tuesday with an even more ambitious pledge: The law-making session will take only one day.

Ron and Don Gregory never imagined themselves movie stars in their 60s.

Mayfield police Chief Nathan Kent reported the following arrests and warrants served during the past week:

Two women were taken to local hospitals Monday following a two-vehicle collision at the intersection of East Farthing and South Sixth streets.

State police charged a Pryorsburg woman with 23 counts of animal cruelty after they said they found malnourished dogs, including three dead ones, at her home.

Some people hunt Easter eggs, but on Saturday the Grateful Hearts Gather Here group plans an Easter rock hunt instead.

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A Benton man was taken to Jackson Purchase Medical Center early Tuesday morning after he lost control of his vehicle on Doran Drive in Wingo and crashed in the backyard of a nearby home.

A Graves County man faces multiple drug and theft charges following a Graves County Sheriff's Office investigation of a recently burglary.

Graves County Fiscal Court has approved an effort to provide county tax incentives to Youngblood Excavating and Contracting LLC that will enable reconstruction work to continue on 332 acres at the former General Tire property.

The Mayfield City Council spent more than a quarter million dollars on capital expenditures Monday night with the end of the budget year fast approaching.

The Graves County Sheriff's Department's website is providing another way for citizens and law enforcement officers to connect.

Kentucky State Police Post 1 reported 188 criminal arrests, 67 criminal cases opened, 36 vehicle collisions investigated with no fatal collision as well as 21 DUI arrests in the 11-county area during March.

Fancy Farm native Dr. Hilary L. Hunt has published “Wilderness Cry,” his latest book that he says resulted from his own “journey of understanding” that has led to a very different understanding of God and his universe.