Local News

Dustin and Jamie Fryar and their four sons were sound asleep on Sept. 20 when they were rudely awakened by bright lights inside their Williamstown home.

Dustin couldn’t find his glasses. Jamie managed to jump up and grab their 8-month-old son, Daniel, who was sleeping in his car seat next to the bed.

It was then Jamie realized her house, or at least the front part of it, had crashed into her bedroom after a full-size pickup truck ran off Falmouth Street and into the home.

Police used time to end a standoff with a Corinth man peacefully on Sept. 16.

James Randall Perkins, 37, barricaded himself inside a hotel room at Three Springs Motel on Ky. 330 around 2 p.m.

His girlfriend called 911 after an argument and told police he was inside the room where they had been living and he had a shotgun. Police were also told he’d been drinking in excess.

The Kentucky State Police Special Response Team removed James Randall Perkins, 37, of Corinth, from his Three Springs motel room after a nearly eight-hour standoff Sept. 16.

Perkins barricaded inside the room at 2 p.m. and was taken into custody just before 10 p.m.

Police said Perkins, repeatedly, agreed to leave the room and then refuse to come out.

He was taken into custody for being a danger to himself and others and was taken to a medical facility for observation.

For more details, see the Sept. 24 issue of the Grant County News.

The Grant County Public Library will look to the sky this fall for a variety of free programs surrounding space and the planets.

2009 is the International Year of Astronomy and the Visions of the Universe exhibit will celebrate the 400th anniversary of when Galileo first looked to the sky.

The exhibit arrives Sept. 23 and features six, 3 feet by 6 feet, two-sided panels that detail discoveries and studies of the moon, sun, Mars, galaxies and more.