History

Falls coached at Attucks High School from 1935-1967. His teams won state titles and advanced four time to a national tournament.

Alice Allison Dunnigan became the first black woman accredited as a journalist to cover the White House and Congress.

The public can see the American LaFrance firetruck, along with other fire and transportation relics, at the Woody Winfree Fire and Transportation Museum in downtown Hopkinsville.

The statue commemorates Logan County native Alice Allison Dunnigan, who was the first African-American woman to get press credentials to cover the White House.

The governor's proclamation calling a special session is tailored so lawmakers will likely only be able to consider a proposal that Bevin has hammered out with Republican leaders of the legislature.

Among Kentuckians injured by chemical weapons during World War I was Private Addison W. Jones, a soldier from Hopkinsville.

William T. Turner, the county's historian, was taken to Nashville in a medical helicopter Monday morning for treatment of a stroke.

Three years before Aaron Burr killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel, two Kentuckians fought an affair of honor near Bardstown. In that fight, John Rowan — whose home is now My Old Kentucky Home State Park — killed Dr. John Chambers.

Despite a push starting in the early 1990s to renovate Attucks school, the building continues to decline. Can it be saved?