Volume 80 Number 33 Elkton, Kentucky 42220

Aug. 24 to Aug. 30, 2011

16 Pages 75

Todd County Standard

INSIDE TODAY:

BLUE MOON
BALL

Classifieds, Page 9
Obituaries, Page 3
Society, Page 5
Take Note, Page 10
Opinion, Page 4
Sports, Page 6

Good food, good shoes, all for a good

cause, Page 16.

1 dead, 3 hurt in
school bus crash
No children hurt; accident during severe storm

DYE MURDER CASE

Judge denies
motion for
suppression
BY RYAN CRAIG
TODD COUNTY STANDARD
A judge has denied a
motion to suppress an
alleged confession by a
teenager that he killed his 9year-old sister.
In a ruling filed on Aug.
18, Todd County Circuit
Judge Tyler Gill wrote that
while the motion by 17year-old Garrett Dyes
lawyer raised substantial
issues not easily determined
and subject to reasonable
legal debate, the judge
does not believe the evidence supports the conclusion that (Dyes) constitutional rights were violated
by intentional police misconduct.
Garrett Dye has been
charged with the Feb. 4,

2011 murder
of his cousin
and adopted
sister, Amy.
He was arrested Feb. 6 without a warrant
Garrett Dye at his parents
home
on
Dogwood Road. According
to court records, police
would later testify that
Garrett Dye was arrested on
probable cause from evidence gathered by the
Kentucky State Police. He
was also charged with resisting arrest when officers tried
to put handcuffs on him.
On July 22 (and concluding on July 25), hearings
were held to determine if an
alleged confession Garrett
Dye gave police on Feb. 6
SEE DYE, PAGE 14

Woman charged for not

depositing volleyball
booster club funds
BY TONYA S. GRACE
TODD COUNTY STANDARD

STANDARD PHOTOS BY RYAN CRAIG

Children are helped off a bus that was involved in a wreck last Thursday afternoon on U.S. 79 near Allensville. A truck trying to pass the bus crashed into the door of the bus. One man in the truck died and three others were injured.
BY RYAN CRAIG
TODD COUNTY STANDARD
A Bowling Green man died last Thursday after
the vehicle he was riding in attempted to pass a
school bus in torrential rains on U.S. 79 just a few
miles from Allensville.
There were 19 students, a driver and a bus
monitor on the bus, but none were injured.
According to a police report, a truck, operated
by James Coleman, 48, of Bowling Green,
passed the school bus and swerved back into the
northbond lane to avoid an oncoming vehicle.
Coleman lost control of his vehicle and exited the
shoulder of the road.
The truck rotated 180 degrees and struck a
tree with the rear of the vehicle, the Kentucky
State Police report said. The vehicle then reentered the roadway and sideswiped the passenger
side of the school bus breaking the glass on the
doors.
The truck then came to rest on the drivers side
in a ditch.
A passenger, Dale Cherry, 45, of Bowling
Green, was taken to Gateway Medical Center in
Clarksville, Tenn., and later flown to Vanderbilt
Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
SEE CRASH, PAGE 3

Elkton resident Bridget

Ann Leavell has been
charged with theft by unlawful taking after Todd County
Central
High
School
Principal Todd Marshall
lodged a complaint against
her for only depositing half
the funds into a bank
account for the Todd
County Volleyball Boosters
Club.
A preliminary hearing for
Bridget Leavell, the president of the boosters club,
has been set for 2 p.m.
Aug. 29 in Todd County
District Court.

Leavell pled
not guilty to
the
charges
during
her
arraignment
Monday in district court to
Leavell
satisfy
the
requirements
for having the hearing set.
According to her arrest
warrant, Marshall had stated
in his complaint that Leavell
had unlawfully received
$3,157 to deposit in the
booster club account but
only deposited $1,500.
She received the money
on Aug. 8, the warrant
noted.
SEE FUNDS, PAGE 8

Juniors do not meet

benchmarks on ACT
BY MELONY SHEMBERGER high school juniors in
TODD COUNTY STANDARD
Kentucky must take the
ACT, and Senate Bill 1
Except in mathematics, passed in 2009 mandates
juniors at Todd County that the scores be included
Central
High
School in school and district
showed no progress in accountability results for the
reaching college readiness 2011-12 school year.
benchmarks on the ACT,
The ACT gauges student
according to data released performance in four subject
last week by the Kentucky areas English, reading,
Department of Education.
mathematics and science.
Last spring, 140 11th- The highest score possible
graders took the ACT, a is 36.
multiple-choice
college
Scores in three of the
entrance exam used by four subjects are down from
many colleges and universi- the previous years junior
ties to determine how pre- class. The composite score
pared students are for col- in 2011 17.3, one-tenth
lege. Under a state law less than the 2010 score.
SEE ACT, PAGE 11
passed in 2006, all public

Volume 80 Number 29 Elkton, Kentucky 42220

July 20 to July 26, 2011

16 Pages 75

Todd County Standard

INSIDE TODAY:

SHOOTING
FOR SUCCESS

Classifieds, Page 9
Obituaries, Page 3
Society, Page 5
Take Note, Page 10
Opinion, Page 4
Sports in KY, Page 8

4-H AIM team strives in marksmanship,

academics, Page 7.

After nearly 8 years of legal

maneuvering a settlement has been

reached in the case of SEXUAL ABUSE

on a TODD COUNTY school bus

Former
coachs
trial set
BY ELIZABETH JOHNSON
TODD COUNTY STANDARD
A trial date has been set
for Terry Nofsinger, former
Todd County Central High
School boys basketball
coach and history teacher,
who is facing 29 counts of
sex-related charges for
allegedly having inappropriate relationships with two
players from 2000 to 2004
while serving as the girls
head basketball coach at
Ohio County High School.
During a pre-trial hearing
on July 14, Ohio County
Circuit
Judge
Ronnie
Dortch agreed to continue
Nofsingers trial on Aug. 11
in Hartford. His trial was initially set for Nov. 19, 2010.
According to Nofsingers

On

at least three days in September 2003 and at least one other day that month,
2003, a 5-year-old girl was they sat together.
In her deposition, the girl said the older boy
molested by a 17-year-old boy
while riding home on a Todd County school told her that he was a doctor before molesting
her on those dates.
bus.
Another student on the bus told the girl on
The driver of that bus, along with the
Pennyroyal
Mental
Health-Mental the day of the last incident that what the boy
Retardation Board, a quasi-state agency was doing was wrong. She told the girl to tell
where the 17-year-old went for therapy, set- her mother. The same student also reported
tled in a civil suit filed by the girls parents on the incident to Anthony Addison, the substitute bus driver, according to court documents.
her behalf.
The bus driver reported the incident to the
Eight years after the incident on the school
bus, a confidential settlement was reached Todd County Schools Transportation
through mediation April 21, 2011 without a Director, who spoke with other officials as
well as the girls parents. The student had told
jury trial.
The girl, who was, at the time, a kinder- her mother about the incident when she got
gartener at North Todd Elementary School, home.
A lengthy investigation and legal battle
and the boy, who was a special education student at Todd County Central High School, ensued.
SEE BUS, PAGE 11
rode the bus together. On Sept. 29 and 30 in

STANDARD STORY BY | ELIZABETH JOHNSON

Claymour Camp Meeting starts this week

BY ELIZABETH JOHNSON
TODD COUNTY STANDARD
More than a century ago, seven Claymour men
began the Claymour Camp Meeting a 10-day event
for all denominations to come together for revival.
The tradition continues in the same structure next to
the Whippoorwill Creek in the small north Todd community.
Starting Thursday, July 21 through July 31, those
same wooden benches will be filled for the 108th consecutive open-air revival meeting.
I think spirituality is very strong in peoples lives,
Wilda Harrison said. Its a passed-on tradition. I think
as long as people feel that way, it will continue on.
SEE CLAYMOUR, PAGE 16

indictment
filed in March
2010, he is
charged with
five counts of
sodomy (first
degree), nine
Nofsinger
counts of sexual abuse (first
degree), 14 counts of unlawful transaction with a minor
(first degree) and one count
of complicity to unlawful
transaction with a minor
(first degree). Following his
March 15, 2010 arrest,
Nofsinger was released from
the Ohio County Detention
Center
after
posting
$10,000 cash bail.
The charges stem from
an investigation launched by
the Kentucky State Police in
SEE COACH, PAGE 15

HCC to offer local job

training opportunities
BY TONYA S. GRACE
TODD COUNTY STANDARD
Hopkinsville Community
College will be offering job
training opportunities in
Todd County in the wake of
requests from local industry
officials for a skilled workforce.
Weve been working on
adult training in Todd
County, said Mike Baker,
industrial recruiter for the
Todd County Industrial
Foundation, as he explained
strategies for preparing
prospective employees in
the area for jobs that are

expected to be available in
coming months.
Foundation
President
Todd Mansfield said a minimum of 400-plus jobs are
anticipated given the recent
arrivals of Dilling Group,
Midwest Sales Inc., Hovey
Electric and others that are
considering a move to the
area. Mansfield said officials
think these jobs are just the
beginning of what is to
come. Anticipated openings
are available for positions
including welders, electricians, drivers and warehouse workers, and training
SEE HCC, PAGE 15

Guthrie AT&T tower

to be dedicated July 26
BY CATHERINE DARNELL
THE TODD COUNTY STANDARD
The upcoming dedication
of the Guthrie AT&T tower is
unique for a couple of reasons.
First, fancy invitations
were sent out. Invitations
fancy or otherwise dont
often arrive in the mail in
Guthrie for an event like
this.
Second,
as
Guthrie
Mayor Scott Marshall put it,
We are looking forward to
having the first dedication of
a cell phone tower in the
State of Kentucky.
The ceremony will take
place at 11 a.m. on
Tuesday, July 26 and the
public is invited to attend.

Guests should meet at

Mikes BBQ on Hwy. 79 to
be shuttled to the site,
which is behind the stockyard animal auction building
across the road. The tower
will be dedicated to two men
who were instrumental in
getting the tower to
Guthrie. Mayor Marshall
would not divulge their
names.
On the program are
Todd
County
Judge
Executive Daryl Greenfield,
Mayor Marshall, Mary Pat
Regan, president of AT&T
Kentucky,
Sen.
Joey
Pendleton, Rep. Martha
Jane King and John
Walton. Lunch will follow at
Mikes.
No gifts, please.

Volume 80 Number 27 Elkton, Kentucky 42220

July 6 to July 12, 2011

12 Pages 75

Todd County Standard

GLOBAL
WARMING
& RELIGION
Worshippers
disagree on if it
even exists,
Page 6.

SMOOTH RIDE:

Man has quite a

collection, Page 11.

Murder
trial is set
for July 11
Accident reconstructionist
to look at 2010 crash site
BY ELIZABETH JOHNSON
TODD COUNTY STANDARD
After rear-ending a tractor
in an accident that resulted in
the operators death last year
near Guthrie, David L.
Warfield will be tried for murder July 11 at 9 a.m.
According
to
police
reports, Warfield, 47, was
driving an Oldsmobile northbound on Old Rail Road
Lane on April 8, 2010,
when he rear-ended a tractor
driven by Samuel Swarey, a
77-year-old Amish man.
Swarey was later pronounced dead at Jennie
Stuart Medical Center.
The newest evidence for

Boom!!
The sky lit up Sunday night for the annual
fireworks celebration at Todd County Central
High School in Elkton. The event is sponsored
annually by Heritage Bank and Knuckles
Insurance. The Todd County Community
Alliance sponsored the bouncers for the kids
before the fireworks.

Commonwealths Attorney
Gail Guiling could stem from
an expert reconstruction of
the incident conducted
Tuesday night. Circuit Judge
Tyler Gill said in a July 1
hearing that the results of the
investigation would determine whether or not he
allows the testimony.
In cases of this type its
standard to do an accident
reconstruction to determine
the speed, the exact point of
impact and that type of
thing, Guiling said.
Warfields attorney Chris
Woodall said he was not
given enough time to find his
own expert to testify in
SEE TRIAL, PAGE 5

Photos by Jason Dossett

Cost was $20 a voter

in primary election
BY TONYA S. GRACE
TODD COUNTY STANDARD
The county spent about
$10,000 in expenses for
this past springs primary
election, and Todd County
Judge-Executive
Daryl
Greenfield said it bothered
him to know that amounted
to about $20 a voter for the
500 people going to the
polls.
Is there anything we can
do? Greenfield asked during
a special-called meeting last
Thursday for the Todd
County Fiscal Court.
We want more people to
turn out, replied Todd

County Attorney Harold

Mac Johns, who said that,
in addition to the voter
expense, the election costs
included
other
related
expenses such as preparing
the voting machines.
The court met last week
in a special session at the
end of the fiscal year to
address some financial matters for the county, among
them accounts payable items
like the election expenses
incurred earlier this year.
The accounts payable
were filed subject to audit
after being read by Todd
County Treasurer Tammy
SEE COST, PAGE 5

THE HEART OF TRENTON

Annual event draws shoppers from all over
BY CATHERINE DARNELL
TODD COUNTY STANDARD
Christian. Montgomery. Logan.
From the look of the license plates
parked in Trenton last Saturday, it
would appear that someone had
called a United Counties summit on
the main drag.
Familiar faces and the faces of
people who had never stepped a
foot in this small Todd County town
came together at the Heart of

Trenton Main Street FestivalYard

Sale, all seeming to have one purpose on this hot July day.
That would be to spend money.
Margaret McArdell, daughter
Tammy Gower and granddaughter
Haylee, 6, three generations of
shoppers from Clarksville, had
never been to the Festival, but
theyll be back. This is really nice,
Margaret said, the family toting several bags of treasures in the direction of their car to lighten the load.

Weve already been back to the car

two times.
Thats way the town of Trenton
likes it. In addition to a large
turnout of yard sales, the citys
annual festival features music and
food. And it does for the community what money cant buy: awareness.
Kelvin and Lorie DeBerry, who
are actually Trenton citizens, pronounced the volume of business
SEE TRENTON, PAGE 10

JASON DOSSETT/STANDARD
Jennifer Holder and Morgan Gray check out items for sale at the annual
Heart of Trenton last Saturday.