BREAKING NEWS: HCHS students mourn deaths of two classmates

I don’t know what time the article was published, today, but sometime late this morning or early this afternoon, the Cynthiana Democrat published a story on the accident that occurred yesterday evening.

BREAKING NEWS: HCHS students mourn deaths of two classmates
By Becky Barnes, Editor
Two Harrison County High School students were tragically killed in a two-car accident Monday evening.

Their deaths have stalled many activities at the school as classmates and family mourn.

Sarah Riggs, 17, and Jennifer Riggs, 16, were in the front seats of a 1997 Camry, which Sarah was driving. They died at the scene. Backseat passengers Jake Stephens, 17, and Jennifer Edens, 16, were taken to Harrison Memorial Hospital.
All Homecoming activites that were planned for the balance of the week have been postponed. The football game against Bourbon County will go on as scheduled. However, high school soccer games and other activities have been cancelled through Thursday night.

More information will be released as it becomes available. See this week’s Cynthiana Democrat for the complete story.

The Lexington Herald-Leader has published an article as well. Two guestbooks are available for signing in remembrance of the teens.
As I drove back down the hill from picking the children up from school some twenty minutes ago I spotted two news vans making their way up church street towards HCHS. 27Newsfirst and WLEX18 are apparently going to have coverage for this story tonight. It’s, of course, a tragic tale which will be sure to grab at everyone’s heartstrings–two teenage sisters killed in a car accident during homecoming week, the school and classmates mourning, and homecoming events (all but the game itself) canceled.
I believe that Cynthiana was going to see the first homecoming parade in years, up until this event.
In regard to the parade, I believe that this was going to be the first parade in nearly fifteen years. I’m honestly uncertain of the last parade, or the date, but I believe that there hadn’t been a parade since the year that Bennie Doan had wrote a threatening letter in which he (writing anonymously) threatened to kill his daughter; if that was the last time, of a parade, then, yes, it’s been fifteen years – that was 1992. An interesting story there… maybe I’ll revisit it at a later date…