WILLIAMSTOWN - Two people were killed Friday in an accident on Interstate 75 that closed the road for most of the day. Their identities were not released late Friday.

A third person, Nichols K. Cox, 31, of Campbellsville, was taken by helicopter to University Hospital. His condition was not available.

The accident occurred after three tractor-trailers crashed near Williamstown in Grant County when the one driven by Cox left the southbound lane, crossed the median and struck a second truck traveling north along I-75 in the passing lane, state police said.

The first truck then slammed into a third one as it also traveled north in the right lane. The first two trucks involved in the crash burst into flames, state police said.

The operator and a passenger in the second truck were pronounced dead at the scene.

The driver of the third truck, Jeremy Abdon, 23, of Crescent Springs, did not suffer any injuries.

Stabbing suspect's wife now also charged

BURLINGTON - The wife of a man charged with killing a Walton man last week was also charged Friday in connection with the death.

Jacqueline Carter, 40, of Walton, faces seven counts of tampering with evidence and three counts of intimidating a witness.

Last Saturday, Carter's husband, John Carter, Jr., 46, was charged with killing Steven Stone at Dino's Sports Cafe on Dixie Highway.

Sheriff's deputies said Stone, 26, of Warsaw, was trying to break up a fight when he was stabbed in the chest.

John Carter, of Crittenden, has pleaded not guilty to murder, tampering with evidence and being a persistent felony offender.

After the killing, Jacqueline Carter gave police a knife from her purse she claimed was her husband's, said Tom Scheben, Boone County sheriff's spokesman.

But detectives later discovered the knife was not the weapon used in the killing, he said.

Deputies allege she threw the weapon used in the killing on the side of a road and burned her blood-stained purse. Jacqueline Carter also is accused of threatening to kill three witnesses, Scheben said.

Horse hits school bus in rural Campbell Co.

Ten students from Campbell County are OK after a loose horse hit their bus early Friday. The horse is OK, too.

Melissa Pryor, spokeswoman for the Campbell County School District, said that bus No. 7 was traveling 25 mph on Poplar Thicket Road in rural Campbell County about 6:50 a.m. Friday when the horse ran out from its corral and jumped in front of the bus.