A widespread power outage left Marion businesses and residences in the dark around 4:15 p.m. The cause of the outage is a cut utility line in Caldwell County.
There is no indication of a timeline for restoring power.
At right, Marion police monitor the intersection at Main and Bellville streets in the absence of one of the town's two stoplights.
According to Kentucky Utilities' outage map, more than 3,000 customers are affected including those in Marion, Fredonia and into Lyon County.
