BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – A Supreme Court ruling Monday which protects the LGBTQ community from workplace discrimination is having an impact in Bowling Green, where a similar fairness ordinance has been struck down by the city commission two times in recent years. Paul Carter, who is running for Bowling Green City Commission, was overwhelmed when he heard the news this…
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – A camp held annually by Kentucky State Police has been canceled this summer. Trooper Island provides an experience for nearly 800 underprivileged children each year, but this year COVID-19 threw a curveball. This would have been the 55th year for the camp, which is located on an island in Dale Hollow Lake in Clinton County. In…
BOWLING GREEN, KY. – A Bowling Green dog park is sporting some new equipment for you and your pups. Last year, Hill’s Pet Nutrition donated $7,500 to the city for K-9 agility equipment at the H.P. Thomas Bark Park. The city of Bowling Green contributed another $3,000 and over recent months the agility equipment has been built and installed. That…
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – An artist is using her skill to help the community come together with a new mural painted on the wall of a local barbershop. The mural, located on the Shake Rag Barbershop building, reads “I can’t breathe,” which were some of the last words uttered from George Floyd’s mouth before he died. The mural was a…
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. -Police executing warrants without knocking first just became a thing of the past in one Kentucky city. And now, U.S. Senator Rand Paul is hoping to make the “Justice For Breonna Taylor Act” a federal law. The bill is named in memory of Taylor, a Louisville resident who was killed during a police raid on her home…
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – A renewed discussion about purchasing body cameras for Warren County Sheriff’s deputies has started again in light of everything happening in the country. It was a topic at Friday morning’s Warren County Fiscal Court meeting. Warren County Sheriff Brett Hightower is currently getting quotes to purchase the cameras and storage space for video for all 45…
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Places of worship here in the state can now increase the number of people attending services. As of Wednesday, houses of worship are now allowed to go from 33% to 50% capacity which includes clergy and staff members. One of the stipulations of increasing the capacity is these churches, synagogues and mosques, must continue practicing social…
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Bowling Green firefighters pulled a man from his home Thursday morning after it caught fire. At 7:08 a.m. firefighters were called to the 1400 block of Lynhurst Drive where they immediately saw smoke and fire, according to a release from the fire department. “I came back from having my morning walk and I saw smoke billowing…
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – The Bowling Green Police Department has worked the same number of homicides this year as they did all of 2019, and it is only June. The number of homicides in the city both last year and so far, this year is six, the most recent being a shooting that took place at an apartment complex Monday…
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – In the wake of police-involved deaths nationwide, a local sheriff is speaking out about the use of force. Warren County Sheriff Brett Hightower says deputies and police alike are not trained to use choke holds or to place their knee on the neck of a restrained person. Prior to becoming sheriff, Hightower retired from the Bowing…
