PARRIS ISLAND, S.C. – Throughout the week, educators from multiple Warren County schools arrived in the city of one of the most well-known U.S. Marine Corps boot camps. Recruiting Station Louisville’s marketing and public affairs chief, Joey Mendez, said the Marine’s Educators Workshop is to help local educators learn about the military in order to better serve their students who…
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Local government officials are discussing how to regulate the use of electric scooters if they become popular in the area. Bowling Green Mayor Bruce Wilkerson believes companies that operate electric scooters may decide to set up shop here in the near future. Here’s how the scooters operate. They are electric and parked throughout a specific area….
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – The Bowling Green Police Department is taking the next steps toward its newly approved law enforcement academy. Bowling Green Law Enforcement Academy Director Charles Casey said they are diligently working to put together a curriculum and schedule for their recruits. Only four other law enforcement academies are in operation in the state with Bowling Green’s being…
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – A bill introduced by State Representative Patti Minter of Bowling Green is moving through the state legislature. It would create a day to honor women veterans. The bill received a unanimous vote Thursday in the Kentucky House State Government Committee. House Bill 318 would designate June 12 as Women Veterans’ Day in Kentucky. According to a…
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – The Bowling Green Police Department has received official approval to establish the “Bowling Green Law Enforcement Academy.” Thursday, the Kentucky Law Enforcement Council voted to approve the request for BGPD to develop the department’s own police training academy. Until now, recruits had to attend the Department of Criminal Justice Training Academy in Richmond, Ky. The establishment…
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – The Bowling Green Police Department is in the final stages of a recruiting campaign. Last month, the police department held an open house recruitment fair for the first time ever. The department has also been running television commercials encouraging people to apply to be police officers and has been actively recruiting on the department’s and city’s…
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – The Department of Justice United States Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday that for the first time in Kentucky’s history, Bowling Green will have a fully-staffed federal prosecutor’s office. U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky Russell Coleman, law enforcement and community leaders congregated for the announcement at the downtown Federal Courthouse. “We want assistant united State…
MUNFORDVILLE, Ky. – A local sheriff’s office is welcoming a new deputy, and she’s got four legs and a tail. That new deputy, K-9 Rina. She’s brand new to the Hart County Sheriff’s Office and to her new dad and partner, Caleb Butler. Rina is a Belgian malinois from Hungary and only knows commands in Dutch. She turns two years…
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – The city of Bowling Green is using new technology to help communicate better with the city’s diverse community. City employees with city-issued cell phones now have access to a video chat language app called Language Line Insight Video Interpreting. The app utilizes trained interpreters in more than 240 audio-only languages, as well as video interpreters in…
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Automotive students at Southcentral Kentucky Community and Technical College in Bowling Green gave new life to an old Kentucky State Police cruiser. KSP trooper Daniel Priddy said the students only charged the agency for the materials and performed the labor for free on the 1978 Ford LTD. The students did the detail work on the outside…
