BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – The Bowling Green Fire Department presented a check from the funds collected over the weekend hosting Fill the Boot. Fill the Boot is a fundraiser created in order to raise money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association and is an annual event the city fire department participates in. This year, the funds raised were record breaking, reaching…
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Valor Healthcare in partner with the Bowling Green Police Department, the Warren County Sheriff’s Office and the local Veterans Affairs Clinic teamed up to walk a mile in honor of 9/11 and for suicide prevention awareness. September 11, 2021, marks 20 years since the twin towers and the Pentagon were attacked by a terrorist group, killing…
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – At around 9 a.m. Friday, first responders were called to the scene of an accident with entrapment involving a fire. On Jackson Bridge Road, a woman was pulled from a car after the vehicle swerved off of the road and into a ditch, according to police. The Bowling Green Fire Department cut the vehicle open and…
GLASGOW, Ky. – Emergency medical services are short staffed across the region and one local ambulance service is working to be a part of the solution. Thursday morning, Barren County Judge-Executive Michael Hale and the executive director of the Barren-Metcalfe Emergency Medical Services, Joe Middleton, announced their second EMT basic class. After the first class, which ultimately served as a…
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – The Bowling Green Police Department is partnering with a company to sell BGPD apparel to help raise money for a scholarship fund. Hero 247 is an online store that partners with different agencies to help do fundraisers for first responders. The money raised through the hoodies, zip ups and shirts will go toward the Gary Raymer…
FRANKLIN, Ky. – The Franklin Police Department is asking for the public’s help in identifying a man suspected in a robbery at the German American Bank on Nashville Road in Simpson County. The suspect, described as a black male wearing a camo jacket with tan hat and a surgical mask, brandished a firearm and left with an undisclosed amount of…
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – One Bowling Green man, Jim Allen, was serving in the Army as a public affairs soldier working at the Pentagon when a plane hit the building on 9/11 in 2001. Thursday, he shared his story at the Bowling Green Rotary Club and with News 40. He said his day started normal with blue skies, until the…
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – If you see people scaling Stadium Park Plaza on Saturday, don’t be alarmed. The event is a major fundraiser for the Barren River Area Child Advocacy Center. Over The Edge is a yearly fundraiser where sponsors and individuals can send a person to scale the five story building, all for a great cause. That cause is…
BROWNSVILLE, Ky. – Emergency Medical Services all across the area are low on employees and are having issues staffing their ambulatory services. “Without an ambulance service what are you going to do most people don’t think they think that if I call 911 within a few minutes and ambulance is going to show up,” said Keith Sanders, the director of…
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – LS Fest is coming up this weekend and nearly every hotel room in the city has been booked up for a while now. Bowling Green has a large number of hotels, many of which are located near the interstate and this weekend, according to Nora Bryant with the Bowling Green Convention and Visitors Bureau, all of…
