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…
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – A 19-year-old from Bowling Green is dead following a shooting and subsequent car crash Monday night. Bowling Green Police responded to a shooting call at the Crown Apartment complex just before 9 p.m. Monday night. Police found a blood trail on the scene, but no victim. Moments later, about three-and-a-half miles away, Sheryl Cross was startled…
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – A Bowling Green man who was shot died Monday night after he was involved in a car wreck. Bowling Green police responded to Crown Apartments at 720 Patton Way near building 500 Monday night to answer a call of shots being fired, BGPD spokesman Officer Ronnie Ward said. When they arrived, police did not find any…
BOWLING GREEN, Ky.- Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell expressed outrage after someone hung an effigy of Kentucky Democratic Governor Andy Beshear outside the Governor’s Mansion Sunday. The protest was advertised as a ‘Patriot Day’ rally to exercise second amendment rights but eventually turned into a protest of the COVID-19 restrictions ordered by Beshear. At the protests, an effigy with the…
