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WKU researchers receive nearly $25,000 grant for Bowling Green radon research

Radon tests show high levels in BG homes
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BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – A team of Western Kentucky University students received almost $25,000 for their radon research project. A handful of researchers from WKU’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences are using the governmental grant for their experimental study, hoping to develop affordable systems that improve air quality. The group says that in their three years of researching local…

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Barren County Schools add zero tolerance vape policy

Juveniles caught face court mandated rehab
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GLASGOW, Ky. – Barren County Schools are taking steps to stop the vaping problem they say is hurting many of their students. Barren County High School says they caught over 200 students with vape products just last year. With only 186 school days, this averages over one incident per day. Youth Service Center Coordinator Shelly Thomas said, “It’s playing out…

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15-year-old Allen Co. Pilot earns aviation accolades, flying toward Air Force dream

Billy Mitchell Award & Solo Wings - latest steps towards 'Top Gun' dream
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BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – One 10th grade student is raking in aviation accolades one after another on the way to his ambitious future. 15-year-old Parker Lewis fell in love with the skies at 10-years-old. Since then, he’s dedicated his life to the skies. “I like flying, because when you’re out there and you’re up in the air, there’s not really…

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100-year-old BG WWII vet recalls Japan’s surrender 77 years later

Turning point for Allied victory
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BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Monday marks the 77th anniversary of Japan’s surrender in World War II – the beginning of the Allied Powers’ victory over the world’s deadliest war. One Bowling Green veteran remembers the year all too well. 100-year-old Hayward Minton served his country as an aviation machinist – repairing and maintaining Naval aircrafts. The US Navy veteran was…

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Warren County homeowners react to new bus stops

WCPS responds
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BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Imagine looking out your window to see children hanging out in your yard. That’s what one Bowling Green woman woke up to this week. Valarie Phelps has lived in her cul-de-sac off of Louisville Road for the last 12 years.  Since she moved there, the stop sign at the corner of her yard has acted as…

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“Mom, please, everyone else has an iPhone!”

Tech for Junior? Veteran cyber cop weighs pros and cons
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BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Online child exploitation. It’s a thought parents have to consider when deciding if your kids are old enough to have an iPhone. Veteran cyber cop and founder of  Cyber Safe Families Mike Lemon says he’s seen these kinds of reports have double since the beginning of the pandemic. “They were already high to begin with, and…

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Monarch butterflies facing extinction

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BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Just this year, migratory monarch butterflies made the endangered species list, after almost 2 decades of researchers advocating for that warning label. It’s a blow conservationists say is a huge setback in the environmental food chain. “Without them, we do not have a full cycle of life, a full food web, the biodiversity that is necessary….

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BGHS artist raising flood relief funding painting Kentucky landmarks

Sister fund-raising duo already seeing commission success
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Update: The Genter sisters reached out again to News 40 following this interview with amazing news. One Arkansas church heard how they were fundraising… and donated over one-thousand-six-hundred dollars to the cause. BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – 17-year-old Bowling Green High School artist Chaney Genter is helping Eastern Kentucky’s flood victims the best way she can: with her paintbrush. “It was…

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Bosnian sisters open dream BG business 30 years after Srebrenica massacre

Grand opening scheduled 20 years after parents emigrated from Bosnia
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BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Since the Bosnian Genocide in the early 1990s, Bowling Green has served as a place of refuge for thousands of Bosnian citizens – a dark stain for many of Bowling Green’s large Bosnian population. Many of those immigrants’ children have now grown up to make the most of their parents’ sacrifices.  Two of those people are…

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Conservation officer says flood damage eerily similar to tornado

Emergency management says unforeseen hazards require caution
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MORGANTOWN, Ky. – Flood waters and debris have already caused unknown damage in Eastern Kentucky, but beyond the obvious, unforeseen hazards lie underneath those flood waters.  Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources Conservation Officer Ethan Vincent saw the damage firsthand. “It’s devastating,” said Vincent. “You talk to someone that’s lived there their entire life born and raised there. They took…

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