BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Warren County Sheriff Brett Hightower says for years now, while the county’s population has grown, Warren County’s burglary numbers increased. Despite a drop in burglaries due to Covid-19 in 2020, last year’s county burglary numbers exceeded 2019’s. “As we grow in people, there’s just going to be increased numbers in thefts, burglaries and things associated with…
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – For more than two years, the government has effectively frozen student loan balances. The Trump and Biden Administration have required no payments on most federal student loans since March 2020. During this time, interest has stopped adding up and collections on defaulted debt have been on hold. Western Kentucky University director of media relations Jace Lux…
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – April is Distracted Driving Awareness Month – an ever increasing problem that law enforcement says grows with phone usage. Cyndi Crocker founded Crocker Law Firm, and she’s helped injured clients for almost 30 years. “You may hurt somebody. You may kill somebody. That’s something that you’ll have to live with,” said Crocker. She says texting and…
GLASGOW, Ky. – One Ukrainian man living here in the states is helping his friends across the ocean stay safe against Russian forces. Alex Misiats spends his days teaching advanced math in the U.S., but for weeks, his heart has been overseas with his mom and Grandma in Ukraine. “I have an app on my phone which indicates when there’s…
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Friday night kicked off the eighth annual Dance Big Red – a student-led dance at Western Kentucky University in honor of kids battling tough diseases at one local hospital. The dance has raised over four-hundred-thousand-dollars over the years for Norton Children’s Hospital. This year, the dancers will dedicate a purple power hour in honor of young…
GLASGOW, Ky. – T.J. Health Pavilion Community Center is using same day hiring to fill upward of 40 job openings The hospital used this career fair to fill their entry level positions including certified nursing assistants, housekeeping, food service workers and so on. T.J. Samson, like most other hospitals across the nation, lost some of their staff in 2020. Executive…
GLASGOW, Ky. – The FDA just approved another booster shot for people 50-years-old and older and for people 12-years-old and up who are immunocompromised. People who fit these categories can get their next doses of the Moderna or Pfizer vaccines after four months since their last Covid-19 vaccine. This applies to everyone, including people who got the Johnson & Johnson…
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Southern Kentucky school kids attended the SOKY Robot Royale Wednesday afternoon. After a two year break from COVID, the kids couldn’t be more excited to show off their robots or just have fun learning. Close to 230 K-12 students from around 13 different schools got to check out all the event’s different computer-science related challenges. “It’s…
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Arbor Day is coming up April 9th, and The City of Bowling is working hard to make it a day to remember. The City of Bowling Green’s Arbor Day celebration at Kereiakes Park has a number of exciting things coming up. A lot of people lost trees during the tornadoes, so the city is handing out…
SCOTTSVILLE, Ky. – This week, law enforcement from around the nation are competing in Allen County to see whose police dogs are the best of the best. Officers from eight different states drove to Allen county to compete in OnPoint K9 Academy’s Ninth Annual Police K9 Competition. On Monday, 11 officers received their K9 certifications. 32 law enforcement K9s and…
