Author: WNKY Staff

UPDATE: Shots fired in road rage incident; no threat found to Glasgow schools

GLASGOW, Ky. – Glasgow Police Department says they received a call about shots fired on Veterans Outer Loop Thursday morning. According to the Barren County Sheriff’s Office, shots were fired during a road rage incident. GPD stated they placed the schools on alert as a precaution. Authorities stated there was no threat to the schools, and no injures have been…

PET OF THE DAY – Bruna

Today’s Pet of the day, brought to you by Morgantown Bank and Trust is Bruna. She is one year old and still has all the puppy energy left! She also does very well with other dogs. Make sure to adopt her from the BG/Warren County Humane Society today.

SUNRISE SPOTLIGHT – Girl Scout Recruitment

On today’s Sunrise Spotlight, brought to you by German American Bank, we sit down with Felicia Bland of the Girl Scouts of Kentuckiana to talk about the recruitment efforts going on at the mall and the possibility of trying a new flavor of cookie. For more information click here.

Kentucky recognizes International Overdose Awareness Day

FRANKFORT, Ky. – August 31 around the world is International Overdose Awareness Day. A day meant to remember those who survived and passed due to drug overdose. in 2022, drugs seem to be ripping through communities at an all time high with potent drugs such as fentanyl plaguing the streets. Here just in Kentucky, we lost 2,250 Kentuckians to the…

Travel trailers once used in hurricane aid now going to flood survivors

Kentucky governor on catastrophic flooding: “We’ve never seen something like this.” (Source: CNN via CNN Newsource) FRANKFORT, Ky. – Louisiana is donating up to 300 travel trailers originally used to help those that survived Hurricane Ida to now house our neighbors in eastern Kentucky. According to the office of Gov. Andy Beshear, Kentucky is starting the process by moving the…

Man dead after vehicle flips in Scottsville

SCOTTSVILLE, Ky. –  On Wednesday, 55-year-old Richard Wade Lamb of Scottsville died following a car accident. The Scottsville Police Department responded to a single-vehicle accident at the intersection of Old Gallatin Road and Sunset Hill. Authorities stated Lamb was traveling south on Old Gallatin Road in a 2005 Dodge passenger car. Lamb’s vehicle left the right shoulder of the road…

DOJ warns ‘rainbow fentanyl’ could be targeted at teens

(Source: KGO, PLACER COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY, TIGARD POLICE DEPT, CNN via CNN Newsource)SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) – Officials are warning about ‘rainbow fentanyl,’ which dealers could use to target teens. Nonprofit Fent-Check and the U.S. Department of Justice both say they see the opioid in two forms: powder that looks like side-walk chalk and brightly colored pills. Even a small amount…

Delavan Ag Pumps to create 30 jobs in Elkton with $2.3 million investment

ELKTON, Ky. – Gov. Andy Beshear stated Wednesday that Delavan Ag Pumps is locating a new manufacturing facility in Todd County. The $2.3 million investment will bring 30 full-time jobs to the area, including positions in management, engineering and assembly. Delevan will have a location in the Marsh Building on West Main Street in Elkton, where production and warehouse operations…