Author: WNKY Staff

Senator Wilson receives Friend of Kentucky Cities Award

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – The Kentucky League of Cities presented Republican state Senator Mike Wilson with a 2019 “Friend of Kentucky Cities” award at Tuesday night’s Bowling Green Board of Commissioners meeting. KLC Deputy Executive Director J.D. Chaney and Director of Governmental Affairs Bryanna Carroll thanked Wilson for his commitment to cities. Wilson sponsored Senate Bill 172 in the 2019…

Woman sentenced in DUI death

GLASGOW, Ky. – A Barren County woman who pleaded guilty in September to second-degree manslaughter and operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol in a DUI wreck that caused a death was sentenced Monday to 10 years in prison. Lee Ann Tarry, 49, was indicted last year following a wreck in which the car she was driving rear…

Man pleads guilty to multiple sex offenses, state recommends 12-year prison sentence

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – A Bowling Green man pleaded guilty Monday to multiple child sex offenses. Earlier this year, the Warren County Sheriff’s Office investigated Brian Lee Nichols, 58, on multiple sex offenses over a four-year period involving juveniles in his care, according to a release from the sheriff’s office. Nichols pleaded guilty in Warren Circuit Court Monday to one…