Author: WNKY Staff

KSP Post 3 names new victim advocate

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Kentucky State Police Post 3 has hired a new person to help assist victims of trauma. On Wednesday, KSP welcomed Shannon Pickett to their team as the new victim advocate. Pickett will help victims who have critical needs and provide emotional support. She’ll also help them receive victim compensation. “There are situations when both the victim…

NASA sets sights on 2024 moon landing

(NBC News) NASA is moving forward with its ambitious goal of moving up the next lunar landing by four years. The plan would put astronauts on the moon by 2024. At a House subcommittee hearing Wednesday NASA defended its request for a budget increase in order to reach that goal. “By creating technologies and capabilities that commercialized and elevate the…

GM, United Auto Workers reach tentative deal

(NBC News) A tentative deal between General Motors and the United Auto Workers union could soon get more than 49,000 employees back to work after four weeks on the picket line. The agreement now goes before UAW representatives from around the country who will be meeting in Detroit on Thursday. The deal doesn’t bring an immediate end to the strike….

Local UAW leadership to travel to Detroit Thursday as union and GM reach tentative agreement to end strike

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – General Motors and the UAW have reached a tentative agreement to end a month-long strike involving about 49,000 workers nationwide including about 900 employees at the Corvette Assembly Plant in Bowling Green. Jason Watson, GM bargaining chair for Bowling Green’s UAW Local 2164 and local president Jack Bowers are traveling to Detroit Thursday to learn more…

4-year-old saves drowning sister

(WBIR/NBC News) A Tennessee toddler is alive and well thanks to the quick actions of her 4-year-old brother. Gray and Andie Forrester were recently playing at their Knoxville home when 2-year-old Andie somehow got into the family’s fenced pool area and fell into the water. Her brother jumped right in to save her. I grabbed her tummy. I was trying…

“It’s A Miracle” – Mushroom Hunting Mom Survives Three Days In Wilderness

(KGW/NBC News) A mushroom picker who got lost in Washington’s Skamania County wilderness Saturday was found alive Tuesday afternoon. Jung VanAtta was found around 3:35 p.m. Rescue teams reported that her condition is “stable,” according to the Skamania County Sheriff’s Office. “The outcome is what we wanted and it doesn’t always happen but we are so grateful,” said Sue Wong,…