UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. – Oct. 10, 2019 – Country music legend Dolly Parton is returning to NBC and will perform at one of the most iconic stages in the world when “Dolly Parton: 50 Years at the Grand Ole Opry” airs Tuesday, Nov. 26 from 9-11 p.m. ET/PT. The special is a celebration of Parton’s 50 years as a member…
FLORENCE, Ind. – Soky Sunrise was named Best Morning Show in the state tonight at the Kentucky Broadcasters Association Excellence in Broadcasting Awards at the Belterra Resort. The finalist in the television morning show category was WKYT in Lexington. The Soky Sunrise team includes producer Morgan Reagle, director Megan Baxter, host Tej Joshi, morning news anchor Candace Price, meteorologist Kristy…
(NBC News) The family of a black woman shot and killed inside her Fort Worth, Texas home by a white police officer is demanding an independent investigation into her death. Tataian Jefferson was killed Saturday when an officer fired through her window when he arrived at her house after a concerned neighbor noticed a door was open and called police….
(NBC News) Painstaking efforts are underway to find a worker still buried under the debris left by Saturday’s construction collapse in New Orleans. “This continues to be a rescue mission at this time,” Mayor LaToya Cantrell said Monday. Huge cranes were brought in to stablize what is left of the Hard Rock Hotel, which had been under construction for a…
(WSFA) Not long after Steven Reed made history by becoming Montgomery, Alabama’s first black mayor, Craig Schaid took to his Facebook page with an advertisement he thought might boost sales. “Hey Montgomery, Don’t like the election results? Call me! Let’s SELL that home while the market is HOT!” the ad explained. The blowback was immediate. “It was not intended for…
(NBC News) Revealing another crack in the Trump administration’s wall of defiance against the House impeachment inquiry, Fiona Hill appeared for closed-door testimony Monday. President Trump’s former top advisor on Russia and Ukraine was brought in to tell lawmakers about an alleged shadow foreign policy in which the president’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, sidestepped official channels to gather dirt on…
CBS enters its 39th consecutive season broadcasting college basketball starting on Saturday, Dec. 14 with a cross-conference clash between Oregon and Michigan (12:00 PM, ET). For the sixth consecutive year, CBS will broadcast the “CBS Sports Classic,” with this year’s matchups featuring UCLA vs. North Carolina (3:00 PM, ET) and Ohio State vs. Kentucky (5:15 PM, ET) on Saturday, Dec….
Olivia Mohr is the Editor-in-Chief for the WKU Talisman and this week’s Emerging Leader. The Talisman is Western Kentucky University’s student lifestyle magazine and website.
(KPNX) Police in Mesa, Arizona say a bus driver admitted to yelling obscenities at students and slamming on the brakes out of anger, throwing an 11-year-old into the windshield. According to court documents, Jamie Tellez began driving when two children, an 11-year-old and a 10-year-old, were to the right in the first-row seat. Surveillance video shows the boy hanging forward…
(NBC News) Crews in New Orleans are carefully trying to find a worker believed to be missing in the ruins of a hotel that collapsed Saturday. The worker was at the Hard Rock Hotel, under construction just outside the French Quarter, when it partially caved in Saturday. “We have teams that are currently making entry into the building again as…
