This week’s Emerging Leader is Francis Wilson, a community organizer who wants to increase voter participation in South Central Kentucky. Wilson is a recent graduate of Western Kentucky University, where he helped launch the ‘Reg 2 Vote’ campaign.
A mother has been arrested after leaving an unsupervised infant locked inside a hot car without air conditioning at an Arkansas Walmart, according to police.
HORSE CAVE, Ky. – A Hardyville couple is accused of breaking into a Horse Cave Church over the weekend. Kentucky State Police were dispatched to a shots fired call late Friday night. When police arrived they saw a single cab truck parked with the engine running in the woods near Mammoth Cave Park Road and Johnnie Bush Road. Police spoke…
CAVE CITY, Ky. – A Cave City man is accused unlawful imprisonment after deputies said he burglarized two homes Saturday and placed a piece of furniture in front of one of the doors at one home to prevent the elderly occupants from getting out. Joshua Bunch, 36, was charged with first-degree criminal trespassing, first-degree burglary, two counts of first-degree unlawful…
GLASGOW, Ky. – A woman who has been banned from every Walmart in the country is accused of attempting to defraud the Glasgow Walmart out of a $27 gift card, shoving people out of her way to exit the store and attempting to entice a man she didn’t know with the $27 gift card to provide her a getaway on…
(WESH/NBC News) A Florida woman’s first date with a man ended with a high-speed chase after he ran from police during a traffic stop. Flagler County sheriff’s deputies used stop sticks to disable the car early Thursday morning. Once they approached the car they discovered the driver bailed out of the car into nearby woods and left the passenger to…
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Bowling Green police charged a former Trace Die Cast employee with five counts of third-degree burglary Sunday. Christopher McKinney, 28, of Bowling Green, is accused of stealing between $2,000 to $2,500 worth of wiring and copper from the North Graham Drive plant on five different dates between June 24 and July 28, according to his arrest…
(KSHB) A child was killed and a woman was injured late Saturday night when dozens of shots were fired into the Kansas City, Missouri home in which they were residing. Officers responded to an ambulance call, and discovered two victims, a woman and a boy. Both were transported to local hospitals with gunshot wounds, where the child was pronounced dead….
(KCRA) The quick action of a teenager prevented a K-9 officer from being harmed during a routine stop on a ride-along in Sacramento, California. 18-year-old Sam Korbs was in the squad car with Officer Michael Bradley when Bradley made the routine check of a suspicious vehicle. Police say the occupants of the car became combative with Bradley. That’s when Korbs…
(WKYC) Every year, only a small percentage of Boy Scouts earn the prestigious rank of Eagle Scout. One of them is 21-year-old Timmy Hartgate in Cleveland, Ohio. Timmy worked his whole life to reach that honor, and his accomplishment is unique because he has autism and is mostly non-verbal. With the help of Cleveland Clinic’s Lerner School for Autism, Timmy’s…
