Author: WNKY Staff

Fatal collision involving Greyhound bus leaves one dead, multiple injured

MUNFORDVILLE, Ky. –  One person is dead and multiple others were injured this morning after a Greyhound bus, tractor-trailer truck and a passenger vehicle collided on Interstate 65 south near the 68 mile marker. The passenger vehicle, driven by Charles Cartwright, 37, of Louisville, Ky. was traveling northbound in the southbound lane of the interstate for three miles prior to…

Community Commemorates Juneteenth

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Juneteenth is the name given to the emancipation of the last slaves in Texas June 19, 1865. The Emancipation Proclamation was signed Jan. 1, 1863. White slave owners in Texas kept the information a secret from the slaves for more than two years until Major Gen. Gordon Granger announced the end of the Civil War in Galveston, Texas….

WKU President Timothy C. Caboni named to Conference USA Executive Committee

DALLAS – Western Kentucky University President Dr. Timothy C. Caboni was elected to the Conference USA Board of Director’s Executive Committee at the league’s summer meetings, C-USA has announced. The presidents of each of the league’s member schools serve on the league’s Board of Directors. Members of the Executive Committee help set league policy for the membership. “I am honored to have…

Officials investigate boat collision

SCOTTSVILLE, Ky. – At least one person is injured after a boating collision on Barren River Lake near Goose Island earlier today. One person was taken by another boat to a state boat dock. Other passengers were awaiting transport, according to Kentucky State Police. The Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife is investigating.

Caught on camera: cop stops runaway car

(WESH/NBC News) Security footage shows a Florida police officer leaping into action to save an elderly driver from her own car. The video shows a police officer getting into his cruiser at a Leesburg gas station as a woman who’d parked next to him got out of her car. Then her car started to roll backward. The woman, 75-year-old Bobbie…

“Dude, you’re killing me!” – officer dragged on body camera

(WESH/NBC News) Dramatic body camera footage shows a Florida police officer being dragged after a traffic stop gone wrong. Orlando Police say Zavier Askew, 25, took off from a traffic stop after the officer spotted marijuana in his car with the officer holding on. According to officials, the suspect ran into the car and tried to drive away, going close…

Road risk: driving while high

(NBC News) New statistics released estimate millions of Americans are hitting the highway while high. A report from the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety says nearly 15 million Americans admit to driving within an hour of using marijuana. “Drivers have a disconnect in terms of the impairing effects on marijuana on their safe driving ability,” says AAA’ Tamra Johnson. That…

Hicks refuses to answer questions

(NBC News) Former White House Communications Director Hope Hicks, one of President Trump’s closest advisors, appeared before the House Judiciary Committee Thursday. After being named in the Mueller Report more than 180 times, Democrats were eager to hear Hicks’ account of possible obstruction by the president, including efforts to fire special counsel Robert Mueller. “It’s very important for the American…

On point! – steer breaks world record for longest horns

(WVTM) A Texas longhorn in Alabama has broken the Guiness World Record for longest horns. The steer, named Poncho Via, broke the record on May 8, with its horns measuring 10 feet, 7.4 inches long. To add some perspective: that’s wider than the Statue of Liberty’s face and double the size of a concert grand piano. Experts say as long…