Author: WNKY Staff

“She thought she was going to die” – rescued hiker spun 174 times

(KPNX) The elderly hiker trapped in a spinning basket as she was rescued from Arizona’s Piestewa Peak Tuesday morning continues to recover in a Phoenix hospital. 74-year-old Katalin Metro’s ordeal began when she fell on the hiking trail, breaking her nose and injuring her leg. Her husband, George Metro, says she is still feeling nauseated and dizzy after she spun…

Caught on cam: trampoline goes airborne

(KPNX/NBC News) Newly released home security video shows two 11-year-old boys taking a wild ride on a trampoline. As the two boys were jumping in a Tempe, Arizona yard a strong gust of wind lifted the trampoline, sending it and the boys tumbling over a wall and into the street. “Big lesson here, just tie down your trampoline. You never…

Leg overboard: boater loses prosthetic limb in lake

(WIS/NBC News) A South Carolina man is offering a $3,000 reward to anyone who can help him find his missing prosthetic leg. The main obstacle: it’s at the bottom of Lake Wateree. Karl Harbath was out on a pontoon boat three weeks ago when rough water sent him overboard. He had to hold onto the boat for dear life as…

Box office preview

“Dark Phoenix,” the latest entry in the X-Men franchise, hits theaters this week. NBC’s Raphael Seth has more.

Feel Good Friday – The Green Book Connection

Bowling Green has a lot of history; unfortunately, not all of it is good. During segregation, African-American travelers needed guides to keep themselves safe in an unknown city. The Green Book was created for that purpose. In today’s Feel Good Friday, we learn about Nancy’s Tea Room, an establishment that was once a welcoming place to African-American travelers. Ski Daddy’s…

Nightmare at sea: drunk captain holds passengers hostage

(WFLA) A group of passengers experienced a scary nightmare while on a 12-hour charter boat fishing trip of the coast of Florida over the weekend. Sarasota police say on Sunday, June 2, five passengers joined Captain Mark Bailey and his first mate, Devin Kisell on the charter boat “Double Marker.” The group departed Sarasota at 6 a.m. for a 12-hour…

Arrest made in 1993 murder

(KSDK) Missouri prosecutors announced Wednesday they’ve charged Earl Webster Cox in the 1993 murder of 9-year-old Angie Housman. Cox is charged with first-degree murder, first-degree kidnapping, and sodomy. “The fact that it took this long for us to be able to use the current technology and do the DNA testing which gave us the result that we have, that was…