Author: WNKY Staff

Women’s event to benefit American Cancer Society

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – The annual Purses, Pouts and Pearls event is being held Friday night to benefit the American Cancer Society. Held at the Sloan Convention Center, women from across South Central Kentucky will come together to raise money for the 2019 Warren County Relay For Life. Activities tonight will include a silent auction, a bingo game for 18 high-end…

NBC launches new late-night talk show ‘A Little Late with Lilly Singh’

Singh blazes trail taking over 1:35a.m. telecast as host of program featuring interviews and comedy sketches

UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. – March 14, 2019 – NBC, which has been television’s late-night leader for more than 60 years, is adding to its already illustrious legacy with “A Little Late with Lilly Singh,” making her the only woman to currently host a late-night talk show on a Big 4 network. Set to air at 1:35 a.m. and debuting in…

Kids & Medication: Store It Safely

(NBC News) Every ten minutes a child in the United States is rushed to an emergency room after getting ahold of medication. A new report from Safe Kids Worldwide looks at the number of kids who are poisoned, often by prescription medicines, like those used to treat high blood pressure and diabetes. “Even medications that are over the counter, which…

‘Rage Rooms’ let you smash away stress

(NBC News) Rage rooms, also known as smash rooms or anger rooms, are all the rage right now. They offer a safe place for people to smash away stress by taking a hammer to a computer screen or hurling an ax through a car window. Hundreds of these businesses are popping up across the country, including the House of Purge…

Cameras capture jail riot

(KNWA) Five inmates are facing additional charges after a riot last week inside Arkansas’ Crawford County Jail. According to Sheriff Ron Brown, the instigator of the riot was in Crawford County to make a court appearance. The other inmates coordinated to obscure security cameras by throwing wet toilet paper on them. Much of the response was captured on body cameras…

Trump Threatens veto over border emergency

(NBC News) President Trump has promised to veto a measure that would block his declaration of a national emergency along the southern border with Mexico. The Senate voted 59-41 to cancel the declaration Thursday in an unusual rebuke of the president. Twelve Republicans voted alongside Democrats, despite the president’s best efforts to keep his party in line. The measure had…

Tornadoes hit Kentucky, Indiana

(NBC News) A massive winter storm that had already battered Colorado and Wyoming slammed into the Midwest Thursday. Several tornadoes swept across parts of Kentucky and Indiana, leaving destruction in their wake. It’s the latest punch from what meteorologists are calling a “bomb cyclone” of historic proportions, dumping snow, hail and rain with the power of a Category One hurricane….

WKU student critically injured in wreck

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – A 20-year old Western Kentucky University student is in the ICU following a two-car collision at the intersection of Lovers Lane and Middle Bridge Road at about 5 p.m. Wednesday. One of the drivers, Lydia Schweichkart, was injured in the wreck and had to be airlifted to Tristar Skyline Medical Center in Nashville. According to one…

Many celebrate Pi day with pizza

BOWLING GREEN, Ky.- March 14 is recognized as Pi Day. Not pie as in apple pie or pizza pie, but pi, p-i as in the mathematical constant 3.14 represented by the Greek letter Pi. It’s the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. Many restaurants offer deals on pizza, pie or even both. WNKY went to Blaze Pizza where…

Elected leaders from 10 counties attend budget workshop

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – County officials from across the 10-county Barren River Area Development District region that includes Warren and surrounding counties met Thursday at the BRADD office to learn about budgeting, state audits and other issues related to county government. The primary purpose for the session was to help elected officials navigate the budgeting process, said Rich Ornstein, attorney…