Author: WNKY Staff

Judicial nominating commission announces Tyler Gill as one of three nominees for vacant Supreme Court seat

FRANKFORT, Ky. Seventh Judicial Circuit Judge Tyler Gill is one of three nominees Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin could select to fill the vacant Supreme Court seat in the First Supreme Court District of Kentucky. That district is made up of 24 Western Kentucky counties including Butler, Simpson and Allen counties. The vacancy was created when Justice Bill Cunningham retired Feb….

Bowling Green man accused of rape, sodomy

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Bowling Green police arrested a man Tuesday after a woman reported that he raped her. The woman said, Colton Hogendorn, 25, forcibly raped her March 6 and during the alleged assault also committed another forcible sex act, according to his arrest citation. Police located Hogendorn during a traffic stop and when asked by police if he…

South Central Kentucky Drug Task Force arrests man suspected in multiple robberies

RUSSELLVILLE, Ky. – Detectives with the South Central Kentucky Drug Task Force along with Russellville police arrested a man late Tuesday night in Russellville on a bank robbery charge out of Mississippi. Russell John Shelton, 50, is being held in the Logan County Detention Center without bond charged with being a fugitive from another state based on the pending Mississippi…

FAA resists calls to ground Boeing jets

(NBC News) Boeing’s 737 Max aircraft have been grounded in several countries in the wake of Sunday’s deadly Ethiopian Airlines crash, but not in the United States. The Ethiopian Airlines jetliner crashed shortly after take off, killing all 157 people on board. It’s the second time a Boeing 737 Max-8 has crashed in just five months. United Airlines flies the…

Go Joe! – “G.I. Joe” Hospital & Museum takes shape

(KFOR) His operating room is a work bench in the back room of a former beauty shop in Lone Wolf, Oklahoma. Surrounded by body parts and the salvage of a million backyard battlefields, Dr. Neil Vitale saves as many G.I. Joes as he can. “For some reason, kids like to use ice picks on Joes,” says Dr. Vitale, who maintains…

Refugees arrive in Albuquerque

(KOB) Albuquerque, New Mexico is hosting nearly 300 migrants who were released from Immigration and Customs custody in El Paso. A spokesperson for the city said the asylum seekers are from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. “Some of them have told us they left their home country sometime in January, arrived at the border, went through ICE processing and detention…

Firefighters save furry friend

(SNN) Firefighters saved a cat from a house fire in Sarasota County, Florida Tuesday. First responders say there were thick columns of smoke, billowing from the back of the home. Crews were able to get the fire was under control in about 10 minutes, but later learned that two cats were still inside. They were able to find one of…

Voices of Honor – Joe Roysdon

In today’s Voices of Honor, U.S. Marine Corps veteran Joe Roysdon shares his experiences as a field radio operator during the Vietnam War. Roysdon spent two years serving his country in the 1960s and continues to serve the community through his volunteer work with the Marine Corps League.