Author: WNKY Staff

Bowling Green Area Chamber of Commerce receives 5 star reaccreditation

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – The Bowling Green Chamber of Commerce has been reaccredited as a Five-Star Chamber by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. This honor places Bowling Green’s Chamber among the top 1% in the United States who have reached the highest level of accreditation, according to a release. The accreditation process includes a comprehensive examination of the Chamber’s operations, including…

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…