Author: WNKY Staff

Tiny house living

(WAVE) Paul and Katie Wheatley have enjoyed their 2,100-square-foot house for the past few years, welcoming foreign exchange students to live in their Kentucky home. Five or six years ago, Paul and Katie talked about downsizing – maybe transitioning into a tiny home – but for several years nothing happened. It wasn’t until a year ago that they finally decided…

Plasma donations needed amid nationwide shortage

(WBAL) A Baltimore-area mother is pleading for more plasma donors to come forward. A nationwide shortage has people living with immunodeficiencies on edge. “People don’t know the diagnosis and therefore they don’t understand the treatment. And people don’t know that blood donation is very different from plasma donation,” says Jana, who wished to only be identified by her first name….

Man wanted in Russellville shooting arrested in Tennessee

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Following a joint investigation of the Russellville Police Department, Montgomery County (Tenn.) Sheriff’s Department and the Clarksville (Tenn.) Police Department Russell McCarley Jr. was taken into custody Wednesday in Clarksville. Police in Russellville say McCarley, 36, shot Warren Bullard early Saturday morning following an altercation. McCarley is charged with attempted murder, possession of a handgun by…

Message in a bottle makes amazing journey

(WJHG/NBC News) A note stuffed in a whiskey bottle 24 years ago has completed an amazing journey after washing up on Florida’s Santa Rosa Beach. “We were down here in the water, Memorial Day weekend, I was with my friend from Kansas City and his wife and we were just chatting in the water and it just came bobbing by,”…

Remembering Apollo 11

(NBC News) On July 16, 1969, the fires of celestial science lifted three men from the surface of the Earth and toward the greatest exploration in human history. But as the name of the mission indicates, it took many steps to get Apollo 11 off the ground. Apollo 1 was scheduled to launch early in 1967, but a pre-flight fire…