Author: WNKY Staff

Brawl breaks out in Ohio courtroom

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WFMJ) – Chaos broke out inside an Ohio courtroom Thursday when a convicted murderer was blindsided by the victim’s son. Sixty-two-year-old Dale Williams was set to be sentenced for the murder of Elizabeth Pledger Stewart. The victim’s daughter was about to make a statement when the victim’s sons jumped Williams. It took deputies some time to get the…

Feel Good Friday – Free water fun

We are in the dog days of summer, blistering heat with no end in sight. Maybe your kids have been pestering you to take them to the pool, but you just don’t feel like paying for it. Bowling Green Parks & Recreation has your solution in today’s Feel Good Friday. For a list of locations mentioned, see below: Limestone Springs…

Aviation Heritage Park Camp takes kids to new heights

BOWLING GREEN, Ky.- Some campers in Bowling Green are going up, up and away. Thursday was the second and final day of the 2019 Aviation Heritage Park Summer Camp. It took place at the Bowling Green-Warren County Regional Airport. During the camp, kids learned about aircraft instruments, engine and aircraft design, weather and more. Campers even had the chance to…

Bracing for Barry

(NBC News) A state of emergency has been declared in Louisiana as people prepare for a direct hit from Tropical Storm Barry. “This is obviously going to be a significant event for a big part of Louisiana,” Governor John Bel Edwards warned Thursday. The slow moving system, whose outer bands flooded parts of New Orleans Wednesday, is poised to deliver…

Bizarre bust: rattlesnake, whiskey & uranium?!?!

(KFOR) An Oklahoma man and woman were arrested Wednesday after a traffic stop of a stolen car revealed the two had a rattlesnake, radioactive uranium, a gun and an open bottle of Kentucky Deluxe whiskey. Stephen Jennings is charged with possession of a stolen vehicle, transporting an open container of liquor, operating a vehicle with a suspended license, and failure…

Loose gator rescued from St. Louis neighborhood

(KSDK) Alligators aren’t native to Missouri, but one made himself at home in a St. Louis neighborhood last week. Residents called animal control after several people spotted the three-foot gator in front of a home. The reptile was captured and temporarily placed with the Exotic Amphibian and Reptile Center. It was then given to an alligator rescue in Stanton, Missouri….

Hidden History: Fallout Shelter Found Under School

(WFIE) A piece of hidden history has been sitting beneath South Middle School in Henderson, Kentucky for decades. School officials recently found survival supplies from the 1960′s in the old fallout shelter built under the building. “In the mid-to-late 50′s, 70 percent of Americans thought we were going to come under attack,” explains Principal Ryan Reusch. The middle school was…