(NBC News) A U.S. drone was shot down in international airspace above the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, U.S. Central Command said, contradicting a claim by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard that it had struck the aircraft after it entered Iranian airspace. The news comes amid rising tensions in the region, with American officials blaming Iran for what they said was an…
In this edition of Sunrise Sports, WNKY’s Morgan Reagle gives us a look at the top headlines in local sports this week, including how WKU Golf continues to remember their fallen coach and how Clayton Bush is following in the footsteps of his father.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) – Louisville Metro Council’s Public Safety Committee passed an ordinance Wednesday that would make small amounts of marijuana one of the lowest priorities for police. >> Read The Ordinance Marijuana is still illegal in Kentucky. The ordinance cannot and would not change Kentucky law that classifies possession of marijuana as a Class B misdemeanor, which could turn in…
Millions of Americans — mostly women — are suffering from fibromyalgia. Patients often endure years of surgery and medications like opioids without much relief. Now, a doctor from the University of Texas Medical Branch thinks he’s made a discovery that could treat it.
MUNFORDVILLE, Ky. – One person is dead and multiple others were injured this morning after a Greyhound bus, tractor-trailer truck and a passenger vehicle collided on Interstate 65 south near the 68 mile marker. The passenger vehicle, driven by Charles Cartwright, 37, of Louisville, Ky. was traveling northbound in the southbound lane of the interstate for three miles prior to…
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Juneteenth is the name given to the emancipation of the last slaves in Texas June 19, 1865. The Emancipation Proclamation was signed Jan. 1, 1863. White slave owners in Texas kept the information a secret from the slaves for more than two years until Major Gen. Gordon Granger announced the end of the Civil War in Galveston, Texas….
DALLAS – Western Kentucky University President Dr. Timothy C. Caboni was elected to the Conference USA Board of Director’s Executive Committee at the league’s summer meetings, C-USA has announced. The presidents of each of the league’s member schools serve on the league’s Board of Directors. Members of the Executive Committee help set league policy for the membership. “I am honored to have…
SCOTTSVILLE, Ky. – At least one person is injured after a boating collision on Barren River Lake near Goose Island earlier today. One person was taken by another boat to a state boat dock. Other passengers were awaiting transport, according to Kentucky State Police. The Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife is investigating.
(WESH/NBC News) Security footage shows a Florida police officer leaping into action to save an elderly driver from her own car. The video shows a police officer getting into his cruiser at a Leesburg gas station as a woman who’d parked next to him got out of her car. Then her car started to roll backward. The woman, 75-year-old Bobbie…
