Author: WNKY Staff

No kidding: goat farm experiences baby boom

(WGAL/NBC News) A Pennsylvania farm is experiencing an unprecedented baby boom. Over the last two weeks three goats at the Amish Farm & House in Lancaster have welcomed a total of 12 babies. It’s the most kids born in the farm’s over 60 year history. “We started with triplets, and then we had quadruplets, and then we thought we were…

Choir teacher heads to U.S. strongman competition

(KWQC) A choir teacher in Bettendorf, Iowa possesses much more than a strong voice. After only a year of training, David Baxter won the Anvil Strongman Competition in Cedar Rapids last month. He’s now headed to the US Strongman National Competition on June 8, 2019 in Columbus, Ohio. Just a few days later, he’ll appear in Beauty and the Beast…

WATCH: bus driver saves kid from speeding car

(NCSD) A quick-thinking bus driver saved a student from being hit by a speeding car in Norwich, New York last month. Security camera video from inside the bus shows the incident unfolding on April 26. In the video, you can see the student getting ready to get off of at his stop, when suddenly, the driver shouts his name and…

Florida man: attempt to pawn baby was a prank

(WFLA/NBC News) A Florida man who triggered a manhunt when he attempted to pawn his baby says his actions were a prank for Snapchat. On Tuesday evening a man entered the A&F Pawn shop in Sarasota and made a strange request to store owner Richard Jordan. “The weirdest, strangest situation we’ve ever encountered,” said Jordan. “He put it on the…

Anti-vaccination teen contracts chicken pox

(WLWT) A northern Kentucky teen who was banned from school after refusing to get a chickenpox vaccination due to religious beliefs came down with the illness last week, his attorney said Wednesday. Jerome Kunkel, a student at Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Assumption Academy, first started showing chickenpox symptoms last week but has since been cleared by a doctor…

Trump rallies base

(NBC News) President Trump rallied his base in Panama City Beach, Florida Wednesday night, just hours after lawmakers voted to hold his attorney general in contempt of Congress, and after a Republican-led committee subpoenaed his oldest son, Donald Trump Jr. – both in connection to special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian election meddling. A source tells NBC News that…

Exploding Pam: lawsuit targets cooking spray

(KPRC) A Houston, Texas man is part of a nationwide lawsuit against a company that makes the popular Pam cooking spray. The professional cook said he set down the can of aerosol cooking spray while he was cooking on a grill and the can exploded. The incident happened in July 2017. Reveriano Duran was working his usual shift at Berryhill…

Google: new products, increased privacy

(NBC News) The next generation of Google is on display this week at the company’s developer conference. Google unveiled a line of lower-cost Pixel smartphones and the Google Nest Hub Max, a new smart home device with a built-in camera. They’re also updating the virtual Assistant powering its devices, with the aim to make life’s little tasks easier by learning…

Man claims harassment by Starbucks employee

(WFLA) Lorne Green says he walked into a Starbucks last month and was harassed for “using the bathroom while black.” Green states that before placing his order he went to use the restroom when he overheard an employee say “the big black guy is headed for the bathroom.” As Green was in the restroom, he called Starbucks corporate to explain…

Sheriff’s office investigating home invasion, shooting

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Just before midnight Wednesday, three people armed with handguns kicked in a door in Country Living Estates mobile home community as a fourth person stood near the door. That’s when the occupant of Lot 149 opened fire on the intruders. “There was an exchange of gunfire,” Warren County Sheriff Brett Hightower said. The intruders quickly retreated…