(NBC News) Widespread flooding has thousands from their homes across the Midwest following a week of heavy rains. The flooding in many areas throughout the Missouri and Mississippi river basins has reached historic levels, with water pushing into places it’s never been before. Communities are cut off from major roads, and in many cases the mainland. Many families have been…
(WLWT) A Kentucky family is suing their health department because of an issue with the chickenpox vaccine. Bill Kunkel says his son Jerome, 18, is being discriminated against because of his religious beliefs regarding a vaccine for chickenpox. Jerome is a student at Our Lady of the Sacred Heart/Assumption Academy in Walton, Kentucky. The school was recently the site of…
(NBC News) President Trump lashed out at a series of targets in a string of tweets over the weekend, from the Russia investigation to “Saturday Night Live,” but it’s what he’s saying about former Senator John McCain that has some on both sides of the aisle upset. Nearly seven months after McCain’s death from brain cancer, the president accused the…
This week’s Emerging Leader is Caleb West, a Glasgow High School student that volunteers with his church, participates in academic team and marching band and scored a perfect score on his ACT.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s agriculture commissioner says sales of the state’s hemp products surged in 2018, as did the amount hemp farmers were paid. Agriculture Commissioner Ryan Quarles said Monday that Kentucky hemp processors reported nearly $58 million in gross product sales last year, compared with nearly $17 million in 2017. The report is based on a state Agriculture…
(NBC News) In a lengthy manifesto, the man who killed 50 people in two New Zealand mosques last week says he disagrees with President Trump’s policies, but called him “a symbol of renewed white identity and common purpose.” That has ignited debate over the threat of white nationalism, and what role President Trump has played in its rise. “His language,…
(WESH) Florida authorities say a woman nearly drowned when troopers said she drunkenly crashed her car into a fire hydrant Thursday in Summerfield. Another woman who stopped to help also had to be saved by rescue crews. Alexandrea Runyon, 22, of Lady Lake, was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence. Officials with the Florida Highway Patrol say Runyon…
(KSL) 4-year-old Corbin Cox loves playing “doctor.” “This will kind of hurt,” he softly warned his pretend patient recently while playing at Salt Lake City’s Primary CHildren’s hospital. From playing doctor to crafting with his parents, Corbin knows how to make himself comfortable when he’s at the hospital. Intermountain Healthcare’s Jordan Anderson, a Child Life Specialist at Primary Children’s Hospital,…
(WFLA) A run down looking Dale Massad walked into courtroom 3-A at the Florida’s Pasco County Courthouse Thursday in a jail jumpsuit. It’s a fall from grace for the former Port Richey mayor removed from office by Governor Ron DeSantis. Pasco County Sheriff’s Office deputies went to his home in February to arrest him for practicing medicine without a license….
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Over the weekend, around 500 women from across South Central Kentucky joined together at the Sloan Convention Center for the annual Purses, Pouts and Pearls event. All proceeds from Friday’s event went to benefit the American Cancer Society and Warren County Relay For Life. The 5th annual event was sold out this year. Activities included a silent…
