Author: WNKY Staff

Dream Job: Beer Archaeologist!

(KUSA) Beer archaeologist. Yeah. That’s a thing. Travis Rupp is known as Avery’ Brewing’s beer archaeologist, but also as the lecturer in Classics, Art History, and Anthropology at CU-Boulder. He bounces between the two full-time jobs almost every day of the week. Rupp travels all over the country, and world, researching ancient civilizations–and their beers. The recipes he finds are…

9-year-old makes snowball fights legal

(KUSA) After helping to change the law that had made snowball fights illegal, 9-year-old Dane Best has finally gotten to throw his first legal snowball in Severance, Colorado. Best changed the law last December when he made his second plea before the town board. “Today’s kids need reasons to play outside. Research suggests that a lack of exposure to the…

Student accused of selling drugs

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – A Warren County Sheriff’s deputy arrested a Warren Central High School student Thursday after a K-9 Kilo alerted on the student’s car in the school parking lot. Karl Leroy Billings Jr., 18, is charged with trafficking a controlled substance within 1,000 feet of a school, possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, public intoxication and an…

Man stabbed at motel

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – One man is behind bars and another is recovering from a stab wound after an early Saturday morning altercation at Motel 6. A motel employee called police Saturday morning about a man inside the lobby bleeding. When Bowling Green police arrived, Tyrecus Crowe limped to a police cruiser as Jameela Cliff held him up, according to…

Turner Sports and CBS Sports announce 2019 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship commentator teams

Jim Nantz, Grant Hill, Bill Raftery and Tracy Wolfson to Call National Championship and Final Four National Semifinals on CBS, 5th Consecutive Year as Lead Broadcast Team

CBS Sports and Turner Sports will once again feature a marquee lineup of announcers for their ninth year of combined coverage of the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship. All 67 games from the 2019 NCAA Tournament will be televised across four national television networks – TBS, CBS, TNT and truTV – and via NCAA March Madness Live, beginning Tuesday,…

North Carolina school defends slavery game

(WECT) A grandmother, who is African-American, is outraged after her granddaughter’s fourth grade school teacher led the class in a role-playing game that included shackles, plantations, severe punishment and simulated slaves running toward freedom. Denett, the grandmother, asked that we use only her first name because she fears retaliation toward her family or granddaughter. Denett’s granddaughter attends Codington Elementary School…

Monday Motivator – Cydni Mann and Lisa Amos

Two educators in Bowling Green joined the estimated over 1,000 new cases of cancer in 2018, but what their cancer didn’t predict is the hundreds of students and staff supporting them. One class is raising money for them and the American Cancer Society. In today’s Monday Motivator, we witness their impact. The students in the leadership class need your help…