Author: WNKY Staff

58 years & 1,000 miles: Long lost ring goes home

(WAGT/NBC News) A high school class ring lost nearly six decades ago is on its way back to its owner. Anne Caldwell found the ring in a drawer she was cleaning at her home in Thomson, Georgia. The ring, engraved with the initials C.S., had been lost for 58 years. C.S stands for the name of the man who owned…

Teen hero: “It all happened in an instant”

(KGW) A 14-year-old girl helped save her brother from their burning Vancouver, Washington home by following directions from a 911 dispatcher to break his bedroom window and warn him to get out. Jenny Neang, who lived in the home with her brother and grandmother, said their front door was blocked and there was no exit through their garage, meaning their…

Throwback Thursday – Helm Library

Western Kentucky University recently announced renovations coming to Helm Library on the main campus in Bowling Green. This week we’re stepping back in time almost 90 years, when the library was still in its original form. It was built to be the Big Red Barn basketball gymnasium. Designed by Brinton Smith out of Bowling Green, the Health and Physical Education…

Final day for car manufacturing plant

(WKYC) The last car has come off the line at the GM plant in Lordstown Ohio, putting 1400 workers out of a job. “That last car coming down the line, you see all the empty carriers behind it, for me, that’s when it really hits ya,” said Shaun Winkler, who installs coolant systems inside the GM plant. At a small…

Murder charge filed in missing woman’s case

(WDIV/NBC News) A Michigan man has been charged with the murder of a woman who disappeared two years ago without a trace. Danielle Stislicki’s body was never found. Her parents have spent two years hoping for a break in the case, and they got it Tuesday when Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel filed a first-degree premeditated murder charge against Floyd…

11-year-old faces carjacker

(WTLV) “What if the gun’s a real gun?” Vania Quiroz-Medina asked herself. “What if it’s not a toy gun? What if I die?” The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office says the 11-year-old girl was inside her mother’s car at a Dollar Tree when a man got into the driver’s seat and ordered the girl to leave the car at gunpoint. “I kept…

CBS News to broadcast “The Gayle King Interview with R. Kelly,” a one-hour primetime special featuring exclusive interviews

CBS News will broadcast THE GAYLE KING INTERVIEW WITH R. KELLY, a one-hour primetime special featuring exclusive interviews with the embattled R&B singer and two women who live with him, Friday, March 8 (8:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. The special will include never-before-seen parts of King’s 80-minute sitdown with Kelly and an interview with the two young women living…