BOWLING GREEN Ky. – This week, the Ford Kentucky Truck Plant stood up on strike, the first major manufacturing facility in the commonwealth to do so. Here in Bowling Green, the GM Corvette plant continues to operate, and many members are ready to do their part in order to help their fellow members as they navigate this difficult period. Local…
BARREN COUNTY, Ky. – The Barren County based River Lake Church group that was stuck in Israel after the Oct. 7 beginning of conflict between Israel and Hamas has returned home. Pastor Nic Smith, who has been to Israel multiple times, believes from what he and his group experienced that the conflict is altogether different. “There was a lot of…
BOWLING GREEN Ky. – Today the Aviation Heritage Park welcomed the addition of memorabilia from the River Rats, a group of retired military aviators from multiple eras who continue to meet and tell their stories. This is all part of the overall mission of the Heritage Park to tell the stories of Southern Kentucky Aviation and to bring the public…
BARREN COUNTY, Ky. – Gov. Andy Beshear visited the YMCA in Barren County Wednesday to celebrate the work and growth of the organization in the area as well as the addition of new funding and facilities to increase their ability to serve the region, specifically in child care. Beshear gave comment when asked about the two local church groups that…
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – A few weeks ago, the Warren County Sheriff’s Office tweeted that it had found a flyer from the Trinity White Knights, a Ku Klux Klan affiliated group based in and around Kentucky. On Wednesday, sheriff Brett Hightower gave some comments to News 40 about the situation. Most notably, what most interests the department about the incident….
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – The new presidential speaker series envisioned by WKU president Timothy Caboni starts tonight with the keynote speaker Robert Ballard, the man who discovered the location of the Titanic and changed a great deal about how we understand chemistry, biology and the makeup of the deep sea. Ballard spoke to a press pool today in an upstairs…
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Two local church groups are stuck in Israel amid a renewed and intense conflict between Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip and Israeli Defense Forces. The two groups were on a pilgrimage to holy sites near Jerusalem when the conflict erupted on Saturday. News 40 reached out to Broadway United Methodist Church for comment and was…
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – After a shaky rollout, a steady supply of the new updated COVID-19 vaccine is available at Med Center here in Bowling Green. The health providers are encouraging people to get the jab, along with their seasonal flu vaccine as well. The two have been recommended together in order to reduce hospitalizations for serious illness, especially in…
BOWLING GREEN Ky. – Many Kentuckians are starting to choose cremation over burial, according to recent statistics by the Cremation Association of North America. David Bevil, director of the J.C. Kirby and Sons funeral home on Lovers Lane, has put this change mostly at the feet of young people who may be more open to exploring their options when it…
BARREN COUNTY, Ky. – The Rollercoaster Yard Sale is back this year and stretches across Barren County with well over 100 sellers in the section of Highway 63 from Siloam Road to Temple Hill. The annual event brings out everyone from sellers to those who peddle other wares, such as pork rinds. Starting on Siloam Road just outside of Glasgow,…
