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First Meeting of Citizen’s Academy Class #7 Kicks Off with Honor Guard and History Lesson
MCCRACKEN COUNTY, Ky. (News First) — The first meeting of Class #7 of the Citizen's Academy is in the books, and participants experienced an engaging and informative night. The evening began with the McCracken County Sheriff’s Honor Guard posting the colors, setting a formal tone for the event....
Florida tries to flip the script on Kentucky, which has won 3 straight in the SEC series
The Associated Press - Kentucky tries to extend its winning streak against Florida to four, which would match the Wildcats' longest (1948-51) in the series. The Wildcats dominated both lines of scrimmage in the last two meetings, including a 33-17 beatdown last year in Lexington in which Ray Davis...
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Extended Closures of U.S. 60 West of Marion in Crittenden County Over About 4 Days starting Wednesday, July 31
Closures at 5mm and 8mm planned in two phases PADUCAH, Ky. (News First) – As a reminder, the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) plans extended closures along U.S. 60 West of Marion in Crittenden...
Traffic Paint Striping Crew Working along Interstate 24 in Kentucky Through Next Week
Watch for paint trucks and support vehicles PADUCAH, Ky. (July 25, 2024) – A contractor for the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) has started traffic paint striping along Interstate...
Murray PD Recovers Two Stolen E-Bikes
MURRAY, Ky. — While investigating the theft of an electric bike, officers with the Murray Police Department gained information on its location. Upon arrival, the stolen e-bike was found to be in the...
UPDATE: Kentucky State Police Investigate Fatal Shooting in Trigg County
UPDATE CADIZ, Ky. (July 24, 2024) – Kentucky State Police (KSP) Post 1 has continued the investigation into a shooting that occurred in Trigg County on July 20, 2024. The deceased has been...
Livingston County Sheriff’s Weekly Activity
On July 21st, 2024, law enforcement officers from the Livingston County and Lyon County Sheriff’s Offices, alongside members of the Western Kentucky Violent Crime Task Force, successfully executed a...
Class #7 of the Citizen’s Academy Now Accepting Applications
MCCRACKEN COUNTY, Ky. (News First) — The McCracken County Sheriff's Office is now accepting applications for Class #7 of the Citizen's Academy. The academy will take place on October 17, 24, 30 (the...
Walmart Drive to Close for Stormwater Infrastructure Installation
MURRAY, KY (News First) — Walmart Drive will be closed to thru traffic from Lowes Drive to Highway 121 beginning Wednesday, July 24, at 7 a.m. The closure, located just south of the entrance to...
North 1st Street to Close for Repairs Beginning Today
MURRAY, KY (News First) — North 1st Street will be closed to thru traffic beginning today, July 23, at 7 a.m. and will remain closed through Friday, July 26, at 5 p.m. due to street and pavement...
Joe Biden drops out of the 2024 Presidential race
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 race for the White House on Sunday, ending his bid for reelection following a disastrous debate with Donald Trump...
Local Man with Extensive Criminal History Arrested for Multiple Charges on Irvin Cobb Drive
July 18, 2024 Suspect(s): Francisco Starks, 47, of College Avenue, arrested on charges of Theft of a Motor Vehicle Registration Plate, Receiving Stolen Property Under $10,000, Possession Of An...
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Mark Pope introduced as Kentucky’s coach, affirms expectation that ‘We are here to win banners’
By GARY B. GRAVES AP Sports Writer LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — One of the last players to exit a bus full of Kentucky greats on the Rupp Arena floor, Mark Pope held the 1996 NCAA championship trophy aloft and basked in the cheers during his introduction as the Wildcats' new...
Attorney General Coleman Calls for Resignation of Perry County Commonwealth’s Attorney Arrested by FBI
FRANKFORT, Ky. (News First) -- Attorney General Russell Coleman released the following statement after the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky Carlton S. Shier, IV, announced the arrest of Commonwealth's Attorney for the 33rd Judicial District Scott...
Hopkinsville Police Department Searching For Missing Person
Hopkinsville, Kentucky (NewsFirst) -- The Hopkinsville Police Department needs your help finding two juveniles who went missing during the overnight hours. The first juvenile is Ashley Schimp. She is a 15 year old white female, 5’3” in height weighing approximately...
Marshall County Rescue Squad Rescues Stranded Boater
Marshall County, Kentucky (NewsFirst) -- At approximately 12:48 Saturday April 13 2024 Marshall County Rescue Squad was paged out for a boat that was believed to be taking on water next to the spill gates. The 911 call was placed by a wife that had been talking to her...
Ex-NBA player scores victory with Kentucky bill to expand coverage for stuttering treatment
By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Former basketball star Michael Kidd-Gilchrist scored a victory Thursday as a leading advocate for a new Kentucky law that will expand insurance coverage for people seeking treatment for...
‘I’m dying, you’re not’: Those terminally ill ask more states to legalize physician-assisted death
By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America - DENVER (AP) — On a brisk day at a restaurant outside Chicago, Deb Robertson sat with her teenage grandson to talk about her death. She’ll probably miss his high school graduation. Death doesn't frighten her much....
O.J. Simpson Dead at 76
LAS VEGAS (AP) — O.J. Simpson, the decorated football superstar and Hollywood actor who was acquitted of charges he killed his former wife and her friend but was found liable in a separate civil trial, has died. He was 76. The family announced on Simpson's...
Arkansas hires John Calipari to coach the Razorbacks, a day after stepping down from Kentucky
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas hired John Calipari as men's basketball coach on Wednesday, a day after the Hall of Fame coach stepped down from the Kentucky program he led to the 2012 NCAA championship.The 65-year-old Calipari signed a five-year contract with an...
John Calipari departs Kentucky after 15 years, saying the program ‘needs to hear another voice’
By GARY B. GRAVES AP Sports Writer LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — There were too many people for John Calipari to thank by name, and too many moments to single out from one of the most fulfilling chapters of his career.He used this moment to say goodbye.Calipari stepped down...
NATIONAL NEWS
DOJ opens criminal investigation into the Alaska Airlines 737 plane blowout, report says
By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press -- SEATTLE (AP) — The Department of Justice has launched a criminal investigation into the Boeing jetliner blowout that left a gaping hole on an Alaska Airlines plane this January, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday. Citing...
Gangs attack police stations in Haiti as Caribbean leaders call an emergency meeting Monday
By EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Police and palace guards worked Saturday to retake some streets in Haiti’s capital after gangs launched massive attacks on at least three police stations. Guards from the National Palace accompanied by an...
‘Oppenheimer’ set to overpower at the Oscars Sunday night
By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hi, “Oppenheimer.” When Hollywood gathers for the 96th Academy Awards on Sunday, the blockbuster biopic is widely expected to overpower all competition — including its release-date companion, “Barbie” — at an...
Why is Haiti so chaotic? Leaders used street gangs to gain power. Then the gangs got stronger
By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press Haiti’s prime minister was last seen in Puerto Rico, negotiating his return to a homeland gripped by violence and controlled by heavily armed gangsters. With his fate in the air and the situation in Haiti deteriorating by the...
80 years after D-Day, a World War II veteran is getting married near beaches where US troops landed
By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) — Harold Terens and his fiancee Jeanne Swerlin kissed and held hands like high school sweethearts as they discussed their upcoming wedding in France, a country the World War II veteran first visited as a...
A US ship with equipment for building a pier is on its way to Gaza, part of a plan to ramp up aid
By WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — A U.S. Army vessel carrying equipment for building a temporary pier in Gaza was on its way to the Mediterranean on Sunday, three days after U.S. President Joe Biden announced plans to...
Sex abuse survivors dispute Southern Baptist leadership and say federal investigation is ongoing
By PETER SMITH Associated Press - The status of a federal investigation into a leading Southern Baptist agency’s handling of sexual abuse is unclear. But this much is clear — survivors of abuse and their advocates remain deeply skeptical of leaders' intentions to...
Much of America asks: Where did winter go? Spring starts early as US winter was warmest on record
By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Across much of America and especially in the normally chilly north, the country went through the winter months without, well, winter. In parka strongholds Burlington, Vermont, and Portland, Maine, the thermometer never plunged...
Texas official says helicopter carrying National Guard members and Border Patrol agent crashes, killing 3 on board
AP NEWS - This is a developing story. LA GRULLA, Texas (AP) — Texas official says helicopter carrying National Guard members and Border Patrol agent crashes, killing 3 on board.
DOJ opens criminal investigation into the Alaska Airlines 737 plane blowout, report says
By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press -- SEATTLE (AP) — The Department of Justice has launched a criminal investigation into the Boeing jetliner blowout that left a gaping hole on an Alaska Airlines plane this January, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday. Citing...
Gangs attack police stations in Haiti as Caribbean leaders call an emergency meeting Monday
By EVENS SANON Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Police and palace guards worked Saturday to retake some streets in Haiti’s capital after gangs launched massive attacks on at least three police stations. Guards from the National Palace accompanied by an...
‘Oppenheimer’ set to overpower at the Oscars Sunday night
By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hi, “Oppenheimer.” When Hollywood gathers for the 96th Academy Awards on Sunday, the blockbuster biopic is widely expected to overpower all competition — including its release-date companion, “Barbie” — at an...
Why is Haiti so chaotic? Leaders used street gangs to gain power. Then the gangs got stronger
By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press Haiti’s prime minister was last seen in Puerto Rico, negotiating his return to a homeland gripped by violence and controlled by heavily armed gangsters. With his fate in the air and the situation in Haiti deteriorating by the...
80 years after D-Day, a World War II veteran is getting married near beaches where US troops landed
By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) — Harold Terens and his fiancee Jeanne Swerlin kissed and held hands like high school sweethearts as they discussed their upcoming wedding in France, a country the World War II veteran first visited as a...
A US ship with equipment for building a pier is on its way to Gaza, part of a plan to ramp up aid
By WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — A U.S. Army vessel carrying equipment for building a temporary pier in Gaza was on its way to the Mediterranean on Sunday, three days after U.S. President Joe Biden announced plans to...
Sex abuse survivors dispute Southern Baptist leadership and say federal investigation is ongoing
By PETER SMITH Associated Press - The status of a federal investigation into a leading Southern Baptist agency’s handling of sexual abuse is unclear. But this much is clear — survivors of abuse and their advocates remain deeply skeptical of leaders' intentions to...
Much of America asks: Where did winter go? Spring starts early as US winter was warmest on record
By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Across much of America and especially in the normally chilly north, the country went through the winter months without, well, winter. In parka strongholds Burlington, Vermont, and Portland, Maine, the thermometer never plunged...
Texas official says helicopter carrying National Guard members and Border Patrol agent crashes, killing 3 on board
AP NEWS - This is a developing story. LA GRULLA, Texas (AP) — Texas official says helicopter carrying National Guard members and Border Patrol agent crashes, killing 3 on board.