FRANKFORT, Ky. (ABC36 NEWS NOW) — The impact of last week’s historic flooding is still being felt in downtown Frankfort, especially at the Franklin County Courthouse. Officials say the building is still recovering from water damage, and as a result, court operations will stay closed through at least Friday. Some remote proceedings are still being held, but for the most…
LAUREL COUNTY, Ky. (ABC 36 NEWS NOW) -A man has been arrested and charged with rape of a child under the age of 12 in Laurel County. According to a release, around 10:40 p.m. on Friday, 39-year-old Andrew Hedrick was arrested in Georgetown off I-75 after authorities tracked him through the GPS on the tractor-trailer her was driving. Investigators had…
LEXINGTON, Ky. (ABC 36 NEWS NOW) – One person has died after falling off the Clays Ferry Bridge on Friday. According to the Fayette County Coroner, 23-year-old Nishit Patel reportedly fell over the side of the bridge around 5:45 p.m. KSP was called to the accident, and Patel was pronounced dead at the scene several hours later. He was reportedly…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (ABC 36 NEWS NOW) – One church helping the community after the devastating floods last weekend. Volunteers with the Trinity Global Methodist handed out more than 570 flood buckets to people in the community on Saturday. The church was able to get the buckets from a warehouse in Alabama. The buckets were filled with cleaning supplies, such as…
LEXINGTON, Ky. (ABC 36 NEWS NOW) – A business in Lexington has been damaged after a car hit the building Saturday morning. According to police, officers were called around 11:14 a.m. to the 3000 block of Beaumont Center Circle after a car crashed into a building. Police say the driver was still inside the car when they arrived and had…
GEORGETOWN, Ky. (ABC 36 NEWS NOW) – Police in Georgetown are investigating a deadly shooting that occurred on Friday evening. According to police., officers were called to the area of Thorndale Drive and Paris Pike for a shots fired call. When officers arrived, they found an adult male in the vehicle with gunshot wound. He was pronounced dead at the…
A dreary way to end the work week with overcast skies and highs only peaking in the low to mid 40s, but we will see a big improvement this weekend. Tonight, temps will drop near freezing with a frost advisory is in place for central Kentucky and a freeze warning for northern Kentucky. Despite the cold start to the day…
LEXINGTON, Ky. (ABC 36 NEWS NOW) – April is child abuse prevention month, aimed at raising awareness for child abuse and neglect. Later this month the Children Advocacy Center of the Bluegrass will be hosting a pinwheel planting event to support the children they see every year. You may have seen blue pinwheels at different facilities including the state capitol…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (ABC 36 NEWS NOW) — Hundreds of people are working all hours of the day at Buffalo Trace Distillery to clean mud-filled buildings and prepare for production to ramp back up. Master distiller Harlen Wheatley announcing that they have resumed shipping today and expect to resume bottling tomorrow. “Our distribution and main bottling center did not take on…
LEXINGTON, Ky. (ABC36 NEWS NOW) — The Lexington Police Department is mourning the loss of one of its own. According to a post on the department’s Facebook page, Officer Devan Gales passed away on Thursday while off duty Officer Gales had been a member of the department since October 2004 and was most recently serving as a patrol officer in…
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (ABC 36 NEWS NOW) – Two people were injured in an early morning crash in Lexington. According to officials the incident happened just after 6 a.m. at the intersection of Bolivar Street and South Broadway. Police tell ABC 36 News Now the two people hurt were taken to a hospital with minor injuries Details remain limited at this…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (ABC 36 NEWS NOW) – The death toll from the recent devastating flooding across Kentucky has climbed to seven, Governor Andy Beshear announced Thursday night. The latest victim was from Pendleton County, adding to a growing list of flood-related deaths previously confirmed in Bullitt, Carroll, McCracken, Nelson, Trigg, and Franklin counties. Among the victims was a 9-year-old boy…
LEXINGTON, Ky. (ABC 36 NEWS NOW) – Lingering showers and cloudy skies are sticking around to wrap up the workweek, but the forecast ahead features a frosty start to the weekend, a nice warm-up by Sunday, and then a renewed risk of strong-to-severe storms by Monday night. Let’s break it all down. Lingering Showers This Morning, Then a Chilly Friday…
This afternoon shaped up to be a pleasant one with a sunshine and highs in the 60s and 70s. The nice weather this afternoon helped with the instability in the atmosphere producing several storms in central and eastern Kentucky. This rain and storms will continue through the overnight and morning hours on Friday as a low pressure moves into the…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (ABC 36 NEWS NOW) – The death toll from the historic Kentucky floods is now up to 6, according to Governor Andy Beshear. Now clean up is underway for thousands whose homes were inundated by floodwaters. Dozens of counties declaring states of emergency During a Team Kentucky Update, Gov. Beshear estimated the cost of rebuilding homes, lives and…
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FRANKFORT, Ky. (ABC 36 NEWS NOW) – Floodwaters have receded across most of Frankfort, but now comes the long process of cleaning up the mess left behind. Residents are removing layers of mud, scattered debris, and even fish from homes and businesses. One property owner, Adam Marshall, said his property was nearly renovated before the flooding hit. “It was tough…
LEXINGTON, Ky. (ABC 36 NEWS NOW) — Around 2,800 United States service members across the world are receiving a special package this Easter. This is part of Military Missions Operation SEND. Every Independence Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter, this nonprofit organizations sends packages to give overseas service members what they call a taste of home. Mark Roland with Military Missions…
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (ABC 36 NEWS NOW) – It was a soggy start to your Thursday across central and eastern Kentucky. Some hefty rainfall totals were already recorded this morning with Kentucky Mesonet sites in Bath, Clark, Fayette, and Franklin counties all picking up over half an inch. The steady line of moderate-to-heavy showers continues to push south and east and…
WALTON, Ky. (ABC36 NEWS NOW) — Investigators say a woman from Lexington was one of two people killed in a crash earlier this week in Boone County that ended with a dump truck crashing into a restaurant. According to the Boone County Sheriff’s Office, the deadly collision happened Tuesday at the intersection of U.S. 42 and Beaver Road in Walton….
LEXINGTON, Ky. (ABC 36 NEWS NOW) — The Lexington Police Department is investigating after shots were fired into a home on Creekside Court just before 1:30 a.m. Thursday. Police say a vehicle was also hit, but no one was hurt. According to investigators, shell casings were found on the scene, but the search for a suspect continues. Anyone with information…