Students fill ambulance with toys for children’s hospital

Paul Laurence Dunbar High School continues annual 'Stuff the Ambulance' tradition

LEXINGTON, Ky. (ABC 36 NEWS NOW) — The holiday spirit is alive and well at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School, where students collected a large pile of toys destined for children spending their holidays at Kentucky Children’s Hospital. No sleigh was needed for this delivery, as students packed an ambulance with toys as part of their annual “Stuff the Ambulance”…

Gusty winds Wednesday ahead of a bitter cold Thursday morning

Meteorologist Dillon Gaudet has the latest in your full ABC 36 Storm Team forecast

LEXINGTON, Ky. (ABC 36 NEWS NOW) – Happy Wednesday! We have another shot of cold air on the way, this one a little colder than the last few to move through the area over the last week. Today will be windy out ahead of the cold front that will move through tonight. Wind gusts in excess of 40 mph will…

Wounded Palestinian teen to receive treatment in Lexington

LEXINGTON, Ky. (ABC 36 NEWS NOW) — As the war in Gaza continues, so does concern for those caught in the crossfire especially families and innocent civilians. While organizations step in and try to help, one in particular, the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund is bringing one teen here to central Kentucky to receive his treatment. 13-year-old Mustafa and his mother…

More winter cold on the horizon

Gusty winds will add to the chill late week

It’s been a very winter-like start to December here in Central and Eastern Kentucky as another clipper system dropped a light coating of snow to begin the week. As is typically the case the stubborn cloud cover and low level moisture stuck around for a while on this Tuesday with a few flurries squeezed out before the drier air worked…

UK football wide receivers coach leaves for Nebraska per reports

Daikiel Shorts was in Lexington for one year.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (ABC36 NEWS NOW)- Kentucky football wide receivers coach Daikiel Shorts is taking on the same role with Nebraska, per reports from CBS Sports and 247 Sports on Wednesday. Shorts spent one season in Lexington after coming from Houston. The former West Virgina pass catcher is reuniting with Dana Holgerson, his former head coach in Morgantown and Houston, in…