LEXINGTON, Ky. (WTVQ) — 150 volunteers worked with emergency officials to help conduct a mock plane crash at Blue Grass Airport Wednesday. The training took place at West Lex, which is about a mile away from the main runway. With two buses, a fog machine and other simulators, emergency officials were able to practice their protocol for a plane crash….
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NICHOLASVILLE, Ky. (WTVQ) — A body was found in a creek bed near a Nicholasville church Wednesday morning, police say. A person’s body was found at 7:30 a.m. in a creek next to the Tabernacle Baptist Church on Lexington Road. “We had just noticed a duffel bag out in our front yard and we would search around property and see…
STANTON, Ky. (WTVQ) — All Powell County schools will be closed on Thursday to allow students and staff to attend the funeral of longtime coach Ken Jones. Jones died last Saturday in his home. He was 79. A Hazard native, Jones began his long sports career as a news and sports anchor for WKYH. After, Jones was the coach for…
(WTVQ) — Although they are becoming more common nationwide, the idea of baby boxes was a personal one for Monica Kelsey, the founder of Safe Haven Baby Boxes, she decided to turn one of her life experiences as an infant into something more, something that would help other mothers in crisis. “The Safe Haven Baby Boxes was birthed out of…
It was a toasty Tuesday across Central and Eastern Kentucky as folks headed back to work and school after the long Labor Day weekend. With high pressure off to our southeast and a return flow from the south pushing moisture back into the region, afternoon highs surged back into the upper 80s and low 90s, helping to fuel a few…
LEXINGTON, Ky (WTVQ)- There is a lot of excitement as we near the launch of the first legal sports bets here in Kentucky. On Thursday, people can place those in-person bets at licensed retail facilities. Facilities like the Red Mile here in Lexington have been busy preparing. “It’s fastly approaching. 10 A.M. We’ll be open, it’s very exciting times,” says…
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FRANKFORT, Ky. (WTVQ) 9/5/23, 3:29 p.m. The inmate who jumped out of a transport vehicle one week ago today has died, Fayette County Coroner Gary Ginn said. Hollon died from multiple blunt force injuries on Aug. 31. Ginn released that information today. She was 21. She died after allegedly jumping out of the transport vehicle’s window on Coffee Tree Road…
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FRANKFORT, Ky. (WTVQ) — Gov. Andy Beshear will award the largest-ever investment in high-speed internet, $386 million, in the history of Kentucky. At Tuesday’s press conference, he also announced the recipients of a second round of grant funding to deliver improved access to more than 40 counties across the Commonwealth, including Fayette, Henry, Laurel and Woodford counties. “Let’s make sure…
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WTVQ) — Lexington is seeing another week of a rise in COVID-19 cases, health department officials said in updated numbers released on Tuesday. Last week, 327 lab-confirmed tests were tallied, compared to 264 the week prior. Home tests are not included in these counts. While these numbers remain low compared to this time in 2022, when the Lexington-Fayette…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell’s health episodes show “no evidence” of being strokes or seizures, the Capitol physician said in a letter released Tuesday after a medical evaluation and consultation with neurologists. McConnell’s office released the letter from attending physician Brian P. Monahan as the Senate returns from an extended summer break and questions mount over the long-serving Republican…
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WTVQ) — A person fleeing in a stolen car on Winburn Drive in Lexington Tuesday morning caused a crash, police say. At 7:40 a.m., Lexington police saw a hit on a Flock camera for a stolen vehicle heading down Winburn Drive. The driver was heading in the opposite direction of the flow of traffic. When police caught up…
MOREHEAD, Ky. (WTVQ) — Hurricane Idalia has sent a flamboyance of flamingos across the Eastern United States — and one has landed in Morehead, Kentucky. The pink bird first started showing up all over Florida, on both coasts, as Hurricane Idalia passed, according to USA Today. By last Saturday, flamingo sightings were reported in Alabama, North and South Carolina, Ohio,…
