Louisville officer Nickolas Wilt to be honored as 2023 Kentuckian of the Year

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WTVQ) — Louisville Metro police officer Nickolas Wilt will be honored as the 2023 Kentuckian of the Year during the annual Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Awards. The award ceremony will be held on Nov. 4 in the Muhammad Ali Center. Wilt, who was recently cleared to leave a rehabilitation facility, was one of the first officers to respond to…

Winchester family searching for organ donation for their baby

(WTVQ)– According to Donate Life, more than 25% of children waiting for an organ transplant are under 5-years-old. For one family out of Winchester, the search began when they officially became a family of four. Their soon-to-be one-year-old Evelyn, is currently in need of a liver. “We call Evelyn our miracle baby,” says Nicole Marcum, Evelyn’s mother, as she recalls…

FCPS holds job fair for bus drivers to address nationwide bus driver shortage

Fayette County Public Schools held a job fair Tuesday night to get ahead of a nationwide 'bus driver' shortage.

Lexington, Ky (WTVQ): Fayette County Public Schools held a job fair Tuesday night to get ahead of a nationwide ‘bus driver’ shortage. According to Fayette County Public Schools director of recruitment, Clay Guillaume the school district is aggressive and proactive at hiring bus drivers. Therefore, they haven’t seen the shortages that many schools are currently seeing. “You don’t necessarily have…

It should feel a bit more like fall as we close out August

We should enjoy a few delightful days into the late week with sunshine and comfortable temperatures

It was all about location Tuesday across Central and Eastern Kentucky with a fine line between some sunshine and warm temperatures here in the Lexington metro area with clouds, rain and cooler air just to our south. With a stalled out boundary south of the commonwealth and moisture riding along, literally 25 to 30 miles east and south of Lexington…

E911 Center dealing with COVID cases

LEXINGTON, Ky (WTVQ)- An increase in COVID cases here in Lexington is having an impact on the E-911 Center. Several employees are currently out with cases and the center is having to make some changes to keep employees safe. “It’s an inconvenience, but we have been fortunate,” says Jonelle Patton, the Director of E-911. Patton says the center has had…

Free Georgetown clinic guides people through expungements

GEORGETOWN, Ky. (WTVQ) — People with a criminal record sometimes want a clean slate; expungements provide the opportunity to remove charges from your record. In Georgetown on Tuesday, an expungement clinic was held at the Ed Davis Learning Center so people with a misdemeanor or a class D felony who have had a clean record for five years could have…

Showers and storms in southeastern Kentucky on Tuesday

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

Tuesday’s forecast is location dependent. Southern and southeastern Kentucky will see the threat of showers and a few storms. Areas north and west of Lexington will see mostly sunny skies with a low chance of rain. Temperatures will be location dependent as well, likely warmer into the mid-80s where we see sunshine. Areas that that see rain will struggle to…

Pleasant temperatures on tap as we finish out August

Following a nice stretch into the late week, the heat should return for Labor Day weekend

It was a pretty decent start to this final week of August, especially when you consider the unbearable heat and humidity that we dealt with at the end of last week. We saw  the most sunshine Monday across the Bluegrass region northward, while our southern Kentucky saw clouds and a few scattered showers thanks to an upper level disturbance to…

“We still have a long way to go”: Lexington homicide numbers trending downward from 2022

LEXINGTON, Ky (WTVQ)- Lexington police continue to investigate a murder case over the weekend. One person died and another injured on Winchester Road early Sunday morning. One business owner who works in the area of the recent homicide, but declined to go on camera, says she’s frustrated following this weekends homicide. She says the crime in the area needs to…