Fire ‘intentionally set’ in bathroom at Anderson Co. elementary school

LAWRENCEBURG, Ky. (WTVQ) — A fire was apparently intentionally set in a bathroom at an elementary school in Anderson County last week on Friday. Principal Tood Wooldridge says a fire was intentionally set in a student restroom at Saffell Street Elementary School. Once the fire alarms went off, students and staff were evacuated to Anderson County Middle School. The fire…

Lexington woman charged in connection to homicide, pleads guilty to tampering with physical evidence

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WTVQ) — A Lexington woman connected to the murder of a man found beside a dumpster changed her plea in court Monday. In 2022, Fayette County Coroner Gary Ginn identified the victim as Jimmy Medlock. Jennifer Kashuba was first charged with murder, abuse of a corpse and tampering with physical evidence, but shortly after the murder charge was…

17 years later, remembering Comair flight 5191

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WTVQ) — 17 years ago, the people of Lexington were left shocked as their quiet Sunday morning turned into grievance and trauma. Comair flight 5191 was scheduled to fly from Lexington, Kentucky to Atlanta, Georgia, but crashed right at the end of the runway as it was about to take off. 47 passengers and two crew members died….

A good looking stretch of weather ahead

Meteorologist Jordan Smith has a look at your Sunday evening forecast!

  Lexington, Kentucky (WTVQ – ABC 36): Today has been a split weather day across Kentucky with central and northern Kentucky seeing dry conditions and temperatures in the upper 70s to near 80 while southern and eastern Kentucky has dealt with showers and temperatures only in the low to mid 70s. But where do we go from here? We look…

EKU Fan Day

Fans from around the community came to talk with players, take pictures and get autographs in a more relaxed environment before the season starts. Categories: More Sports, Sports

A mainly calm and dry pattern ahead

Meteorologist Jordan Smith has a look at your Saturday evening forecast!

  Good Saturday evening everyone, it’s been a hot and muggy day across the Commonwealth with scattered showers and storms going up this evening. I don’t have much for you all but here are tonight’s weather headlines. Our Sunday is mainly dry outside of a stray shower or storm with high temperatures only in the low 80s. I will gladly…

UK talks offensive improvements heading into season

UK Football improves there offensive line and running back depth from last season.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WTVQ) — UK Football says they improved their offensive line and running back depth from last season. UK brought in five transfers to solidify the big blue wall. Coach Mark Stoops says that the line has eight or nine players who are ready to play; a big improvement from last year. As far as running backs, they are…

Oppressive heat and humidity relaxes a bit this weekend

After heat indices around 110 degrees with highs in the mid-90s Friday, we should back off on the very hot air by Sunday

We managed to avoid the excessive heat and humidity for much of the week across Central and Eastern Kentucky but our luck finally ran out on Friday. With super high humidity as dew-points reached the mid to upper 70s couples with afternoon highs in the mid and upper 90s, we dealt with some very oppressive conditions as heat index values…