LEXINGTON, Ky. (WTVQ) — A four-vehicle crash on I-75 Monday morning sent two people to the hospital and caused traffic back-ups. According to Lexington police, the crash occurred near mile marker 111 around 7:30 a.m. Officers had all four lanes closed, but two have since reopened. The two people taken to the hospital had non-life-threatening injuries. We’re on scene and…
WEST LIBERTY (WTVQ) — A 16-year-old died after downing at Paintsville Lake over the weekend. According to the Morgan County coroner, the 16-year-old died Saturday while swimming with friends near the Lost Creek boat ramp. The Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife is handling the investigation. The 16-year-old’s body was taken to the State Medical Examiner’s Office for an autopsy….
Lexington, Kentucky (WTVQ – ABC 36): Good Sunday everyone and Happy Fathers Day to all the dads out there. It has been a great weather day with sunshine and temperatures in the low 80s. The only down fall has been some haze/smoke still in the air. But good news is that it is moving back off to the north…
Good Saturday evening everyone, beside from the haze and smoke still hanging around from the Canadian wildfires… it has been a great day across the area. Here are todays weather headlines. Haze and smoke will linger into our Sunday and you can see that on our future cast smoke model. It will not be as thick as today but…
With a frontal boundary dropping through the commonwealth early on Friday, we saw a pleasant finish to the week across Central and Eastern Kentucky. With a northwest breeze ushering in slightly “cooler” air, afternoon highs struggled to reach the 80 degree mark here in the Bluegrass with low to mid-80s down south. Of course the big story was some thicker…
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House Oversight Chair James Comer claims President Joe Biden allegedly ran a bribery scheme when he was vice president with his son Hunter and a foreign national. Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) this week alleged the foreign national has more than a dozen recordings of conversations with the Bidens. But as CNN’s Sara Murray reports, when asked for evidence of…
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WTVQ) — The Southern Baptist Convention has voted to expel two churches, because they have women pastors. That includes a church in Kentucky. The convention says having women as pastors goes against the denomination’s interpretation of the bible. During the convention, they also voted to prohibit their churches from having women hold any pastoral title. “It is disheartening…
It was a warm and dry Thursday across Central and Eastern Kentucky but you probably noticed the return of hazy skies due to more smoke particles from the Eastern Canada wildfires drifting into the Ohio Valley. That upper low from earlier this week exiting to the east helped push some of the haze and smoke into the region and we’ve…
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WTVQ) Blue Grass Airport celebrates big as they announce their new direct flight to Las Vegas. The flight arrived at 1 p.m. today and was welcomed with a water cannon salute from public safety officials. The airport also has an Elvis impersonator, a ribbon-cutting ceremony, games, festivities and Vegas-style snacks for passengers to celebrate the event. The…
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WAYNE COUNTY/PULASKI COUNTY, Ky. (WTVQ) — Search efforts in Pulaski County continued for a man reported missing last July. The family of Ricky Griffis continues to look for closure. “I depend on God. My family and prayers do is what gets me by each day, each and every day because we have been doing, we’ve been working and talking and…
Despite some scattered cloud cover along and either side of the I-64 corridor, including Lexington and the Bluegrass Region it was a warmer June day across the area on Wednesday. The pesky upper level low started to push eastward but with a spoke of energy rotating on the southwest side of it, clouds thickened up a bit. This didn’t stop…
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FRANKFORT, Ky. (WTVQ) Today is National Bourbon Day, and the distilleries around Kentucky are celebrating the holiday. Buffalo Trace Distillery had people lined up outside their doors before they even opened. The distillery has special deals in their gift shop for Father’s Day, and 10% off items on their website with free shipping on orders $75 and up. We…
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WTVQ) — Mayor Linda Gorton held a press conference Wednesday to announce the members of the new Opioid Abatement Commission. The purpose of the commission will be to recommend appropriate uses for funds received from the National Opioid Litigation settlements. The mayor named 13 people who would make up the commission– including Dr. Stephanie Raglin who will serve…
GLENCOE, Ky. (CNN NEWSOURCE) — A Kentucky firefighter is recovering after a wreck landed him in the hospital and totaled one of his department’s trucks. Firefighters were headed to a reported car fire when they encountered another car on a one-lane road too narrow for both vehicles. That forced the fire truck off the edge of the road, and it…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (CNN NEWSOURCE) — “She was personable, prom queen, in high school, loved everybody.” This is Melanie Hull. A young mother with an entire joyous life ahead of her alongside her son, Nolan. “Melanie was a fantastic mom. Everything she did revolved around this little guy.” But on July 1st, 2022, as Hull was taking Nolan to daycare, her…
It was a nice Tuesday across Central and Eastern Kentucky, even though temperatures remained a bit below average for mid-June thanks to the upper level low hanging just to our north. After another morning with very cool temperatures into the upper 40s, sunshine and a breezy west wind helped push afternoon highs into the mid-70s in most locations which is…