FRANKFORT, Ky. (WTVQ) — State leaders recognized the 75th anniversary of Kentucky State Police Monday in Frankfort. The room was full of police officers, their loved ones and the new cadet class as KSP celebrated its anniversary. Gov. Andy Beshear was one of the many people who attended the event and expressed great pride in KSP. He says that it…
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WTVQ) — A send-off ceremony for nominees attending military service academies was held at Forcht Bank in Lexington Monday. U.S. Congressman Andy Barr hosted the annual sendoff for the seven students who were nominated. The students, from central Kentucky, will attend U.S. Naval Academy, U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, the U.S. Air Force Academy, U.S. Military Academy and U.S….
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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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