COLUMBIA, Ky. (WTVQ) — A bus carrying 18 Adair County students and a car crashed in Columbia Sunday morning, resulting in two injuries. According to the Columbia Police Department, a car driven by a 64-year-old woman crossed the center line and struck a school bus head on Sunday around 1 a.m. The bus was carrying 18 Adair County students and…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The former Louisville police officer who fatally shot Breonna Taylor has a new job in law enforcement in a county northeast of the city. The Carroll County Sheriff’s Office on Saturday confirmed the hiring of Myles Cosgrove, who was fired from the Louisville Metro Police Department in January 2021 for violating use-of-force procedures and failing to use a…
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WTVQ) — A new The View-esque talk show from ABC 36 is hitting screens in Central Kentucky on May 1, airing topics that matter to Kentuckians. Let’s Talk, Kentucky will be a 30-minute show, from 12:30 to 1 p.m., where host Sherelle Roberts will present topics concerning local issues, events, challenges, arts and entertainment, nonprofits, health, life hacks,…
Lexington, Kentucky (WTVQ – ABC 36): Good Sunday evening everyone, its been a cool day across the area as temperatures started into the frosty mid 30s and only reached the low 50s for afternoon highs. Here are todays weather headlines! Temperatures by Monday morning drop into the low 30s with a few areas possibly reaching the upper 20’s. That…
Lexington, Kentucky (WTVQ – ABC 36): Good Saturday evening everyone, its been a MUCH chiller day across the Commonwealth with scattered rain showers as well. Some of those rain showers have even produced some very small hail. Those will continue to die down across the area deeper off into this evening. After tonight, here are our weather headlines for…
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WTVQ) 4/24/23 The second victim of the shooting has died, Lexington police said Monday around 10:40 a.m. She’s been identified as Lakeisha Hill. She was 32. 4/22/23 A Lexington man has been identified as the victim in Thursday’s deadly shooting. The Fayette County Coroner’s office says 43-year-old Timonte Harris died from gunshot wounds. 4/21/23 A suspect in the…
We squeezed in one more warm day to close out the week on Friday across Central and Eastern Kentucky before showers and thunderstorms fired as expected with the cold front just to our west as the peak heating of the day kicked in. The scattered thunderstorms will transition into more of a steady and beneficial rain into the early hours…
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LANCASTER, Ky. (WTVQ) 4/21/23, 2:16 p.m. The call about the fire came in at 11:09 a.m., Camp Dick Fire Chief Tevis Graham told ABC 36. One of the workers at the recycling center was using a claw to load material (which may have included various items like washers, dryers, refrigerators and cars) into the recycling shredder when they saw a…
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WTVQ) — The first official, limited-edition Cocaine Bear bobblehead was unveiled Friday. The National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum worked with KY for KY to create the bobblehead featuring the 175-pound black bear that died of an overdose of cocaine after discovering a batch in the mountains of Georgia. The very same bear is on display in…
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WTVQ) — A horse was euthanized and a jockey was temporarily suspended after a racing incident at Keeneland on Wednesday. In the stretch of race 6, Foreign Relations “abruptly impeded the path of Master of the Ring,” according to a Keeneland Incident Report. The horses clipped heels, which caused Master of the Ring to go down. Master of…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WTVQ) — Authorities have not yet released a motive for the Old National Bank mass shooting in Louisville, but sources say the shooter left two “extensive notes” revealing part of his motivation. The notes, left in his home and on his person, indicated that he wanted to show how easy it was for a mentally ill person to…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WTVQ) — The Louisville Metro police officer who was shot in the head by a gunman at Old National Bank last week was transferred to another hospital after being diagnosed with pneumonia. Officer Nickolas Wilt, who is still in critical but stable condition, has been hospitalized since the shooting on April 10. Three days ago, Wilt was diagnosed…
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (WTVQ) — Marijuana enthusiasts typically celebrate 4/20, and just last month, Governor Andy Beshear signed into law a medical marijuana bill and while the product wont officially be available until 2025, you do have options. “We’re offering here at cannabis is a place that we really are looking to normalize cannabis, to normalize hemp, to educate people about…
It was another fantastic spring day that felt more like summer across Central and Eastern Kentucky Thursday thanks to some filtered sunshine along with a southwest wind, which helped drive temperatures to near record highs into the low to mid-80s. The only downside of the unseasonably warm air was the accompanying wind helped to create dry conditions at the surface,…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WTVQ) — The Old National Bank gunman’s family is asking lawmakers to ensure the gun used in the mass shooting last week won’t be sold at an auction and used again. The family of the 25-year-old gunman told ABC affiliate WHAS they want the AR-15 he used to kill five people and injure eight others to be destroyed….
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Temperatures soar into the mid-80s on a summer-like Thursday across central and eastern Kentucky. The record high for Lexington is 85° and we should get very close to that. A Red Flag Warning is in effect for most of the viewing area. This is due to low humidity and gusty winds that will lead to an increased fire risk. Any…
