Pleasant Thursday ahead of active weather pattern

One final day of dry conditions on Thursday before rain showers and storms return to the forecast

Our second straight day of dry conditions and mild temperatures is on the way for your Thursday. There will be some cloud cover overhead for our northern counties. All this cloud cover will do is keep temperatures slightly cooler areas along and north of I-64. Afternoon temperatures will reach the upper 60s and low 70s for our southern counties, while…

Kentucky beginning a “new day” for crime victims

The Attorney General's Survivors' Council spoke at a resource fair for crime victims

FRANKFORT, Ky. (WTVQ) – There are some groups no one joins willingly, crime victims is one of them. People who are using their personal trauma to help others gathered in Frankfort Wednesday during National Crime Victims’ Rights Week. “My name is Shellena Harmon and I am one of the Survivors’ Council members. I’m a survivor of sex trafficking.” Harmon was…

DV8 and Right On Crime hosts employer engagement forum to encourage hiring ‘second-chance’ employees

DV8 Kitchen staffs those in recovery or out-of-jail and hopes to inspire others to do the same

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WTVQ) – DV8 Kitchen in Lexington hires those in recovery or out of jail looking for their ‘second chance’. Thursday, the restaurant, is holding an engagement forum with criminal justice reform initiative Right On Crime for businesses to encourage others to follow their lead. DV8 says its employer engagement forum will show businesses the benefits of using second-chance…

Clouds slowly increase before our rain chances ramp up into the weekend

While it shouldn't be a wash-out with breaks in the rain on occasion, you'll want to keep the rain gear handy!

After a chilly start to Wednesday, we enjoyed a delightful afternoon with full sunshine and afternoon highs surging into the mid to upper 60s across Central and Eastern Kentucky. Hopefully you’ve enjoyed the sunshine as it will be a premium in the coming days as we shift into an unsettled weather pattern. With high clouds and an east wind on…

Reds player’s grave marked more than a century after his death

Theodore "Huck" Conover's final resting place went unmarked for 112 years

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WTVQ) – For more than a century–112 years to be exact–the grave of a Lexington-born pitcher who played for the Cincinnati Reds was unmarked at the Lexington Cemetery until now. Theodore “Huck” Conover’s grave is now properly marked, thanks to a national effort to make sure former Major League Baseball players receive the proper recognition in their final…

‘One Lexington’ impacting students academically, socially

Lexington's youth gun violence prevention program is seeing results, according to the city

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WTVQ) – Lexington’s youth gun violence prevention program, ‘One Lexington’, is seeing results, according to the city. In the last year, the city says ‘One Lexington’ has reached 3,000 kids, mediated with 15 teenagers where violence had occurred and served 24 families impacted by gun violence. “I enjoy this group and I think it’s important for more teenagers…

Cooler air returns to Central and Eastern Kentucky

After a few scattered showers to begin the week, it will be a touch cooler but pleasant through the mid-week

How about that amazing weekend? After highs well into the 80s and sunshine, we started the week warm and dry before a cold front brought a few showers and a rumble of thunder or two late Monday. The front also ushered in some cooler air as winds shifted to the northwest. Expect a breezy and cooler Tuesday with slow clearing…