WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says he’s replacing his embattled Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and will nominate in her place Oklahoma Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin. Trump made the announcement on social media on Thursday, two days after Noem…
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WTVQ) - Happy Monday! We are tracking the potential for strong-to-severe storms moving into the ABC 36 viewing area over the next two days.…
PITTSBURGH, PA (WTVQ)- Kentucky men's basketball's 2024 NCAA Tournament run is at an end 40 minutes after it started. The Wildcats lost to Oakland University on Thursday in Pittsburgh,…
JACKSON COUNTY, Ky. (WTVQ) - A Jackson County, Kentucky couple is in the Detention Center there, facing charges they tried to sell their twin newborn daughters. According to their arrest citations, Zackary Davis and Jacquilyn Keith are charged with…
LEXINGTON, Ky. (ABC 36 NEWS NOW via LEX NEWS) - Fayette County Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Demetrus Liggins has filed a formal Open Meetings Act appeal Tuesday with Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman, asking him to declare unlawful the Fayette…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday erased limits on how much political parties can spend in coordination with candidates for Congress and president, striking down a federal election law that is more than 50 years old. Prodded by a Republican-led…
WASHINGTON (AP) — A divided Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a broad conception of birthright citizenship, rejecting President Donald Trump’s executive order declaring that children born to people who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens. The justices…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld state laws barring transgender girls and women from playing on school athletic teams, in another setback for transgender people. The court’s six-justice conservative majority, which has repeatedly ruled against transgender Americans in the past year,…
Oppressive Heat Returns for Another Day We're starting off another day on a warm and muggy note across central and eastern…
Tuesday: Extreme Heat Warning for most of central and eastern Kentucky. Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. Lows in the mid 70s. Wednesday: Extreme Heat Warning for most of…
MORGAN COUNTY, Ky. (ABC 36 NEWS NOW) - Shelva Rowe and her sister Annelle Lord never met their uncle, Bearl E. Jones. But through family stories, they know exactly who he was. "He was everything. He was the first born…
(AP via SCRIPPS NEWS GROUP) - The Supreme Court held Monday that constitutional privacy protections extend to cellphone location information, ruling in the case of a bank robber whose identity was discovered through a geofence warrant. Justice Elena Kagan wrote…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (ABC 36 NEWS NOW) — 36-year-old John Tooson received two life sentences in Boyd Circuit Court for the 2022 murders of sisters Selina Easter and Summer Algarakhuly, Attorney General Russell Coleman announced. Tooson, who had reportedly been in…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (ABC 36 NEWS NOW) - The Kentucky State Police are asking the public to vote for their entry in the 2026 Best Looking Cruiser Contest, held annually by the American Association of State Troopers. Voting runs through Friday,…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (ABC 36 NEWS NOW) - Louisville Metro Police Department is mourning the loss of 4th Division Officer Anthony Elliott, who died following a motorcycle crash Sunday night on I-265 South near the 36-mile marker. The department reported that…
Hot and Humid Conditions Take Hold We're kicking off the week on a very warm and muggy note, and unfortunately, this pattern isn't…
UPDATE: June 29 at 10 a.m. Madison County Coroner Jimmy Cornelison identified two victims of the deadly flooding that swept through the region Saturday as 57-year-old John Powell and 73-year-old Garnett Isbell. Cornelison added that Powell died in a basement…
PARIS (AP) — Every few minutes, the mortuary owner's phone rings. Since a record-smashing heat wave started taking lives and storage space for bodies in Paris and beyond, the funeral directors and mourning families calling him mostly have the same question: Do…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans have grown less proud of their country's history or the way its democracy works over the past decade, according to a new AP-NORC poll. Americans’ pride in the U.S. on several key attributes has dropped since…
MADISON COUNTY, Ky. (ABC 36 NEWS NOW via LEX NEWS) — Floodwaters tore through Madison County on Saturday and destroyed Million Church, leaving little more than rubble where the historic building once stood. Pastor Jessie Lainhart said the congregation had…
RICHMOND, Ky. (ABC 36 NEWS NOW via LEX NEWS) — A nonprofit in Richmond is distributing flood relief supplies donated by the community on Monday for local residents who were impacted by this weekend's severe weather. Enrich, located at 110…
