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• Deputy Shoots Suspect Who Won't Put Down Gun

  February 29, 2012 8:21 AM

  BOWLING GREEN (AP) - A central Kentucky sheriff's deputy has shot and wounded a man involved in a domestic dispute. Kentucky State Police are investigating the incident, which occurred shortly before 6 p.m. Tuesday in Warren County, outside of Bowling Green. A news release from the KSP stated Warren County... more »

• Bowling Green Pair Marry On Bride's 100th Birthday

  February 7, 2012 8:51 AM

  BOWLING GREEN (AP) - The bride wore white, the groom, a tux. With a cake, flowers and food, it was a standard wedding. Except that it was held on the bride's birthday. Her 100th birthday. Dana Jackson and 87-year-old Bill Stauss married Monday at a Bowling Green nursing home where... more »

• Anderson County Loses To Bowling Green

  December 3, 2011 11:39 PM

  BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) - Scooter Hollis passed for two touchdowns and Bowling Green won its first state title since 1995 with a 55-3 rout of Anderson County on Saturday night in the Class 5A championship game. The Purples (15-0) appeared in three straight championship games from 2005-07, but didn't... more »

• Anderson Co. Heading For First Ever State Championship Game

  November 28, 2011 12:07 PM

  It was a long time coming. Sixty-three years in fact. But on Friday night, the Anderson County High School football team earned its first ever trip to a state football championship game. The Bearcats put on an offensive clinic, knocking off Southwestern 49-8 to earn a date... more »

• Interpreter Requested In Amish Buggy Case

  November 2, 2011 8:53 AM

  AUBURN (AP) - An interpreter who speaks Pennsylvania Dutch has been requested in court in Logan County to help four Amish people who have been cited for not displaying a slow-moving vehicle emblem on their horse-drawn buggies. The Bowling Green Daily News reported that they apparently had trouble understanding the... more »

• Trooper Shoots Man During Traffic Stop

  October 5, 2011 6:58 AM

  A Kentucky State Police trooper shot a man during a traffic stop in western Kentucky Tuesday night. Police say two troopers pulled over a car off US-68 and I-65 in Warren County just before 10 p.m. Before the troopers could get out of their cruiser, Scotty Reece, 41, of... more »

• It's Complicated: Facebook Status Sparks Arrest

  September 30, 2011 8:30 AM

  BOWLING GREEN (AP) - A southern Kentucky man's Facebook relationship status is likely much more complicated. Bowling Green police say 21-year-old Tristan Neal assaulted his girlfriend Tuesday after the pair fought over his refusal to change his Facebook status from "single" to "in a relationship." Neal's girlfriend, who was not... more »

• McConnell Protests Civilian Trials For Iraqi Terrorism Suspects

  July 6, 2011 8:55 AM

  BOWLING GREEN (AP) - U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder on Tuesday repeating his request to reconsider holding civilian trials for two Iraqis arrested in Bowling Green last month, but the city commission won't be joining McConnell in the request. McConnell said... more »

• Bowling Green To Have $6M, 10-Acre Solar Farm

  June 7, 2011 10:27 AM

  BOWLING GREEN (AP) - Bowling Green should have its first large-scale solar generating facility by the end of the month. This week workers were installing poles that will hold up some of the 7,000 solar panels planned for a 10-acre site at Scotty's Development. The poles will have a metal... more »

• Two Iraqi Men Arrested In Kentucky Face Terrorism Charges

  May 31, 2011 1:09 PM

  An Iraqi citizen who allegedly carried out numerous Improvised Explosive Device (IED) attacks against U.S. troops in Iraq and another Iraqi national alleged to have participated in the insurgency in Iraq were arrested In Bowling Green and indicted on federal terrorism charges in the Western District of Kentucky, according to... more »

• GM: 250 Jobs To Be Added At Kentucky Corvette Plant Play Video

  May 4, 2011 11:12 AM

  BOWLING GREEN (AP) - General Motors is investing $131 million in the Kentucky plant that assembles the Corvette, creating 250 new jobs. Mark Reuss, GM's North America president, made the announcement Wednesday at the south-central Kentucky plant with Gov. Steve Beshear and local officials. GM says the investment... more »

• More Details Emerge In Murder Of Pregnant Bowling Green Woman Play Video

  April 15, 2011 11:20 AM

  More details have been released about the relationship between a pregnant Bowling Green woman and the woman accused of killing her and then showing up at a hospital with her baby. According to her aunt's Facebook page, Jamie Stice, 21, met her accused murderer, Kathy Coy, 33, after Coy... more »

• Woman Charged With Killing Pregnant Bowling Green Woman

  April 14, 2011 3:17 PM

  Kentucky State Police arrested a Butler County woman Thursday morning and charged her with murder of a Warren County woman and kidnapping of a minor after a suspicious birth was reported by a Bowling Green hospital Wednesday. On Wednesday at about 5:50 p.m. CDT, Kentucky State Police Post 3... more »

• Man Arrested In Connection With 6-Year-OId Double Murder

  March 30, 2011 9:04 AM

  Police in Lexington arrested a man accused in a double homicide in Western Kentucky. Investigators say Gilbert Holts Jr. shot and killed Jamaal covington and Latasia Kirk of Bowling Green back in 2005. Police arrested Holts Tuesday and charged him with two counts of murder. The Bureau... more »

• Bowling Green Close To Banning Indoor Smoking

  January 23, 2011 12:26 PM

  BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) - A southern Kentucky city is on the cusp of passing a ban on smoking at most indoor businesses. The Bowling Green City Commission will vote Monday on a second reading of an ordinance that would ban smoking at most indoor businesses in the city.... more »

• Woman Arrested After Meth Lab Starts Fire; Children Thrown From Window To Safety

  September 16, 2010 6:05 PM

  A western Kentucky woman was arrested Thursday afternoon following an early-morning fire that started in a meth lab that caused her to have to throw her four children out of a window to safety. The incident happened at about 2:30 a.m. at a home on Shannon Drive in Bowling Green.... more »

• Basketball Recruit From Bowling Green Picks Louisville Over UK

  September 7, 2010 11:13 AM

  A Bowling Green high school basketball player ranked in the top 30 nationally in the class of 2011 chose Louisville over Kentucky Tuesday. According to Evan Daniels of Scout.com, Chane Behanan is a big power forward who is ranked as a top 30 talent nationally in the class of 2011... more »

• State Looking For Golf Course Operators

  August 8, 2010 11:58 AM

  BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) - State officials are looking for private operators to run 18 golf courses located at Kentucky State Parks. The Daily News in Bowling Green reports the state could save up to $500,000 in the first year of the plan and $1 million in the second year.... more »

• Woman Pleads Guilty In Bowling Green Beating Death

  July 8, 2010 8:57 AM

  BOWLING GREEN (AP) - An Oklahoma woman has pleaded guilty to taking part in the kidnapping and beating death of a Bowling Green woman four years ago. Thirty-two-year-old Alanda Latonia Lewis pleaded guilty Tuesday in Warren Circuit Court to complicity to commit murder and complicity to commit kidnapping. Lewis has... more »

• Five People In Warren County Charged In Drug Trafficking Ring

  April 9, 2010 4:11 PM

  A federal grand jury in Bowling Green indicted five people on Wednesday in connection to a drug trafficking ring. Authorities say between 2004 and early 2010 all of the defendants, along with some unnamed people, distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine and crack cocaine. Nathaniel Antonio Martin,... more »

• North Dakota Man Admits Trying To Kidnap Kentucky Teen Play Video

  December 22, 2009 4:51 PM

  A North Dakota man has admitted to trying to kidnap a Kentucky girl to bring her back to Fargo. Dragan Jovanovic pled guilty Monday to unlawful transaction with a minor. Police say Jovanovic and a friend tried to sign out a 14-year-old girl from a Bowling Green middle school last... more »

• Six-Year-Old Attacked By Pit Bull

  November 17, 2009 9:51 PM

  A 6-year-old Western Kentucky girl will have to undergo extensive surgery to her face after being attacked by a pit bull. It happened Tuesday morning at the Lee Pointe Apartments in Bowling Green. That's in Warren County. Her family tells a Bowling Green t-v station, 6-year-old Elisa Fannin is stable,... more »