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April 16, 2012 5:07 AM
BOWLING GREEN (AP) - Two Western Kentucky football players were recovering Sunday after being wounded by gunshots outside a bar. A statement from the school's athletic department says defensive lineman Tevin Holliman and defensive back Ricardo Singh were each hit once, and their wounds weren't life-threatening. The shooting early Sunday...
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March 15, 2012 11:15 PM
Kentucky Basketball Postgame Notes Kentucky vs. Western Kentucky March 15, 2012 NCAA Tournament Second Round KFC Yum! Center - Louisville, Ky.
-- Kentucky improved to 33-2, while Western Kentucky ended its season 16-19. -- The Wildcats are 4-2 all-time against Western Kentucky and 2-1 against the Hilltoppers in the...
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March 15, 2012 9:05 PM
Top seed Kentucky beat No. 16 seed Western Kentucky 81-66 in the opening round of the NCAA tournament Thursday night at the KFC Yum! Center in Louisville.
Terrence Jones notched a double-double with 22 points and 10 rebounds and Anthony Davis flirted with a triple double, finishing with 16...
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March 14, 2012 8:07 AM
The Hilltoppers kicked off their 22nd NCAA Tournament appearance Tuesday night with an unbelievable 59-58 comeback win over Mississippi Valley State in the first round in Dayton, Ohio, and WKU now gets set to battle with top-seeded Kentucky in the South Region second round in Louisville Thursday night at 5:50...
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February 29, 2012 9:05 AM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - Strong winds have caused damage in western Kentucky and a tornado watch was in effect for most of the state Wednesday. No deaths or serious injuries were reported in the commonwealth early Wednesday, but what were believed to be strong winds overturned a mobile home near Paducah....
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November 8, 2011 12:49 PM
(AP) - Even though basketball tips off this week in this hoop-crazed state, Kentucky tight end Nick Melillo insists there are three good reasons to keep watching fall football - the Wildcats, Louisville and Western Kentucky are all closing in on bowl eligibility. "We're not done yet," said Melillo, who...
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July 6, 2011 10:34 AM
OWENSBORO, Ky. (AP) - A sheriff in western Kentucky is investigating a complaint that a deputy beat an injured dog with a hoe.
Ohio County Sheriff David Thompson told the Messenger-Inquirer that state road workers made the complaint against Deputy Randy Taylor, who was suspended with pay "until the...
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May 30, 2011 8:56 AM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - For its annual party of white supremacists, skinheads and Klansmen in western Kentucky, the Imperial Klans of America won't be hosting its traditional Memorial Day weekend Nordic Fest. Instead, members are opting for what they call a "spring gathering" featuring a "cross lighting" and barbeque. The change...
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May 17, 2011 10:31 AM
PADUCAH (AP) - Crews in Paducah are taking down the city floodgates, now that the Ohio River is receding after a flood. The National Weather Service predicted the river would drop below 45.5 feet Tuesday afternoon and drop to 43 feet on Friday. The unofficial crest was 55.3 feet, reached...
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May 3, 2011 10:01 AM
PADUCAH, Ky. (AP) - As flooding intensifies in western Kentucky, the commonwealth has opened a Regional Emergency Coordination Center at the Benton Armory in Marshall County.
The center is assisting local emergency response efforts, allowing local, state, and federal officials to coordinate broad emergency responses across the region.
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May 3, 2011 7:04 AM
PADUCAH (AP) - As flooding intensifies in western Kentucky, the commonwealth has opened a Regional Emergency Coordination Center at the Benton Armory in Marshall County. The center assists local emergency response efforts, allowing local, state, and federal officials to coordinate broad emergency responses across the region. Gov. Steve Beshear is...
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May 2, 2011 1:38 PM
As flood waters threaten western Kentucky, National Guard troops and Fish and Wildlife officials were en route Monday afternoon to assist in the evacuation of local citizens.
One hundred soldiers from 1123rd Engineer Co. (Leitchfield) and 103rd Chemical Co. (Richmond) are preparing to deploy to the city of Ledbetter,...
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April 26, 2011 5:09 PM
The Kentucky National Guard is currently deploying troops in support of flood relief efforts in western Kentucky.
"At the request of Governor Steve Beshear, I've directed the mobilization of more than 80 Soldiers in support of the current flood situation," said Maj. Gen. Edward W. Tonini, adjutant general for...
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April 26, 2011 11:27 AM
HENDERSON, Ky. (AP) - Flooding, power outages and other weather-related problems are popping up around Kentucky.
In the community of Geneva outside Henderson, many homes near the Ohio River are accessible only by boat, while the town of Sulphur northeast of Louisville was evacuated as a precaution as officials...
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April 25, 2011 3:51 PM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - Kentuckians are bracing for what some officials say could be historic flooding, leaving low-lying areas and readying sandbags as streams rush, rivers rise, and severe storms continue.
Officials in western Kentucky cities and towns along the Ohio River scrambled Monday to take as many precautions as...
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April 25, 2011 6:16 AM
HENDERSON (AP) - The National Weather Service in Paducah has confirmed that an EF2 tornado struck the Poole community, tearing off roofs, but causing no serious injuries. The tornado, which touched down Friday night, brought winds of 125 miles per hour. The twister followed a path starting near Kentucky 56...
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April 4, 2011 1:08 PM
A storm caused heavy damage as it rolled through Ballard County in western Kentucky early Monday afternoon.
The Paducah Sun reports that a spokeswoman for the Ballard County Sheriff's Department confirmed the collapse of a cell phone tower near the community of La Center. The official said she did...
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December 13, 2010 10:31 AM
The Kentucky Public Service Commission (PSC) has vacated its decision to create a new area code in far western Kentucky because there is no longer any immediate need to increase the availability of new telephone numbers in the region.
If such a need arises in the future, the process...
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October 18, 2010 1:45 PM
Vinny Zollo who probably would be UK bound had Billy Gillispie stayed, will play his college ball at Western Kentucky.
The 6-foot-9 inch 220 pounder attended "Hilltopper Hysteria" Friday night at E.A. Diddle Arena before making his decision.
"Yeah it was great," says Clark Co. coach Scott Humphrey....
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September 28, 2010 8:08 AM
MURRAY (AP) - Two western Kentucky men have changed their pleas on the eve of their trial in a homicide case. Both were charged in the beating death of Carl Douglas McGowan in Calloway County. The Paducah Sun reports 29-year-old Michael Lynch changed his plea on Monday to guilty but...
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September 23, 2010 8:32 AM
MAYFIELD (AP) - The American Civil Liberties Union is asking Mayfield's zoning board to reconsider its rejection of a permit for a downtown mosque. In its rejection of the permit on Aug. 24, the board cited concerns about fire safety and building capacity and parking. A letter sent on Wednesday...
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September 21, 2010 8:14 AM
Police in Western Kentucky say a woman faces numerous charges after she drove drunk with her young child in the vehicle. Officers say they spotted Erica Tapp, 39, driving all over the road early Sunday morning in Henderson County. She was driving on a suspended license and her 3-year-old child...
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September 16, 2010 10:13 AM
OWENSBORO, Ky. (AP) - An infant has died after becoming unresponsive at a western Kentucky daycare center. Daviess County Coroner Bob Howe told the Messenger-Inquirer that 8-month-old Baylee L. Taylor-Clark died Wednesday at Owensboro Medical Health System. The child was taken there by ambulance after becoming unresponsive at Lea's Learning...
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September 11, 2010 11:21 PM
(AP) - Randall Cobb did it all, accounting for three touchdowns to lead Kentucky to a 63-28 victory over Western Kentucky on Saturday night. The junior wide receiver caught a score, threw for another and returned a punt 50 yards to the end zone as the Wildcats (2-0) outclassed the...
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September 9, 2010 4:17 PM
Insight Communications will also be carrying the UK-Western Kentucky game live Saturday night at 7:30.
They will carry the game in Fayette Co. on Channel 14. Insight will have the the game in Louisville, Northern Kentucky, Evansville, Henderson Co., and Bowling Green.
Insight suggests that you check your...
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September 8, 2010 11:13 PM
Kentucky's offense certainly stood out in the first half against Louisville. The defense wasn't half bad either. The second half, the story was a little different. Kentucky stalled offensively and the defense gave up a few big plays, including an 80-yard run for a touchdown. Penalties on both sides of...
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September 8, 2010 6:06 PM
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Head coach Joker Phillips announced that senior Brad Durham has earned the starting nod at offensive right tackle for Kentucky's football game against Western Kentucky University on Saturday. The first-year head coach says Durham will get the starting nod at right tackle over junior Billy Joe Murphy....
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September 2, 2010 2:59 PM
The Office of the State Climatologist and the Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet, in coordination with the Kentucky Drought Mitigation Team (KDMT), are issuing a Level I Drought Declaration for three drought management areas (DMAs) in western Kentucky. Counties within the Level I drought declaration areas include: Purchase DMA: Fulton,...
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August 27, 2010 3:57 PM
HILLVIEW, Ky. (AP) - Police say a plane crashed in a small community about 17 miles south of Louisville, but no one was injured. WLKY-TV in Louisville reports that the aircraft went down at 2:50 p.m. EDT Friday in Hillview in Bullitt County with two people on board. Officer Roy...
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August 27, 2010 8:37 AM
GREENEVILLE (AP) - An inmate has been found dead in a western Kentucky jail. Kentucky State Police are investigating after James Ray Wilson was discovered dead Thursday night at the Muhlenberg County Detention Center in Greenville. The report by KSP Detective Dan Morck said foul play is not suspected and...
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August 24, 2010 8:09 AM
HICKMAN, Ky. (AP) - Jailers in Kentucky's southwest corner say a jail inmate is still missing after an escape. Christopher B. Roper of Paducah escaped from the Fulton County Jail in Hickman and was still on the run early Tuesday. Kentucky State Police said Roper has ties to both Paducah...
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August 6, 2010 7:46 AM
BENTON, Ky. (AP) - Police have charged a western Kentucky woman after a motorist found her toddler wandering on a road. WPSD-TV in Paducah reported the Marshall County Sheriff's Office charged Courtney Oakley with endangering the welfare of a minor. Deputy Jason Ivey says Oakley's 18-month-old son was barefoot, wearing...
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August 2, 2010 9:05 AM
HICKORY, Ky. (AP) - Kentucky State Police have gone on the offensive against marijuana production in three counties in far western Kentucky. State police say that as of last Friday morning, 589 marijuana plants had been eradicated in Livingston, Lyon and Trigg counties. Those plants would have brought an estimated...
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July 19, 2010 4:59 PM
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) - State police say 63 people were arrested or cited from six states when authorities raided a cockfighting ring in western Kentucky. The Daily News of Bowling Green reported state police executed a search warrant Saturday in Brownsville. Police say they found weapons, $35,000 in cash,...
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July 13, 2010 10:56 AM
MAYFIELD, Ky. (AP) - A western Kentucky man has acknowledged that prosecutors have enough evidence to convict him of animal cruelty. Joanal Deberry of Hickory entered an Alford plea Monday in Circuit Court at Mayfield in exchange for a three-year sentence. The Paducah Sun reported Deberry will find out Aug....
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July 10, 2010 5:23 PM
BOWLING GREEN - WKU rounded out its men's basketball coaching staff for the 2010-11 season with the hiring of Allen Edwards as an assistant coach and Ryan Johnson as strength and conditioning coach, head coach Ken McDonald announced Saturday.
Edwards brings with him two National Championships and six NCAA...
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July 1, 2010 7:48 AM
MARION, Ky. (AP) - Kentucky State Police have joined the search for two western Kentucky jail inmates who walked off from a work release detail. A KSP news release on Wednesday stated 44-year-old Alonzo Jackson and 19-year-old Christopher Chase Bingham disappeared while out of the Crittenden County Detention Center in...
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June 22, 2010 12:07 PM
WOODBURY, Ky. (AP) - Rescue crews are searching for a missing 42-year-old man after his son's body was found near a dam where the Barren and Green rivers meet in southwestern Kentucky. WBKO-TV reports that Warren and Butler County rescue squads responded to a call Monday night of three people...
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June 8, 2010 9:12 AM
MAYFIELD, Ky. (AP) - A western Kentucky woman has been sentenced to seven years in prison in the shooting of her estranged husband at a home improvement store in Mayfield. The Paducah Sun reported, however, that 41-year-old Annamarie Smith of Mayfield could be released as soon as November. On March...
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June 1, 2010 4:04 PM
SMITHS GROVE, Ky. (AP) - A 3-year-old south-central Kentucky boy has been added to the list of weekend drowning victims after he was pulled lifeless from the bottom of a family pool. Kentucky State Police say Preston Ray Madison apparently entered the pool when he was left outside briefly at...
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May 11, 2010 8:47 PM
Western Kentucky University men's basketball has a fairly high-profile candidate for the open assistant coaching job in its program, that's according to WBKO. Former University of Kentucky star Tony Delk - who spent ten seasons in the NBA with eight different teams - is a candidate to fill the vacancy,...
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May 6, 2010 6:06 PM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - The U.S. Coast Guard is warning that some rural parts of Kentucky are about to be inundated by the worst flooding in 200 years while officials continued to search swift-moving, debris-filled rivers for two missing kayakers. Coast Guard Lt. Jennifer Jessee, chief of waterways management with the...
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April 29, 2010 11:41 AM
PROVIDENCE, Ky. - Officials at a western Kentucky coal mine where two miners are missing after a rock slide said late Thursday morning that they had located one of the miners, and, when asked if he was alive, replied, "we have gotten no response." State records show the mine has...
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April 20, 2010 8:44 AM
PRINCETON, Ky. (AP) - One young man is dead and another is injured after a fall while rock climbing in western Kentucky. Kentucky State Police said 20-year-old Ray D. Witherspoon Jr. of Nortonville fell to his death while climbing freestyle at the Jones Keeney Wildlife Management Area eight miles east...
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January 8, 2010 8:36 AM
Slick roads claimed the life of a western Kentucky man on Thursday. Police say 43-year-old Barry D. Hughes of Cave City died after he lost control of his pickup truck on a snow- and ice-covered roadway and struck a tree. The Barren County Sheriff's office says Hughes was traveling near...
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December 22, 2009 11:37 AM
MADISONVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Two western Kentucky men charged with robbing and killing a couple in their home have pleaded not guilty in the deaths. Eddie Goodnight, 40, and Dustin McKinney, 23, were arraigned Monday in Hopkins Circuit Court. Lynn and Mary Ann Moore were found dead in their home...
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December 16, 2009 12:01 PM
SMITHLAND, Ky. (AP) - Defense attorneys have asked a judge to supress evidence and testimony against a western Kentucky man charged with killing three children and attacking their mother. The Paducah Sun reports attorneys for 37-year-old Kevin Dunlap have filed the motions, which will be argued Friday. The motions seek...
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December 4, 2009 2:32 PM
Police in western Kentucky are investigating a possible theft ring involving baby formula that they say stretches from Kentucky to Mexico. The Marshall County sheriff says four people were arrested last month after two of the suspects were spotted stealing Enfamil baby formula. Investigators say they found more than a...
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November 25, 2009 10:09 AM
REED'S FREE THROW WITH 0.1 LEFT STUNS HILLTOPPERS 64-63
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - For the second time in as many days, WKU (2-2) was involved in a one-point decision, unlike Monday's win over Cal State Northridge, however, the Hilltoppers came up on the wrong end of a last second...
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November 24, 2009 9:46 AM
Sergio Kerusch hit two clutch shots inside the final 1:43, part of his game-high 24, to lift Western Kentucky University (2-1) to a 68-67 win over Cal State Northridge (1-3) on Monday night at E.A. Diddle Arena in the 25th Dick's Sporting Goods NIT Season Tip-Off. The Hilltoppers' win over...
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November 19, 2009 9:08 AM
A Kentucky man working for a private company that transports prisoners has been indicted on a charge of traveling in interstate commerce to engage in sex with an inmate. Prosecutors say that in January, 50-year-old Albert Preston Long of Florence allegedly carried one female prisoner and three male prisoners from...
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November 9, 2009 10:41 AM
A western Kentucky child has died following an all-terrain vehicle crash. Ciara Greenwell of Reidland in McCracken County died at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn., Sunday night. The Paducah Sun reported the 12-year-old girl was injured Saturday night when the ATV she was riding hit a fence. Hospital...
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October 27, 2009 9:37 AM
A former western Kentucky school worker accused of having sexual relations with a 17-year-old student he coached has entered an Alford plea. The Paducah Sun reports that Martin "Bo" Brien, 25, of Nashville, Tenn., entered the plea Monday to a charge of second-degree unlawful action with a minor. Under an...
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October 2, 2009 11:01 AM
PRINCETON, Ky. (AP) - A western Kentucky man has been convicted of second-degree manslaughter in the death of a 10-month-old boy who smothered after having a bottle held tightly to his mouth. A Caldwell County jury took five hours Thursday before returning the verdict on Phillip Knee of Dawson Springs....
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