Bowling Green News

This month, Newsweek magazine rated the top high schools in the country - and No.

Fountain Square, in the center of old Bowling Green, Kentucky, has been the center of commerce and social life since it was platted in 1797.

About 10,000 visitors are expected to be in bowling green this week, and they're coming from all over the world.

A pre-Civil War house in southern Kentucky has been recommended for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places.

No. 4 South Alabama defeated No. 8 Western Kentucky 5-1 in the final game of Thursday's pool play, BOWLING GREEN, Ky.

The Standard Oil Filling station No. 1 in Bowling Green, Kentucky was constructed in 1921 as the first gas station in Kentucky.

On May 23, 2012, 4:01 P.M. Kentucky State Police Post 3 Bowling Green was contacted by the Morgantown Police Department regarding a death investigation.

The City of Bowling Green will close Paul Walker Golf Course starting Monday, June 4, 2012 in order to convert the putting green surfaces to Champion Bermuda Grass.

A representative from the Kentucky League of Cities will travel to Bowing Green on Thursday, May 24, 2012 at 8:30 a.m. to present Mayor Wilkerson with a $6,000 reimbursement check for the purchase of safety items.

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. Search and rescue crews are searching for two kayakers who went missing on Tuesday night in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Second-seeded Arkansas State will open play in the 2012 Sun Belt Conference baseball tournament against Middle Tennessee State in Bowling Green, Ky.

Two in our area made the cut. Rochester's Century High School ranked 461, and Decorah High School ranked 972.

The best high school in the country, according to a national news magazine, opened five years ago and is in south-central Kentucky - the Carol Martin Gatton Academy of Mathematics and Science in Kentucky at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green.

Read Newsweek's "America's Best High Schools" report at Thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/05/20/our-report-card-on-the-1-000-that-make-the-grade.html. The Gatton Academy of Mathematics and Science, a residential high school on the campus of Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, topped the list of 1,000 schools on Newsweek's 2012 list of ... (more)

Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul has prevented a potentially awkward situation for his son, U.S. Sen.

Some county jailers in southern Kentucky say hard economic times are prompting more people with legal troubles to choose jail time over paying criminal fines.

It was a fun day at Phil Moore Park as dozens of kids and teenagers raced in soap box cars.

Although chart success in England was an unlikely first step to fame for a band from Bowling Green, Kentucky, mainstream rock band Cage the Elephant achieved just that.

The actor who played David Starsky in the 1970s police drama "Starsky & Hutch" has found himself on the other side of real law enforcement in Kentucky.

University of Arkansas System President Donald Bobbitt will recommend that a Bowling Green school administrator be chosen to lead the Arkansas School of Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts in Hot Springs.