Morgantown News

We're only a day away from participating in this year's area Christmas parades. Those familiar faces you see right here on WBKO will be out and about Saturday, visiting six cities and driving in the parades.

You've probably heard the story of Robert Cunningham from Butler County. He won his battle against leukemia in 2007, and now needs a bone marrow transplant to win the fight again.

An area community is asking for your help to save the life of a St. Jude patient.

Blackhawk Composites Inc., a startup manufacturer of advanced aerospace composite parts, will begin manufacturing operations near Morgantown, Ky.

Morgantown, KY has been hit hard by the economy, especially when several years back a company left town, taking away 700 jobs.

The Warren County Sheriff's Department makes four drug-related arrests. It happened Friday while serving a sealed indictment on 33-year-old Shelly Jones of Bowling Green.

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Eastern Kentucky University freshmen, from left, Andrew Green of Madison, W.Va., Adam Coomes and Easton Weathers, both of Morgantown, paint beehive frames Saturday while volunteering with EKU's Coal Country Beeworks program as part of the university's First-Year Student Service Projects.

Eastern Kentucky University freshmen, from left, Andrew Green of Madison, W.Va., Adam Coomes and Easton Weathers, both of Morgantown, paint beehive frames Saturday while volunteering with EKU's Coal Country Beeworks program as part of the university's First-Year Student Service Projects.

University of Kentucky students planning to build and race a solar-powered car are getting an assist from engineers at a southern Kentucky company on how to make it as sleek as possible.

University of Kentucky students planning to build and race a solar-powered car are getting an assist from engineers at a southern Kentucky company on how to make it as sleek as possible.

On Tuesday, July 7 the Tennessee Valley Authority Police called the Logan County Sheriff's Department for assistance.

Beauty contests, talent shows, fish fries, and square dances. It could all mean a lot for Morgantown's economy.

In 1989 the body of Marvin Rowe, a local businessman in Ohio County, was discovered in rural Butler County off of Hwy 231 north of Morgantown.

It appears no Kentucky county escaped rising unemployment rates within the past year.

Kentucky State Police is asking for your help in solving a 20-year-old murder case gone cold.

A murder trial in Morgantown comes to an abrupt end today as a judge hands down a 13-year prison sentence for a Butler County man accused of killing 35-year-old Teresa Childress back in 2000.

Annual Fallen Heroes Motorcycle Ride When: May 30, 2009 Where: Sav-A-Lot parking lot, behind the Pizza Hut, on Armory Drive Russellville KY Costs: $10.00 per bike or vehicle for ride and a Cruise-Ina All donations will be given to the Joshua Moore Scholarship Fund.

A court case continues against a Morgantown man on trial for murder, after 35-year-old Teresa Childress was found shot to death more than nine-years ago.