WULF News

Unemployment rates across much of the Lincoln Trail District ticked slightly higher in July. The Kentucky Center for Statistics says unemployment rates decreased in 73 counties, rose in 35 counties, and stayed the same in 12 counties when comparing July 2025 with July 2024. The state unemployment average for July was 5.6 percent. That’s an increase from the 4.9 percent average in June, but it is down slightly from the […]

A joint investigation between Kentucky and Kansas law enforcement agencies has landed a man in jail on child sex crime charges. Justin R. Bevitt of Topeka, Kansas, is currently incarcerated in Shawnee County, Kansas, pending extradition to Kentucky. According to Kentucky State Police Post Three, troopers received a call from a family reporting that a juvenile had left their home with a 41-year-old male. Troopers began investigating and found that […]

This Sunday marks the fifth anniversary of the disappearance of Radcliff teenager Rosalyn Velazquez. “She went missing on August 24, 2020,” said Detective Kenneth Mattingly with the Radcliff Police Department. “There was an extensive search done. Search warrants were filed, phone records were received, and a lot of Facebook activity, stuff like that, which the social media stuff is something that we still actively monitor and still follow up on […]

The Hardin County Teen Court is inviting all area high school students and their parents to attend an open house and mock trial at the Hardin County Justice Center. “Hardin County Teen Court is an opportunity for local high school students to come together and sentence on the actual juvenile cases of their peers throughout the community,” said Hardin District Judge Kimberly Shumate. The open house is coming up on Thursday, […]

The Kentucky State Police is investigating a fatal collision in Meade County Thursday. According to KSP Post Four, at around 10:30 a.m. on August 21 troopers from Post Four and the KSP Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Division responded to a request from Meade County Dispatch to assist with the investigation of a crash near the 14,000 block of U.S. 60. The KSP says the preliminary investigation indicates that a tractor-trailer operated […]

Hardin County/Ninth Judicial Circuit Commonwealth’s Attorney Shane Young is receiving some special recognition. Young received the 2025 Outstanding Commonwealth’s Attorney Award at the Kentucky Prosecutors Conference in Lexington Wednesday. “Personally, it’s gratifying, but really, I think it’s a reflection on what the office does,” Young said. “Not just me, but I have seven other prosecutors that work with me, and I’ve been lucky enough to assemble what I think is probably the […]

A fire at a city-owned building Tuesday night resulted in significant losses for the Vine Grove Fire Department. Vine Grove Mayor Pam Ogden said it appears the fire at 203 North Mill Street began after the building was struck by lightning. “We have video cameras that watch the buildings and we can see about 9 p.m. last night where a plume started coming from the building, so I think it took […]

Kentucky will be getting a new area code as an overlay complex is introduced in the 502 region. The Kentucky Public Service Commission has announced that residents in the 502 area code region will soon be seeing a second area code: 761. According to a release from the commission, the North American Numbering Plan Administrator estimates that available telephone numbers will soon be exhausted in the 502 region, with projections indicating […]

Just under four years after the September 2021 announcement of the Glendale-based project, BlueOval SK on Tuesday announced that production has officially begun at the Kentucky 1 plant. “In just three short years, we transformed a once empty field in Glendale, Kentucky, into a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility for building batteries for the EV industry,” said BlueOval SK CEO Michael Adams in audio provided by the company. “Thousands of people’s work went into […]