Updated: 4:02 PM BBB is warning consumers to beware of the “499” Scam! Local banks are being inundated with calls from concerned consumers.

Posted: 3:56 PM One of the few programs exempted from this year's automatic spending cuts, the government's food stamp program, which helps feed 1 in every 7 Americans, is likely to get trimmed.

Updated: 5:23 PM Jodi Arias has been convicted of first-degree murder in the brutal stabbing and shooting death of her one-time boyfriend in Arizona.

Updated: 9:48 PM In the trial of Barren County Sheriff Chris Eaton and two other law enforcement officials the defense rested and the jury heard some closing arguments today.

Updated: 3:42 PM Warren County Sheriff, Jerry “Peanuts” Gaines announced Wednesday that Captain Joe Jakub and the “CrimeFighter Corvette” of the Sheriff’s Anti-Crime unit was selected to lead a contingent of Law Enforcement Officers in a Memorial Procession in Washington, DC.

Posted: 2:36 PM The Federal Aviation Administration says it will keep open 72 airport towers and other air traffic control facilities that were slated to close overnight as the result of automatic spending cuts imposed by Congress.

Posted: 2:08 PM Rep. Jim DeCesare, R-Bowling Green (21st District) has been named as a MVP by the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce for the 2013 Session of the General Assembly.

Updated: 3:37 AM Law enforcement officers from across Kentucky are learning strategies on how to combat prescription drug abuse.

Posted: 1:12 PM A task force has been appointed to study the alcohol policy at the University of Kentucky.

Posted: 1:10 PM Work is beginning on the first phase of a project to build two bridges that will become a gateway to the Land Between the Lakes region in western Kentucky.

Posted: 1:09 PM U.S. Rep. Hal Rogers is calling on Urban Outfitters to stop selling flasks, shot glasses and pint glasses that look like prescription pill bottles.

Posted: 10:21 AM The smoke rising off the police officer's spinning tires at a burnout event in eastern Kentucky was supposed to be the highlight of the show.

Updated: 9:44 PM Several area Bowling Green attorneys gathered to observe Law Day at the Capitol Arts Theater Tuesday. Law Day is put on by the Bowling Green BAR Association to recognize the importance of law in our democratic society.

Updated: 6:56 PM The Kentucky Tourism Cabinet has released the state's tourism statistics, and Warren County is continuing to bring more visitors and dollars to the area. More tourism dollars in Bowling Green could affect residents in a positive way.

Posted: 4:38 PM Activist groups want the Environmental Protection Agency to adopt new rules that would better protect Appalachian waterways from pollution by mountaintop removal coal mines.

Posted: 4:37 PM Elizabeth Smart says she's overjoyed to hear about the happy ending for the Cleveland women who escaped Monday after being missing a decade.

Updated: 9:44 PM Bowling Green Independent Schools continue to fight the non-resident agreement approved by Warren County Public Schools.

Updated: 3:49 PM The state fire marshal says a fire that killed three people at a mobile home in central Kentucky started accidentally near a light fixture.

Updated: 3:21 PM The Dow Jones industrial average is punching through another milestone: its first close above 15,000.

Updated: 7:34 AM During a work session on Tuesday, Bowling Green City Commissioners discussed the purchase of a new radio communication system.

Posted: 2:24 PM Richie Farmer is asking that his trial on charges of misappropriating government resources while serving as agriculture commissioner be postponed until early next year.

Updated: 6:56 PM Consecutive days of heavy rain in south central Kentucky are keeping farmers out of their fields during arguably the most important time of the year.

Updated: 7:16 AM Day seven of the trial of Barren County Sheriff Chris Eaton and two other law enforcement officials is now complete after the defense began making their case in the trial.

Posted: 11:56 AM Some survivors of the nation's worst drunk-driving crash are planning to attend events next week in the central Kentucky area that suffered the heartbreak from the tragedy 25 years ago.

Posted: 8:55 AM Lexington police have charged the parents of a man found dead in a motel room with murder and exploitation.