William Battle
Reporter
Bowling Green, Ky
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William Battle joined WBKO in April 2022 as a multi-media journalist.
He served in the US Army for 23 years, starting as a combat medic and eventually becoming a journalist before retiring in May 2020. He's excited to bring those skills and knowledge to the WBKO News team, telling the stories of people here in south-central Kentucky. You'll see him covering many community events.
Updated: 11 hours ago
|By William Battle
Kentucky Transportation Cabinet is monitoring the roads and creating a plan to treat icy conditions during tonight's anticipated winter weather.
Updated: Jan. 27, 2023 at 2:22 PM CST
|By William Battle
Lara Mattingly and her family are foster and adoptive parents who also provide support for foster and adoptive families in the region with DCBS.
Updated: Jan. 23, 2023 at 5:40 PM CST
|By William Battle
The City of Auburn is expanding its banner program honoring veterans in their community.Last year, the city introduced the program where banners featuring the image, name, and service branch of local veterans lined Main Street.
Updated: Jan. 20, 2023 at 6:01 PM CST
|By William Battle
Ricky Wooten serves as a counselor with the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation at the Kentucky Career Center in Glasgow; helping people with disabilities get jobs and training.
Updated: Jan. 18, 2023 at 3:46 PM CST
|By William Battle
Entries are now being accepted for Med Center Health’s Women in the Arts exhibit until February 15. The event is scheduled for Friday, March 10, and Saturday, March 11 at The Medical Center-WKU Health Sciences Complex.
Updated: Jan. 17, 2023 at 4:52 PM CST
|By William Battle
Seventy years after the first model rolled off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan, the iconic sports car has undergone a new change for 2024.
Updated: Jan. 13, 2023 at 2:31 PM CST
|By William Battle
Hughes & Coleman Hometown Heroes: Mike and Leonor Bowles help the Filipino community of Glasgow, KY feel at home in the area.
Updated: Jan. 11, 2023 at 3:12 PM CST
|By William Battle
Written for a period in time that is still evolving, this volume speaks to many of the civil rights issues that were overshadowed for much of the 20th century. As civil rights campaigns began to come into focus, so too did the cries for basic human rights from many groups. These civil rights movements can be characterized by a common sense of necessity in American history. These voices argue collectively for the inclusion of this new timeline of civil rights campaigns in classrooms across the United States.
Updated: Jan. 10, 2023 at 3:52 PM CST
|By William Battle
The funding for the showcase is provided through KDE’s Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund.
Updated: Jan. 9, 2023 at 3:04 PM CST
|By William Battle
Shores will be formally recognized at the annual KMEA Conference in Louisville, Friday, Feb. 10.
Updated: Jan. 1, 2023 at 7:14 PM CST
|By WBKO News Staff and William Battle
Daniel Tarnagda is the founder of Refuge BG after his experience of being an immigrant in America. He wanted to help immigrant and refugee families in need.
Updated: Dec. 30, 2022 at 4:27 PM CST
|By William Battle
Hughes & Coleman Hometown Hero: Sandra Gross is a Clinical Staff Nurse at the Medical Center in Bowling Green, KY.
Updated: Dec. 28, 2022 at 7:19 PM CST
|By William Battle
Simpson County will be commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Mantell UFO Incident by naming January 7th “Captain Tomas Mantell Jr. Day.”
Updated: Dec. 27, 2022 at 6:58 PM CST
|By William Battle
Even with preparation for the weather, both commercial and residential customers have still experienced plumbing related complications. Private plumbing companies are doing everything they can to meet the increased demand due to cold weather.
Updated: Dec. 23, 2022 at 7:15 PM CST
|By William Battle
For nearly 30 years, Judge Mike Buchanon has served the people of Warren County to make it a place that everyone can call home.
Updated: Dec. 21, 2022 at 7:46 PM CST
|By William Battle
Coming out of the pandemic, these machines have helped with supplementing income to help local businesses stay open, as well as giving them the ability to give back to the community.
Updated: Dec. 16, 2022 at 6:48 PM CST
|By William Battle
Bob Wood walks around the Eaglestone Village subdivision daily to pick up trash and keep the area clean.
Updated: Dec. 14, 2022 at 7:40 PM CST
|By William Battle
Logan County’s “Athletes Care Program” is taking donations to help families in need around the county for Christmas.
Updated: Dec. 14, 2022 at 6:33 PM CST
|By William Battle
This week, Logan County Schools will premiere their musical holiday play “Elf Jr.” in the high school’s cafetorium.
Updated: Dec. 13, 2022 at 5:33 PM CST
|By William Battle
The revenue raised by charitable gaming by the American Legion is used to help community and veteran organizations provide services to people in need in and around Warren County.
Updated: Dec. 12, 2022 at 7:07 PM CST
|By William Battle
HOTEL INC held its ribbon cutting for its newly remodeled facility this morning in the Delafield community.
Updated: Dec. 11, 2022 at 8:00 PM CST
|By William Battle
On the morning of December 11, 2021, an EF-2 tornado touched down in the Chandler’s Chapel area of Logan County. While it is a rural area of the county, the damage was no less traumatic to the families that live there than if it had struck a heavily populated area.
Updated: Dec. 9, 2022 at 7:45 PM CST
|By William Battle
Kristin Cartwright literally gave a piece of herself to give a complete stranger a chance to live.
Updated: Dec. 5, 2022 at 7:13 PM CST
|By William Battle
Two seventh graders at Adairville Elementary have started an emotional support circle for their peers.
Updated: Dec. 4, 2022 at 11:13 PM CST
|By WBKO News Staff and William Battle
Aaron Brown, Director of the Men’s Addiction Recovery Center, is the Hughes & Coleman Hometown Hero for December 2022
Updated: Dec. 2, 2022 at 6:14 PM CST
|By William Battle
Mary Osborne has made it her mission to help families that are hungry or have become homeless in Warren County and surrounding areas.
Updated: Nov. 30, 2022 at 7:21 PM CST
|By William Battle
Ashli Johnson decorates her home with a large display for the holidays and invites the entire community to come see them.
Updated: Nov. 29, 2022 at 8:39 AM CST
|By Will Whaley and William Battle
Castleberry is being housed in the Simpson County Detention Center on a $50,000 cash bond and has a court date for Dec. 8 at 8:30 a.m.
Updated: Nov. 28, 2022 at 6:30 PM CST
|By William Battle
Bowling Green Noon Rotary Club delivered 400 pairs of shoes to 4 local elementary schools for children in need. The children were selected by their Family Resource Centers to receive the shoes.
Updated: Nov. 24, 2022 at 7:00 PM CST
|By William Battle
Daniel Tarnagda is the founder of Refuge BG and the coach of the GIHS and Teranga Academy soccer teams.
Updated: Nov. 22, 2022 at 8:28 PM CST
|By William Battle
Students at Allen County Intermediate Center collected boxes of cereal for needy families in their first ever cereal drive.
Updated: Nov. 22, 2022 at 8:23 PM CST
|By William Battle
The Boys & Girls Club of Glasgow-Barren County were awarded $1 Million from the state to fund projects that would expand their services.
Updated: Nov. 21, 2022 at 7:25 PM CST
|By William Battle
Warren County Public Schools hosted its annual student Leadership Summit at Green River Regional Education Cooperative (GRREC) this morning.
Updated: Nov. 18, 2022 at 2:19 PM CST
|By William Battle
Dr. Kelly Kries is a Bowling Green Pediatrician that goes above and beyond for her patients and their families. Sometimes that means helping them through difficult times.
Updated: Nov. 16, 2022 at 5:04 PM CST
|By William Battle
WKU held its Hope on the Hill event at the Downing Student Union courtyard Wednesday morning ahead of final exams and the holidays.
Updated: Nov. 15, 2022 at 1:45 PM CST
|By William Battle
Jeff Fields, Cheetah Clean Auto Wash CEO and Founder gave LifeWorks at WKU a $100,000 gift to support autistic young adults enrolled in the LIfeWorks Transition Academy.
Updated: Nov. 14, 2022 at 4:19 PM CST
|By William Battle
At Auburn School, students have partnered with community members and city officials to rake leaves, fix small residential and town issues, and help community members in need.
Updated: Nov. 14, 2022 at 4:09 PM CST
|By William Battle
The Southern Kentucky Performing Arts Center (SKyPAC) is giving Bowling Green a taste of the holiday season with its 8th annual Gingerbread Homes for the Arts festival.
Updated: Nov. 11, 2022 at 11:18 AM CST
|By William Battle
Regina Pedigo, Special Projects Coordinator and a puppeteer with Kentucky Kids on the Block lives the lessons she's taught children for 15 years.
Updated: Nov. 9, 2022 at 8:49 PM CST
|By William Battle
Logan County elementary teachers are participating in a program with Western Kentucky University to improve the effectiveness of math classes.
Updated: Nov. 7, 2022 at 4:02 PM CST
|By William Battle
Four and a half years of planning and coordination have made the Bowling Green Trolley idea a reality. The Bowling Green Trolley took passengers on its first tour of downtown and the WKU campus this morning.
Updated: Nov. 4, 2022 at 9:26 AM CDT
|By William Battle
Amberly Bush, Orchestra Director at Barren County High School not only enriches the lives of her students in school, but she is also there to help them any way she can
Updated: Nov. 2, 2022 at 8:29 PM CDT
|By William Battle
The demand has been steadily growing over the years, but the field was hit hard by the pandemic as it saw many qualified workers leave out of concerns for safety and overwhelming workloads.
Updated: Nov. 1, 2022 at 2:27 PM CDT
|By William Battle
Southern Kentucky Community & Technical College (SKYCTC) held its second annual Fall Festival in The Grove on the main campus.
Updated: Oct. 31, 2022 at 2:52 PM CDT
|By William Battle
Students from Warren Elementary were invited to the main campus of SKYCTC for a safe and fun trick-or-treating event
Updated: Oct. 28, 2022 at 3:28 PM CDT
|By William Battle
Aaron Brown is the Director of Recovery Services at the Men’s Addiction Recovery Campus (MARC) and has positively impacted the lives of numerous community members battling addiction.
Updated: Oct. 25, 2022 at 9:45 PM CDT
|By William Battle
This Friday, WKU will honor their first African American student and graduate, Margaret Munday, by naming a residence hall in her honor.
Updated: Oct. 25, 2022 at 8:57 PM CDT
|By William Battle
Ashley Buchanon, a Fourth Grade teacher at Rockfield Elementary, received the Valvoline Teacher Achievement Award.
Updated: Oct. 24, 2022 at 7:21 PM CDT
|By William Battle
Former State Representative and current Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate Charles Booker, continues his statewide bus tour. Today, Rep. Booker met with voters in Hart, Taylor, Marion, and Boyle Counties.
Updated: Oct. 21, 2022 at 10:00 AM CDT
|By William Battle
Shelly Thomas is the FRYSC Coordinator at Trojan Academy in Barren County. She ensures that families have everything they need from school clothes to Christmas gifts. She is also the leader of "The Resilience Factor," a group making positive changes in Glasgow.