Big Sandy, TN

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Blue Alert suspect BJ Brown, who was wanted for shooting an officer in Middle Tennessee, has been hit with a $5 million bond. Brown, 32, was accused of shooting an officer in Erin, Tennessee, during a traffic stop on the night of Monday, June 27. According to court documents, at around 9:02 […]

MURRAY – The project to widen U.S. 641 South into a four-lane highway from Murray to the Tennessee state line is ahead of schedule and slated to be completed next summer, a Kentucky Transportation Cabinet spokesman said Thursday. Jim Smith Contracting of Grand Rivers is the prime contractor for...

A suspect has been arrested after being wanted for the murder of a former Vicksburg woman. B.J. Brown, 32, has been charged with attempted first-degree murder after shooting a police officer in Erin, Tennessee during a traffic stop, as reported by WSMV of Nashville. Brown was apprehended by law enforcement...

A $5 million bond has been set for BJ Brown who is accused of shooting an Erin, Tennessee officer earlier this week. He's also accused of murder in New Orleans.

Fireworks shows and Independence Day celebrations are scheduled all weekend long across western Kentucky and southern Illinois. If you know of a celebration that's not included on this list, please email us at news@wkyx.com. Kentucky. • Eddyville's premiere fireworks show, Thunder Over Eddy Bay, will take place on Saturday with...

Paris, Tenn.–The schedule for this weekend’s PBR Rodeo in Paris has been announced and organizers are hoping to ‘fill the fairgrounds’ with people. Professional Bullrider Cody Nance of Paris will be going for his 300th bull during the weekend. There will be fireworks at the end...

Paris, Tenn.– A Paris home was destroyed by fire Wednesday along with a bass fishing boat and pickup truck. There were no injuries; the residents were not at home at the time of the fire. Paris Firefighters were called to 301 Greenwood Dr. at 11:45 a.m. and as they...

MURRAY — Murray High basketball standout Grant Whitaker has chosen to end the drama early when it comes to his choice for where he would like to continue his career at the collegiate level. Whitaker announced in a Twitter post late Wednesday that he was choosing to commit to...

Cottage Grove, Tenn.–The 47th annual Cottage Grove Freedom Festival will be held Monday, July 4, complete with the grand parade, cake walk, games, the Firehouse International Kitchen, concessions, hay rides, and to top it all off–fireworks. This year’s parade Grand Marshal will pay tribute to all veterans, with...

City of Paris – 4th of July Closings. Paris City Hall will be CLOSED on Monday, July 4th, 2022, in observance to Independence Day and will reopen at 7:30 am on Tuesday, July 5th. City of Paris Public Works Department will be CLOSED on Monday, July 4th, 2022, in...

July 1, 2022 marks the first day for Murray State University as a member of the Missouri Valley Conference. After the announcement of the Racers’ partnership with the MVC and its member institutions on Jan. 6, the Racers are officially Valley members, joining other MVC members: Belmont University (Nashville, Tenn.), Bradley University (Peoria, Ill.), Drake University (Des Moines, Iowa), the University of Evansville (Evansville, Ind.), Illinois State University (Normal, Ill.), Indiana State University (Terre Haute, Ind.), Missouri State University (Springfield, Mo.), the University of Northern Iowa (Cedar Falls, Iowa), Southern Illinois University (Carbondale, Ill.), UIC (Chicago, Ill.) and Valparaiso University (Valparaiso, Ind).

A Louisiana man has been charged in a shooting that resulted in injury to a Tennessee police officer.

PADUCAH, KY -- Murray State alum Tevin Brown was included on the Indiana Pacers summer league roster that was released on Friday morning. Brown signed an Exhibit-10 contract with the Pacers last Friday after going undrafted in this years NBA Draft. An Exhibit 10 contract guarantees Brown a training camp...

Residents said they were woken up in the early hours of June 29 by multiple loud alerts informing them to be on the lookout for one of the two suspects accused of shooting officers in separate incidents. 

MURRAY — Murray State’s entrance into the Missouri Valley Football Conference in 2023 will continue to see the presence of Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) opponents. According to the website, fbsschedules.com, the Racers’ inaugural season in the MVFC will include a Sept. 9, 2023 visit to in-state opponent Louisville, a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference. This is a program with whom Murray State is quite familiar, having played the Cardinals 20 times.

MAINE, Maine — After qualifying at the regionals in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, six-year-old Tucker Chase is headed to the largest motocross event in the world at Loretta Lynn Ranch in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee: the Amateur National Motocross Championship. There are roughly 126,000 people who try to qualify for the coveted...

As a child, and later as an adult, my fondest memories were created on family camping trips. Our first camping adventures took place at Kenlake State Park on Kentucky Lake near the town of Murray, KY. My dad bought a pop-up camper that he named Zigeuner, which is German for “gypsies” (what the Romani people were called back then). It took about six hours to get to the park from our home near Kankakee, IL.

The Murray State Racers will play home-and-home football series with the Robert Morris Colonials and the Southeastern Louisiana Lions, FBSchedules.com has learned. Murray State is scheduled to play both Robert Morris and Southeastern this season as part of their 2022 football schedule, which they announced in April. Both contests are part of home-and-home series, according to copies of contracts obtained from Murray State University.

Paris, Tenn.–Volunteer Susan Woods reads a book about Monarch Butterfly at the last Tree Talk Thursday at the Atkins-Porter Botanical Garden in Paris. Woods is a volunteer at both the Tennessee National Wildlife Refuge in Springville and at Nathan Bedford State Park. The children learned about lifecycles and migration of the monarch and each got a butterfly weed plant to take home. (Shannon McFarlin photo).

MURRAY – During the summer of 2020, the Calloway County Animal Shelter staff recognized a great need. Animal Shelter Manager Darla Jackson explained that, because of COVID, the shelter was not open to the public, but the staff wanted to continue doing adoptions. Since they were not allowed to let the public enter the building, the workaround was to do them outdoors. The problem was there was nowhere to go outside to stay out of rain or seek shade on hot summer days. What the shelter needed was a pavilion, but where they would get the funds to do that, they did not know.