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LEXINGTON, Ky. (WDRB) – A Shelby County High School baseball team with eight seniors, most of whom have played together all their lives, saw the season of a lifetime continue on Saturday afternoon in the KHSAA Clark’s Pump and Shop State Baseball quarterfinals at Counter Clocks Field. They...

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Named baseball coach at Shelby County High School in 2020, Steve Kingsolver saw his first season canceled by the COVID-19 pandemic and his second year end with a 7-20 record. Now he has the Rockets two victories away from a state championship. “I knew the potential was there because we have...

A man has pled guilty in the murder of four-year-old Shelby County girl, Serenity McKinney. Dakota Hill, 28, pled guilty earlier this week to killing Serenity in late December 2020. Serenity’s mother (and Hill’s girlfriend), 22-year-old Catherine McKinney, previously reached a plea deal where she pled guilty to manslaughter, tampering with physical evidence and abuse of a corpse in the death of her daughter. She was sentenced to 12 years in prison in April. Catherine McKinney was originally charged with murder.

Baseball is on the mind of Kentuckians as the University of Kentucky baseball team will host a Regional in the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2017 (also the last time they made the tournament). However, with all of the (well-deserved) hype around the Bat ‘Cats, some are forgetting...

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Class 2A state champion in the discus last year, Shelby County High School junior Nevaeh Acklin said she almost gave up the sport a few weeks ago. Her uncle, Robert Marshall Sr., died just before the regional meet, and Acklin was distraught. “He was more like...

Baseball is on the mind of Kentuckians as the University of Kentucky baseball team will host a Regional in the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2017 (also the last time they made the tournament).  However, with all of the (well-deserved) hype around the Bat ‘Cats, some are forgetting the other tournament taking place […] The post Kentucky High School Baseball Tournament: Thursday Recap appeared first on On3.

LEXINGTON — After a 13-year absence, the Shelby County High School baseball team made a splash in its return to the state tournament. The Rockets took control with two first-inning runs and Kemper Whisman and Hunter Cook combined for a three-hit shutout in a 3-0 victory over McCracken County on Thursday in the first round of the Clark’s Pump-N-Shop State Tournament at Counter Clocks Field. ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. -- McCracken County baseball suffered a 3-0 loss to Shelby County on Thursday in the first round of the KHSAA State Baseball Tournament. The Mustangs struggled to generate much offense, and were held to only three hits on the afternoon. "Baseball's not fair some days, and the three...

Shelby County had plenty of chances to win the Eighth Region baseball championship Thursday, and they were finally able to cash one in. Jaxson Carter’s one-out single in the bottom of the ninth lifted the Rockets (29-9) to a 4-3 victory over defending champion Woodford County in the title game at the University of Louisville’s Jim Patterson Stadium.

Simon Kenton and Walton-Verona’s baseball teams made the near two-hour drive to the University of Louisville on Monday to compete in the 8th Region baseball tournament semifinals. The Pioneers took on Shelby County while the Bearcats battled with Woodford County. Here’s how it went down:. Woodford County 4,...

SHELBY COUNTY, Ky. — All lanes on I-64 westbound near Simpsonville are shut down after a crash involving two Kentucky State Police troopers Thursday afternoon. Sgt. Matt Sudduth, public affairs branch for KSP, told WHAS11 News the collision took place on I-64 in Shelby County following a vehicle pursuit.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- All lanes of Interstate 64 West in Shelby County, Kentucky, have reopened after a crash involving Kentucky State Police cars. Drone video from the scene shows two KSP cruisers damaged. One is off the road, the other near the median. Police haven't provided many details about...

WADDY, Ky. (WAVE) - A Shelby County substitute teacher arrested for bringing a loaded gun to an elementary school on Friday told police it’s “not the first time” he had a concealed firearm while teaching. Zach R. Stearns, 62, was charged with unlawful possession of a weapon...

A substitute teacher at a Shelby County elementary school was arrested after bringing a loaded handgun into the school. The Shelby County Sheriff’s Office arrested 62-year-old Zack R. Stearns, of Simpsonville, on Friday and charged him with unlawful possession of a weapon on school property, a class D felony punishable by up to five years in prison.