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By Nicole Ziege The evening sun creates golden hues over the tombstones in Fairview Cemetery II as it descends into the west. Soft high-pitched tones from wind chimes ring out throughout the cemetery. The stones are decorated with various kinds of flowers—one with two...

By Amelia Brett Long, colorful skirts skimmed the floor as women from Myanmar entered the church room with friends and families. A Chin language, “Hakha,” filled the pages of Bibles and hymn books and could be heard from rows of seats. The quick rhythm of speaking...

By Emma Collins When it rains, the dirt on Dennis Racliff’s grave starts to turn to mud and sink, creating a coffin-shaped depression on top of where the 62-year-old was buried a little over a year ago. Racliff’s grave rests in the left corner of Meadow View Cemetery,...

By Michael Allen The prayers are melodic, almost like chanting, and the sound of them, dominated by one voice, fill the building during prayer times. The imam, a tall, slender man with bright brown eyes, and short, black hair, wearing a flat, white cap, plain, black...

Inside the community that experienced America’s first major school shooting of 2018 By Helen Gibson Darkness covered Mike Miller Park in Benton, Kentucky, on the evening of Thursday, Jan. 25, but the lights from their candles illuminated the spaces between them....

By Silas Walker It’s hard to escape addiction. Brittany Edwards, 28, of Bowling Green said that when you are an addict it follows you everywhere. Prescription pills and a family history of addiction were the main causes of Edwards’ battle with substance abuse. “It...

By Katie Zdunek The sky in Fairdealing, Kentucky, is overcast when Sheriff Kevin Byars begins his morning routine at 6 a.m., no breakfast. Afterwards, he makes the 10-minute commute from his county home to Benton. One of his office workers is on maternity leave. He...

By Emma Collins Peter Gall stood in the Warren County Justice Center courtroom on Nov. 19 — a little more than a year after shooting to death his best friend Alex Davis. Dressed in a khaki suit with combed-back hair, Gall barely resembled the red-faced, drunken...

By McKenna Mitchell Junior Erin Woggon was never able to speak to her German grandparents before they died. She knew very little German, such as asking what someone’s favorite subject in school is, and was only able to have a conversation with them if with the help of...

By Taylor Metcalf Drunk driving is a constant problem across the United States, and it is no different in Bowling Green. Like any other city, Bowling Green had seen its fair share of impaired driving. Warren County Sheriff Brett Hightower had seen several drunk...