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Modern language changes: It’s a smaller world after CAPE

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...

Impaired driving in Bowling Green

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...

Groceries on the go for Bowling Green’s food deserts

By Samantha Mallon BOWLING GREEN — A green-and-white clad school bus-turned-grocery store joined Bowling Green’s weekday traffic at the beginning of March, thanks to the work of staff at the Housing Authority of Bowling Green. The bus, donated by Warren County Public...

Women carve out a place in STEM at WKU

By Laurel Deppen Women make up just 37 percent of the students in the Ogden College of Science and Engineering, as opposed to Western Kentucky University as a whole, where 59 percent of undergraduate students are female, according to the WKU Fact Book 2018. The...

Dangerous steps when ‘walking the grain’

Dangerous steps when ‘walking the grain’

By Jeremy Chisenhall Temperatures reached 91 degrees in Mount Carroll, Illinois, on the day rescuers pulled Alejandro “Alex” Pacas and Wyatt Whitebread’s dead bodies from a grain bin. The heat started it all. Whitebread fainted while “walking the grain,” in which a...