Joe Corcoran

Morning Edition host; Reporter/Producer

Joe Corcoran has been WKU Public Radio’s “Morning Edition” host and news anchor since 2003. Joe’s received numerous awards for his on-air work including the Associated Press’s “Best Radio News Anchor in Kentucky” twice. Several of his stories have aired on NPR’s “All Things Considered”.

A graduate of Syracuse University, Joe spent most of his career in television journalism both on-air and in management at stations in North Carolina, Iowa and Illinois.

In Bowling Green, Joe is active in his church as well as with the Bowling Green Area of Commerce.

He and his wife Patricia are the proud parents of three children and the “extremely” proud grandparents of one granddaughter. 

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Regional
10:41 am
Thu September 13, 2012

Kentucky's New Driver's License Comes to Warren County

The Warren County driver's license bureau is shut down Thursday while technicians install new computer software and cameras for the state's new high-tech card. Warren County becomes one of the state's first large counties to get the new card as technicians work from west to east across the state.

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Regional
4:14 pm
Thu August 23, 2012

Bowling Green Police Identify Homicide Victim

Bowling Green police say 33-year-old Terence M. Jones of Bowling Green was the victim of an early morning shooting at the Hands Club on Beech Street in the city.

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Regional
12:45 pm
Thu August 23, 2012

New Superintendent of Mammoth Cave Looking Forward to Homecoming

Sarah Craighead will take over in November as Mammoth Cave National Park's new superintendent, the same place she started her National Parks career more than thirty years ago. Craighead is a Hart County native who began working summers at the park as a campground ranger and cave guide while she was a Transylvania College student.

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Regional
6:46 am
Thu August 23, 2012

Bowling Green Police Investigating Overnight Homicide

UPDATED: 10:15 a.m.

Bowling Green police spokesman Ronnie Ward tells WKU Public Radio the victim was shot but police are not saying that was necessarily the cause of death. An autopsy will be performed on the body in Louisville.

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Education
7:43 am
Mon August 13, 2012

Jody Richards Elementary School Dedicated in Warren County

Warren County's newest school is named in honor of career educator and  long-serving state representative former Speaker of the House Jody Richards. The $12 million school on Elrod Road in south Warren County features state of the art energy efficient systems and a healthy cafeteria kitchen with no deep fried food.

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