Jacob Martin
Reporter | WKU Public RadioJacob Martin is a Reporter at WKU Public Radio. He joined the newsroom from Kansas City, where he covered the city’s underserved communities and general assignments at NPR member station, KCUR. A Louisville native, he spent several years living in Brooklyn, New York before moving back to Kentucky. Email him at Jacob.martin@wku.edu.
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Hundreds of feet below ground, 29 green card holders from 12 different countries were naturalized as new American citizens on Thursday. -
McConnell spoke to the Glasgow-Barren County Rotary Club on Thursday. During his remarks, he expressed skepticism of President Trump's tariffs on foreign goods. -
City and County officials have created the Community Recovery Center. The Center was created as FEMA disaster aid is pending approval from federal officials. -
Residents of McLean County are under a curfew as members of the Kentucky National Guard have been called to help provide support to flood victims. -
Lost River Cave, a nature attraction in Bowling Green, is under roughly 60 feet of floodwater as severe storms dropped tremendous rainfall across the region -
Motorists are being warned to avoid roadways covered by rain, as parts of hundreds of roads are closed throughout Kentucky Friday. -
Gov. Andy Beshear has declared a state of emergency and emergency management agencies have opened storm shelters ahead of several days of severe rain, wind, hail and potential tornadoes across Kentucky. -
An order from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that goes into effect in April could revoke legal status for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans. -
The town hall was hosted by SoKY Indivisible in downtown Bowling Green. The group said it was holding the event because they feel that U.S. Rep. Brett Guthrie had not responded to their requests to hold a town hall. -
Beshear vetoed a GOP-backed bill that aims to dismantle diversity, equity and inclusion efforts at public universities, saying the bill "is about hate."
