Derek Operle

2 weeks ago | wvxu.org | Derek Operle

A pair of Bluegrass State chefs are among the finalists named Wednesday for one of cooking's highest honors: the James Beard Foundation's Best Chef award. Louisville's Noam Bilitzer and Paducah's Sara Bradley are both still in the running for the Best Chef award — which is broken down regionally across the United States — in the Southeast region.

2 weeks ago | wkyufm.org | Derek Operle

Days of near-constant rain and threats of severe weather across western Kentucky and Tennessee have caused widespread flooding – with the threat of more on the horizon as waterways crest. Officials with the Paducah office of the National Weather Service say that parts of the agency’s quad-state coverage area got hit with “three months of rain in four days,” with rain gauges in Benton and near Mayfield both breaking the area record over that span of time.

2 weeks ago | lpm.org | Derek Operle

Louisville's Noam Bilitzer and Paducah's Sara Bradley are both still in the running for the James Beard Foundation's Best Chef award — which is broken down regionally across the United States — in the Southeast region. Over the past decade, chef and restaurateur Sara Bradley has opened her farm-to-table restaurant freight house in Paducah, finished runner-up on "Top Chef: Kentucky" and the show's all-star season and won multiple "Chopped" reality competitions.

2 weeks ago | wkms.org | Derek Operle

Days of near-constant rain and threats of severe weather across western Kentucky and Tennessee have caused widespread flooding – with the threat of more on the horizon as waterways crest. Officials with the Paducah office of the National Weather Service say that parts of the agency’s quad-state coverage area got hit with “three months of rain in four days,” with rain gauges in Benton and near Mayfield both breaking the area record over that span of time.

2 weeks ago | wkms.org | Derek Operle

A pair of Bluegrass State chefs are among the finalists named Wednesday for one of cooking’s highest honors: the James Beard Foundation’s Best Chef award. Louisville’s Noam Bilitzer and Paducah’s Sara Bradley are both still in the running for the Best Chef award — which is broken down regionally across the United States — in the Southeast region.