Jane Davenport

6 days ago | wtvq.com | Jane Davenport

LEXINGTON, Ky. (ABC 36 NEWS NOW) — For the past couple of years, One Lexington has been deploying adults around the community to places where kids and teenagers are known to hang out. “We got a bunch of trained individuals, crisis response advocates, community members to come together and occupy downtown and engage some of the young people to kind of step on some of these conflicts while they were small before it escalated to gun violence,” One Lexington’s Devine Carama said.

1 week ago | wtvq.com | Jane Davenport

GRAYSON COUNTY, Ky. (ABC 36 NEWS NOW) — On Sunday, Representative Samara Heavrin received a message that some of her Facebook photos had been uploaded to a pornography website. “The first picture I saw was a photo of me and my mom at a Broadway show,” she said. In the picture, Heavrin is wearing a turtleneck, but she says it doesn’t matter what people wear in their photos, anyone could become a victim.

1 week ago | wtvq.com | Jane Davenport

According to the state medical examiner's office, 48-year-old James Anderson died in May of 2024 after a manhole cover fell on top of him at a construction site in Jackson County. LEXINGTON, Ky. (ABC 36 NEWS NOW) — According to the state medical examiner’s office, 48-year-old James Anderson died in May of 2024 after a manhole cover fell on top of him at a construction site in Jackson County.

1 week ago | wtvq.com | Jane Davenport

MADISON COUNTY, Ky. (ABC 36 NEWS NOW) — Amaris Hamilton, Theodrick Hersey, Jessica Houck, Brooklyn Houck, Khrystian Greer, and Elizabeth Thomas all pled not guilty during their arraignments at Madison County Court today. The six suspects are charged in connection to an investigation involving alleged child abuse at A Step Ahead Childcare in Richmond. Hamilton is charged with wanton endangerment, meanwhile, the five others face criminal abuse charges.

1 week ago | wtvq.com | Jane Davenport

LEXINGTON, Ky. (ABC 36 NEWS NOW) — Starting today, the community is celebrating National Correctional Officers Week. “This job is 50% social worker, 50% correctional officer,” Lt. Col. Hector Joiner said. Joiner says these officers take on more work than their title suggests. “We try to restore hope to those that are in our custody,” he said. Joiner says it’s their job to bring these inmates back to society.