Bowling Green Massacre

Trump Adviser Attempts To Recover From 'bowling Green Massacre' Gaffe

... from Iraq and substantially increased the vetting process. And as a result, it slowed down the admission of Iraqis. It was not a bar on people from these countries. CORNISH: We checked the data from the State Department, and we found that Iraqi refugee admissions did slow down around the time of the Kentucky arrests. But in every month in 2011 and 2012, Iraqi refugees continued to arrive in the U. S. Ruth Wasem says it's not fair to compare Trump's policy to Obama's. WASEM: I wouldn't even call that apples to oranges. We're talking about two very different things - from excluding people from a country to ratcheting up the vetting process. CORNISH: We reached out to Kellyanne Conway and have not received a response. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC). Copyright © 2017 NPR. All rights reserved. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at __link__ for further information. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by Verb 8 tm, Inc. , an NPR contractor, and produced using a proprietary transcription process developed with NPR. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. Accuracy and availability may vary. The authoritative ...

Some Other 'facts' On Bowling Green

... local citizens wouldn’t chip in enough money to keep it going. Liberty College eventually became part of what evolved into Western Kentucky State Teachers College and ultimately Western Kentucky University — where a whole lot of Glasgow and Barren County natives end up as students and graduates. The college town was first immortalized in song by The Everly Brothers after a visit there to play a concert when Western was till a teachers’ college with a lot more female students than males at the time: (“Way down in Bowling Green/Prettiest girls I’ve ever seen/A boy in Kentucky sure is lucky/To live down in Bowling Green.”). A lot of folks in Glasgow and Barren County get their television from Bowling Green stations; until recently, those who like a little lubricant now and then got that in Bowling Green as well. A quick trip to Bowling Green was often a rite of passage for Barren County teens. Glasgow native, composer and bandleader Billy Vaughn apparently was one of them, judging from his song “Jimtown Road.”  The narrator in the song tells “Luther” as they sit on a porch watching traffic, “They stopped a Barren County car/ this side of Bowlin’ Green with a load.”. The song ...

Bowling Green Massacre Controversy

... Center. Friday, February 3 2017 9:44 PM EST 2017-02-04 02:44:45 GMT. (LEX 18) Police say that two people are dead after a shooting at a home on Whispering Hills Drive. Friday, February 3 2017 8:29 PM EST 2017-02-04 01:29:05 GMT. LONDON, Ky (LEX 18) Police in London have issued a Golden Alert for 55-year-old Brenda Smith. They say that Smith was last seen on Wednesday, February 1. They say she has been medically diagnosed as Schizophrenic as well as depressed. Police describe Smith as 5’2’ with hazel eyes and brown hair. She may be wearing black jogging pants, with a black jacket or purple fleece coat and a camouflage cap. She may also be wearing multiple necklaces and bracelets. Family. Friday, February 3 2017 7:24 PM EST 2017-02-04 00:24:37 GMT. BOURBON COUNTY, Ky (LEX 18) Last October, a then-Paris police officer came incredibly close to serious injury or even death when he was shot in the line of duty. He told LEX 18 that an inch of protection saved his life. Deputy Abdullah Bholat now works for the Scott County Sheriff’s Department, but he was with the Paris ...

Chelsea Clinton Weighs In On 'completely Fake' Bowling Green Massacre

... I'm pretty certain they're going to address it," Perkins said. "I'm talking to people in the Trump administration, and I know they understand the importance of this." Read the full scoop at Politico. Jeva Lange. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images. Even Republicans aren't sold on President Trump's plan to fund the U. S.-Mexico border wall. CNN reported Friday that a "growing number" of congressional Republicans are leery about the wall's high cost — which could range from $12 billion to $15 billion — and Trump's proposal to have U. S. taxpayers foot the bill initially and then later be reimbursed by Mexico. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), who was one of two Senate Republicans this week to announce she'd vote against the confirmation of Trump's education secretary nominee Betsy De Vos, said she would not support the border wall plan if its costs weren't offset by other spending cuts. "If you're going to spend that kind of money, you're going to have to show me where you're going to get that money," Murkowski said. She added, "I don't see how you can get a bill like that through (Congress) without offsets. I don't see how that's possible." ...