Category Archives: Local News
Barren County locations, personalities finish top 3 statewide competition
By MICHAEL CRIMMINS Glasgow News 1 Several of the top three finishers in the 2025 Best in Kentucky are staples in the Glasgow and Barren County communities. The top three were included in the most rec...
Aug 28, 2025
Glasgow arrestee federally indicted on drug charges
By MICHAEL CRIMMINS Glasgow News 1 A man that was arrested last year in Glasgow is now facing federal drug charges. Donnie Ray Boyd, 68, was arrested by Glasgow police in November 2024 on eight charge...
Aug 28, 2025
New fire truck, police social worker to be added soon
By MELINDA J. OVERSTREET for Glasgow News 1 Glasgow's police and fire chiefs each expect new arrivals of entirely different natures over the next few weeks. The police department is getting a staff po...
Aug 27, 2025
Man who alleged veteran was disrespected by police makes apologies
By MELINDA J. OVERSTREET for Glasgow News 1 The man who sent a complaint to the Barren County sheriff alleging that an officer disrespected a veteran during a traffic stop acknowledged after watching ...
Aug 27, 2025
Lowe’s awards Barren River DTF money for technology
By JAMES BROWN Glasgow News 1 The Barren River Drug Task Force received a check from the Lowe’s Back the Blue program on Wednesday, Aug. 27. The presentation featured a multitude of Lowe’s...
Aug 27, 2025
Farmers RECC, other Ky cooperatives donate $17,000 to Ronald McDonald houses
By MICHAEL CRIMMINS Glasgow News 1 Farmers Rural Electric Cooperative Corporation, along with other Kentucky energy cooperatives, raised nearly $17,000 “of much-needed items for Ronald McDonald ...
Aug 27, 2025
Man arrested for Short Street assault
By JAMES BROWN Glasgow News 1 Glasgow police arrested a man at a house on Bunche Avenue after he allegedly burgled and assaulted a person on Short Street. Huchin Guillermo Ulises, 31, of Glasgow, was ...
Aug 27, 2025
‘A bridge to cross’: Barren County jail employee battles cancer
By MICHAEL CRIMMINS Glasgow News 1 Nothing is impossible. The word says I’m possible. Whether it was the intention of the gift giver, or merely a coincidence, the woman sitting in front of that ...
Aug 27, 2025
Sheriff, GPD chief respond to complaint that officer disrespected a veteran
By MELINDA J. OVERSTREET for Glasgow News 1 The chief of the Glasgow Police Department responded further on Tuesday to a complaint about an officer that he said during Monday's city council meeting wa...
Aug 26, 2025
Glasgow-Barren County soccer board reviews paving designs
By MICHAEL CRIMMINS Glasgow News 1 A concept drawing of proposed paving was shown to the members of the Glasgow-Barren County Soccer Cooperative Board on Tuesday, Aug. 26. The proposed plan would crea...
Aug 26, 2025