Allison Baker
Reporter
Bowling Green
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Allison Baker grew up in the Capital of Kentucky and moved to Bowling Green in 2015 to attend Western Kentucky University. She graduated with a BA in broadcast journalism in May of 2019.
Allison joined WBKO in April 2019 as a part-time editor and became a full- time multimedia journalist for the station in July of 2019.
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Updated: 8 hours ago
|By WSAZ News Staff
The first phase of the operation started with investigators executing five narcotics search warrants in different locations across Huntington.
Updated: Mar. 3, 2021 at 6:29 PM EST
|By MARK PRATT and TAMMY WEBBER
Cities and states are rapidly expanding access to vaccines as the nation races to head off a resurgence in coronavirus infections and reopen schools and businesses battered by the pandemic.
Updated: Mar. 1, 2021 at 5:05 PM EST
|By Associated Press
Nearly 20% of the nation’s adults — or over 50 million people — have received at least one dose of vaccine, and 10% have been fully inoculated.
Updated: Mar. 1, 2021 at 3:30 PM EST
|By Jennifer Edwards Baker
Middletown police said she reported her son missing Sunday and later confessed to killing him.
Updated: Feb. 24, 2021 at 12:55 PM EST
|By Jennifer Edwards Baker and WXIX staff
A teen drowned after falling through the ice in the lake at Rocky Fork State Park, and an officer experienced a medical emergency at the scene.
Updated: Feb. 20, 2021 at 4:01 PM EST
|By Associated Press
It faces a challenging clean-up and expensive repairs from days of extreme cold and widespread power outages.
Updated: Feb. 19, 2021 at 5:51 PM EST
|By Associated Press
The president was set to meet with workers at the plant who are producing one of the two federally-approved COVID-19 shots.
Updated: Feb. 18, 2021 at 7:11 PM EST
|By PAUL J. WEBER and JILL BLEED
The extreme weather has been blamed for the deaths of more than three dozen people, some of whom perished while struggling to keep warm.
Updated: Feb. 17, 2021 at 7:07 PM EST
|By PAUL J. WEBER and JILL BLEED
The latest storm front was expected to bring more hardship to parts of Texas, Arkansas and the Lower Mississippi Valley before moving to the Northeast on Thursday.
Updated: Feb. 8, 2021 at 1:50 PM EST
|By WSAZ News Staff
Monday Gov. Jim Justice, the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, and the West Virginia Joint Interagency Task Force for COVID-19 Vaccines announced COVID-19 vaccine clinics that will be held in all 55 counties across the state Feb. 10-13, 2021 through Operation Save Our Wisdom.
Updated: Feb. 7, 2021 at 9:07 PM EST
|By Associated Press
President Ronald Reagan’s longtime secretary of state, George P. Shultz, who spent most of the 1980s trying to improve relations with the Soviet Union and forging a course for peace in the Middle East, has died. He was 100.
Updated: Feb. 4, 2021 at 11:47 PM EST
|By Tori Yorgey
“I think it (is) most important we kept this anonymous,” said Councilwoman Shannon Snodgrass. “That it wasn’t going to be a paper thing, nobody saw them filling it out.”
Updated: Feb. 3, 2021 at 2:30 PM EST
|By Jim Treacy
Here's a list of local high school football players and where they'll be playing in college.
Updated: Feb. 1, 2021 at 5:42 PM EST
|By Associated Press
With flakes falling since Sunday evening, New York City and northern New Jersey were bracing for as much as 22 inches of snow, and parts of New England for a foot or more.
Updated: Feb. 1, 2021 at 12:13 PM EST
|By WSAZ News Staff
They will be held between February 3 through February 6 through Operation Save Our Wisdom.
Updated: Jan. 28, 2021 at 4:01 PM EST
|By Associated Press
Federal Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller said Wednesday that he is “disgusted” by the purported actions of Rodney Baker and his actress wife, Ekaterina.
Updated: Jan. 26, 2021 at 5:09 PM EST
|By Associated Press
Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred, Hall of Famer Chipper Jones and former Braves outfielder Marquis Grissom were among those who spoke at the ceremony.
Updated: Jan. 22, 2021 at 4:07 PM EST
|By PAUL NEWBERRY
“Hammerin’ Hank” set a wide array of career hitting records during a 23-year career spent mostly with the Milwaukee and Atlanta Braves, including RBIs, extra-base hits and total bases.
Updated: Jan. 18, 2021 at 7:26 AM EST
|By ALEXANDRA JAFFE
With the confluence of crises confronting Joe Biden’s administration — and an evenly divided Senate in which she would deliver the tie-breaking vote — Harris is shaping up to be a central player in addressing everything from the coronavirus pandemic to criminal justice reform.
Updated: Jan. 17, 2021 at 6:58 PM EST
|By Associated Press
The Kansas City Chiefs forced the Cleveland Browns to punt in the waning minutes Sunday with star quarterback Patrick Mahomes out with a concussion.
Updated: Jan. 15, 2021 at 11:15 PM EST
|By Associated Press
The Latest on President Donald Trump’s impeachment and the fallout from the Jan. 6 attack of the Capitol by pro-Trump loyalists.
Updated: Jan. 12, 2021 at 1:09 PM EST
|By Kristin Kasper
In a time of heightened political polarization, President-elect Joe Biden is moving forward on his plan to address climate change.
Updated: Jan. 11, 2021 at 6:57 PM EST
|By Tori Yorgey
So far in 2021, there have been eight house fires. Seven of those fires have been in vacant homes and were caused by people trying to keep warm, according to Charleston Fire Department Fire Marshal Richard Symns.
Updated: Jan. 10, 2021 at 9:53 PM EST
|By Jim Treacy
Cleveland wins 1st playoff game since 1995.
Updated: Jan. 7, 2021 at 1:52 AM EST
|By Associated Press
The 33-year-old suspect is charged with illegal possession of an unregistered destructive device and being a felon in possession of a destructive device.
Updated: Jan. 4, 2021 at 8:07 PM EST
|By Associated Press
Trump, the first president to lose a reelection bid in almost 30 years, has attributed his defeat to widespread voter fraud, despite the consensus of nonpartisan election officials that there was none.
Updated: Jan. 3, 2021 at 4:22 PM EST
|By Jim Treacy
Browns clinch spot in NFL playoffs
Updated: Dec. 16, 2020 at 10:09 AM EST
|By WSAZ News Staff
1,141 new cases were reported in the past 24 hours.
Updated: Dec. 14, 2020 at 9:48 PM EST
|By Associated Press
In an exclusive interview with The Associated Press on Monday, Dolan said: “The name is no longer acceptable in our world.”
Updated: Dec. 12, 2020 at 1:01 PM EST
|By Associated Press
The outgoing administration of President Donald Trump, who pulled Washington out of the Paris accord, wasn’t represented at the online gathering.
Updated: Dec. 11, 2020 at 2:02 PM EST
|By Jim Treacy
Midland and SC place 6 players on 1st team all-state
Updated: Dec. 10, 2020 at 1:21 PM EST
|By Jim Treacy
Top WV Class AA players were announced Thursday
Updated: Dec. 10, 2020 at 2:14 AM EST
|By Jennifer Edwards Baker
The collapse occurred about 8:30 a.m. during work before a controlled demolition of one of the buildings at the closed Killen Generating Station, said Sheriff Kimmy Rogers.
Updated: Dec. 2, 2020 at 1:20 PM EST
|By Associated Press
Sen. Lamar Alexander, a Tennessee political legend who forged a productive path as a Senate institutionalist after tours as governor and Cabinet secretary, said goodbye to the chamber on Wednesday.
Updated: Nov. 20, 2020 at 1:17 AM EST
|By Associated Press
Joe Biden will enter office as the oldest president in the nation’s history, displacing Ronald Reagan, who left the White House in 1989, when he was 77 years and 349 days old.
Updated: Nov. 19, 2020 at 6:48 PM EST
|By Associated Press
Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris planned a virtual session in the afternoon with the National Governors Association’s leadership team, which includes five Republicans and four Democrats
Updated: Nov. 13, 2020 at 6:17 PM EST
|By Associated Press
Hornung won the 1956 Heisman Trophy at Notre Dame. He was the NFL MVP in 1961 and played on four championship teams (1961, ’62, ’65 and ’66).
Updated: Nov. 11, 2020 at 2:36 PM EST
|By Josie Fletcher
Zach Davis on Studio 3.
Updated: Nov. 11, 2020 at 1:38 PM EST
Local man in running for 'The Greatest Baker'
Updated: Nov. 10, 2020 at 9:15 PM EST
|By Associated Press
The 1 million milestone came as governors across the nation are making increasingly desperate pleas with the public to take the fight against the virus more seriously.
Updated: Nov. 10, 2020 at 1:16 PM EST
|By Associated Press
Newly confirmed infections in the U.S. are running at all-time highs of well over 100,000 per day, pushing the running total to more than 10 million.
Updated: Nov. 9, 2020 at 12:46 PM EST
|By JILL COLVIN
At least three top Trump administration or campaign officials have tested positive for COVID-19 after attending an election night watch party in the White House East Room.
Updated: Nov. 6, 2020 at 2:46 PM EST
|By WSAZ News Staff
Vote for Zach Davis on greatestbaker.com.
Updated: Oct. 29, 2020 at 4:42 PM EDT
|By SARAH RANKIN and ELANA SCHOR
It alleges that Liberty officials accepted what Falwell says are false claims about his involvement in an extramarital affair between his wife and a business partner of the couple’s and “moved quickly” to destroy his reputation.
Updated: Oct. 28, 2020 at 6:40 PM EDT
|By Associated Press
Authorities said the oncoming utility vehicle veered off the road and then over-corrected, swerving and skidding sideways just in front of the oncoming bus.
Updated: Oct. 22, 2020 at 10:51 AM EDT
|By WSAZ News Staff
In September, the Charleston Land Reuse Agency asked for public input on what should go on the property located at 739 Central Avenue, formerly known as Abraham’s Grocery and Park Place Bar.
Updated: Oct. 21, 2020 at 8:46 PM EDT
|By Chad Hedrick
It has been 15 years since Lisa Phelps lost her ring. It was found during the remodeling of her bathroom.
Updated: Oct. 18, 2020 at 6:40 PM EDT
|By Associated Press
Pittsburgh improved to 5-0 for the first time since 1978 with the win.
Updated: Oct. 17, 2020 at 8:43 PM EDT
|By Allison Baker
“Carmen is 10 years old. She was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, bone cancer, and her knee on August 23.”
Updated: Oct. 16, 2020 at 1:52 PM EDT
|By Jennifer Edwards Baker and Mike Schell, WXIX
The win is bittersweet for Bryan Marsh of Elsmere, Kentucky, as he copes with the loss of his wife and cares for their four children alone.