Robert Thomas
News Director
WKYT
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Since 2006, Robert has been news director at WKYT in Lexington
Vice President Kamala Harris broke the barrier Wednesday that has kept men at the top ranks of American power for more than two centuries when she took the oath to hold the nation’s second-highest office.
Here’s an interactive look at the latest number of COVID-19 cases in Kentucky...
The report determined that the lack of a safety measure resulted in the death of Douglas Slusher.
Robert Keith Packer, 56, was one of two Virginia men arrested on federal charges related to their roles in last week’s riot at the U.S. Capitol, the FBI said.
The woman was the 11th prisoner executed since July, when President Donald Trump resumed federal executions following 17 years without one.
Trump offered no clues for how he would spent his final hours in office.
The arrest came after deputies said a woman claimed she was assaulted and the attacker headed into a wooded area.
Paul Westphal, a Hall of Fame player who won a championship with the Boston Celtics in 1974 and later coached in the league and in college, died Saturday. He was 70.
Many of their names hold a prominent place in the collective consciousness — RBG, Kobe, Maradona, Eddie Van Halen, Little Richard, Sean Connery, Alex Trebek, Christo — but pandemic restrictions often limited the public’s ability to mourn their loss in a year that saw more than a million people die from the coronavirus.
The vice president-elect’s vaccination with the Moderna vaccine occured live on camera from Washington.
Nashville police say a Tennessee man named Anthony Quinn Warner is under investigation in connection with the Christmas Day bombing that rocked downtown Nashville.
Police emergency systems across Tennessee and Kentucky, as well as Nashville’s COVID-19 community hotline, remained out of service due to an AT&T central office being affected by the blast.
Doug Gray’s sister tells WSAZ, Gray’s body was found Saturday night among the rumble of a collapsed building at the Killen Generating Station near Manchester, Ohio.
Police said a person was found deceased on Douglas Loop, off Douglas Avenue, around 6 p.m. Wednesday.
The number of COVID-19 cases more than doubled in 25 of Kentucky’s 120 counties during November as the state saw a record surge in the virus.
The coronavirus presented huge challenges for the fall semester for U.S. colleges that opened the academic year with in-person learning, including some that took a battering from outbreaks.
Investigation into overnight shooting in Lexington.
Election officials across Georgia are staring down a Wednesday deadline to complete a hand tally of the presidential race in the state.
Michigan’s largest county reversed course and unanimously certified its presidential election results Tuesday night after Republicans first blocked the move in a party-line vote that threatened to temporarily stall official approval of Democrat Joe Biden’s win in the state.
The Democratic-controlled House of Representatives is asking the Supreme Court to put off upcoming arguments about whether Congress should have access to secret grand jury testimony from special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.
Trump spent the weekend attacking Brad Raffensperger on social media, at one point calling him “a so-called Republican (RINO),” an acronym for “Republican in name only.” Raffensperger punched back, disputing Trump’s claims.
The Colonels scored 25 unanswered points after trailing 24-0.
Trump’s motives for the Pentagon shakeup are unclear, but it has created a great deal of unease within the building.
Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron was supposed to join several other Republican state attorneys general Monday afternoon to talk about the major legal battle in Pennsylvania over mail-in ballots.
Americans gathered on street corners and front lawns as the country’s presidential election and exhausting four-day wait for results came to an end Saturday.
When will we know who wins big races in Kentucky and across the country?
Both nominees are now focusing on encouraging voters to turn out on Election Day, next Tuesday.
Police said Douglas Chenault fired into a home on Timber Creek Drive around 7 p.m. Monday.
Rhonda Fleming, a Hollywood star of the 1940s and 1950s famed for her fiery red hair, has died at 97.
A two-day preliminary hearing this week featured testimony by one of the FBI agents who ran the investigation, relying on confidential informants and undercover agents to thwart the purported scheme.
State investigators are on the scene of the Double Mountain Mining #3 “Strata” mine in Bell County after a miner was killed Friday.
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Both Democrat Amy McGrath and Republican Mitch McConnell have agreed to debate one another in one of the most closely watched Senate races in the country.
Sen. Mitch McConnell connects with Washington Bureau Reporter Kyle Midura for a one-on-one interview.
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his wife, Jill Biden, have released more of their personal tax returns ahead of the first presidential debate.
The family attorney says the 19 gunshots fired in the incident show poor police training and a pervasive “warrior mentality” among law enforcement nationwide.
South Carolina police say 53-year-old Douglas Lane has been charged with voyeurism, as well as possession of marijuana and paraphernalia.
Jacob Gardner, of Omaha, Nebraska, was found dead Sunday outside a medical clinic in Hillsboro, Oregon, the Hillsboro Police Department said in a news release.
As memorials and tributes for Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg continue around the country, lawmakers push to fill her vacant seat.
News of the five-time Grammy nominee’s ill-health came just weeks after his last known performance, on a national live-stream during Jamaica’s Emancipation and Independence celebrations in August.
A sheriff’s office and a firefighters union in Washington state were among the officials who turned to Facebook this week to squash competing narratives — some posts blamed far-left antifa activists and others claimed the far-right group the Proud Boys was responsible for the fires scorching wide swaths of the region.
After serving civil papers at a home, the deputy returned to her vehicle to find a goat happily munching on a stack of paperwork in her front seat.
A Georgia deputy sheriff learns a lesson about leaving her patrol car open when a goat hops in and starts snacking on her paperwork.
Wednesday is the anniversary of the formal Sept. 2, 1945, surrender of Japan to the United States, when documents were signed officially ending years of bloody fighting in a ceremony aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
WKYT and its partner IHeartRadio are standing up with the American Red Cross to help relief efforts in places impacted by Hurricane Laura which made landfall as one of the most powerful hurricanes to ever hit the U.S.
The fires, which started as clusters of lightning-sparked blazes last week, slowed down at lower altitudes as a morning marine layer brought cooler temperatures and higher humidity.
Though governors often work with business leaders to craft policy, the emails offer a new window into their decisions during a critical early juncture in the nation's battle against the pandemic.