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NOTE The following text is a quote: www.fbi.gov/louisville/press-releases/2011/iraqi-national-pleads-guilty-to-23-count-terrorism-indictment-in-kentucky Iraqi National Pleads Guilty to 23-Count Terrorism Indictment in Kentucky Defendant Participated in Numerous Efforts to Kill U.S. Troops in Iraq with IEDs U.S. Department of Justice December 16, 2011 Office of Public Affairs BOWLING GREEN, KY—Iraqi citizen Waad Ramadan Alwan pleaded guilty to federal terrorism charges today in U.S. District Court before Senior Judge Thomas B. Russell, announced Lisa Monaco, Assistant Attorney General for National Security; David J. Hale, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky; and Elizabeth A. Fries, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Louisville Division. Alwan,...

WASHINGTON -- An Iraqi citizen who allegedly carried out numerous Improvised Explosive Device (IED) attacks against U.S. troops in Iraq and another Iraqi national alleged to have participated in the insurgency in Iraq have been arrested and indicted on federal terrorism charges in the Western District of Kentucky. The arrests in Bowling Green, Ky., and the criminal complaints and indictment unsealed today were announced by Todd Hinnen, Acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security

The Justice Department announced Tuesday the indictment of two Iraqis currently living in Kentucky on terrorism charges that included an alleged plot to deliver explosives and Stinger missiles for use against Americans abroad. Waad Ramadan Alwan, 30, and Mohanad Shareef Hammadi, 23, were arrested in Kentucky on May 25, and a federal grand jury in Bowling Green returned the 23-count indictment the next day. Each faces life in prison if convicted of the charges. Alwan has been under investigation since September 2009. Over the last eight years, officials say, he allegedly has supported efforts to kill U.S. forces in Iraq,...

"Among those arrested, for no good reason, was a good friend of our family: Shubbar (prounounced SHOE-bar) Hameed Ebrahim (right), aged 35. Shubbar is a beloved husband to his wife and father to two adorable young boys (left). He has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Kuwait University and an MBA from Bowling Green State University (2008) in Ohio, USA. Until Sunday night, he was working as a quality control engineer in Bahrain. But at 11:30 pm on Sunday, April 3, masked security forces burst into his house. His wife, who also studied at Bowling Green, described...

For the third consecutive year, Kentucky has the weakest animal protection laws and ranks last in punishing animal abusers. The findings come in an annual report released last week by the Animal Legal Defense Fund comparing laws in each state protecting animals from abuse for their strength and comprehensiveness. This is the fourth year that the ALDF has issued the report. Kentucky finished second-to-last the first year and has ranked last in each subsequent year. “The state is just really devoid of any meaningful laws in almost every category,� said Stephan Otto, author of the report and the ALDF’s director...

We are considering a move from Michigan to Bowling Green, Kentucky to work at the Corvette plant there. Anyone live in Warren county and can offer some insight? We presently live in Brighton, Michigan...Mike

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - A 20-year-old Kentucky man was indicted today on child pornography charges as a result of an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). David L. Huber, United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky, announced today that a federal grand jury in Bowling Green returned an indictment charging Matthew Steward, 20, of 224 Meadows Road, Morganfield, Ky., in Union County, with receiving, distributing, and possessing child pornography. The indictment alleges that on or about March 17, 2005, Steward knowingly distributed child pornography. Additionally, the indictment alleges that on or about May 20, 2005, Steward...

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“In the autumn of 1861 he had advanced to Bowling Green, a railway junction of high strategic value to the south of the Green River, a tributary of the Ohio. Here he stood brazenly, hoping to rouse Kentucky and marshal Tennessee,” Winston Churchill wrote of Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston, commander of Confederate forces in the Mississippi Valley at the beginning of the Civil War. Churchill, a Civil War buff, recorded Bowling Green’s brief emergence to national importance in the fourth volume of his “History of the English Speaking Peoples.” But the reference is only brief, because the focus of the...

<p>Melissa "Katie" Autry was attacked in her dormitory room at Western Kentucky University on May 4.</p> <p>Relatives of a Western Kentucky University freshman who was set on fire in her dormitory room filed a lawsuit yesterday against the school and others, alleging negligence in her death.</p>

<p>By MARK PITSCH mpitsch@courier-journal.com The Courier-Journal Many of Kentucky's colleges and universities are re-examining their campus safety measures after the fatal attack on a Western Kentucky University freshman in her dorm room earlier this month.</p> <p>University officials around the state are looking at issues ranging from what kind of key access students have to dormitories, to video surveillance, to requiring identification for visitors.</p>

<p>BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – One of two Scottsville men charged in the murder of a Western Kentucky University student told police that he doused the victim with hairspray in her dormitory room and that the other suspect set her on fire, a police detective testified yesterday.</p>

<p>ASSOCIATED PRESS Stephen L. Soules, 20, of Scottsville was arraigned yesterday in Bowling Green. He was charged with murder late Monday. A second Scottsville man was charged with murder late Monday in the death of a Western Kentucky University student who was attacked and burned in her dormitory room.</p>