Kentucky Board of Education member Holly Bloodworth, left, hands the 2020 Kevin C. Brown Strategic Priority Award to Soup for the Soul program coordinator Olivia Robison. Soup for the Soul, a nonprofit group feeding families in Murray, coordinates the collaboration of donors, stores, restaurants, churches and individual volunteers that stepped up to help keep families fed after school buildings closed due to COVID-19. Photo by Holly Bloodworth
The Kentucky Board of Education is awarding a Murray nonprofit dedicated to feeding families with the 2020 Kevin C. Brown Strategic Priority Award.
The KBE presented the award to Soup for the Soul Wednesday during a virtual meeting. The award is presented annually to a person, group, organization, district, school or postsecondary institution that has overcome challenges to provide for the well-being of Kentucky students through policy, practice, fundraising or philanthropy. Soup for the Soul Program Coordinator Olivia Robison said the award
Wis. teen charged in connection to false reports of threats to Murray High School
Wis. teen charged in connection to false reports of threats to Murray H.S. By Amber Ruch | January 29, 2021 at 9:07 AM CST - Updated January 29 at 12:48 PM
MURRAY, Ky. (KFVS) - A Wisconsin teen was arrested in connection to false reports of threats to Murray High School.
The Murray Police Department held a news conference on Friday, January 29 at 10 a.m. in the high school library.
They say they served an arrest warrant Kya Nelson, 19, at his home in Racine, Wisconsin. He is in the Racine County Jail awaiting extradition to Kentucky.
A day after going into lockdown concerning a call about possible gunshots heard at Murray High School; the school dismissed students Tuesday morning for a possible bomb threat.
Murray Police Department Sgt. Andrew Wiggins told WKMS News the call came in around 8:10 a.m. He added several officers were already on the scene, and the department notified the bomb squad and the ATF.
The school building and surrounding ground grounds were checked multiple times with no bomb found, with the search ending around 11:30 a.m.
Murray Independent Schools Superintendent Coy Samons told WKMS News when the district became aware of the threat, students were evacuated, and law enforcement began searching the building.
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