Joe Corcoran

Morning Edition host; Reporter/Producer

Joe Corcoran has been WKU Public Radio’s “Morning Edition” host and news anchor since 2003. Joe’s received numerous awards for his on-air work including the Associated Press’s “Best Radio News Anchor in Kentucky” twice. Several of his stories have aired on NPR’s “All Things Considered”.

A graduate of Syracuse University, Joe spent most of his career in television journalism both on-air and in management at stations in North Carolina, Iowa and Illinois.

In Bowling Green, Joe is active in his church as well as with the Bowling Green Area of Commerce.

He and his wife Patricia are the proud parents of three children and the “extremely” proud grandparents of one granddaughter. 

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Regional
4:39 am
Fri January 11, 2013

Woman Killed in Fatal Buggy Collision in Simpson County

Simpson County sheriff Chris Cline says an Amish woman was killed after a horse drawn buggy carrying her and her husband was hit by a car coming around a curve in the road. Cline says the car was traveling north and the buggy south when the car clipped the buggy's front left side.

Both people inside the buggy were ejected. Sixty-eight year old Leah Kraley died at the Medical Center in Franklin. Seventy-one year old Eric Kraley was reported to be in stable condition at that hospital.

The driver of the car, 20 year old Matthew Holman, was not injured.

Regional
4:27 am
Thu January 10, 2013

Bowling Green Arrest Could Solve Multiple Bank Robberies

Bowling Green police have arrested a man for the June robbery of American Bank & Trust on Fairview Avenue who also could be responsible for multiple bank robberies in south central Kentucky and northern Tennessee.

Forty-seven-year-old Steven Paul Harston was arrested Wednesday afternoon on Shive Lane without incident and lodged in the Warren County Regional Jail.

In a written release, Officer Ronnie Ward said BGPD along with the FBI conducted an extensive investigation into other area bank robberies and consider Harston a strong suspect. Their investigation is continuing but they expect other charges to be lodged soon.

WKU
5:57 am
Tue January 8, 2013

Civil War Photos Exhibited at WKU

An exhibit opens later this month at WKU featuring the photographs as well as reproductions of images in 3D. The gallery show opens January 24th and is called "Witness: Photographs of a Nation Divided."

The show will feature a collection of Civil War photography as well as a re-creation of Matthew Brady's photographs documenting the Battle of Antietam. That 1862 battle at Sharpsburg, MD is knows as the bloodiest single day in American military history.

The exhibit runs from January24th to March 29th, excluding the week of March 11th, in WKU's Mass Media and Technology Hall atrium and gallery.

Regional
4:25 am
Fri January 4, 2013

Lone Robber Hits Bowling Green Bank

Credit BGPD Photo

Bowling Green police received a call of a robbery in progress inside the First Security Bank on Chestnut Street Thursday afternoon. Witnesses say a man entered the bank, showed a handgun tucked in his waistband and demanded money. After receiving an undisclosed amount, the man exited the bank on foot.

He's described as a white male about six feet tall and 180 pounds. At the time of the robbery he was dressed in a black shirt, blue jeans and a black mask and sunglasses that covered most of his face.

Detectives have no suspects and are asking anyone with any information to call them at 393-4000 or Crime Stoppers at 781-CLUE (2583).

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Sports
3:39 am
Thu January 3, 2013

Louisville Stuns Florida in Sugar Bowl Upset

Terell Floyd returned an interception 38 yards for a touchdown on the first play of the game, quarterback Teddy Bridgewater directed several scoring drives and Louisville surprised favored Florida 33-23 Wednesday night in the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans.

Shaking off an early hit, Bridgewater came back to throw for 266 yards including touchdown passes to DeVante Parker and Damian Copeland against a Florida defense that was among the nation's top three in most passing stats. 

Louisville went into the game ranked #22 nationally, and Florida was #3.

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