Becca Schimmel
Multimedia Journalist (for Ohio Valley ReSource, WKU)Becca Schimmel is a Becca Schimmel is a multimedia journalist with the Ohio Valley ReSource a collaborative of public radio stations in Kentucky, West Virginia and Ohio. She's based out of the WKU Public Radio newsroom in Bowling Green.
Previously, she was a reporter for WKMS News.
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It was already difficult to get an abortion in Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia, but it’s about to become almost impossible after the U.S. Supreme Court left it up to states to decide reproductive rights. -
More than 100 people gathered in Circus Square Park in downtown Bowling Green to protest the Supreme Court’s recent decision overturning Roe v. Wade.
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People from around the region regularly line up outside the one dispensary in Metropolis, Illinois, but out-of-staters still risk criminal penalties if they use or possess the drug back home, whether they bought it legally, or not.
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A bill banning newly elected Kentucky constables from exercising police powers before they get training passed out of a Kentucky House committee Wednesday.
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Community bail funds would be considered illegal under a bill being considered in the Kentucky General Assembly. Charitable bail organizations take...
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A new report from the Kentucky Center for Economic Policy shows the number of people incarcerated in the state–and the costs of keeping them locked up–have risen over the past decade.
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More than 183,000 Kentuckians have had their voting rights restored since an executive order was signed by Governor Andy Beshear in December of 2019. Executive orders are not permanent, and could be reversed by a future governor.
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The recent tornados and resulting death and destruction will leave scars on the communities they devastated for months—and likely years—to come. Another...
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For many in the Ohio Valley, voting is a choice, a right they are free to exercise if they want to. But for Jackie McGranahan and the more than 175,000…
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As the Ohio Valley continues its phased-in reopening, unemployment insurance claims are down slightly compared to the week before. The region is still…
