Jeremy Tombs
Reporter
Lexington, Ky.
Jeremy joined the WKYT News team in July 2021 following graduation from the Broadcast Journalism program at the University of Maryland.
Prior to WKYT, he reported and anchored for Capital News Service Maryland.
Jeremy was born and raised on the Jersey Shore, growing up in Point Pleasant Beach, NJ. When he's not working, Jeremy loves to get outdoors to hike or fish, and he is also an avid sports fan.
LaFontaine Preparatory School in Richmond applied to become the state's first charter school. But public-school educators and parents are pushing back against the proposal.
Republican Michael Adams tallied more votes than any other candidate on the ticket this Election Day.
A month on from the start of this deadly and devastating war, they want to effect change here in the commonwealth.
"Study hard, keep challenging yourself, and be kind," read the letter from President Biden.
When the war in the Middle East began, the FBI warned of a possible rise in antisemitism across the country.
The Kentucky Department of Education has just released its school report card for this past academic year.
Kentucky's House GOP delegation joined a unanimous vote from their party to elect Rep. Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) to the speakership.
The group BUILD held a transportation summit Thursday night in downtown Lexington, where they heard from community members about what troubles they face while using public transit.
Gene Burch’s birds’ eye view of the capital city is one he’s relished for decades.
Lexington has been awarded a $1.8 million Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) grant to expand its recycling program, growing the list of acceptable plastics to include yogurt containers, butter tubs and other similar plastics.
Fryman says the program alters some students’ lives by helping them to further their education.
A coroner in Kentucky is accused of leaving a body inside a hot car instead of properly placing it in a freezer.
Several Morgan County officials are facing a lawsuit, including the county’s former coroner, Raymond Vancleave.
A young boy in Kentucky is dead after authorities say he was shot by another child.
The Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife confirmed reports of a flamingo at Cave Run Lake in Rowan County.
The Kentucky Virtual Academy just logged on for its first day on August 9, but Principal Sallie Johnson says their enrollment is already taking off.
In the first weeks of the academic year, multiple Kentucky school districts are already feeling the impacts of COVID-19.
Seven members of the Kentucky Region of the American Red Cross are serving in Maui.
“He said that he’s mapping out the Chabad center,” said Rabbi Shlomo Litvin.
Bath County community members have discovered their high school in what some described as an “awful condition.”
Two eighteen-year-olds were taken by tragic accidents along I-75 just weeks apart.
Memorial service remembers Eastern Kentucky flood victims
More than 400 students are taking flight with the EKU Center for Aviation this fall - a record-setting enrollment.
The FAA says flight 485 left Fort Lauderdale on Sunday, but after 30 minutes, it somehow ended up on a collision course with another jet.
Nearly one year has passed since the devastating floods in eastern Kentucky, but one Letcher County native has spent that year grappling with what happened.
There are around 25,000 UPS workers across the state of Kentucky. One thousand of those UPS employees work in lexington under the Teamsters banner.
EKU president, Dr. David McFaddin, says they have seen significant growth in the number of new and returning students coming to Richmond.
Workers for UPS, one of the largest shipping companies in the world, are gearing up for a strike.
A lexington man who admitted to murdering his wife and two daughters has learned his fate in court.
State health leaders came before legislators on Friday to discuss the end of the federal COVID-19 emergency.
An unusual sight Tuesday morning in Lexington.
A Scott County woman has been sentenced for killing her ex-husband.
The nurse accused of killing a patient by ‘intentional medical maltreatment’ has entered a guilty plea in the case.
The man accused of killing Deputy Caleb Conley was back in court Friday morning.
A procession from Frankfort to Cynthiana was held Tuesday morning to honor the life of fallen Scott County sheriff’s deputy Caleb Conley. He was shot and killed during a traffic stop Monday on I-75.
A Powell County family is asking for help after the place they called home for more than 60 years was lost to a fire.
Kentucky’s Office of the Attorney General declared the month of May ‘Missing Child Awareness Month’ on Wednesday.
It happened Monday morning at the construction site of the new high school in Scott County, near the intersection of Long Lick Road and the bypass extension at the roundabout.
Lexington Police say the accident happened around 11:30 p.m. Saturday night near the intersection of Sandersville Road at Atoma Drive. The vehicle involved fled the scene of the accident.
He understands that people may be hesitant, but he’s calling on people to take the leap and help fellow Kentuckians.
Kentuckians will head to the polls for the primary election on May 16.
A crossing guard hit by a car in Lexington has died.
A Winchester man is feeling some frustration after Wednesday’s storms added to his repair list from other recent storms.
A Pike County grand jury looked into Lance Storz’s suicide.
First responders in Jessamine County are asking the community to help out one of their own after one of the county’s EMT officials had their home destroyed in a fire.
They’re now calling it the “Do No Harm Act”, but LGBTQ advocates say that’s exactly what it will do.
Bourbon industry leaders and workers will spend their week at the University of Kentucky as the James B. Beam Institute holds its annual conference.
Senate Bill 115 originally would have banned drag performances within a thousand feet of places like parks, schools, and even homes. House Bill 470 would ban healthcare providers from doing anything to help kids transition.
Four more bills moved out of the House Education Committee in Frankfort Tuesday morning, but not all went without opposition.
The State Department of Public Health has confirmed a new case of measles in Kentucky, and officials say that person attended part of the 16-day revival at Asbury University.
