Kentucky
Kentucky Fish and Wildlife explains increase in recent black bear sightings
SCOTTSVILLE, Ky. (WBKO) – Black bear sightings in communities throughout southcentral Kentucky have risen in recent weeks, though Kentucky Fish and Wildlife officials say this is a typical part of male bears’ annual migrations.
The latest documented sighting in recent weeks came from Kerry Stinson’s trail cameras on Halifax Road in Scottsville.
His camera captured a young male black bear toppling a deer feeder in his nearby woods.
“They send me notifications every morning of what’s on there, and I was eating breakfast and I just looked down and saw I had a notification, so I opened it, and this feeder was laying on the ground, so I was like, “Well why’s my feeder over?” So, I went back through the pictures and there was a bear, and it kind of made my day,” Stinson recollected.
He shared that the bear visited his feeder around 6 a.m. before moving on. Two days later, he said another Allen County man spotted the same bear on a road roughly 15 miles away, and another sighting placing the bear in a nearby soybean field.
John Hast, a coordinator for the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife’s bear and elk program, shared that these sightings are not unheard of during the summer.
“Usually these are younger bears, they will live with mom for about the first year and a half of life. And when breeding season kicks up, usually about the end of May or first of June is when they start getting the boot,” Hast explained. “So, mom’s kind of kicking them out of the nest and then some of the more dominant black bears are running into them and, you know, they know they’re not going to win that fight. So, they go looking for a mate in some fresh territory.”
While the bears seen in nearby communities are likely only passing through and will journey back to the mountains at the end of breeding season, Hast believes that these sightings could become more common as nearby populations continue to grow.
“So, Tennessee’s bear population is very much middle Tennessee, like due south of your area is expanding a lot. So, these may not necessarily be, say, Kentucky bears from around Somerset or something like that,” Hast said. “They could be kind of those middle Tennessee bears coming north a little bit. I’d say your nearest, say, breeding population where female bears are living is kind of down in the Cumberland County, like Burkesville or Dale Hollow Lake area, most likely.”
Black bears sighted outside of their typical range should be admired from a safe distance. They can also be reported to the Kentucky Dept. of Fish and Wildlife to assist in their continued monitoring of nearby populations.
More information on safely coexisting with black bears can be found on BearWise.org.
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The Brooklyn Nets have developed their teams through a number of strategies over the decades, and their front office has put together considerable success through the NBA draft. Many of the franchise’s best players have joined the Nets either by being selected directly in the annual draft or through trades made on that day.
Moreover, it is not only the star players who have been acquired by the Nets through the draft. Several prominent alumni have been selected by the team each offseason during this annual event, with certain colleges being more prominently represented than others. An analysis of the players from different schools reveals that both prestigious programs and smaller institutions have contributed top talent to the Nets’ roster over the years.
So without further ado, let’s take a look at every player who has been drafted by the Nets out of Kentucky State University.
Gerald Cunningham – forward
Draft year and position: fifth round (first pick, 89th overall), 1977 NBA Draft
Seasons at Kentucky State University:
Seasons played with Nets: did not make the team
All stats and data courtesy of Basketball Reference.
The best shooter in college basketball will, in fact, stay in college basketball — and Kentucky is ready to make its final push.
Iowa State star Milan Momcilovic has withdrawn from the 2026 NBA Draft and will play somewhere at his current level in 2026-27. That’s not expected to be back in Ames, as Cyclone coach T.J. Otzelberger made clear, saying that if the 6-8 forward doesn’t make the jump to the pros, “it’s important that he’s able to find a landing spot at a college that fits what he’s looking for.”
Could Lexington be that final destination? The perimeter sniper already said he’s got respect for the Wildcats and Mark Pope, watching his programs closely since his time at BYU when they competed against each other in the Big 12.
In his eyes, he could be the piece Kentucky was missing this past season in the program’s Round of 32 exit, led by Momcilovic’s 20 points and five rebounds in the Cyclones’ 82-63 victory in St. Louis.
“I think Kentucky would be a good fit,” Momcilovic told the Herald-Leader’s Ben Roberts last week at the NBA Draft Combine. “I obviously went against Pope at BYU his first year (in the Big 12), and I loved how his team played. I think we went 1-1 against them, but they killed us at their place, because they fly the ball up the court and shoot 3s. I really like the way they play.
“And obviously, Kentucky last year, he didn’t have enough shooters around him to really coach, I feel like, the way he wanted. But I think — if I were to choose Kentucky — that would be a good fit for me. I feel like I’d be a great player for him, and he’d be a good coach for me.”
Momcilovic averaged a career-high 16.9 points, 3.1 rebounds and 1.0 assists in 30.5 minutes per game while shooting 50.6 percent from the field, 48.7 percent from three and 87.8 percent at the line. He knocked down 260 3-pointers, good for 3.7 makes on 7.5 attempts per contest.
The former four-star recruit has been Kentucky’s dream portal target all offseason. Now, he’s officially a free agent, pulling out of the draft ahead of the withdrawal deadline.
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