Category — Louisville, Kentucky

The Louisville area is expected to get 4 to 6 inches of snow, with higher amounts possible in Indiana.

Representatives of the Justice Resource Center will hold a noon press conference Monday in front Louisville Metro Police headquarters, Seventh and Jefferson streets, to speak about the fatal police shooting of a man on Saturday night.

The late Gov. Wallace Wilkinson, after a particularly rough stretch with the General Assembly, once asked what they were putting in the drinks at Flynn’s.

In the midst of a prolonged economic downturn, the new jobs at Fort Knox, and a related construction boom, are expected to send millions of dollars into the local and state economies.

After going through segregated basic training with some of the first African Americans to serve in the Marines, Thomas Cork fought in a frozen and formidable region of Korea and lost toes on one of his feet to frostbite.

Louisville-area police officers and firefighters, Kentucky Air National Guard members and other public safety workers donned protective gear Sunday to practice handling and disposing of radioactive materials.

In an interview Sunday with CBS’ Katie Couric, Obama said he wants Republicans “to put their ideas on the table.”

The man who who was fatally shot by police Saturday night while wielding a hammer has been identified as Donnie Miles, 48.

Standing on a narrow mud path in a sprawling shantytown of sticks, bed sheets and corrugated tin, the bleary-eyed woman held an infant as she explained in Creole that the earthquake had killed her husband and left her relatives among the 1 million homeless Haitians.

National Weather Service says latest storm likely to bring four or more inches of snow to the Louisville metro area.

Tiffany Washington had just finished classes at University of Louisville in late April 2008 when she returned to her townhouse apartment near campus to find an urgent message from her father telling her to call him.

For weeks, Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Jason Butler tried everything he could think of to get Louisville Police Detective Crystal Marlowe to turn over the evidence he needed to prosecute Robert Mitchem, the man she said robbed two people at gunpoint.

For the second Saturday in a row, Louisville avoided the brunt of a snow storm that moved through the region. Despite a forecast of two to four inches of snow accumulating in the city, the actual total was under two.

A federal agency is planning to build a $4.15 million headquarters building on an empty lot between Seventh and Eighth streets in the block just north of Broadway.

A teenage boy sees at least one positive result from his involvement in an unintentional terror scare aboard a New York-to-Louisville flight in January.

It took four days for city officials to activate a telephone alert system, informing some residents of the Beechmont neighborhood how they should respond to chemical vapors in their homes.

Bad weather snarled traffic and led to several accidents Friday evening, including a series of minor crashes on Interstate 64 that involved as many as 10 cars, a MetroSafe Communications supervisor said.

A Kentucky horse-industry group that supports legalizing electronic slot machines at the state’s racetracks spent nearly $850,000 last year to help Democrats in two state Senate races, according to a finance report filed Friday.

The University of Louisville is continuing to pay an in-house lobbyist her $140,700 salary, even though she has not worked for the school since November.

Toyota drivers trickled into a Louisville dealership Friday to get accelerators fixed as the world’s largest automaker scrambled to repair the company’s reputation.

Steady rain on Friday made it difficult for city and highway crews to pre-treat roads and interstates throughout Louisville with a brining mixture that prevents roads from freezing, officials said.

A trial date for a Louisville man accused of murdering his 7-week-old son could be set as early as March, according to prosecutors.

Juvenio Villa didn’t care for the strawberry flavored toothpaste a dentist gave him Friday after working on his teeth, but he enjoyed his experience at the Smile Kentucky program.

An online cigarette dealer is contesting federal search warrants that it says “decimated” the business by confiscating all inventory, supplies and bank accounts.

A horse industry group that supports legalizing electronic slot machines at the state’s race tracks spent nearly $850,000 last year to help Democrats in two state Senate races, according to a finance report filed Friday.

Acting McMahan Fire District chief Joe Johnson was named to the position permanently Thursday night.

A pedestrian has been struck at the intersection of Fourth Street and Broadway.

Mayor Jerry Abramson said it appears Six Flags is serious about its plan to close Kentucky Kingdom and isn’t making threats as a negotiating tactic.

Saying it’s losing too much money, Jefferson County Public Schools will close seven of its 14 tuition-based pre-school sites this fall, leaving hundreds of middle-class families with fewer pre-kindergarten options for their children.

The union that represents workers at the JBS pork plant on Story Avenue plans to file a motion Monday in Jefferson Circuit Court asking that attorney Jon Salomon be disqualified from representing the Butchertown Neighborhood Association in a lawsuit involving JBS.