Category — Louisville, Kentucky

Indictments from the Madison County grand jury Wednesday charge 40-year-old Troy Noel Lear of Brodhead with two counts of first-degree robbery for holdups at a Berea bank and a hotel in Richmond.

Members of the Greater Louisville Association of Realtors sold 646 homes last month, a 2.5 percent increase from February 2009.

FRANKFORT, Ky. — Secretary of State Trey Grayson can oversee the U.S. Senate race in Kentucky without any apparent conflict of interest, a government ethics panel ruled Friday.

Louisville was awarded with $7.9 million in federal grant money Friday by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to improve community health — an part of the Communities Putting Prevention to Work initiative.

Whether William Seidl fatally shot his wife, Dorene, was not in question during his trial in Jefferson Circuit Court this week —even the defense admitted that he was the shooter.

Caldwell Tanks, a manufacturer of steel storage tanks used for water towers and other industrial functions, plans to add 15 jobs as part of a 33,000 square-foot expansion of its facility off Preston Highway just south of Fern Valley Road.

A man was killed early Friday morning after the vehicle he was driving hit a TARC sign and then struck a renovated building at 18th Street and Broadway, police said.

Jefferson County’s unemployment rate jumped a full percentage point in January to 11.5 percent, the state reported Thursday.

Junk pickups in the Metro Urban Services District will resume March 29.

The Kentucky Supreme Court ruled Thursday that industry organizations fighting an attempt by the state to stop illegal online gambling don’t have the right to represent anonymous Web site owners in court.

The state’s primary elections would be moved from May to August, and the deadline for candidates to file would be changed from January to April, under a bill passed by the Senate Thursday.

WASHINGTON — The federal government took its first sweeping regulatory actions Thursday to combat tobacco use in the United States — particularly among youth.

The primary advocate for Instant Racing made a pitch to the Senate Republican Caucus on Thursday, but said afterward he doesn’t feel any better about the prospects of resurrecting the legislation.

Four Shepherdsville residents have been arrested after a methamphetamine lab exploded and caused a fire in an apartment building.

GALLATIN, Tenn. — The man who staged a St. Patrick’s Day bank robbery in a leprechaun costume and died during a police shootout also held up a Nashville bank three days before Christmas in a Santa suit, police said Thursday.

The Kentucky Supreme Court has overturned the murder conviction of a man found guilty of killing a University of Louisville engineering student in 2002.

The Kentucky Supreme Court has upheld a law allowing the state to take DNA samples from juveniles convicted of some sex offenses. The ruling issued Thursday turned away a challenge brought by five unidentified juveniles.

ASHLAND, Ky. — Two men charged with killing endangered bats at Carter Caves State Resort Park in northeastern Kentucky were sentenced on Thursday in federal court, with one receiving eight months in prison.

A bill to make it easier for community college students to transfer to four-year public universities cleared the Senate Education Committee on Thursday in a weaker — but satisfactory — form, the bill’s original sponsor said.

Coal industry supporters rallied in downtown Louisville Thursday.

Gov. Steve Beshear noted that in 1960 African Americans could be kicked out of swimming pools, movie theaters, hospitals and restaurants. Yesterday, he and the Kentucky Commission on Human Rights celebrated Kentucky’s strides in human rights and called for more progress in the future.

The Transit Authority of River City’s plan to eliminate up to 20 routes and cut service on 17 other lines would translate into the loss of 72 employee positions, or more than 10 percent of TARC’s staff.

The U.S. Department of Labor has sued the Sullivan University System and its president and chief executive officer, Alva Sullivan, for allegedly violation of the Fair Standards Labor Act.

A Kentucky death row inmate seeking to end his appeals could have an execution date set for next month, but whether he can be put to death remains in question.

Beginning Tuesday courier-journal.com will begin livestreaming interviews with the major candidates in the Democratic and Republican primaries for mayor of Louisville and the U.S. Senate from Kentucky.

Five people were taken to the hospital late Wednesday night after a car struck an ambulance in the intersection of Furman Boulevard and Taylorsville Road, a police spokesman said.

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Beginning Tuesday courier-journal.com will begin livestreaming interviews with the major candidates in the Democratic and Republican primaries for mayor of Louisville and the U.S. Senate from Kentucky.

The Kentucky Senate has passed a bill that chiropractors say would require health insurers to pay them fair and reasonable fees for treating patients.

WASHINGTON — In his search for the 216 House votes he needs to pass health-care reform, President Barack Obama will not get any help from Kentucky Congressman Ben Chandler.