Category — Louisville, Kentucky

With warm temperatures returning to Kentuckiana, work is resuming on concrete repairs on a six-mile stretch of the Watterson Expressway in both directions between Preston Highway and Interstate 64.

Republican mayoral candidate Hal Heiner on Tuesday released a 10-point plan for transparent government.

Louisville Metro Police Chief Robert White is one of six finalists for the same position with the Dallas Police Department.

The Navy has identified a body found in the ocean off Marine Corps Base Hawaii as that of a Pearl Harbor-based sailor from Kentucky.

In what is believed to have been the first multilingual mayoral forum in Louisville’s history, the Americana Center sponsored the event that featured eight of the 14 candidates.

The Eastwood Fire Protection District will hire a consultant to review its daily operations, management practices and other matters in response to internal complaints from firefighters and officers.

State environmental regulators have granted an air-quality permit for a proposed Western Kentucky plant that would use coal to make natural gas.

Louisville-based ResCare on Monday reported it lost $41.8 million in the final three months of 2009 after recording $72 million in one-time charges, including reducing the value of some of its assets.

The House budget committee on Monday passed a state highway construction plan that would add about $40 million for projects in Jefferson County over the next two years compared with the plan proposed earlier this year by the Beshear administration.

It’s back to the drawing board for the new elementary report cards in Jefferson County Public Schools. School district officials had proposed overhauling the new report cards after introducing them last fall, saying they failed to accurately measure the performance of the youngest students.

A 20-year-old Corbin woman has been charged with murder after she gave birth to a baby girl in a visitors’ restroom at a state prison in La Grange on Sunday and hid the baby in a trash bin, police said. The baby was found dead hours later.

The Shepherdsville City Council could vote Monday to deannex the 120-acre Rogers Group quarry — a move the Bullitt County teachers union opposes.

An investigation into a kidnapping case involving a 12-year-old Bullitt County girl has led to a second arrest. Robert David Beard, 20, of northeast Bullitt, was arrested Friday, said Pioneer Village Police Chief David Greenwell. Investigators believe he raped and sodomized a 13-year-old girl.

Louisville’s planning agency has scheduled a public information meeting for Monday on a proposal to change the name of 34th Street to Louis Coleman Way to honor the late civil-rights activist and minister.

The Chuck Olmstead Memorial Fund and the Norton Neuroscience Institute are holding a series of events in March to raise awareness of brain illnesses, including free aneurysm and stroke screenings.

Greg Fischer’s mayoral campaign was endorsed by the Louisville Professional Fire Fighters, Local 345 on Monday.

After an attorney general’s opinion and a court ruling went against them, school groups that want to make part of the superintendent evaluation process private have turned to the state legislature.

Four women were charged with burglary Monday after allegedly breaking into Atherton High School.

State environmental regulators have granted an air-quality permit for a proposed Western Kentucky effort to use coal to make natural gas.

The medical director of the Multiple Sclerosis Care Center Program at the University of Louisville is leaving the university, but the center will not close.

Four more bills dealing with child welfare and public health may be dead this session because of a Republican lawmaker’s effort to attach a controversial anti-abortion measure to them.

Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity has suspended its University of Kentucky chapter after a prank involving fire.

Clifford L. Stanley, former CEO of Minneapolis-based Scholarship America and a former board member of Spalding University, has been sworn in as the Pentagon’s under secretary of defense for personnel and readiness.

Former Brown-Forman vice chairman and chief financial officer Phoebe Wood is joining the board of Coca-Cola Enterprises, the bottler announced Monday.

A King Tut exhibit opens Tuesday at the Kentucky Center for African American Heritage, the first public activity in the restored trolley barn complex at 1701 W. Muhammad Ali Blvd.

Metro United Way’s 2009 campaign raised $27.1 million — shy of its ambitious goal of $28.5 million but still enough to meet the basic needs of an estimated 150,000 Louisville-area individuals, the charity announced Monday.

Democratic Lt. Gov. Daniel Mongiardo and Republican Rand Paul enjoy large leads in their U.S. Senate primary campaigns, according to the latest Courier-Journal/WHAS11 Bluegrass Poll. But no matter who wins the two primaries, the polling suggests the general election will be close.

A Louisville congregation has quietly become the first in the Episcopal Diocese of Kentucky to begin blessing same-sex relationships. St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church conducted its first such blessing late last year, for two male members of the congregation, after voting last April to approve such ceremonies.

Sen. Jim Bunning started serving in Congress on Jan. 3, 1987. The Kentucky Republican has about nine months left until he retires. He apparently has decided not to go out quietly. Indeed, out of his more than two decades in Washington, Kentucky’s junior senator last week reached a new milestone in his legislative career.

The most famous archery scene in movie history finds Robin Hood splitting his opponent’s arrow down the middle for an unlikely bull’s-eye that wins a tournament and, on the down side, lands him in jail.