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May 22, 2012 10:08 AM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - Federal environmental officials say all 50 yards near an old insecticide plant in Louisville show elevated levels of contaminants. Art Smith, the on-scene coordinator for the Environmental Protection Agency, told The Courier-Journal on Monday that nine homes had levels high enough to prompt a cleanup. It has...
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May 22, 2012 9:43 AM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - A UPS plane has made a safe emergency landing at the Louisville International Airport. UPS public relations manager Mike Mangeot told The Courier-Journal that the cargo plane was forced to land shortly after taking off Monday evening when pilots were alerted to a possible fire. Mangeot says...
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May 22, 2012 6:56 AM
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - A Texas man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after being convicted in a case that prosecutors say involved nearly 2 tons of marijuana. U.S. District Judge John G. Heyburn II on Monday also sentenced Exsaul Silva-Garcia of McAllen, Texas to five years of...
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May 18, 2012 8:08 AM
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Three people were killed Thursday after a chaotic shooting scene that had crowds running for cover in a crime-ridden section of Louisville. Two men - Tyson Mimms, 24 and Craig Bland Jr., 22 - were killed Thursday afternoon in a shooting that attracted dozens of onlookers...
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May 14, 2012 9:36 AM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A) is set to cut 13 net jobs and impose budget reductions for the coming two years with more ministry moving from headquarters in Louisville to congregations amid membership losses. The job cuts represent about 4 percent of the staff of its General Assembly...
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May 14, 2012 6:29 AM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - A federal appeals court is set to reveal the identities of the three judges who will hear an appeal from a woman convicted of trying to extort University of Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino. The U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals is scheduled on Monday to release...
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May 11, 2012 6:50 AM
A Louisville police officer shot and killed a dog attacking a postal carrier Thursday.
Police say a pit bull mix and a rat terrier beagle mix got loose and attacked the mail-carrier in the Fincastle neighborhood. The dogs bit into both of the woman's arms. A neighbor witnessed the...
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May 11, 2012 6:00 AM
Police say two Louisville high school students made a video up the dress of a teacher with a cell phone and posted it on YouTube.
According to arrest warrants, Doss High School student Devon Ewing, 18, asked the teacher for help, and Carlos Cain Jr., 18, made the recording...
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May 7, 2012 6:36 AM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - Authorities planned to conduct an autopsy Monday for a man who was found dead in a barn at Churchill Downs hours after the Kentucky Derby. The victim, who worked at the track, was identified Sunday as 48-year-old Adan Fabian Perez, a Guatemala native, according to Jo-Ann Farmer,...
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May 2, 2012 8:05 AM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - The steamboats are gathering on Louisville's waterfront for the Kentucky Derby Festival's annual Great Steamboat Race. The American Queen, the largest steamboat ever built, will join the Belle of Louisville and the Belle of Cincinnati for the race Wednesday evening, with the winner to be determined by...
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April 27, 2012 6:31 AM
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - An insurance company says it should not have to pay claims stemming from a Christmas morning fire in Connecticut that killed five people because a contractor renovating the house misrepresented the type and scope of work his company performs. Utica First Insurance Co. argues in...
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April 26, 2012 8:36 AM
Two students suffered minor injuries in an accident involving a Jefferson County school bus Thursday morning.
Officials say the bus was fully loaded with students on the way to Westport Middle School around 7 a.m. when it rear-ended a Ford Taurus that was stopped along eastbound I-64 near the...
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April 25, 2012 6:20 AM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - A Kentucky mother who claims her 9-year-old daughter has been bullied for two school years is seeking a restraining order against a fourth-grade boy accused of tormenting her daughter, kicking her in the chest and chasing her with scissors. Joy Furman, the girl's mother, wants the boy...
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April 24, 2012 8:23 AM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - Louisville Metro Police have arrested a man who surrendered after pointing a shotgun at an officer. The officer was dispatched Monday night to investigate a report of a man carrying a gun near Pleasure Ridge Park. The Courier-Journal reported the officer confronted the man, who raised the...
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April 23, 2012 8:53 AM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - An analysis shows the air quality in Louisville has improved over the last decade, but there's still reason to be concerned about an industrial area. The findings come 10 years after toxic-air monitoring in the city prompted more controls on chemical emissions. The Courier-Journal reported the analysis...
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April 19, 2012 1:17 PM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - LG&E has agreed to pay a $22,500 fine to settle allegations that coal ash emissions have repeatedly landed in a neighborhood near one of its plants. Officials with Louisville Metro Air Pollution Control District on Wednesday approved the agreement with the utility, which did not admit any...
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April 18, 2012 6:38 AM
Louisville police defend the use of police dogs after dramatic video captured a K9 taking down a suspect.
Police say Aaron Wallace, 18, carjacked a woman in the parking lot of a Meijer store Monday afternoon. Wallace led officers on a three county chase through Bullitt and Spencer County....
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April 16, 2012 7:58 AM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - Louisville residents who live near a former insecticide plant want to know why it took officials about 25 years to test their soil for contamination. Tim Hubbard, assistant director of the Kentucky Division of Waste Management, told The Courier-Journal that he doesn't know why the testing wasn't...
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April 15, 2012 6:08 PM
LUTZ, Fla. (AP) - After firing Isiah Thomas, Florida International is set to replace him with another recognizable name. Louisville coach Rick Pitino said Sunday that his son Richard Pitino is leaving his staff with the Cardinals to become the next coach at FIU, which has posted 12 straight losing...
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April 12, 2012 8:30 AM
Several families lost everything and one person was hurt in a fire at a Louisville apartment complex Wednesday afternoon.
The blaze broke out around 1:30 p.m. at the Willowbrook Apartments on Buechel Bank Road. A woman says her circuit breaker popped and an outlet in her bedroom caught fire....
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April 10, 2012 8:01 AM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - Police in Louisville say a young girl was struck and killed as she stepped off a transit bus. WAVE-TV reported 7-year-old Aiyana Osburn was killed Monday evening. Tiffany Goode, Aiyana's soon-to-be stepmother, said she saw the car coming and pulled the girl back, but the girl was...
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March 31, 2012 8:23 PM
Kentucky defeated Louisville 69-61 Saturday in the Final Four at New Orleans.
Kentucky held Louisville without a field goal for over six minutes in the second half after the Cardinals rallied from a 13-point deficit to tie the game at 49-49 with 9:13 to go.
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March 31, 2012 7:17 PM
Kentucky leads Louisville 35-28 at halftime of their Final Four matchup in New Orleans.
The Wildcats led by 10 points twice in the first half but were unable to put Louisville away despite out-shooting the Cardinals 60 percent to 37.5 percent.
Kentucky led 16-6 at the 13:18 mark...
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March 28, 2012 6:47 PM
(AP) - This Bluegrass State rivalry runs deep, and the divide is wide. Just 70 miles apart, Lexington and Louisville are worlds apart when it comes to college basketball. Come Saturday when the Cardinals and Wildcats meet at the Final Four in New Orleans, a berth in the national title...
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March 27, 2012 8:42 AM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - Jefferson County Public Schools officials have booted 11 students out of school after drug-laces brownies were shared. According to WLKY-TV, at least two parents have filed appeals to their children being suspended after a student brought the brownies, into which marijuana had been baked, to Eastern High...
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March 21, 2012 9:35 AM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - General Electric will start by the end of the month making three models of bottom freezer refrigerators in Louisville. CEO and Chairman Jeffrey Immelt said Tuesday during a visit the new assembly line will employ 600 people making $13.03 an hour to make the French door refrigerator....
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March 20, 2012 6:29 AM
A 10-year-old Louisville boy rushed back into a burning home and got his sister safely out Sunday.
Antoine Burks dashed back into the house after realizing his 6-year-old sister was still in her room, trapped by the flames.
"I didn't know where to go because the fire was...
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March 19, 2012 9:22 AM
A 1-year-old boy drowned in a hot tub at a home in Louisville Sunday evening.
Police say the incident happened just before 6 p.m. at a home along Hite Creek Road in Eastern Jefferson County.
Officials say EMS rushed the child Kosair Children's Hospital Brownsboro. An officer on...
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March 16, 2012 3:18 PM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - One of Kentucky's best-known radio personalities is being sued by a Louisville police officer for making disparaging on-air comments about the officer. The lawsuit against Terry Meiners says the longtime WHAS radio personality lied about the officer on air and disparaged him after being given a ticket...
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March 13, 2012 11:52 AM
General Electric officials say they plan to add more than 200 jobs at the Louisville plant thanks to a grant.
GE will open an online application process for 230 positions beginning Wednesday. Applications will be accepted from 6:30 a.m. Wednesday until 4 p.m. Friday, March 16, or until 10,000...
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March 9, 2012 8:32 AM
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - State occupational safety inspectors are investigating at a Jefferson County plant where a pipe shattered and injured workers. WAVE-TV in Louisville is reporting that Fairdale Fire Chief Don Wittry said five employees of Shape Manufacturing were hurt when shards from an exploding PVC line were hurled...
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February 20, 2012 9:24 AM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - The Kentucky State Fair Board is seeking proposals for a luxury hotel that they say would lure more large conventions and trade shows to the area. Fair board President Harold Workman told The Courier-Journal that he believes the economy is righting itself enough that the $100 million...
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February 7, 2012 8:37 AM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - A school bus crash sent the driver to a Louisville hospital, but didn't injure the only student aboard. Police said it appeared the driver of the Jefferson County school bus ran off the road and then overcorrected, causing the bus to flip onto its side Monday afternoon,...
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February 7, 2012 8:23 AM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - A woman's body has been found on a roadway in Louisville police are conducting a death investigation. MetroSafe dispatch told WAVE-TV that the body was reported on New Cut Road at the Gene Snyder Freeway at around 5:30 Tuesday morning. Homicide detectives were called to the scene...
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January 23, 2012 9:24 AM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - A Louisville man is dead after a fire consumed his home. Firefighters say they were called out to the blaze Sunday afternoon and found 52-year-old Timothy E. Pyle dead at the scene. An autopsy was planned Monday to determine his cause of death, according to deputy Jefferson...
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January 20, 2012 8:47 AM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - Police in Louisville say two men used flashing lights to pull over a driver and then one of them posed as a police officer and stole a debit card. A woman told police she saw flashing red and blue lights atop a car behind her early Jan....
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January 11, 2012 10:10 AM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - Fire officials say a disabled woman died when her Jefferson County home caught fire. The coroner identified the victim as 71-year-old Mabel Donnelly. Pleasure Ridge Park Fire Chief Vincent Smith said Donnelly was confined to her bed, according to WAVE-TV in Louisville. Neighbors said she lived alone....
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January 5, 2012 12:04 PM
A provision buried in a postsecondary education bill sponsored by Sen. Tim Shaughnessy (D-Louisville) would mandate that the University of Kentucky and the University of Louisville play their annual basketball and football games each year.
SB45 is "an act relating to governance responsibilities in postsecondary education." The bill specifies...
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January 5, 2012 5:37 AM
Late Wednesday night, police in Louisville captured a man accused of killing a LaRue County woman.
Officials say Kentucky State Police and U.S. Marshals found Abdullah White at a hotel on Preston Highway around 11 p.m. and made the arrest.
Police say White was wanted in connection with...
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January 3, 2012 1:10 PM
Fans will have to be careful not to confuse Waggener's new head football coach with his players standing along the sidelines.
The Louisville school named a youngster, 22-year-old Daniel McDonald, its new football skipper.
McDonald graduated from Waggener in 2007. He played both football and baseball and went...
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January 3, 2012 9:41 AM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - A federal requirement that the Louisville airport keep runway approaches clear is pitting homeowners against airport officials over removal of trees. Authorities have moved a meeting on Wednesday to a larger auditorium because of public interest after it was announced that trees must be removed in neighborhoods,...
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January 2, 2012 5:14 PM
The UK Alumni Club of Greater Louisville will host a Pep Rally on Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2012, from 5:00pm to 7:00pm at the Kentucky Expo Center's North Wing Lobby. The event will be held immediately prior to the UK vs. Arkansas-Little Rock basketball game, which tips off at 7:00p.m. at...
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December 26, 2011 8:48 AM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - Louisville officials have 16 candidates to review in finding the city's next police chief. The application process closed Dec. 15. The applicants were required to submit position papers outlining their stances on 12 topics including management style, views on community policing and experience in command positions, according...
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December 21, 2011 9:27 AM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - Occupy Louisville protesters are being told that they will no longer be allowed to camp overnight in the city and their tents must be taken down. The issue has come up as protesters negotiate with the city to renew its permit to continue their occupation of Founder's...
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December 19, 2011 8:34 AM
A Louisville Metro Police Department officer suffered minor injuries in a crash early Monday morning.
WAVE 3 reports that police say the officer was heading south along Preston Highway near the Gene Snyder around 6 a.m. when another car turned left in front of the cruiser. EMS took the...
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December 13, 2011 9:22 AM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - Concerns over a proposed hospital merger have led Louisville Metro Government to delay an $803,000 payment to University Hospital. The money goes to fund medical care for the poor and Hospital spokesman David McArthur told The Courier-Journal on Monday night that he was unsure whether care would...
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December 8, 2011 9:02 AM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer has ordered a review after learning the city has paid $21.8 million this year in overtime to its employees. Fischer said Wednesday that 10 percent of the city's work force, or about 550 employees, had each earned more than $15,000 in overtime since...
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December 6, 2011 9:40 AM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - Louisville fire officials say an underground transformer caught fire and spewed black smoke through parts of downtown, resulting in power being cut off to some businesses. Capt. Sal Melendez says the explosion happened at around 7:40 a.m. Tuesday near Main Street and 1st Street. Melendez said LG&E...
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December 6, 2011 8:58 AM
A home exploded and burned in a Louisville neighborhood Tuesday morning.
WAVE 3 reports neighbors saw LG&E crews working on a gas line at a home along River Trail Drive in Okolona around 7 a.m. Witnesses says they heard a loud boom, looked out the window and saw the...
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December 2, 2011 8:37 AM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - Lady Justice in downtown Louisville is missing her scales - and apparently has been for some time.
Lady Justice is part of the Thomas Jefferson statue near the Jefferson County Courthouse. A photo of the statue from 2008 shows the scales, but a photo from 2010...
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November 23, 2011 9:09 AM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - A fire official says seven people, including two children, have been rescued from a burning home in Louisville. Louisville Fire & Rescue Lt. Col. Carroll Haueter told WAVE3-TV that crews were called to the scene in the Highlands area around 6 a.m. and found a man jumping...
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November 22, 2011 8:56 AM
FRANKFORT (AP) - The mayors of Kentucky's two largest cities have named a 21-member board to lead their Bluegrass Economic Advancement Movement. Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer and Lexington Mayor Jim Gray earlier this year announced the regional partnership to help the economy for the two cities, saying that will help...
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November 21, 2011 6:44 AM
Police in Louisville have arrested a man who never returned from a furlough from the Fayette County Detention Center back on Nov 10.
Jail officials confirm officers arrested Joseph Wilson, 42, on Friday and charged him with fleeing and evading police, and resisting arrest.
Wilson was released from...
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November 18, 2011 9:04 AM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - Students on a Jefferson County Public School bus got a scare after wires from a broken utility pole fell on top of the bus. LG&E spokeswoman Liz Pratt told The Courier-Journal that the wires weren't live, but no one knew that for sure until crews arrived at...
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November 18, 2011 6:40 AM
A grand jury in Jefferson County indicted a 15-year-old in the murder of his stepbrother.
WAVE 3 reports Joshua Young faces murder and tampering with physical evidence charges. Six months ago, students found the body of Trey Zwicker, 14, dead behind a Liberty High School in Louisville. According to...
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November 11, 2011 12:54 PM
Police in Louisville arrested a man after an attack on a paramedic.
According to arrest records, Franklin Wagner, 53, was taken to the emergency room for treatment of alcohol intoxication. Police say Wagner attacked an EMS worker at the hospital, striking him in the face.
Police charged Wagner...
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November 8, 2011 12:49 PM
(AP) - Even though basketball tips off this week in this hoop-crazed state, Kentucky tight end Nick Melillo insists there are three good reasons to keep watching fall football - the Wildcats, Louisville and Western Kentucky are all closing in on bowl eligibility. "We're not done yet," said Melillo, who...
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November 3, 2011 6:50 AM
An off-duty Jefferson County constable shot a suspected shoplifter in a crowded Walmart parking lot in Louisville Wednesday afternoon.
Police say David Whitlock was shopping in the Raggard Road store, where he often patrols, when an employee told him there was a suspected shoplifter. Whitlock followed the woman to...
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November 1, 2011 6:47 AM
Louisville police made a quick arrest after the city's third murder in a 24-hour period.
WAVE 3 reports officers responding to a domestic violence call found a man beaten to death with a baseball bat along Preston Drive in the Lynnview area Monday afternoon. A few hours later, police...
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October 31, 2011 9:48 AM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - U.S. House Speaker John Boehner called for Congress to find "common ground" on jobs and the economy despite ideological differences that have tied the institution in knots. Boehner, speaking Monday during a visit to the University of Louisville, said finding areas of agreement doesn't mean compromising principles....
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October 31, 2011 8:46 AM
Police in Louisville are investigating a homicide.
Police say a man in his 20s suffering from several gunshot wounds walked into the Dairy Mart at 28th Street and Market Street early Monday morning. EMS rushed the victim to the hospital, but he died a short time later.
Investigators...
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October 26, 2011 6:44 AM
A Jefferson County Sheriff's Office deputy shot and killed a suspect early Wednesday morning.
According to WAVE 3, Louisville Metro Police spokesperson Alicia Smiley says the deputy was serving a felony warrant at a home along Powell Avenue near Churchill Downs. The suspect got into a car and drove...
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October 19, 2011 8:40 AM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - A Louisville teacher has been selected as one of 22 members of a new advisory board for a program that provides support in teaching schoolchildren to be tolerant. The Teaching Tolerance project received more than 500 applications from educators nationwide for positions on the advisory board. Among...
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October 11, 2011 8:25 AM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - Louisville police are investigating the shooting of five people who were found wounded near a public housing project. The shots were fired early Tuesday just outside the Sheppard Square homes, according to WAVE-TV. Police found one victim shot in the back, two shot in the face, one...
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October 10, 2011 6:07 AM
Louisville police charged a man with attempted murder after a 3-year-old boy was found beaten, bruised and unresponsive Sunday afternoon.
Investigators say the child's mother left him alone with Larry Webster, 36, when she went to work Sunday morning. Police and EMS responded to the apartment around 3:30 p.m....
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October 6, 2011 6:46 AM
A Louisville school bus monitor accused of inappropriately touching a 17-year-old special needs student pleaded guilty Wednesday.
Pryce Miller, 58, was indicted on a charge of first-degree sex abuse back in July. A person on the bus reported seeing Miller inappropriately touching the student from Doss High School.
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September 28, 2011 8:50 AM
NEW ALBANY, Ind. (AP) - U.S. Sen. Dan Coats will pay a visit to the Sherman Minton Bridge, closed for nearly three weeks after inspectors found a crack in a support beam. The Indiana Republican's office says he has spoken to Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and has been assured the...
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September 26, 2011 8:29 AM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - General Electric in Louisville will start taking applications for 480 new jobs starting Wednesday. GE spokeswoman Kim Freeman says former employees and those with manufacturing experience will be given first consideration, The Courier-Journal reported. The company will accept 6,000 applications, and Freeman says anyone who has previously...
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September 26, 2011 7:12 AM
The National Weather Service has issue a flash flood warning for the Louisville area and numerous roads are closed due to street flooding.
Heavy downpours soaked Louisville early Monday morning.
The University of Louisville moved back the beginning of classes at its Belknap campus until 10 a.m. because...
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September 23, 2011 11:09 AM
NEW ALBANY, Ind. (AP) - A full replacement won't be needed for the closed Sherman Minton Bridge over the Ohio River between Louisville and southern Indiana, Indiana's highway department said Friday.
Engineers don't yet know what needs to be done to repair the nearly half-century-old steel span that carries...
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September 19, 2011 9:11 AM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - Louisville taxpayers are responsible for paying more than $77,000 for legal expenses during summer ethics hearings for former councilwoman Judy Green, according to a published report. And that's just the expenses so far. The Courier-Journal reports more attorney fees are expected from Green's expulsion hearing last week....
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September 15, 2011 8:22 AM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - The head of Kentucky's transportation cabinet says the same steel that's cracking in a closed Ohio River bridge is also used in one of two remaining Louisville-to-southern Indiana spans. However Mike Hancock, Kentucky's transportation secretary, reassured motorists that the Kennedy Bridge is safe despite containing the same...
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September 14, 2011 8:09 AM
JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) - Commuters struggling to get between Indiana and Kentucky by car after the closure of a key bridge can take to the water instead. The Spirit of Jefferson boat will begin offering five morning runs and four afternoon runs across the Ohio River starting Wednesday. Spirit CEO...
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September 14, 2011 5:50 AM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - An Australian fugitive wanted on charges of placing a fake bomb around a woman's neck in an attempt to extort money from her millionaire father plans to waive extradition and return to his home country to face charges. Paul Douglas Peters has an extradition hearing set for...
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September 12, 2011 6:45 AM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - The emergency closure of a major bridge connecting Louisville to Indiana created a traffic nightmare for commuters trying to cross the Ohio River on two remaining spans. Local media early Monday showed vehicles stretched for miles in southern Indiana in the wake of the sudden Friday closure...
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September 1, 2011 8:57 AM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - An Iraq War veteran is almost home after walking more than 7,000 miles across the country to raise money for former soldiers who have fallen on hard times. Troy Yocum is scheduled to arrive back in Louisville on Saturday after walking more than 30 million steps over...
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August 30, 2011 9:16 AM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - Federal agents have seized 33 pounds of materials used to make synthetic marijuana at the UPS hub in Louisville. A statement from U.S. Customs and Border Protection says officers seized four shipments, all from China, over the weekend. The statement says the packages were destined for various...
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August 26, 2011 8:37 AM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - The head of the Kentucky State Fair Board says Kentucky Kingdom amusement park should be open in May with a "public-private partnership" coming together. Board president Harold Workman told legislators during a joint meeting of the Fair Board and the state legislature's Interim Joint Committee on Agriculture...
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August 26, 2011 6:18 AM
Louisville International Airport will serve as the temporary home for several Marine Corps aircraft evacuated from North Carolina as Hurricane Irene approaches.
The MV-22 Ospreys normally operate out the Marine Corps Air Station New River, N.C. The Osperys' speed and range make the Louisville airport a good temporary base....
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August 18, 2011 9:03 AM
Police in Louisville arrested a man after he fired on officers near two schools.
WAVE 3 reports that police got a robbery call around 5:10 a.m. Police say officers on the scene spotted a suspect trying to get away and gave chase. The fleeing suspect fired a gun at...
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August 17, 2011 9:15 AM
SYDNEY (AP) - An Australian teenager who spent 10 hours with a fake bomb chained to her neck said Wednesday that she is relieved the FBI has arrested a man accused of breaking into her home and tethering the device to her as part of an elaborate extortion plot. Paul...
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August 15, 2011 7:55 AM
LOUISVILLE Classes have been canceled on what was to be the first day of the new school year in Louisville after an intense storm knocked out power to tens of thousands of customers, including several schools. Shortly after the storm hit late Saturday afternoon, Louisville Gas & Electric and Kentucky...
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August 15, 2011 5:44 AM
Police continue to investigate a triple shooting in a Louisville park Sunday night.
WAVE 3 reports that an officer in the area of Shawnee Park first hear shots around 9:30 p.m. Police say three people where hit by gunfire during an adult kickball game. It remains unclear if the...
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August 11, 2011 9:05 AM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - In basketball, one city roots for the team in red, the other for Big Blue. One touts itself as the "horse capital of the world," while the other hosts the world's most famous thoroughbred race. Those rivalries aside, the mayors of Louisville and Lexington are on the...
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August 9, 2011 7:10 AM
Louisville police say they arrested a man on child pornography charges after finding pictures of a nude 15-year-old in his home.
WAVE 3 reports officers entered the home of Raul Cruz, 31, and not only found the photos, but also located the girl. Police say she was a runaway...
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August 1, 2011 8:58 AM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - Developers who had proposed building a futuristic skyscraper in downtown Louisville are scrapping the idea due to financial concerns. A letter making the announcement was to be sent Monday to Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear and Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer, according to The Courier-Journal. It was signed by...
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July 26, 2011 8:45 AM
On Tuesday morning, crews will resume searching for a missing Louisville toddler last seen near the Ohio River.
Christina Norris, 2, was with her parents on Dixie Beach Road. Witnesses say the child pointed to something in the water. Her parents looked away and when they turned around, Christina...
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