gun violence

The Vanderbilt Poll was conducted three weeks after a deadly mass shooting at The Covenant School claimed the lives of three children and three adults.

An unidentified suspect fired a gun into a crowd of hundreds in a Kentucky park, leaving two people dead and four wounded Saturday night, police said.

While GOP candidates were treading cautiously on a core issue for many Republican voters, professing strong support for gun rights, some prominent Democrats spoke forcefully for action after the shooting Monday in which a bank employee used an assault-style rifle to kill five coworkers.

Emergency cell phone alerts are a fundamental part of the nation’s emergency preparedness system and can help keep people safe — especially during weather emergencies and natural disasters. They depend on a chain of local officials, federal agencies and service providers.

Mental health professionals say one of the best things anyone can do right now is connect with other people and talk about how they’re feeling.

Many questions remain as to why an employee opened fire this week at Old National Bank in downtown Louisville. The 25-year-old gunman killed five colleagues and wounded several more, including police officers responding to the scene.

As Louisvillians mourn in the wake of yet another mass shooting, some local and state elected officials are calling for concrete policy responses – from universal background checks to destroying confiscated firearms – to curb gun violence in Kentucky.

The bank employee who opened fire at his Louisville workplace targeted specific people with the rifle he bought legally a week earlier, police said Tuesday.

Police say at least five people are dead and several others were transported to University of Louisville Hospital after a shooting on East Main Street on Monday morning.

Mayor Craig Greenberg announced Thursday that Louisville will remove the firing pins from guns seized by police before shipping them off to the state for auction.