Louisville

Republicans credited both their own efforts and those of Democratic Mayor Craig Greenberg in securing what they say is a $1.186 billion in Louisville-specific funding.

Louisville public attorneys voted to unionize early last year, but their efforts have been jeopardized by a merger with the state that will happen next summer. The union alleges the corporation has illegally retaliated against it.

The top Republicans running for Kentucky governor are rejecting the need for more gun control, despite last week’s mass shooting a Louisville bank. The GOP candidates say the answer to reducing gun violence involves mental health and morality.

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.

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.

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 identified six people, including a suspected shooter, who died in a mass shooting at an Old National Bank in downtown Louisville Monday. Several others were transported to University of Louisville Hospital with injuries from the incident.

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.

The 90-page report released Wednesday details a list of issues federal investigators uncovered during a two-year investigation of LMPD that began in April 2021, a year after the police killing of Breonna Taylor and in the wake of protests that followed.

Students at Atherton High School in Louisville walked out of class Tuesday in protest of a flurry of anti-LGBTQ bills filed by Republicans in the Kentucky Legislature.