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Police to borrow one from Air Guard By Jessie Halladayand Dan Klepal * The Courier-Journal * March 31, 2008 Louisville Metro Police will use a loaned helicopter to patrol Kentucky Derby events this year, but ...

Teen scores well in dressage competitions By Elaine Rooker Jack * Special to The Courier-Journal * March 31, 2008 When she was 10, Ashley Sims tagged along to her younger brother Zach's horse-riding lessons and ...

A police spokesman says two children have been shot and killed in south Louisville.

Residents say a dispute in south Louisville over parking has escalated to the point of death threats and bullets flying through their neighborhood.

Kentucky is getting quite a bit of attention from the presidential campaign of Sen.

A federal judge has permanently barred a Kentucky county from using the Ten Commandments as part of a "Foundations of American Law and Government" display.

New Albany police officers and members of the Indiana State Police Clandestine Lab Team are in the process of dismantling a methamphetamine lab discovered Monday on Locust Street in New Albany.

A confrontation Monday morning between the mother of a murdered teen and a family member of one of the accused.

It happened before the judge entered the courtroom.

I want to look them in the eye and want them to know what they did to my son

Jillian Kessler, a Œ07 Professional Catering graduate recently participated in The Kitchen Contenders Mystery Box Challenge. The Mystery Box was the opening night event for the '6th Annual Cater source Conference. The Conference is the largest gathering of caterers in the world and was held in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Bellarmine University's physical therapy students will sponsor their 2nd Annual "Fun Run" at the Louisville Zoo on April 19 at 8:30 a.m. Participants can take part in either a 3-mile run or a 1-mile walk.

Brothers Cameron and Jordan Blackwell share a love of musical instruments, an interest in writing and a common mission — to speak for those who can’t speak for themselves.

I want people to know that people with autism can be successful

Five nonprofit organizations that cater to children and their families will be getting 65 new computers as part of ConnectKentucky's No Child Left Offline project.

University of Louisville women's basketball coach Jeff Walz was only kidding Saturday when he talked about giving his team "a few hours off" before the Cardinals started preparing for next season.

When the freshmen come in, we have to take them and show them what it takes to get back here and take it even farther.

Eight thoughts on the University of Louisville's just-completed Elite Eight season .

The bad news is pretty well-known.

Suicide bombings, a floundering Iraqi government, prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib -- the list of what has gone wrong in Iraq since the war began in 2003 is extensive.

With the constant negativity that has been going on, it's important that we, especially veterans of this war, share our positive stories and share the reason why it's important that we have victory in Iraq

Louisville Metro Police were investigating a shooting early today that wounded a man in his arm, a MetroSafe Communications supervisor said.

Indiana shoppers will start paying higher sales tax tomorrow on purchases ranging from furniture and jewelry to hotel rooms and new cars.

It's going to slow down an already slow market

“It just all seems like it's going to be a bad dream and I'm going to wake up from it”

A mother accused of killing her two children and briefly taking a university counselor hostage at gunpoint pleaded not guilty on Friday. via The Times West Virginian

North Central District Health Department is continuing to investigate the food borne outbreak that occurred on Easter Sunday in a local restaurant in Shelbyville, KY.

Ronald Underwood, who was well-known around the Okolona Little League in Louisville, has been arrested on child pornography charges.

More than 5,500 volunteers representing more than 250 community organizations picked up trash today during the Brightside/Citi Spring Community-Wide Cleanup, event organizers said.

That number really shows that people take pride in their community

Frank, a 45-year-old resident of the Louisville Zoo's Gorilla Forest, takes 15 pills a day, and fellow forest denizen Timmy, who is 49, takes nine a day.

Making sure the aging gorillas get their daily meds is part of the routine of zoo veterinarian Dr. Roy Burns, Gorilla Forest supervisor Roby Elsner and the staff of five that tends to the senior primates.

The longest NCAA Tournament journey in school history came to an end for the University of Louisville women's basketball team.

David Padgett hunched over underneath the North Carolina basket, trying and failing to bite back the tears.

There was no shame in Padgett’s University of Louisville basketball team losing to North Carolina, the NCAA Tournament’s No. 1 overall seed, in its own neighborhood. But there was pain.

Claudia Sanders Restaurant, in Shelbyville, reopened today and began selling food again, for the first time since 137 people reported getting sick after eating at the restaurant on Easter Sunday.

Ronald Underwood, who was well-known around the Okolona Little League in Louisville, has been arrested on child pornography charges.

About 1,500 supporters in all, including teenagers and young adults, showed up for the Hillary Clinton rally at Dupont Manual High School today. Even teens says it's about the issues; not gender or race.

“You just don't know what people are going through.”

The red brick Cape Cod style house on the street with neat lawns, small gardens and play sets in the back yards sat empty, two of its occupants dead and the third charged with their murders.

Now, the legal proceedings of 37-year-old Gail Lynn Coontz commence, as lawyers and police tackle a case of a single mother and University of Louisville student charged with shooting her two children.

Coontz was arrested Thursday and charged killing her children before going to the University of Louisville and briefly holding a counselor hostage on the campus. Read more

Hundreds of University of Louisville students walked off campus Wednesday afternoon to protest higher education costs.

Police are investigating a deadly hit and run in Fern Creek. It happened around 9:20 p.m. Wednesday night in the 69-hundred block of Bardstown Road, near the Gene Snyder.

A woman who walked into a health services building with a weapon at the University of Louisville has been disarmed.

Eight families are out of their homes this after investigators say that someone threw a firebomb into a child's bedroom, setting an apartment building on fire The fire started Thursday just before 7:00 a.m. at ...

A widowed mother charged with killing her two children while they slept and then briefly taking a university counselor hostage at gunpoint said her kids were "sent to be with their dad," according to a police ...

North Central District Health Department is continuing to investigate the food borne outbreak that occurred on Easter Sunday in a local restaurant in Shelbyville, KY.

A police spokesman says two children have been shot and killed in south Louisville.

Thousands of Kentuckians who have switched political affiliations over the past three months in hopes of voting in May's Democratic presidential primary will instead be barred from casting ballots.

They're obviously going to do a big push over the next three week to register voters

Robert Evans, president and CEO of Louisville-based Churchill Downs Inc. , has expressed disappointment that legislation that would authorize a statewide vote on casino gaming in Kentucky would not be voted on by the full Kentucky House or advance to the Senate during the current legislative session.

Increasingly, those of us in the racing business watch horsemen take their stables across state lines to compete for higher purses driven by casino gaming at other racetracks

High gas prices could be costing public transportation $2 million next year. The question is how much will riders have to pay for it? WAVE 3's Elizabeth Donatelli has more on what else it could cost riders.

It's nerve racking to have to come with $1.25 every day

WAVE 3 is investigating a concern in the community. It's a proposal to bring a new halfway house to Louisville. The issue is the plan is to put it above a day care center.

These are people that are looking to connect back with their families and go home, get a job, find a place to stay that's agreeable with the probation officers and then transition back into the community

Gov. Steve Beshear conceded defeat yesterday on casino gambling legislation -- an issue that had been the centerpiece of his election campaign last year.

This is no doubt a very good day for Indiana, Illinois and West Virginia -- as hundreds of millions of Kentucky dollars will continue to flow into their education, health care and transportation systems

Emergency personnel are on the scene where two pedestrians were struck by a vehicle just before 8:30 a.m. on Southside Drive at Southland Boulevard, according to MetroSafe Communications.

Someday, 15-year-old freshman Chris Summers hopes, he'll be an engineer, and the advice he is getting from a new mentoring program is helping make it happen.

It's pretty cool to be able to talk with someone who does what I want to do for a living when I get older,

The second week of the NCAA Tournament belongs to the bluebloods. UCLA, the ultimate monarchy, got a scare from upstart Western Kentucky University in the West Regional semifinals last night but held on to defeat the Hilltoppers 88-78.

Guys were upbeat, just telling each other to believe that we could make a run and get back into the game

On a night full of pressure defense and the pressure of the NCAA Tournament's Sweet 16, the University of Louisville seized the moment.

We had worked on their pressure, but they're so good at it they were able to turn us over more than we usually do

The University of Louisville has started offering two new online graduate degrees through its J.B. Speed School of Engineering.

Louisville's reputation as a haven for packaging companies might be about to spawn two expansion projects that could bring nearly 180 jobs to the local market.

Gov. Steve Beshear is calling on Kentucky lawmakers to set up a statewide authority aimed at finding financing options for so-called transportation mega-projects, or those costing more than $500 million. via WAVE-TV Louisville

On its 12th try, Louisville finally made it out of the second round of the NCAA tournament.

The death threats are usually made anonymously by someone the victim doesn't know and has no logical reason to want to harm them.

Louisville metro police are investigating a homicide after a 19-year-old man was found with multiple gun shot wounds lying in the street.

Police in Louisville are investigating the death of a newborn found in a closet.

Hundreds of University of Louisville students walked off campus Wednesday afternoon to protest higher education costs.

Former University of Kentucky men's basketball coach Joe B. Hall will be featured on a commemorative Maker's Mark bottle that will be sold to benefit cancer research.

The Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory said Tuesday that it has agreed to be a founding partner in a new sports museum in Manhattan.

Baseball and American sports history are inextricably intertwined and so is the history of baseball and the Louisville Slugger

Television journalist Deborah Norville, the anchor of Inside Edition, will be the keynote speaker at the 52nd annual They're Off Luncheon on Friday, April 11.

State economic development officials are in talks with Volkswagen to lure the automaker to build a manufacturing plant in Kentucky.

Louisville Metro Police are investigating the death of a newborn found in a home this afternoon.

Angered by the firing of Oldham County High School’s football coach, more than a dozen people asked the school board last night to bring him back.

The female inmate who escaped from the Kentucky Correctional Institution for Women in Pewee Valley over the weekend is back in custody this morning.

The Claudia Sanders dinner house is open for lunch Tuesday in Shelby County but the health department is asking questions after several people became ill on Easter.

Tuesday was proof that Kentucky counts in the presidential election. Former President Bill Clinton made several stops around the commonwealth to campaign for his wife Hillary.

Trinity students and faculty collected more than 220 toys for Jarrett’s Joy Cart at Kosair Children’s Hospital in Louisville. Teachers John Kahl ’69 and Jennifer Browning H’06 organized the toy drive in March.

I initially I presented it only to my religion classes as a Lenten observance of the corporal works of mercy of taking care of the sick.

A state psychologist says a Louisville man charged with killing his four children and attacking his wife is mentally fit to stand trial on four counts of murder.

The sweat spot on Brian Brohm's red T-shirt assumed the size and shape of half a football after he wrapped up his latest audition for pro football yesterday.

The expression on his face said "no sweat."

If you look at all that stuff, you're up and down, it's a roller-coaster ride, and all that really matters is what happens in the end.

Though the chips may be down, Gov. Steve Beshear is refusing to give up on his proposal to legalize casinos in Kentucky.

Both the Hilltoppers and Cardinals regional games are sold out. The NCAA allotted only 1,250 tickets to the University of Louisville to distribute to season ticket holders and students.

We are all feeling the burn in our pockets from the ever-changing gas prices. Many Louisville residents are deciding to take a different route.

The Mid-America Trucking Show will be held this week, March 27-29, at the Kentucky Fair & Expo Center in Louisville, Ky.

What in the name of Colonel Harland Sanders is going on at KFC? The chain built by his secret recipe for fried chicken is about to give equal billing to, gulp, grilled chicken.

This is transformational for our brand

University of Louisville alumnus Brian Brohm, an academic all-American off the field and a record-setting quarterback on the field, has been named the winner of the first BIG EAST Conference/Aeropostale Leadership Award.

Psychiatric Solutions Inc. , a Franklin, Tenn.-based operator of psychiatric hospitals, has acquired two hospitals in Louisville from United Medical Corp.

Though the chips may be down, Gov. Steve Beshear is refusing to give up on his proposal to legalize casinos in Kentucky.

I think it’s very clear that Kentucky can certainly use a substantial amount of recurring revenue of some sort,

Court papers reveal new information about a former Bellarmine student charged with killing her newborn baby.

The state medical examiner reports that Katie McCoy’s baby girl was alive when it was born and died because of asphyxia.

Update: At approximately 3:00 PM today Amanda Crenshaw was apprehended in Jefferson County.

Rick Pitino and Louisville pressed on. Earl Clark scored 14 points and the Cardinals played to near-perfection on both ends, romping past Oklahoma 78-48 Sunday in the second round of the East Regional.

Sunday's cool weather didn't stop hundreds, even thousands, from heading to church to celebrate Easter.

Celebrate where you are, what you have, where you've come from, celebrate the goodness of God and the little blessings that we have

A woman serving 5-years for robbery has walked away from the Kentucky Correctional Institute for Women.

Morning commuters should face few problems today because the Ohio River fell below flood stage yesterday.

River Road was open from Prospect to downtown Louisville, but city officials thought a stretch between Third and Sixth streets would remain closed for the morning commute.

Chase Carraro is a 17-year- old junior at St. Xavier High School, but for a few hours last week, he played the part of a single, unemployed parent struggling to provide for his young child.

I felt like there was never enough time and that I would never have enough money to survive.

Angel McCoughtry finally came up big in the NCAA tournament. Mccoughtry scored 20 points, as Louisville beat Miami of Ohio 81-67 on Sunday in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.

A former University of Louisville football player faces charges he was driving drunk the wrong direction down a one- way street.

Thirty-two students at a Catholic elementary school were taken to the hospital after being becoming ill in church.

The murder case against the former Bellarmine student accused of killing her newborn in a university dormitory bathroom moved forward Friday.

Aggressive panhandlers congregate near a local business, making it uncomfortable for would-be patrons who want to shop without being subjected to a shakedown.

When you've talked to them and extended the hand of fellowship, if that doesn't work, call police

River Road was still closed this afternoon between W. 3rd and 6th streets in downtown Louisville due to flooding from a swollen Ohio River.