Newburg News

It's a hot summer's day and the blades spinning overheard are doing little to cool down the building that Kingdom Fellowship Christian Life Center calls home.

Workers are putting the finishing touches on the Newburg Library, the first new branch in the Louisville Free Public Library system since Fairdale opened in 1998.

For two decades, residents of the Colonial Hill neighborhood just west of Newburg Road have been trying to get the state to build a barrier to protect them from Watterson Expressway noise.

'I'm really good with electronics,' said Tahlia, who lives in Okolona and will be an eighth-grader. So Tahlia didn't hesitate to sign up for a weeklong engineering camp at Jeffersontown High School, where she might end up studying the subject as a freshman.

Did you know that in 1851, years before the Emancipation Proclamation and U.S. Civil War, a free African-American couple, Henry and Eliza Tevis, bought 40 acres in southeastern Jefferson County on which today's Newburg/Petersburg community was developed? Or that in the 1840s in Louisville a free black musician named Henry Williams became a ...

Mayor Jerry Abramson will hold his next monthly Community Conversation at 6:30 tonight in the gym at Newburg Middle School, 4901 Exeter Avenue.

Dr. Kerri Remmel of the University of Louisville will share the chairman's post of the Kentucky Heart Disease and Stroke Task Force with Dr.

Healthy Start, a program designed to reduce infant mortality, will hold its spring conference May 28 from 5:30 to 8 p.m. at the St.

On this Mother's Day weekend, just don't call the hammering you hear man's work.

Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway along with Metro Police Chief Robert White are trying to help some of Louisville's youth who find themselves living in disadvantaged circumstances.

A Valley High School student is being remembered. 16-year-old Mychael Crumes was gunned down Tuesday afternoon in Louisville's Newburg neighborhood.

Two people killed in the past two days have been identified. Mychael Tavon Crumes, 16, whose body was found between two apartment buildings in the 5200 block of Russett Boulevard, died of a gunshot wound to the chest, said Rita Taylor, a deputy Jefferson County coroner.

Police are investigating a deadly shooting in Louisville, just south of the Newburg neighborhood.

Louisville will soon expand its Healthy Start program into the Newburg area, providing support and medical information to pregnant women and families with children under age 2. The free program will be offered at the Newburg Health Center, 4810 Exeter Ave.

A teenage boy was shot to death yesterday afternoon in an apartment complex playground in the Newburg area.

Louisville homicide detectives are on the scene of a shooting in the 5200 block of Russett Boulevard in the Newburg area.

The Metropolitan Sewer District reported a spill of 2,500 gallons of raw sewage today from a manhole in the 1700 block of Fraser Drive, near Newburg Road and Interstate 264.

Third-grader Claire Mulhall already had some ideas about what she wanted to do when she grows up: become a veterinarian.

It doesn't have a library, but Newburg has an active Friends of the Library organization.

People in one Louisville neighborhood felt a lot safer on Thursday. That added sense of security in some parts of Newburg came about because several potentially dangerous dogs were removed from a home, and ...