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Another day, another senseless shooting in Louisville. Police at the scene say one man has died and a woman has been hurt in a double shooting in the 5000-block of Roederer Drive Wednesday night. [WDRB]

Now that the election is over and Barack Obama will be staying in the White House for another four years, environmental groups are hoping that some long-awaited new rules will break loose from the regulatory log-jam. All about coal ash disposal and water pollution. [Mother Jones]

Four families living in a Buechel apartment building on Beechbrook Road are still without electricity — lights and heat — at a critical time with temperatures falling near freezing. Maybe WHAS could spend a bit of time looking at other slumlords around town. Primarily the ones we’ve written about that Greg Fischer and crew prefer to ignore. [WHAS11]

Go ahead, folks, because it’s time to grab your ankles and bend over. Kentucky and Indiana are taking steps this week to determine who will build two new Ohio River bridges. [C-J/AKN]

A tense standoff Wednesday ended with a death investigation. A body was found in the charred building that a SWAT team surrounded in the 400 block of South Campbell Street and there are still many unanswered questions. [WLKY]

Yesterday we shared details with you about fancy ghost governments in Kentucky that are bankrupting you, according to Adam Edelen. [Page One]

Seems some people in New Albany have an inability to review IRS 990s when writing about people like this. No wonder Southern Indiana can’t have nice things. [News & Tribune]

Just in case you need to see how half-assed mainstreamers can cover major stories in Louisville. The case against David Jones is a lot bigger than four lines of text and Jones has made public comment about the suit. [WAVE3]

Of course Kentucky needs hemp. But it’s silly for Jamie Comer to mislead people into believing it’s going to happen on a federal level without a major fight. Rand Paul isn’t going to make it happen, either, as he’s proved his worth by hiring pole dancers. [H-L]

Papa John’s International Inc. and some of its franchisees are defendants in an ongoing legal challenge about text-message spamming that last week was certified as a class-action lawsuit. [Business First]

It surely is Possibility City because the Democrats on Metro Council are attempting to limit debate on any issue to no more than one hour. If you aren’t raising hell over this, you deserve whatever is coming to you when Jim King and crew ram things down the city’s throat. [More C-J/AKN]