Let’s just see how hard the entirety of local teevee people can freak out over the accused Southern Indiana serial killer. [FOX41]

Looks like the Gannett Beast was down for hours and hours. All Gannett papers were hit with yet more computer troubles. [Gannett Blog]

It’s tough for us to feel sorry for Jefferson County Public Schools as it cuts jobs. All while there are so many people working at the board of education making more than $100,000 per year. [WAVE3]

The caretaker of Churchill Downs’ track is preparing for his last Kentucky Derby. This is an interesting read. [H-L]

The Louisville home where Muhammad Ali grew up will get an historical marker in May. [WHAS11]

According to a report by The Herald Sun newspaper in Durham, N.C., officials with Louisville-based 21c are trying to negotiate incentives for a $45 million project there. [Business First]

Remember that guy who killed his girlfriend and her sister in December? A grand jury finally indicted him. [WKYT]

Banks are fighting to keep major mortgage reforms from becoming permanent. Specifically the big banks that Morgan McGarvey has profited from. [HuffPo]

Oh, look, WLKY finally discovered that giant statue of David sitting on Main Street. Glad they’ve caught up. [WLKY]

The 138th Kentucky Oaks will be run today at Churchill Downs. A field of 15 is entered for the fillies-only race. [WFPL]

Yesterday, Amy Shoemaker half-hit Morgan McGarvey for profiting from foreclosure cash. But only after he’d been called out publicly. Let’s not pretend it’s real political courage. And her other opponents are still missing in action. [Page One]

What happens in Kentucky when you’re profiting from the foreclosure crisis? You run for office as a Democrat! Specifically, for the 19th District State Senate district in Louisville. [Page One]

What will make the food desert bloom? It takes a combination of access, innovation and education to change peoples’ habits for the better. [NPR]

Police are investigating a possible connection between Southern Indiana’s new serial killer and that missing white girl from IU. [WAVE3]

Big purses, sore horses and death. Large payouts to owners make it profitable for owners to field thoroughbreds that are past their prime, sometimes with fatal results. [NYT]

Everybody is freaking out about that ugly gold thing 21C propped up on Main Street. All kinds of ladies clutching their pearls and old men complaining about the giant, ahem, wang hanging above them. [WHAS11]

The U.S. Attorney’s Office is investigating some of Humana’s southern Florida affiliates and providers for possible violations of Medicare regulations. Humana was fined $3.4 million by the state earlier this year for not appropriately reporting suspected Medicaid fraud. [WFPL]

The Pegasus Parade is today. Downtown. You going so you can get a little tipsy and yell at people to throw candy? [WLKY]

The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet just finished paying $8.3 million for the Drumanard Estate – $1.3 million above its own appraisal – to build the East End bridge in Louisville. [C-J/AKN]

Papaw Beshear is paying his tax reform consultant $60,000. We’d publish the press release but it’s super-boring. [H-L]

For the first time in Kentucky Derby history, an alternate was selected to run in the race if one of the 20 Thoroughbreds that qualified cannot run. [Business First]

Who knew so many people would freak out over those Cordish tidbits and lease highlights we published? [The 'Ville Voice Here & Here]

We’re fans of 21C but that thing is both gigantic and hideous. It’ll be defaced in 3, 2… [C-J/AKN]

What was that, again, about people in Southern Indiana being 100% supporting of the Ohio River Bridges Debacle? [The Beer Man]

This Fairdale man dragged and tortured a dog to death. So it’s probably time for him to be hitched to the back of a truck and dragged for a few miles. Eye for an eye, right? Isn’t that how people are operating these days? [FOX41]

The best cities in America for women to live? Don’t worry, Louisville isn’t one of them. [HuffPo]

Po-leece in Nawbny have asked the FBI to help with that massive murder investigation going on. [WAVE3]

With all of the press about Wild Turkey launching a television campaign, you’d think it was the best bourbon on earth. [Business First]

Weird. Now WHAS11 is admitting it runs stories based on press releases…? This one is about Nawbny police saying Gibson fits the definition of a serial killer. Southern Indiana has its ver own serial killer. Sunny Side! [WHAS11]

Most Kentuckians think childhood obesity is a problem in the state. So why won’t anyone try to prevent it? [H-L]

Prosecutors have charged that the mayor of a small southern Indiana city tampered with absentee ballots during last year’s primary campaign. [WLKY]

Whattya know about that? A new poll shows that Kentuckians support universal health care. Funny how that works. [WFPL]

Have you see the folks running in the 4th District Congressional race? The teabagger guy not only kind of looks like Greg Fischer but his campaign narrative mirrors Fischer’s like woah. [Page One]

The Kentucky Commission on Human Rights last week publicly accepted three conciliation agreements in fair housing cases, including one in Madison County. [John Cheves]

400,000 plus people attended Thunder Over Louisville this year. While not a record, that’s still a shocking amount of human beings gathered in one place. [FOX41]

Once again, the Swift pig slaughtering plant was cited for odor violations. [C-J/AKN]

Wait, here’s a different station saying “more than 500,000 people” were at Waterfront Park during Thunder. [WAVE3]

Kentucky Retirement Systems is a state government agency you’re familiar with. You’re also familiar with the reality that one of Greg Fischer’s top guys – who is still embroiled in campaign finance scandals related to Fischer’s campaign and inauguration – is involved at KRS. Now you’re going to be familiar with the hundreds of millions the agency is losing while the folks flushing the cash away close up shop. [Page One]

Nope, here’s a different station saying it was “[m]ore than 400,000 people in downtown Louisville.” [WHAS11]

Birmingham, the city that almost went bankrupt and embarrassed the entire country, is comparing itself to Louisville. [Business First]

Here’s how the mainstream television outlets covered last week’s Ohio River Bridges Debacle news. [WLKY]

The Barnstable Brown Gala, the most important thing in Louisville ever, always has a million guests and raises a mountain of cash. Really, joking aside, it may be the most important thing in Louisville ever. [C-J/AKN]

A new exhibit a the Speed Museum previews expansion at the facility and unveils some great new art. [WFPL]

Let’s get this straight: a group of people involving Christopher 2X and Greg Fischer want to increase the public’s trust in the police department. But they held a closed-door meeting with police, in which no press were allowed, and only shared photos after the event? Really? [FOX41]

Dear Young Republicans: you should probably never, ever apologize for Greg Fischer. [Curt Morrison]

Now that Stephen Daeschner is gone – again – Greater Clark County Schools is trying to find a new superintendent. Wonder if they’ll try Sheldon Berman next? [WAVE3]

All kinds of mouth-breathers have been freaking out over John Yarmuth’s Congressional art competition. So here’s a link to Republican Geoff Davis’ own art competition. [Click the Clicky]

What? Yet another giant drug bust in J-town? This is an interesting new pattern. [WHAS11]

Now that corporations have begun to cut ties with ALEC, it’s time to demand that legislators do the same. Legislators like Denise Harper Angel – who is furiously trying to distance herself without effectively doing so. [The Nation]

You can’t even have a kid in Louisville these days without it getting shot. It’s a shame we can’t say that this is a first. [WLKY]

Do you hear all kinds of extra mouth-breathing lately? It’s because some wingnuts are freaking out over the University of Louisville receiving funds to conduct adult stem cell research. [WFPL]

Duke Energy Corp., General Electric Co. and other Fortune 500 companies avoided paying federal taxes in 2011 by using a popular U.S. tax break known as accelerated depreciation. [Business First]

It really is a shame people like Jim King are allowing the foxes guarding the hen house at Kentucky Retirement Systems to bilk the city of money. [Page One]

Here’s a look at “Fear at Night” by Smith, an oil painting:

“This competition is about cultivating a love of art and encouraging young people to get involved in creative endeavors,” Yarmuth said. “I am proud to take Mary-Kathryn’s painting to Washington, where it will not only represent her accomplishments, but everything young artists in Louisville are capable of and the unique qualities of our city’s arts scene: history, promise, creativity, and engagement.”

See the other winners after the jump…

Second Place: “Neema” – Micah McClain, DuPont Manual High School

Third Place: “Scissors Chine-Colle” – Amy Hoagland, Male High School

Best Use of Color: “Natural Solitude” – Diana Pickett, Pleasure Ridge Park High School

Best Use of Materials: “Squirrel” – Jordan Underwood, Pleasure Ridge Park High School

Best Use of Narrative: “Self Portrait” – Noah Randolph, Male High School

Congratulations to the winners!

You mean the University of Louisville Hospital is searching for new partners with which it may merge? You don’t say. [C-J/AKN]

The local airport is set to get full body scanning devices. So that means everyone is going to freak completely out for a while. [FOX41]

America’s poorest people are running out of places to live in every state. This study points out just what sort of problem we can all expect. [HuffPo]

The entirety of the local press is wetting itself because the Sherman Minton is set to reopen soon. You can bet every station will have 7,000 cameras on-hand for the event. [WHAS11]

This Business First editorial about how boycotting the Fund for the Arts won’t resolve the orchestra dispute is spot-on. But you can’t let facts and reality seep into a political discussion in Louisville. That’s blasphemy. [Business First]

It’s interesting to watch people freak out and go on the attack when you request a bit of transparency with their handling of millions in state and federal tax dollars. Just makes everyone even more tepid toward the push to make pseudoephedrine-containing medications prescription-only when the effort is so secretive and attack-prone. [Page One]

Remember the scandal of undelivered Kentucky Derby tickets, an assistant UofL coach and an Oldham County magistrate? A judge is going to examine the case. [WAVE3]

The EPA’s new air toxics rules are officially on the books. So that means your elected officials are going to fight to make Louisville’s air quality that much worse. [WFPL]

You know what’s not good? Finding a body on I-71. Or anywhere. Which seems to happen every day in Louisville. The Flying Spaghetti Monster has likely smited us all. [WLKY]

What happens when you’re a Baptist pastor and you don’t have the gays? You’re forced to leave the Baptist association. Because that’s what Jesus wants or something. [H-L]

What was that, again, about the Legislative Ethics Commission not being under the direct control of the good old boys in Frankfort? [John Cheves]

Bob Gunnell needs to focus on paying back the $400,000 or whatever he stiffed the IRS for. Maybe focus on his bankruptcy and walking out on Peritus – which is fighting to get what it’s owed from him, apparently – before he tries to keep it up with this bit of killing sidewalks on Brownsboro Road. And opponents declined to go to the forum last week not because the project is moving forward but because Bob got his ass handed to him and he has egg all over his face. [FOX41]

Oh, look, it’s Claudia Coffey doing a story about the Brownsboro Road sidewalk. Wouldn’t it be a good idea for her to disclose the fact that she knows Bob Gunnell personally when doing a slanted story like this? [WHAS11]

Will Jeffersonville ever stop flushing all of its poop into the Ohio River? [WFPL]

Lonnie Napier can’t read or use the Google so there’s no way for him to realize that welfare drug testing doesn’t work. What does work, though, is testing legislators for drug use. Someone needs to file that as an amendment ASAP. [WKYT]

Have you seen how much money taxpayers pony up for silly “studies” every year? Millions upon millions. [Page One]

You can’t even go to St. Matthews without cold getting robbed. Better pack your pepper spray, meemaw. [WAVE3]

Actors Theater opened some downtown apartments for visiting artists. This will be a good thing for Louisville, right? [Business First]

Here’s more on that large drug ring that was arrested in J-town last week. [WLKY]

David Whitlock is proof that Louisville doesn’t need outdated constables, right? [84WHAS]

According to an email blast from Barbara Sexton Smith, they have a “BIG announcement, great show and a surprise finale” – so you can only bet it will be super-embarrassing for Louisville.

We can’t get to the Brown Theatre on the 31st at noon. Will you be going? If so, let us know what kind of hot mess transpires.

Be sure to click here to take a look at this year’s winning posters.