A Louisville woman has been arrested after authorities say she caused over $1,000 worth of damage to the Hall of Justice. At least it was rocks and not something more crazy. [WDRB] Faced with a Friday deadline to approve the mayor’s Falls Landing Park plan or risk losing a $500,000 state grant, Jeffersonville City Council [...]

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Metro Council woman Barbara Shanklin is fighting to clear her name. Monday afternoon her attorney filed an appeal to the ethic complaint against her. [WDRB] New details about one of Mississippi’s most infamous murders are coming to light — more than a half-century later. The death of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old black boy who allegedly [...]

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They are children, experiencing a kind of violence and hate that most of us could never imagine: “It was complicated, very complicated,” says Ozine Byolmwngu, who immigrated from the Congo. [WDRB] Hundreds of demonstrators, along with the Chicago Teachers Union, marched through the city today demanding that City Hall walk back its plan to close [...]

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They are the two new CEO’s of two of the largest area chamber of commerce organizations. Craig Richard, the CEO of Greater Louisville, Inc. and Wendy Chesser, CEO of One Southern Indiana. [WDRB] A federal court has ruled that a Kentucky coal mine owes the government $1.67 million in fines for more than 1,200 safety [...]

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Late last Friday, Governor Steve Beshear released a video discussing Kentucky’s alleged “Top 10″ ranging for new and expanded industry activity in 2012:

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I remember staring at the wall blankly. Couldn’t move. I wanted to throw up so bad,” says Josh Lewis. For several days, 21-year-old Josh Lewis says he’s been in shock. [WDRB] Two-thirds of Jefferson County Public schoolchildren enter kindergarten unprepared to learn the reading and math skills they are expected to master, according to a [...]

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Where are these people when it comes to Metro Animal Services? Oh, right, sitting on their hands. Because they can’t truly be bothered with protecting innocent animals that can’t protect themselves. It’s just a stunt for attention. [WDRB] On a mission to further choke its abysmal attendance, this is something a government organization would do. [...]

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New information in the murder of a 17-year-old Clarksville teenager. Clark County prosecutor Jeremy Mull tells WDRB that the teen was sexually assaulted before she was murdered. [WDRB] The state could proceed to write regulations that would enforce toll collections on the Ohio River Bridges Project under a bill passed by the House on Friday. [...]

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JCPS Principals at some of the district’s lowest performing schools get to keep their job. The move is in response to a surprising report from the Kentucky Department of Education. [WDRB] Kate Hopkins didn’t know the man in the casket, never met him or his family. Yet, Hopkins attended the funeral of Francisco Carmona, 48, [...]

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Oldham County’s school superintendent is pushing for increased security upgrades that could cost the district between $1.5 and $1.75 million. [WDRB] The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet has turned back a challenge from a bidder who claimed it submitted the least expensive and best deal for the downtown portion of the Ohio River Bridges Project. In a [...]

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