You won’t want to miss the first part in our multi-part series about Shawn Reilly and Progress Kentucky. It’s the story behind the story that sheds light on a familiar history, one that Democrats didn’t see coming. [Page One] From couches and cribs to family photos and personal bills, trash continues to line alleys and [...]

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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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Just what Louisville needs: another road rage incident involving a gun. A Louisville man has been arrested after police say he pulled a gun in an act of road rage. [WDRB] While a pointless way to “protest” in Kentucky, the prosecution’s push to prevent the reality that a gay marriage fight is the reason it [...]

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A loud “boom” noise that might have startled or awakened residents likely was the result of a Marine Corps Reserve Unit conducting a training exercise on Fort Knox. You’d think Ft. Knox would alert Louisville when stuff like that is going down. [WDRB] What Americans keep ignoring about Finland’s school success. Everyone agrees the United [...]

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Way to go, racist twits of Southern Indiana. Community members protested outside the school board headquarters in New Albany, Ind. Wednesday morning, saying school officials haven’t done enough to prevent racism. [WDRB] The Louisville Metro Ethics Commission is expected to issue findings today on whether Councilwoman Barbara Shanklin violated metro ethics laws and should be [...]

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Louisville Metro Council President Jim King woke up and finally decided to call for a divorce of CERS from Kentucky Retirement Systems: As president of the Metro Council, I have watched our city budget suffer due to exponentially increasing local pension costs that are dictated to us by our state legislators. But, unlike the state, [...]

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Clarksville, Ind. says it’s the oldest town in the Old Northwest Territory. Now leaders are exploring whether it should become a city. [WDRB] If the event is losing $70,000 per year, why on earth is it entirely free? Why not charge a buck per person? The Waterfront Independence Festival, a two-day free public fireworks and [...]

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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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Metrosafe dispatchers tell WDRB News that a child was found with a BB gun on a JCPS school bus Thursday afternoon. That should make you feel extra-safe. [WDRB] There’s a push in Frankfort to go even further in preventing grocery stores from selling wine and liquor. But when you look at the money that’s been [...]

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