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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - A man convicted of killing a University of Kentucky student and injuring two others in a 2021 car crash was sentenced to 25 years in prison. However, the judge probated the sentence to 180 days in jail with probation. Friends and loved ones of the victims...

Every parent knows the feeling of trusting their instincts when something just doesn’t sit right. Sometimes it’s small. Sometimes it’s impossible to ignore. And for one Kentucky mother, that gut feeling reportedly led her to uncover something deeply upsetting involving her 7-year-old autistic son’s classroom environmen

Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for CMT A Kentucky community banded together on May 16, 2026, after learning parents could not find their 4-year-old son . Aazam Dahir reportedly took off from his Louisville home around 8 p.m. Because Aazam was both nonverbal and autistic , police knew it was crucial to find him as soon as the

While working as a teenager at Jimmy John’s in Louisville, Lawrence Weeks had a life-changing conversation with his manager. Weeks, always fascinated with the idea of becoming a chef, expressed an interest in attending culinary school so he could start living out his dream. Weeks was encouraged to go for it, and he did

The Transfer Portal chaos has slowed down for the most part, but Louisville basketball’s dominant offseason isn’t done just yet. Pat Kelsey has his eye on one m

CRESTWOOD, Ky. — A tractor trailer is stuck on some railroad tracks in Oldham County. An Oldham County traffic alert went out just before 3:50 p.m. saying the roadway was blocked at Railroad Avenue at West Highway 146 in Crestwood, and that Railroad Avenue was closed due to a tractor trailer blocking the crossing.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — By the time the doors open at Big Nita's Cheesecakes in NuLu, Ashley Riggs has already been waiting for hours. "Every other Sunday I come down usually," Riggs said. "Two, three hours early." She is not alone. Every weekend, the line stretches out the door and...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — A Masai giraffe calf born at the Louisville Zoo earlier this month now has a name. The zoo named the baby Silvia, in honor of longtime Zookeeper Silvia Zirkelbach. Zoo officials said the name serves as a nod to Zirkelbach's "43 years of commitment, compassion and expertise."

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — Louisville athletics put a number on the modern college sports problem this week: Roughly $30 million. That, essentially, is what the University of Louisville athletic department laid before its board of trustees Thursday: a projected Fiscal Year 2027 budget deficit approaching $30 million, one

There’s always that one moment during a group dinner when the server slowly walks toward the table holding the check and suddenly everybody becomes very interested in their phone, their drink, or the ceiling. But one woman in Kentucky says her friend group allegedly took that classic awkward situation to an entirely ne