As deportations mount, KY immigrants now face GPS monitoring, surveillance
Teresa nodded and gave a brief smile to the receptionist behind the Plexiglass barrier as she signed the sheet attached to a clipboard shortly after 8 a.m. on a recent weekday. The Central Kentucky mother had been summoned to the drab, generic, white office building on South Third Street in Louisville by her...
University of Miami Among Five Schools Facing Federal Investigation Over Alleged Exclusionary Scholarships to...
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) recently launched investigations into five universities, including the University of Miami, to establish whether they are violating civil rights law by granting scholarships solely to undocumented or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)...
Louisville Ends Sanctuary City Policy Under Federal Pressure
Louisville will no longer be classified as a sanctuary city, following a policy reversal by Mayor Craig Greenberg under mounting federal pressure and threats to critical funding. Greenberg said during a press conference on Tuesday that Louisville Metro Corrections will start honoring 48-hour immigration detainers...
Norton seeks public input on new pediatric care campus in east Louisville
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) – Norton Children’s is turning to families for help designing a new pediatric health care campus in Jeffersontown. The health system is planning a state-of-the-art facility on more than 150 acres near Blankenbaker Parkway. The new campus will include surgical suites, emergency services,...
LPM prevails in fight for JCPS bus crisis records
Access to top district officials’ text messages on bungled opening day are at the center of the lawsuit.
Man in custody after SWAT standoff in Shively
‘I just couldn’t believe it’: Car crashing into Nelson County Courthouse kills one, leaves surprising damage. ‘I just couldn’t believe it’: Car crashing into Nelson County Courthouse kills one, leaves surprising damage. Updated: 2 hours ago. Troubleshooters: Ford contractors not paying tolls on east end bridge.
Louisville has changed how vacant properties are boarded up; ‘Much harder to get in’
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Mayor Craig Greenberg says house fires are down 63 percent in two Louisville neighborhoods because of a pilot program centered around securing abandoned homes in west Louisville. Over the last year, the city, led by fire officials and Codes & Regulations, have made a simple but...
‘A visual tone poem to Kentucky’: Photographs from 3 eras on view at Frazier...
More than a few Kentuckians can probably relate to the experience Ted Wathen had many years ago driving home to Louisville from Frankfort. The sun broke through the clouds — “what photographers call a God-ray,” Wathen says. “I’m looking at the landscape and I thought this state is really beautiful.” It was 1975....
Louisville mother credits blood donations with saving life, after clinically dying twice
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- The noises coming from inside Priyanka Marfatia's Louisville home all point to the welcomed chaos of being a parent. There's some playing and some crying, but there's no forgetting that all of it was never guaranteed. "I was in a very jolly mood, Marfatia said. "Everything...
1 dead, 1 hospitalized after shooting on Dixie Highway near Valley Station, Louisville police...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- One person is dead and another has been hospitalized after a shooting on Dixie Highway near Valley Station Thursday afternoon. Dwight Mitchell, a spokesman for Louisville Metro Police, said officers responded to a reported shooting in the 9900 block of Dixie Highway just before 1:30 p.m.
