Louisville Courier-Journal
- Keep city as white 'as much as possible,' council candidate says, stunning forum in Michigan
Friday - 08/23/2019 - 01:38 PMJean Cramer, a candidate for city council in Marysville, Michigan, made the comment at Thursday night in response to a question about diversity.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - What the polls do — and don't — tell us about the Matt Bevin vs. Andy Beshear race
Friday - 08/23/2019 - 08:40 AMWhat do the polls tell us about the Kentucky gubernatorial race between Gov. Matt Bevin and Attorney General Andy Beshear?
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Here's what it's like to ride a pony in the World's Championship Horse Show
Friday - 08/23/2019 - 11:22 AMCourier Journal's Kirby Adams jumps behind a Hackney pony for a ride around Freedom Hall at the World's Championship Horse Show at Kentucky State Fair
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - How an accidental encounter brought slavery to the United States
Thursday - 08/22/2019 - 02:38 PMSlavery's arrival in the United States happened by accident, but its arrival created a thriving tobacco industry and fueled the Industrial Revolution.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Sheriff: Grant County High School teacher charged with rape
Friday - 08/23/2019 - 06:15 AMA teacher at Grant County High School has been arrested after school officials learned of an "inappropriate relationship" with a 15-year-old student.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Hemorrhagic disease found in Kentucky deer and numbers are expected to keep growing
Thursday - 08/22/2019 - 03:06 PMOfficials are investigating how wide-spread the issue is, looking into cases of 22 deer in 11 Kentucky counties.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Woman gouges eyes of man who kidnapped, tried to rape her by Louisville Arby's, police say
Thursday - 08/22/2019 - 05:43 PMRoarx's arrest citation says he told the woman to remove her pants before punching her and forcing her onto a blanket and into removing her shirt.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Bernie Sanders sends pizzas to Kentucky coal miners protesting Blackjewel
Thursday - 08/22/2019 - 10:06 AMU.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders sent pizzas to laid-off Blackjewel Kentucky coal miners blocking a train loaded with $1 million in coal last week.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Kentucky State Fair's ham auctioned off to Central Bank for $1 million at annual event
Thursday - 08/22/2019 - 12:45 PMPenn's Country Hams Grand Champion Ham of the 2019 Kentucky State Fair was auctioned off to Central Bank for $1 million dollars at the annual event.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - University of Louisville athletics announces partnership with Norton Healthcare
Thursday - 08/22/2019 - 02:57 PMNorton Healthcare will provide physical and mental health care to all 23 sports programs at the University of Louisville.
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- The founding family you’ve never heard of: The black Tuckers of Hampton, Virginia
Friday - 08/23/2019 - 08:03 AMAn ancient cemetery. A glimpse of black history, hidden for centuries. Why a baby named William and the year 1619 mean it all to the Tucker family.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Newport superintendent claims critical audit of his district defamed him
Friday - 08/23/2019 - 08:47 AMNewport Superintendent Kelly Middleton claims a critical audit of his district defamed him, sues Kentucky Department of Education, others.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - University of Kentucky says professors fabricated federally funded cancer research
Friday - 08/23/2019 - 12:43 PMUK found significant problems with the employees' cancer research, which included work funded by federal grants.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - March For Our Lives holds town hall calling on McConnell to act on gun legislation
Thursday - 08/22/2019 - 09:47 PMMarch For Our Lives held a town hall in Louisville aimed at getting Sen. Mitch McConnell to act on gun control legislation.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Walmart to reopen, renovate El Paso store with memorial to shooting victims
Thursday - 08/22/2019 - 09:26 PMThe El Paso store is expected to reopen in three to four months, and Walmart plans to add a memorial for the shooting victims, officials say.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - USA TODAY Network program awards checks to 3 Louisville agencies
Thursday - 08/22/2019 - 04:11 PMA Community Thrives is a grant program from the USA TODAY Network, which includes the Courier Journal, and is part of the Gannett Foundation.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Fairness Campaign members arrested at Ham Breakfast following protest
Thursday - 08/22/2019 - 11:18 AMFairness Campaign members came out to protest discriminatory policies of the Kentucky Farm Bureau and executive director Chris Hartman was arrested.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Bevin tells Kentucky Farm Bureau crowd: 'Vote your values and not your party'
Thursday - 08/22/2019 - 12:18 PMKentucky Gov. Matt Bevin, who is up for reelection, said some Democrats have rejected values that respect God, law enforcement and the military
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Kentucky launches training program aimed at helping sexual assault victims
Thursday - 08/22/2019 - 02:19 PMWhen he announced his candidacy for Kentucky governor in 2018, Andy Beshear said his office was working on testing every backlogged rape kit.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Hundreds of thousands of Africans were enslaved in America. Wanda Tucker believes her relatives were the first
Thursday - 08/22/2019 - 09:11 AMWanda Tucker knew when she arrived in Angola, the void she felt was bigger than any one ancestor. It was of an entire people missing its past.
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- Slavery's explosive growth, in charts: How '20 and odd' became millions
Friday - 08/23/2019 - 07:52 AMUSA TODAY takes an in-depth look at the first Africans’ arrival in slave ships in America.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Kentucky man posed as teen on Snapchat to get sexual photos from boys, police say
Friday - 08/23/2019 - 09:56 AMKentucky State Police arrested Scotty Johnson, of Richmond, after a Madison County grand jury indicted him on various charges.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Officials: Man snatches $27,000 worth of electronics from Louisville Catholic school
Friday - 08/23/2019 - 11:22 AMDozens of iPads, Chromebooks and other electronics were taken early Tuesday from St. Nicholas Academy on New Cut Road in Louisville.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Bardstown Road's old police and ballet buildings could become a hotel and bar
Friday - 08/23/2019 - 06:07 AMBen Botkins of Park Mile Partners has filed paperwork for a project he calls "Ballet Hotel" at the 1300-1306 Bardstown Road properties.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Police: 1 ejected in crash that closes all lanes of I-264 East near River Park Drive
Friday - 08/23/2019 - 06:34 AMMetroSafe said the crash was reported just after 5:45 a.m. Friday on I-264 East near River Park Drive in Louisville's West End.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Rocky Adkins considering a bid for Mitch McConnell's Senate seat
Thursday - 08/22/2019 - 05:20 PMRocky Adkins, the minority leader in the Kentucky House, said he won't make a decision about whether to run for U.S. Senate until November.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - JCPS board fills vacant seat by appointing educator Joe Marshall
Thursday - 08/22/2019 - 08:01 PMThe Jefferson County Board of Education filled its vacant seat by naming educator Joe Marshall to the board to represent most of southwest Louisville.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Judge grants mistrial in case of accused cannibal Joseph Oberhansley
Thursday - 08/22/2019 - 01:49 PMA Clark County judge decided to grant a mistrial in the cannibal murder case.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - What's in it? Louisville proposal that caused a fuss around food trucks may get vote today
Thursday - 08/22/2019 - 02:42 PMLouisville Metro Council is expected to vote on a proposal that caused an uproar over Louisville food trucks last fall.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - President Donald Trump in Louisville: Kentucky will reelect 'Matt and Mitch'
Wednesday - 08/21/2019 - 10:23 PMMitch McConnell and Matt Bevin are facing consecutive contests, and both need the president's popularity to buttress their low approval ratings.
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