Inaction by the state-run psychiatric center has left hundreds of criminal cases on hold across the state, with some defendants jailed indefinitely.  More >>

The U.S. Department of Justice made the announcement on Thursday morning. More >>

The rollout of new financial disclosure requirements for Louisville office seekers and public officials was marked by confusion, delay and last-minute pressure on candidates to submit forms many didn’t know were required, a WDRB News investigation found. More >>

A former corrections officer at the Bullitt County Detention Center is facing accusations that he was inappropriately sending messages to an escaped inmate. More >>

The National Education Association, citing data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, says there were 567,000 fewer teachers in classrooms nationwide in early 2022 compared to numbers before the COVID-19 pandemic. More >>

The department has since removed the words from the training manual, calling them “completely inappropriate.”  More >>

Records obtained by WDRB News show district staff doled out 20,841 referrals to students for fighting, which includes student-to-student fighting and striking and student-to-staff striking incidents, during the 2021-22 school year. More >>

While an ambulance was at the scene, officers instead put Alejandro Clarke in the back of a cruiser to take him to the hospital, leaving him alone inside for about 30 minutes before he went into cardiac arrest and later was pronounced dead. More >>

Schools across Kentucky have access to Reading Recovery, a national program offered through the state’s Collaborative Center for Literacy Development developed for students in first grade who struggle with reading.  More >>

Some area school districts expect to spend much more on fuel next school year with prices climbing. More >>

WDRB Investigates uncovered how people across Kentucky and Indiana are being scammed out of cash, and why it's not so easy to get it back. More >>

Backers of the tax increment financing plan say it’s a way to use an established economic development tool. But some economists, TIF scholars and land-use experts caution that its massive size and novel structure could create difficulties or unintended consequences in the future.   More >>

The former Passport site at 18th and Broadway continues to languish. Neighbors wonder, who is in charge and what's the plan? More >>

Chris Smith, a former wrestler known as Christian Skyfire, went from the ring to repairman and owner of Skyfire Appliance Repair. More >>

Louisville Metro paid MarySusan Ward $1 million to settle a racial discrimination lawsuit. She's one of many metro employees to receive a settlement.  More >>

ShotSpotter detected 14,629 gunshots in six “high-crime" areas in Louisville from February 2020 to February 2022. More >>

A sergeant claims in a lawsuit filed Monday that she was solicited for sex by her supervisor just a month after she started in the summer of 2018 and agreed because she feared 'upsetting her new boss.'  More >>

Records obtained by WDRB News show Jefferson County Public Schools has doled out nearly 19,000 behavior referrals for fighting and nearly 1,400 for other acts of violence through the first 155 days of the 2021-22 school year in late April. More >>