She told a police officer she was in labor. The Louisville Metro Police Department lieutenant cited her for unlawful camping as the ambulance arrived. She had a baby later that day.

A western Kentucky attorney was among the dozens of people who were pardoned by President Joe Biden Thursday.

A district court judge in western Kentucky this week ordered a Muhlenberg County hunting outfitter to pay thousands of dollars in restitution fees to the state’s Fish and Wildlife department for turkey hunting violations.

Advocates say that, too often in Kentucky, people with mental illness cycle through jails and prison as a default for proper treatment.

Nearly two dozen unhoused people in Louisville have faced bench warrants after they failed to appear in court for “unlawful camping,” as a result of the Safer Kentucky Act. Advocates say it's what they feared, but expected.

Looking for hard-to-find bottles of Kentucky bourbon to toast the holidays or add to a collection? Get your bids ready as the Bluegrass State launches its first online auction of confiscated alcohol.

A former Kentucky sheriff charged in a judge's shooting death pleaded not guilty Monday in the same courthouse where they worked together and where the attack occurred, and one of his attorneys later predicted they will present a compelling case in his defense.

Tennessee Department of Correction Commissioner Frank Strada told the state legislature this week that his department had made progress or completed most of the action steps assigned to them by the statehouse last year. But when attention turned to the department’s relationship with private prison operator CoreCivic, the hearing got heated.

A federal jury in Louisville found former Louisville Metro Police detective Brett Hankison guilty late Friday of depriving Breonna Taylor of her civil rights.

A Tennessee state law makes threats of mass violence at school a felony, even if they’re not credible. Judges and school officials say the law unnecessarily traumatizes kids.