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State could put $11M into intensive probation effort along with new contract
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14 people face second-degree animal cruelty charges after state police responded to a tip about cockfighting at a Casey County home on Sunday.
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A federal judge declared a mistrial Thursday afternoon after a jury deadlocked on civil rights charges against a former Louisville police officer who fired stray bullets in the deadly raid that left Breonna Taylor dead.
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The commissioner of Kentucky’s troubled Department of Juvenile Justice will resign at the end of the year. Vicki Reed helmed the agency amid a series of violent incidents including assaults, rape, riots and a brief escape.
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The federal trial of former Louisville detective Brett Hankison is drawing to a close. Prosecutors and defense attorneys on Monday attempted to frame the evidence they presented to jurors over the past two weeks, just before the judge sent the 12-member jury out to deliberate.
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The ex-Louisville police officer on trial for firing into Breonna Taylor’s apartment the night she was killed testified Thursday he had to react quickly after a fellow officer was shot in the leg during the drug raid.
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Former Louisville Metro Police Department detective Brett Hankison is facing another criminal trial over his role in the deadly 2020 raid on Breonna Taylor’s home. Jury selection in the federal case against Hankison starts Monday.
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Kentucky Supreme Court justices heard arguments on Wednesday over whether ballistics experts should be able to testify under oath that a bullet casing is a “match” to a specific gun.
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The owner of a towboat that sank and spilled oil into a river along the West Virginia-Kentucky border pleaded guilty Tuesday to a federal pollution charge.
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Tennessee is building a $415 million law enforcement center just north of Nashville.
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In the “Safer Kentucky Act,” Louisville Republican legislators proposed 18 measures that would increase penalties for existing crimes, place restrictions on nonprofit bail funds and ban on “street camping” and homeless encampments in public areas.
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Kentucky led the nation 27 years ago when it created a crime victim notification system called VINE. Now, that potentially life-saving service is no longer working.