Aprile Rickert
Aprile is WFPL's health reporter. Rickert comes to WFPL from the News and Tribune in Southern Indiana, where she covered crime and courts as a senior reporter. A New Albany native, she spent nearly two decades in Louisville before recently moving back across the river to Jeffersonville.
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A Kentucky woman has dropped a recently filed class-action lawsuit challenging two of Kentucky’s strictest abortion regulations. -
A nearly two-year investigation by the United States Department of Justice shows Louisville police have a history of excessive force, constitutional violations, under-reported incidents, invalid warrants and systemic racist practices. -
The Kentucky Supreme Court has issued a ruling that upholds two abortion bans, and remanded the case back to the trial court for review. -
A Kentucky justice reform coalition has outlined goals for the upcoming legislative session, including improved treatment for substance use disorder and increased access to charge expungement. -
A big winter storm is expected to hit the eastern and central parts of the country — including Kentucky — on Thursday. -
The Associated Press called the race for “No” voters at 8:20 a.m. Wednesday. With 89% of votes counted, those opposing the amendment led supporters by almost 70,000 votes. -
Amendment 2 would have added language to the state constitution rejecting a right to abortion, effectively leaving the question to Kentucky's Republican-controlled legislature. -
400+ health care providers signed a letter opposing a ballot initiative that would amend the state’s constitution to say there is no right to an abortion. -
Many Jefferson County kindergarten classrooms have low vaccination rates for measles and polio, which doctors say makes them vulnerable. -
People can apply for funding from Ky.’s portion of a multi-state settlement with four drug companies accused of fueling the opioid epidemic.
