
Roberto Roldan
City Politics and Government Reporter, WFPL-
People who lobby legislators in the Kentucky General Assembly need to register with the state’s Legislative Ethics Commission by Dec. 16.
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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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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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The federal government is sending more than a billion dollars to Kentucky to expand high-speed internet as part of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law passed by Congress in 2021.
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Despite reforms to Kentucky’s juvenile justice system over the last decade, data shows Black kids continue to disproportionately end up in youth detention compared to white and Hispanic children.
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Former Louisville Metro police officer Jonathan Mattingly has dropped his lawsuit against Kenneth Walker, the boyfriend of Breonna Taylor.
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While the hotly contested Republican primary for governor took center stage Tuesday, voters also selected candidates for Kentucky’s other statewide offices.
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Kentucky Secretary of State Michael Adams narrowly beat back Republican challengers on Tuesday who spread conspiracy theories about election integrity and received endorsements from high-profile election deniers.
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Democratic state Rep. Lamin Swann of Lexington died Sunday following a medical emergency last week, according to his family.
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Curt Flynn and Bryan Wilson pelted random residents with drinks from their police cruiser dozens of times in 2018 and 2019.