The owner of a truck service shop was next door to the fiery and deadly UPS crash in Louisville on Tuesday, trapped on the property for hours.

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said at least 11 people are dead after a UPS plane bound for Hawaii crashed near the Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport.

The crime rate on Murray State’s main campus has gone up for the third straight year, according to an annual university safety report released last month.

Paducah’s police chief said 32-year-old Sergeant Ryan Hudson died Tuesday after overseeing the response to a deadly shooting that interrupted Eighth of August emancipation celebrations.

After a shooting last weekend interrupted Eighth of August celebrations in Paducah last weekend, more than 100 people gathered at a town hall meeting Thursday evening to talk about how the community could try to prevent similar tragedies in the future.

As of Saturday morning, some 14 people in Kentucky have been killed by severe weather — including a devastating tornado — and the death toll is likely to rise, according to Gov. Andy Beshear.

Severe weather swept across Missouri and Kentucky overnight Friday, leaving a wake of destruction and fatalities, officials said.

Flooding is Kentucky's most frequent and costly natural disaster. Yet, only about 1% of the state's property owners have flood insurance. As Kentuckians begin cleaning up and rebuilding from April's deadly floods, many of them say the cost of flood insurance is out of reach as experts say major flood events are becoming more common.

Leadership with the western Kentucky police department wanted to create a new space to host in-service trainings, yearly courses that officers are required to take. The Madisonville Police Regional Training Complex, completed in 2024, houses a variety of law enforcement training spaces for the Madisonville Police Department and the Department of Criminal Justice Training.