Kentucky

Authorities are investigating a fatal shooting at a park in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, where demonstrators had gathered to protest the death of Breonna Taylor

Kentucky’s Democratic Senate primary to determine who challenges Republican Mitch McConnell has gone into overtime.

Sue O’Connell sat down with UMass Boston professor Erin O’Brien to discuss the closely watched Democratic primary in Kentucky Tuesday night and how COVID-19 will impact the time it takes for us to learn the results.

Voters have rebuffed President Donald Trump and nominated two Republicans he opposed to House seats from North Carolina and Kentucky

One of three Kentucky police officers involved in the killing of Breonna Taylor earlier this year was fired Tuesday, authorities said.

Voters in Louisville pounded on doors demanding to be allowed to vote in a primary election on Tuesday. After a court injunction, the doors were opened and they were allowed to cast their ballots.

Ryun King, a tattoo artist at the Gallery X Art Collective in Kentucky, has offered to cover racist tattoos free of charge for customers trying to put intolerance behind them. King says this is his way of playing a small part in the ongoing Black Lives Matter protests.

Louisville’s mayor said Friday that one of three police officers involved in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor will be fired. Mayor Greg Fischer said interim Louisville police Chief Robert Schroeder has started termination proceedings for Officer Brett Hankison. Two other officers remain on administrative reassignment while the shooting is investigated. Fischer said officials could not answer questions about the...

Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron on Thursday promised to find the truth in the police shooting death of Breonna Taylor thoroughly, fairly and as quickly as possible. To Taylor’s family, Cameron said he continues to be “saddened and heartbroken” by her death. He said his office has been conducting a “thorough and fair” independent investigation since designated as special...

Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron had a message for people demanding action in the death of Breonna Taylor. “I have a specific obligation,” he said. “To see that anyone accused of a crime is accorded procedural justice and that guilt is decided upon the basis of sufficient evidence rather than public opinion.”

Rep. Andy Barr is expressing “profound grief” over the unexpected death of his 39-year-old wife at their home in Kentucky

The statue of John B. Castleman was removed Monday. Castleman was known for helping build Louisville’s park system but was also seen as a symbol of racism.

At least seven people were shot Thursday night in Louisville as protesters turned out to demand justice for Breonna Taylor, a black woman fatally shot by police in her home in March.

Political leaders in Kentucky denounced protesters as “sickening” and “terrible” after they hung Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, a Democrat, in effigy at the state capitol on Sunday.

A black woman was asleep in her Louisville, Kentucky, home when three police officers forced their way inside, “blindly fired” and killed her, according to a lawsuit filed by the woman’s family.

It’s no joke — Tupac Shakur lives in Kentucky and needs unemployment benefits to pay his bills.

Those over age 60 might be more vulnerable to the coronavirus, but a 103-year-old Kentucky woman battled it and won....

Virginia Harris, who lives in Hopkins County, was diagnosed with the virus in March after an aggressive fever and nausea, her family told WFIE-TV. Because she didn’t have respiratory issues, her family didn’t think it was coronavirus, but she was tested...

The remains of a Kentucky teenager have been found nearly 10 years after she disappeared, police announced Wednesday.

This makes Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., the third member of Congress to announce a positive diagnosis for COVID-19.

A Christian high school student in Kentucky was expelled after school administrators saw a photograph from her 15th birthday party in which she was wearing a rainbow sweater and smiling next to a rainbow birthday cake, NBC News reports.