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Louisville high school student killed in weekend shooting Monday, Feb 10 2020
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Louisville Metro Police said there have been no arrests. If you have any information, you are asked to call the anonymous tip line at 502-574-LMPD.
Kentucky man beat and bloodied wife while driving intoxicated, police say Monday, Feb 10 2020
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Partain was charged with first degree wanton endangerment, first degree domestic violence assault, careless driving and driving under the influence.
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Kentucky’s hemp supporters remain optimistic despite ‘growing pains’ Monday, Feb 10 2020
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The bankruptcy of a major hemp processor is raising new questions about the future of the crop in Kentucky.
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Lexington man convicted in murder-for-hire plot, may face life in prison Monday, Feb 10 2020
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Authorities discovered the murder-for-hire plot because the person whom Sadiqullah hired as kidnapper/murderer was a confidential source for the FBI.
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Madison police officers could receive first significant pay raise in decades under new mayor Monday, Feb 10 2020
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Bob Courtney became the mayor of Madison after former mayor Damon Welch died while in office in September.
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Dixie Highway, ‘central Louisville’ sites eyed for Real ID offices Monday, Feb 10 2020
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There is still no date for the Louisville centers to start processing applications for the new driver’s licenses ahead of October 1, when the state’s existing credentials won’t be accepted for air travel in the U.S.
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Louisville man accused of burglarizing woman’s apartment, stealing her underwear Monday, Feb 10 2020
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Police say his actions were caught on surveillance video.
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Indiana ice cream shop owner gets probation in child pornography case Monday, Feb 10 2020
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On Monday, he pleaded guilty to two counts of child pornography. He took a plea deal which included three years probation, with the first year on home home incarceration.
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Kentucky Transportation Cabinet releases 2019 traffic fatality numbers Monday, Feb 10 2020
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The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet says 734 people died on Kentucky roads in 2019, which is 10 more people than 2018.
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West Louisville Track And Field Complex $12 Million Short Monday, Feb 10 2020
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The Louisville Urban League says it still needs $12 million to complete a 4,000-seat track and field complex under construction in west Louisville.
The Norton Sports Health Athletics & Learning Complex is being built on 24 acres of contaminated land in the Russell neighborhood. Urban League president and CEO Sadiqa Reynolds said they’re cleaning up the site, and creating an indoor track, outdoor track, event spaces and classrooms.
“It all is connected,” Reynolds said. “I’m using track as a carrot to get to something else because I understand that’s what it was in my life.”
“Just to be able to win on the track field, it changed everything about how I saw myself, my self confidence,” she said.
Reynolds said she expects to complete the athletic complex by the end of 2020. The league has about $25 million dollars committed so far – including $10 million in bonds from the Louisville Metro Council and $5 million from Norton Healthcare.
DuPont Manual High School Senior and track team member Michael Morgan said the complex would benefit athletes across the city who are training in substandard facilities.
“The conditions of most of the track facilities around this city are honestly pretty poor,” Morgan said at a press conference hosted by the Urban League and Jefferson County Public Schools (JCPS). “And I know it’s difficult for parents and athletes to have to travel hours just for the opportunity to run on an indoor surface, or a track that isn’t halfway torn up.”
The complex will help address the district’s facility problems, according to JCPS superintendent Marty Polio.
“Athletic facilities are symbolic of how much we care and we put into our kids,” Polio said.
He said because the district doesn’t have an indoor track facility, many track and field athletes have to use high school hallways and stairwells to train during the winter and early spring months.
The Urban League has been raising funds by selling seats to donors at $5,000 a piece. They say they’ve raised funding from a number of private donors, including a group of DuPont Manual’s class of 1976. The group had raised about $10,700 as of Monday, according to Reynolds.
But Reynolds called Louisville’s corporate community participation in the project “unacceptable.”
“Our systems are broken because the people with the money, the corporations that are making money, the banks that are making money, are not investing in the way that they should,” she said.
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