Louisville Politics News

The largest Powerball jackpot was $365 million, hit in February 2006. For the jackpot drawing Tuesday night, the MegaMillions jackpot is an estimated $83 million. Kentucky Lottery spokesman Chip Polston said players are expected to gravitate to whichever of the...

Ky. — Kentucky executions are on hold after the state said Friday it won't appeal a ruling that found it failed to follow proper administrative procedures when it adopted its lethal injection method. The state must hold public hearings on...

Police were dispatched to the mall after a burglary alarm at 2:20 a.m...Lamar, 19, of Louisville, were arrested along with 20-year-old John A...A side door off the main wing of the mall had been kicked in, according to a CPD...

Think chicken and eggs. "We are becoming a poultry state," said Lee Meyer, a University of Kentucky agricultural economist. Chickens don't have as high a profile as horses in the state, but broiler and egg production has been growing steadily...

District Judge Charles Simpson as he asked for an attorney. The request for a lawyer delayed his sentencing and proved to be the latest turn in the bizarre saga of Cobble's interactions with the legal system. Cobble, who runs a...

Ky. (AP) — A nurse at a Veterans Affairs hospital in Lexington is accused of killing a 90-year-old patient with a morphine injection three years ago, according to an indictment released today...She is charged with murder and scheduled to appear...

An Air Force veteran and a one-time contractor who served in Iraq are suing military contractors Halliburton Co. and KBR Inc., accusing the companies of exposing them to toxic fumes by burning everything from human remains to tires in massive...

A Kentucky appeals court upheld a $6.1 million award to a former fast food worker who was forced to strip in a McDonald's restaurant office after someone called posing as a police officer. The appellate court on Friday ruled that...