LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Police in Louisville, Kentucky, say at least 24 people were arrested from a protest in the city on Thursday. A statement says charges included unlawful assembly, failure to disperse and riot in the first degree. Authorities allege the protesters broke windows at a restaurant, damaged city buses, tried to set a fire and threw a flare…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Activists in Louisville, Kentucky, and other U.S. cities are back out chanting Breonna Taylor’s name and marching for a second night after a decision not to charge officers with killing the Black woman. Police in riot gear blocked roads Thursday night but kept their distance as the crowd streamed through the streets in Taylor’s hometown. Protesters…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The publisher of an online news website says two of the site’s reporters were arrested while covering protests of a grand jury’s decision not to indict officers in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor. Daily Caller publisher Neil Patel says the two reporters were peacefully doing their jobs in Louisville, Kentucky, on Wednesday night when they…
No. 21 Pittsburgh looks for its first 3-0 start since 2014 when the Panthers host 24th-ranked Louisville. Pitt’s defense has led the way through two games. The Panthers collected seven sacks in a win over Syracuse and lead the country in rush defense. Louisville will try to bounce back after falling at home to Miami in its ACC opener. The…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Amy McGrath says there is a need to “tackle the systemic racism” in the U.S. McGrath is challenging U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in Kentucky’s November election. She met in downtown Louisville on Thursday with some of the protesters who have taken to the streets to seek justice for Breonna Taylor….
No. 23 Kentucky visits No. 8 Auburn to open the season in the only Top 25 matchup of the Southeastern Conference’s first weekend. It matches up the Tigers’ overhauled front lines against the Wildcats’ veteran big men. Kentucky quarterback Terry Wilson is back from a knee injury that cost him most of last season. Auburn is led by sophomore quarterback…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s horse racing industry has suffered a potentially huge setback. The state’s Supreme Court ruled Thursday that at least some historical racing games being offered in betting parlors aren’t legal. Historical racing features slots-style machines allowing people to bet on randomly generated, past horse races. Bettors in Kentucky wagered more than $2 billion on historical racing…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Authorities are pleading for calm while activists are vowing to fight on in Kentucky’s largest city after a gunman wounded two police officers during anguished protests over the decision not to charge officers for killing Breonna Taylor. A new round of demonstrations in U.S. cities was set off by outrage over a grand jury’s failure to…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — An arrest citation says video has been recovered that shows 26-year-old Larynzo Johnson shooting at two police officers who were wounded during protests in Louisville over a grand jury’s decision in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor. The citation says Johnson was among a crowd in downtown Louisville that had been told to disperse after setting…
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence for an Illinois man convicted of abducting his estranged girlfriend from Kentucky and killing her along an Ohio interstate. A Warren County jury sentenced Terry Froman to death in 2017 for shooting Kimberly Thomas on Interstate 75 in 2014. A unanimous state Supreme Court on Thursday upheld…
