Kentucky

Authorities have arrested a Kentucky woman after a dismembered body was found in her mother’s backyard and human remains were found in a warm pot in the home’s oven.

A Kentucky judge who authorities said was fatally shot by a sheriff last week was remembered Sunday as a pioneer who fought opioid addiction and favored treatment over jail for low-level drug offenders.

Residents of a tiny Appalachian town are struggling to cope with a shooting involving two of its most prominent citizens: a Kentucky judge who was gunned down in his courthouse chambers and the local sheriff charged with his murder.

Authorities say they believe the body of a man suspected of shooting and wounding five people on a Kentucky interstate highway has been found.

Police in southern Kentucky are searching for a person of interest after “numerous” people were shot near an interstate, authorities said.

The search for Joseph A. Couch entered its third day Monday following the shooting on Intestate 75 Saturday evening.

Authorities have been searching a rural of southeastern Kentucky for a man suspected in a weekend shooting along Interstate 75 that wounded five people and damaged nine vehicles.

A judge in Kentucky has dismissed core charges against two former Louisville police officials involved in the raid that ended in Breonna Taylor’s death.

The original lawsuit in December targeted Abbott, whose Sturgis, Michigan, plant was shuttered for months in 2022 after similar reports of infant illnesses and deaths.

Governor Andy Beshear is a two-term governor, a second-generation Kentucky politician and a Democrat. Here’s what you need to know.

Kentucky State Police said remains found Friday during a search of the family residence of missing 8-month-old Miya Rudd likely belong to the girl.

Louisville officials announced disciplinary actions against the officer who arrested golf star Scottie Scheffler for failing to turn on his bodycam during the incident.

A Kentucky man admitted to faking his own death to avoid paying over $100,000 in outstanding child support to his ex-wife, according to a plea agreement filed in federal court late last month.

Isabella Willingham has no recollection of what happened in late November when she lost consciousness in her Asbury University dorm room and woke up with bruises, cuts and deep gashes on her body.

The driver of a semi-truck has been pulled to safety by firefighters following a crash that left the vehicle dangling over a bridge across the Ohio River.

A driver was rescued after a semi-truck was left dangling over the Clark Memorial Bridge in Louisville, Kentucky.

Authorities say a college wrestler in Kentucky was killed by a teammate at a private Christian university.

School bus driver Larry Farrish Jr. is known in his community for going above and beyond. Now he’s touching the hearts of strangers after an act of kindness went viral.

Four Kentucky students were rescued from Red River Gorge after getting stranded due to extreme weather conditions on Tuesday.

Abraham Lincoln’s top hat is missing from a bronze sculpture along the Ohio River in Louisville, Kentucky.