Jeffersontown News

Under-employed and having just lost their house in Jeffersontown to foreclosure, Charleton and Valerie Bowman visited Jeffersontown Area Ministries on June 22 to load up a trunk full of free groceries.

An hours-long standoff between an armed man and police at a company in the Bluegrass Industrial Park stretched late into the night on Monday, with police saying one of the company's employees was unaccounted for.

JEFFERSONTOWN, Ky . -- An apparent domestic dispute sparked a 12 hour hostage drama that came to an end early Tuesday when the gunman apparently killed himself.

WHAS11 can now reveal new details on the hostage situation and 12 hour standoff that ended with the gunman's death in Jeffersontown.

The Mesachie Lake Fire Department helped celebrate Canada Day - and the 60th anniversary of the fire department - by showing off its newest truck, a 1997 Kovath Mobile Equipment vehicle with a 400 horse power engine, automatic transmission and a 1,500 gallons-per-minute pump.

Police in eastern Jefferson County were in a standoff for several hours Monday afternoon and evening, with a gunman barricaded inside a cabinet company plant.

Officers from Jeffersontown and the Louisville Metro Police SWAT team are on the scene of a possible hostage situation at a business.

A judge ordered yet another continuance in the case against a man with an alleged foot fetish who posed as a taxi driver.

Louisville metro government is raising fees on building permits, electrical repairs, ambulance runs and liquor stores.

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With cooperation of area law enforcement agencies, local police have charged three individuals with a series of unrelated crimes.

Now, the compliment sometimes has a well-veiled backhandedness, as if a rinky-dinky town like Louisville shouldn't have lots of types of bars.

'I'm really good with electronics,' said Tahlia, who lives in Okolona and will be an eighth-grader. So Tahlia didn't hesitate to sign up for a weeklong engineering camp at Jeffersontown High School, where she might end up studying the subject as a freshman.

There have been new developments in the search for a man police say unleashed his pit bull on a Jeffersontown Police officer.

Multiple police departments are searching for a man or men using unusual diversions to take money from local businesses.

Jeffersontown police are looking for a hotel robbery suspect who they say also assaulted an officer.

A group of General Motors bondholders and some of the automaker's labor unions filed objections Friday to GM's plan to sell its assets to a new company that can emerge from bankruptcy protection.

At least one Louisville metro government budget problem has been solved for fiscal 2010: The city's 16 community ministries will not have restrictions placed upon their city funding that would have prevented them from using it for office expenses.

When Brendan Soto and Omer Veladzic heard the theme of the Kentucky School Nutrition Association Art Contest - "Dancing with the Stars: Swing into Nutrition" - they envisioned dancing vegetables, and their posters were chosen as state winners.

At least one person was injured in an early morning accident at Patti Avenue and Old Six Mile Lane after a vehicle hit a moving train, a Jeffersontown police dispatcher said.