Shively News

Construction is finally underway for a long-awaited Metro Animal Services adoption center in Louisville.

Debra Richards dresses to fit her mood - you might see her in jeans one day, a sundress the next.

Police in Louisville are investigating a shooting during a home invasion. It happened just before 4:30 a.m. Wednesday at a home on Benoch Avenue in Shively, according to a Louisville TV station.

"I was just driving on my way to work. I was in the slow lane on 64 east getting off at the Shively exit and some kids just jumped out over the guardrail and started throwing rocks," says Rick Wirth, whose car was hit by rocks.

Doctors, therapists and others have told Crystal Lovell that she should accept reality, that her 2-year-old daughter, Mackenzie, will never be able to control her body enough to walk or talk.

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.

A Louisville principal is facing criminal charges. A student says the principal threw him to the ground.

Melinda Staten of Middletown and her 2-year-old granddaughter, Brooklyn, stood on the lawn in Wetherby Park and twisted to the Beatles' 'Twist and Shout.' Staten, who was among about 400 people watching the Beatles cover band Eight Days a Week, said she loves the free monthly concerts in Middletown.

A line of cars wrapped around Bethlehem Baptist Church as motorists waited to pick up boxes of food Saturday.

In the workroom of the Southwest Center for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities, members were going grocery shopping from the convenience of their chairs.

The owners of the Comfort Inn on Dixie Highway have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, less than a year after the 85-room hotel opened to guests.

PETERSBURG, Ky. -- A school bus hissed to a stop near a giant concrete dinosaur perched outside the Creation Museum, a $27 million, 70,000-square-foot natural history museum-meets-Biblical theme park.

In the middle of Cory Gibson's capital murder trial, Gibson today was abruptly offered a deal by the prosecution and pleaded guilty to charges of second-degree manslaughter and tampering with physical evidence in the death of ZoAnn McCampbell.

Unwittingly, I've become more high tech as the months and years pass. A little slow to embrace all the electronic gadgets, I now carry a Blackberry device that allows me to receive my e-mails as well as phone calls and phone messages.

While awaiting the mayor's 2009-10 budget plan, Shively's City Council is discussing spending about $972,000 to pay off the mortgage on the city's fire and police headquarters building.

The Metro EMS technician who was driving the ambulance involved in a fatal crash last year in Shively has been involved in another crash.

Louisville Metro Police say they've caught a serial robber. Police believe that 35-year old Ervin Dewayne Coogle robbed nine businesses over a 15-day period in April and early May.

Louisville Metro Police are seeking the public's help in identifying the man who robbed a bank in the Highlands yesterday.

Business has been good and then some for the new Bob Evans Restaurant in Shively.

Louisville Metro Police are seeking the public's help in identifying a man they believe committed five robberies in Louisville and three in Shively.