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Racing Louisville FC
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By Tawana Andrew
Racing Louisville kicks off their 2025 NWSL Season with a match against North Carolina Courage.
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#### [FORECAST: Record warmth this afternoon with wind speeds increasing](/2025/03/14/forecast-record-warmth-this-afternoon-with-wind-speeds-increasing/)
Updated: 1 hour ago
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By Brian Goode
The WAVE StormTracking Team is closely watching the potential of multiple rounds of strong to severe thunderstorms on Saturday.
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Louisville Metro
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#### [Several families displaced after apartment fire in Poplar Hills](/2025/03/14/several-families-displaced-after-apartment-fire-poplar-hills/)
Updated: 15 hours ago
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By Derek Brightwell
Fern Creek Fire and Okolona Fire responded to the fire in the 700 block of Huntington Park Drive and crews arrived to find heavy smoke coming from a two-story building with people trapped on a second-floor balcony.
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Louisville Metro
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#### [LMPD officer involved in crash on Dixie Highway](/2025/03/14/lmpd-officer-involved-crash-dixie-highway/)
Updated: 15 hours ago
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By Quenton Robertson
An LMPD officer is receiving medical treatment after a crash on Dixie Highway Thursday evening, according to the Louisville Metro Police Department.
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NCAA
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#### [Cards advance to ACC Tournament semifinals on Hepburn buzzer beater](/2025/03/14/cards-advance-acc-tournament-semifinals-hepburn-buzzer-beater/)
Updated: 16 hours ago
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By Derek Brightwell
Chucky Hepburn knocked down a game-winner from the free throw line to send the Cards to the semifinals of the ACC Tournament.
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Local
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#### [Councilwoman, community groups urge metro government to support People’s Consent Decree](/2025/03/13/councilwoman-community-groups-urge-metro-government-support-peoples-consent-decree/)
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By Fernando Garcia-Franceschini
Councilwoman Shameka Parrish-Wright is urging metro government to support the People's Consent Decree, which would formally acknowledge the harm caused by unsound police practices.
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#### [Fatal crash sheds light on repeat law violation in one southern Indiana county](/2025/03/13/fatal-crash-sheds-light-repeat-law-violation-one-southern-indiana-county/)
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By Alena Noakes
In the last three years, Jackson County has processed more than 1,700 cases of 'driving without a license,' of which 20% of offenders have prior convictions on the same charge.
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#### [Homeless woman cited for street camping while in labor speaks to WAVE News](/2025/03/13/homeless-woman-cited-street-camping-while-labor-speaks-wave-news/)
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By Ward Jolles
Samantha Crabtree, the woman who received a citation for street camping while in labor, spoke to WAVE News on Thursday about her experience and where she’s at now.
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Louisville Metro
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#### [Kroger invests in $1.8 million renovation at West Louisville Location](/2025/03/13/kroger-invests-18-million-renovation-west-louisville-location/)
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By Brian Shlonsky
The West Louisville Kroger, located at West Broadway and South 28th Street, held a grand reopening event Thursday after six months of construction and renovations.
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#### [Utica Fire Board firings halts fire territory vote](/2025/03/13/utica-fire-board-firings-halts-fire-territory-vote/)
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By Mark Stevens
Jeffersonville and Utica Fire leaders were set to take a final vote to approve a new fire territory to improve emergency services. But the Clark County Commissioners fired the entire Utica Fire board to prevent the vote.
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Louisville Metro
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#### [Man dead after being hit by truck on Bardstown Road](/2025/03/13/man-dead-after-being-hit-by-truck-bardstown-road/)
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By Quenton Robertson
A man is dead after being hit by a truck on Bardstown Road Wednesday evening, according to the Louisville Metro Police Department.
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Louisville Metro
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#### [Man charged with murder in connection to Middletown shooting](/2025/03/13/man-charged-with-murder-connection-middletown-shooting/)
Updated: 18 hours ago
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By Julia Huffman, Derek Brightwell and Noelle Friel
Around 11 a.m. Louisville Metro police arrested 43-year-old Brandon McQuillen.
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#### [Louisville USGS office, Erlanger EPA office among new round of proposed cuts by DOGE](/2025/03/13/louisville-usgs-office-erlanger-epa-office-among-new-round-proposed-cuts-by-doge/)
Updated: Mar. 13, 2025 at 5:07 PM UTC
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By Ward Jolles
Three more federal offices in Kentucky were added to the list of proposed cuts on the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) website this week.
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Kentucky
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Updated: Mar. 13, 2025 at 4:02 PM UTC
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By Ward Jolles and Logan Perrone
The final vote tally for House Bill 4 on March 13 was 79-17, with nearly all Democrats voting against this bill and nearly all Republicans voting in favor of it.
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Louisville Metro
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#### [Name released of 65-year-old man killed in Middletown shooting](/2025/03/13/name-released-65-year-old-man-killed-middletown-shooting/)
Updated: Mar. 13, 2025 at 3:36 AM UTC
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By Julia Huffman, Derek Brightwell and Logan Perrone
When officers arrived they found a man lying on the ground shot. He was taken to the University of Louisville Hospital in critical condition.
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Updated: Mar. 13, 2025 at 3:23 PM UTC
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By Brian Goode
StormTALK! BLOG 3/13/25
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#### [Lanes blocked on I-64 East near I-71 due to crash](/2025/03/13/lanes-blocked-i-64-east-near-i-71-due-crash/)
Updated: Mar. 13, 2025 at 12:10 PM UTC
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By Julia Huffman
TRIMARC reported the crash on March 13 just before 7:30 a.m.
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#### [PRP firefighter saves child while on vacation](/2025/03/13/prp-firefighter-saves-child-while-vacation/)
Updated: Mar. 13, 2025 at 3:31 AM UTC
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By Derek Brightwell and WAVE Staff
A Pleasure Ridge Park firefighter on vacation answered the call for help and saved a 12-year-old boy’s life.
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#### [Man in hospital after shooting in Fairdale neighborhood](/2025/03/13/man-hospital-after-shooting-fairdale-neighborhood/)
Updated: Mar. 13, 2025 at 12:25 AM UTC
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By Quenton Robertson
A man is in the hospital after a shooting in the Fairdale neighborhood Wednesday evening, according to the Louisville Metro Police Department.
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Louisville Metro
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#### [Louisville organizations discuss combating gang, gun violence problems](/2025/03/12/louisville-organizations-discuss-combating-gang-gun-violence-problems/)
Updated: Mar. 12, 2025 at 11:28 PM UTC
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By Noelle Friel
At a forum Wednesday afternoon, leaders of local gun violence prevention organizations spoke about how they’re tackling Louisville’s gang problem in a way that police can’t.
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Local
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#### [Louisville nonprofit that helps youth in crisis worries about impact of federal funding freeze](/2025/03/12/louisville-nonprofit-that-helps-youth-crisis-worries-about-impact-federal-funding-freeze/)
Updated: Mar. 12, 2025 at 11:20 PM UTC
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By Fernando Garcia-Franceschini
Staff with the YMCA Safe Place said their programming could suffer if a federal funding freeze goes into effect.
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Louisville Metro
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#### [Registration for SummerWorks 2025 is open](/2025/03/12/registration-summerworks-2025-is-open/)
Updated: Mar. 12, 2025 at 10:59 PM UTC
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By Derek Brightwell and WAVE Staff
SummerWorks helps connect youth, ages 16-21, to summer jobs that will give them not only valuable work experience but also a nice summer paycheck.
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News
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#### [Bill aims to combat decline in farmland, amid rising development competition](/2025/03/12/bill-aims-combat-decline-farmland-amid-rising-development-competition/)
Updated: Mar. 12, 2025 at 10:11 PM UTC
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By Alena Noakes
According to the USDA’s 2022 Agriculture Census, farms a Kentucky dropped from 75,966 in 2017 to 69,425 in 2022.
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News
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#### [‘It hurts’: Local distillery reacts to retaliatory tariffs](/2025/03/12/it-hurts-local-distillery-reacts-retaliatory-tariffs/)
Updated: Mar. 12, 2025 at 9:40 PM UTC
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By Kierstin Foote
The E.U. is threatening a 50% tariff on certain U.S. goods including beef, motorcycles and distilled spirits which directly affects one of Kentucky’s signature industries, bourbon.
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#### [Dairy Queen offering free cones on March 20](/2025/03/12/dairy-queen-offering-free-cones-march-20/)
Updated: Mar. 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM UTC
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By Julia Huffman
On March 20, customers can grab a free cone at participating locations with no additional purchase.
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Hardin County
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#### [Trial begins for former U.S. Army soldier accused of killing wife on her birthday](/2025/03/12/trial-begins-former-us-army-soldier-accused-killing-wife-her-birthday/)
Updated: Mar. 13, 2025 at 3:19 AM UTC
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By Marresa Burke and Jose Zozaya
Henning’s lawyers cited their clients’ military background and domestic violence as factors that contributed to his actions.
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Local
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#### [LMPD says ‘no credible threat’ was found at Kindred Hospital](/2025/03/12/lmpd-says-no-credible-threat-was-found-kindred-hospital/)
Updated: Mar. 12, 2025 at 4:38 PM UTC
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By Olivia Russell
The department’s Office of Homeland Security will investigate the origin of the call.
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#### [Person critically injured in motorcycle crash near Valley Station](/2025/03/12/person-critically-injured-motorcycle-crash-near-valley-station/)
Updated: Mar. 12, 2025 at 4:12 PM UTC
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By Olivia Russell
Louisville Metro Police Department officers were called to Greenbelt Highway near Lower River Road just before 11 p.m. on Tuesday, March 11.
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