Updated: Apr. 7, 2021 at 6:44 PM EDT
|By Associated Press
Dallas County Criminal Court Judge Audrey Moorehead ordered the release of Bryan Riser, a 13-year veteran of the Dallas Police Department.
Updated: Apr. 5, 2021 at 5:27 PM EDT
|By Associated Press
Harvey Weinstein’s lawyers are demanding a new trial more than a year after his rape conviction.
Updated: Mar. 29, 2021 at 12:36 PM EDT
|By Associated Press
Police say detectives aren’t looking for any additional suspects.
Updated: Mar. 28, 2021 at 8:40 PM EDT
|By Associated Press
Authorities said four bodies were found Sunday in the flood’s aftermath.
Updated: Mar. 23, 2021 at 10:25 PM EDT
|By PATTY NIEBERG and THOMAS PEIPERT
The suspect in the Boulder supermarket shootings bought the assault rifle six days before the shooting where 10 people were killed, according to an affidavit released Tuesday. The documents did not detail where the gun was purchased.
Updated: Mar. 23, 2021 at 6:19 PM EDT
|By ALEXANDRA JAFFE and RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR
Biden’s COVID-19 relief bill pumps up “Obamacare” premium subsidies to address longstanding problems of affordability, particularly for people with solid middle-class incomes.
Updated: Mar. 16, 2021 at 5:10 PM EDT
|By Anna Helhoski
The president has said that he backs $10,000 in blanket forgiveness for federal student loan borrowers through congressional action.
Updated: Mar. 12, 2021 at 3:02 PM EST
|By ZEKE MILLER and JONATHAN LEMIRE
In a prime-time address, President Joe Biden has outlined his plan to make all adult Americans eligible for vaccination by May 1 — and he raised the prospect of beginning to gain what he called “independence from this virus” by the Fourth of July.
Updated: Mar. 11, 2021 at 11:16 PM EST
|By ZEKE MILLER
President Joe Biden is outlining his plan to make all adult Americans eligible for vaccination by May 1 and get the nation back “closer to normal” by the Fourth of July.
Updated: Mar. 11, 2021 at 6:30 PM EST
|By Cecilia Clark, Anna Helhoski
The $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act, signed by President Joe Biden on Thursday, provides students with immediate and long-lasting financial benefits.
Updated: Mar. 10, 2021 at 1:14 AM EST
|By Associated Press
The boy's detention happened in 2019 when he poked a middle school classmate with a pencil after the classmate wrote on him with a marker, according to the lawsuit.
Updated: Mar. 5, 2021 at 4:48 PM EST
|By WKYT News Staff
If you or someone you know is one of the thousands of Kentuckians recovering from flood damage, help is out there.
Updated: Mar. 5, 2021 at 2:42 PM EST
|By Associated Press
Riser was arrested Thursday on two counts of capital murder and was being held Friday on $5 million bond.
Updated: Mar. 5, 2021 at 12:18 AM EST
|By Associated Press
Dallas police said Thursday an officer has been arrested on two counts of capital murder.
Updated: Mar. 3, 2021 at 11:40 AM EST
|By Anna Helhoski, NerdWallet
“Free college” really means free tuition. Students would still have to pay for room and board, along with other costs of attendance such as transportation, books and supplies.
Updated: Mar. 2, 2021 at 10:24 AM EST
|By TERRY TANG
Asian Americans have faced a dangerous climate since the coronavirus entered the U.S., with racially motivated harassment and assaults occurring from coast to coast.
Updated: Feb. 27, 2021 at 8:51 AM EST
|By Paige Noel
There was a total of 20 drug trafficking charges and 11 possession of drug charges related to meth and heroin.
Updated: Feb. 24, 2021 at 5:04 PM EST
|By Associated Press
Palm Beach County defied Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday, refusing to lower its courthouse flags to half-staff in honor of the late conservative broadcaster Rush Limbaugh.
Updated: Feb. 23, 2021 at 5:46 PM EST
|By Associated Press
Emma Coronel Aispuro, a 31-year-old former beauty queen, appeared by video conference for an initial court appearance before a federal magistrate judge in Washington, D.C.
Updated: Feb. 22, 2021 at 8:53 PM EST
|By MICHAEL BALSAMO
The wife of Mexican drug kingpin and escape artist Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has been arrested on international drug trafficking charges at an airport in Virginia.
Updated: Feb. 14, 2021 at 2:43 PM EST
|By Associated Press
Sorrow reverberated across the country Sunday as Americans, including President Joe Biden, joined a Florida community in remembering the 17 lives lost three years ago in the Parkland school shooting massacre.
Updated: Feb. 11, 2021 at 4:12 PM EST
|By Associated Press
It is not clear why it took 2 1/2 years for the gravesite to be established, and Reynolds’ surviving relatives, seeking privacy after his death, have not been public about the process.
Updated: Feb. 10, 2021 at 6:12 PM EST
|By Robert Thomas
As the global pandemic grounded many travelers, here’s a stark reminder of the impact on the travel industry.
Updated: Feb. 10, 2021 at 9:01 AM EST
|By Associated Press
A historic Krispy Kreme Doughnuts store in Atlanta was engulfed in flames early Wednesday.
Updated: Feb. 9, 2021 at 8:55 AM EST
|By Associated Press
A Florida judge ruled a local school district had no responsibility to warn students and faculty at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School of the danger posed by a former student who would later be accused of a mass shooting that killed 17 people.
Updated: Feb. 5, 2021 at 4:35 PM EST
|By Associated Press
Paul Grisham's wallet contained his Navy ID card, driver's license, a pocket reference card on what to do during atomic, biological and chemical attack, a beer ration punch card, a tax withholding statement and receipts for money orders sent to his wife.
Updated: Jan. 20, 2021 at 10:06 PM EST
|By KATHLEEN RONAYNE AND ALEXANDRA JAFFE
Vice President Kamala Harris broke the barrier Wednesday that has kept men at the top ranks of American power for more than two centuries when she took the oath to hold the nation’s second-highest office.
Updated: Jan. 16, 2021 at 12:49 PM EST
|By Robert Thomas
Here’s an interactive look at the latest number of COVID-19 cases in Kentucky...
Updated: Jan. 15, 2021 at 6:23 PM EST
|By Herald Leader and WYMT News
The report determined that the lack of a safety measure resulted in the death of Douglas Slusher.
Updated: Jan. 13, 2021 at 5:08 PM EST
|By Associated Press
Robert Keith Packer, 56, was one of two Virginia men arrested on federal charges related to their roles in last week’s riot at the U.S. Capitol, the FBI said.
Updated: Jan. 13, 2021 at 2:13 AM EST
|By Associated Press
The woman was the 11th prisoner executed since July, when President Donald Trump resumed federal executions following 17 years without one.
Updated: Jan. 8, 2021 at 9:10 PM EST
|By Associated Press
Trump offered no clues for how he would spent his final hours in office.
Updated: Jan. 7, 2021 at 8:47 PM EST
WKYT News: The Breakdown
Updated: Jan. 5, 2021 at 12:17 PM EST
|By AJ Cabbagestalk
The arrest came after deputies said a woman claimed she was assaulted and the attacker headed into a wooded area.
Updated: Jan. 2, 2021 at 6:43 PM EST
|By Associated Press
Paul Westphal, a Hall of Fame player who won a championship with the Boston Celtics in 1974 and later coached in the league and in college, died Saturday. He was 70.
Updated: Dec. 31, 2020 at 12:07 PM EST
|By BERNARD McGHEE
Many of their names hold a prominent place in the collective consciousness — RBG, Kobe, Maradona, Eddie Van Halen, Little Richard, Sean Connery, Alex Trebek, Christo — but pandemic restrictions often limited the public’s ability to mourn their loss in a year that saw more than a million people die from the coronavirus.
Updated: Dec. 29, 2020 at 11:08 AM EST
|By CNN staff
The vice president-elect’s vaccination with the Moderna vaccine occured live on camera from Washington.
Updated: Dec. 27, 2020 at 9:35 PM EST
|By KIMBERLEE KRUESI, MICHAEL BALSAMO and ERIC TUCKER
Nashville police say a Tennessee man named Anthony Quinn Warner is under investigation in connection with the Christmas Day bombing that rocked downtown Nashville.
Updated: Dec. 26, 2020 at 9:50 PM EST
|By Associated Press
Police emergency systems across Tennessee and Kentucky, as well as Nashville’s COVID-19 community hotline, remained out of service due to an AT&T central office being affected by the blast.
Updated: Dec. 12, 2020 at 10:55 PM EST
Doug Gray’s sister tells WSAZ, Gray’s body was found Saturday night among the rumble of a collapsed building at the Killen Generating Station near Manchester, Ohio.
Updated: Dec. 3, 2020 at 4:48 AM EST
|By WKYT News Staff
Police said a person was found deceased on Douglas Loop, off Douglas Avenue, around 6 p.m. Wednesday.
Updated: Dec. 1, 2020 at 12:14 PM EST
|By Robert Thomas and Kristen Kennedy
The number of COVID-19 cases more than doubled in 25 of Kentucky’s 120 counties during November as the state saw a record surge in the virus.
Updated: Nov. 27, 2020 at 2:46 PM EST
|By Associated Press
The coronavirus presented huge challenges for the fall semester for U.S. colleges that opened the academic year with in-person learning, including some that took a battering from outbreaks.
Updated: Nov. 27, 2020 at 5:31 AM EST
|By WKYT News Staff
Investigation into overnight shooting in Lexington.
Updated: Nov. 18, 2020 at 3:29 PM EST
|By Associated Press
Election officials across Georgia are staring down a Wednesday deadline to complete a hand tally of the presidential race in the state.
Updated: Nov. 17, 2020 at 10:30 PM EST
|By Associated Press
Michigan’s largest county reversed course and unanimously certified its presidential election results Tuesday night after Republicans first blocked the move in a party-line vote that threatened to temporarily stall official approval of Democrat Joe Biden’s win in the state.
Updated: Nov. 17, 2020 at 1:18 PM EST
|By Associated Press
The Democratic-controlled House of Representatives is asking the Supreme Court to put off upcoming arguments about whether Congress should have access to secret grand jury testimony from special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.
Updated: Nov. 17, 2020 at 1:06 PM EST
|By JEFF AMY
Trump spent the weekend attacking Brad Raffensperger on social media, at one point calling him “a so-called Republican (RINO),” an acronym for “Republican in name only.” Raffensperger punched back, disputing Trump’s claims.
Updated: Nov. 16, 2020 at 12:19 PM EST
|By Victor Puente
As COVID numbers continue to rise in Kentucky, Fayette County is pausing sports and activities for the next two weeks.
Updated: Nov. 14, 2020 at 8:09 PM EST
|By Associated Press
The Colonels scored 25 unanswered points after trailing 24-0.