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A three-vehicle crash left a semi-truck dangling from a bridge in Louisville, Ky., trapping the driver. She was rescued by a firefighter who rappelled down to the cab of the truck. NBC News' Jesse Kirsch reports.

Jan. 25 (UPI) -- A statue that went missing from Louisville, Ky., nearly 30 years ago has been returned to the city by a man who had it in his back yard. David Greer said his father worked on a renovation project in 1996 at the Belvedere, an elevated event space in downtown Louisville, when he brought the statue home. "Dad said they tossed it to the side and he asked if he could have it, and they said, sure. That's where it began its life at [our] house," Greer told WLKY-TV. The statue depicts the Greek god Pan playing...

Growing up, I couldn’t understand why I was born in Louisville, Kentucky. There it was in black and white on my birth certificate, yet it didn’t make any sense. My parents had never lived in Kentucky, we weren’t American and had no family connections to the place whatsoever. When I asked my mother, she told me she chose Kentucky because it was where her favourite film, Gone With The Wind, was set (it wasn’t) and she always wanted her child to be born in such a romantic location. It’s also why she called me Olivia after one of the film’s...

Disturbing footage has emerged of Kentucky police chucking slushies as unsuspecting pedestrians in low-income neighborhoods, in scenes straight out of the show “Glee.” Footage released by the Louisville Metro Police Department this week shows former officers Curtis Flynn, 40, and Bryan Wilson, 36, driving around in an unmarked vehicle in their uniforms and chucking large slushies at people on the sidewalks. In one video, the cops are seen cruising down Berry Boulevard in south Louisville when they spot a woman walking down the sidewalk in the rain.

A man who killed five people at a bank in Louisville earlier this year wrote in his journal that he wanted to demonstrate the consequences of gun laws that he viewed as too lenient, according to police. The Louisville Police Department released a report Tuesday with quotes they said were taken from Connor Sturgeon’s journal entries in the days leading up to the shooting on April 10, 2023. “I have decided to make an impact. These people did not deserve to die, but because I was depressed and able to buy ___ (guns?), they are gone,” Sturgeon reportedly wrote on...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - This story began December 1 at 5 p.m. with a phone call to our newsroom from a horrified University Hospital employee. The employee claimed security had just wheeled an elderly woman all the way out to the corner of Hancock and Ali, just off hospital property, dumped the woman out of the wheelchair on the sidewalk and left. VIDEO ON LINK

Twitter’s Jack Dorsey helped donate $11 million to organisations that included the Bail Project, linked to the U-Haul in Louisville earlier today. National File reported today that an employee of the Bail Project, Holly Zoller, was caught handing out shields and other equipment to potential rioters from a U-Haul truck in Louisville, Kentucky. Unloading the riot shields from the Uhaul #Louisville #BreonnaTaylor pic.twitter.com/F9KqzRB5lM— Brendan Gutenschwager (@BGOnTheScene) September 23, 2020 A group of concerned citizens managed to track down and identify Zoller: One member of the anonymous group called Zoller, posing as a U-Haul employee, noting that the company had seen “hundreds...

LOUISVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — A 42-year-old Louisville woman has been arrested after the sheriff said she fired a shotgun at a sanitation vehicle as it arrived to pick up her trash. Blount County Sheriff James Lee Berrong said deputies arrested Theresa M. Reynolds, 42, of Cub Drive in Louisville on Wednesday afternoon. She has been charged with two counts of aggravated assault. The men went on to say that Reynolds “began yelling at them and pulled out an iPad and asked them if they wanted her to video her shooting them,” according to the post from the sheriff’s office. The...

While mass murderers are as likely to be mentally deranged environmentalists as they are to be Muslims (most do not show political affiliation), some have made clear they favored keeping guns from the general public. It is the ultimate in logic-defying irrationality of those who promote disarmament. They want to murder as many people as possible to show how easy it is to murder many people.From the Daily Mail:[the mass murderer] made three key points in the manifesto, which is in the hands of the police: he wanted to kill himself, he wanted to prove how easy it was to...

Denny Crum, the winner of two college basketball national championships as head coach of Louisville, died Tuesday morning at the age of 86, the university said. Crum coached at Louisville from 1971-2001 and is one of 14 coaches to win at least two national championships in his career. Denny Crum coaches Louisville

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A semi-truck exploded after crashing in Louisville Monday afternoon. The crash happened sometime around noon on I-65 South near the Kennedy Bridge. TRIMARC reports all lanes of the road are blocked. It's unclear at this time if there are any injuries or how the crash occurred. Photos from a TRIMARC camera near the bridge showed the moment the semi-truck exploded. It's not known what the semi was carrying.

The family of the portfolio banker who opened fire on fellow employees, killing five in Louisville on April 10, 2023, has released a statement calling for passage of more gun control. The Daily Mail report the statement, wherein the Sturgeon family said, “This tragedy is yet another indication that meaningful, common sense gun safety measures must be enacted.”

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — WARNING: Viewer discretion is advised for video shared by police. Police released multiple videos Tuesday from the violent mass shooting at a bank in downtown Louisville.Gunfire rang out at Old National Bank on Main Street around 8:38 a.m. on Monday. Officials said an employee, Connor Sturgeon, 25, used an AR-15 rifle in a targeted attack on his coworkers, which he live-streamed on social media. On Tuesday, officials gave a first look in and around the bank as the shooting unfolded.

Louisville police have released dramatic body camera footage from Monday's bank shooting, showing officers arriving, being ambushed and then shooting dead the 25-year-old disgruntled employee who murdered five colleagues. Connor Sturgeon, 25, was seen entering the Old National Bank on East Main Street in Louisville at 8.33am with his legally-purchased AR-15 in hand. Over the course of six minutes, police are then seen driving up to Old National Bank as gunshots are echoing through the building, and then charging at the doors. One officer is shot in the head in an ambush: Sturgeon was then killed. The footage was released...

The semi-automatic rifle used to kill five people and injure nine at the Louisville bank shooting on Monday will likely be auctioned off and be “back on the streets,” Mayor Craig Greenberg said. Greenberg — who has called for an end to the gun violence plaguing his city — said current Kentucky law allows guns seized by the police to go to auction, including those used in violent crimes. “The assault rifle that killed five of our neighbors will one day be auctioned off,” the mayor said Tuesday. “That murder weapon will be back on the streets.” The Louisville Metro...

Connor Sturgeon, the 23-year-old suspect who fatally shot four individuals on Monday, livestreamed the shooting at the Old National Bank in Louisville, Kentucky. During a press conference on Monday, Louisville Metro Police Department Interim Chief Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel was asked about reports that the shooting was livestreamed on social media. "I will say this that the suspect was live streaming and unfortunately that's tragic to know that that incident was out there and captured," she said. "We're hopeful that we can have that incident removed."

A fifth victim of the Louisville bank shooting has died in hospital, police confirmed on Monday evening, as the company says there are 'no adequate words' to tell of their loss. The death of Deana Eckert, 57, an executive administrative officer at the bank and a mother of two, was confirmed on Monday evening by Louisville police. All five were senior executives at the bank. Tommy Elliott, 63, a close friend of Governor Andy Beshear, was named among the dead, as were Joshua Barrick, 40; James 'Jim' Tutt, 64; and Juliana Farmer, 57. They were declared dead at a press...

A Twitter profile that belonged to Sturgeon has also been taken down. According to The Daily Beast, the now-deleted Twitter account included, “posts in support of the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, as well as some criticism of police violence and of then-President Donald Trump,” alongside tweets about the NBA, sports and messages between friends. Sturgeon also appears to have been at one-point a frequent poster on Reddit. An account matching his Twitter and Instagram handle, csturg41, was suspended by Reddit after the shooting. Heavy viewed the account prior to it being taken down. Many of the posts, including...

President Joe Biden blamed Republicans in Congress for the mass shooting in Louisville, Kentucky, on Monday. A gunman fatally shot at least four victims and injured at least six others, including a police officer, at Old National Bank. Biden began his statement by expressing gratitude to the Louisville Metropolitan Police Department officers “who quickly and courageously stepped into the line of fire to save others.” In his second paragraph, Biden blamed the mass shooting on Republican lawmakers not acting on gun reform. “How many more Americans must die before Republicans in Congress will act to protect our communities? It’s long...

The Louisville Metropolitan Police Department says there are five people dead and six injured in the Kentucky city Monday following a shooting. The shooter in the incident – who has not been publicly identified – has been "neutralized," according to police. "There is no longer an active aggressor threat," Louisville Metropolitan Police Department said, announcing that more details will be provided at a press conference at 11:30 a.m. ET.