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You could spend more than $2,000 on a hotel room for Derby weekend, but for the first time the Galt House Hotel is giving your wallet a break. Deluxe and Executive suites are up for grabs in a first time Black Friday deal. The one-day special comes with 700 bucks in savings on rooms at the Official Derby Host Hotel.
Every year, police and federal drug officials destroy thousands of methamphetamine labs. Not only do these labs produce a powerfully addictive drug, but they also endanger the safety of the surrounding community. Now the state of Kentucky is using a now there is new tool to fight it.
The Kentucky Court of Appeals has upheld a jury's $6 million award to an 18-year-old McDonald's employee who was strip searched and detained for several hours.
The federal government is pumping $850 million into Fort Knox and now business leaders in southwest Louisville are hoping to cash in.
Members of Kentucky's Subcommittee on Energy were at GE's Appliance Park Friday morning to get a demonstration of the company's line of "smart" products and to learn more about the company's future plans. GE executives are almost as enthusiastic as Kentucky legislators, over a new hot water heater that they say, may one day, change Kentucky and maybe even the world.
A Fayette County woman in her 40's has become the 31st person in the Bluegrass to die from H1N1.
Police are investigating the death of a 3-month-old infant at an unlicensed day care center in Murfreesboro.
A Nashville judge has ruled a law that allows handguns in Tennessee bars and restaurants is unconstitutional.
Health officials say swine flu cases appear to declining throughout most of the U.S., but the specter of Thanksgiving gatherings next week makes it hard to predict what will happen next.
The FBI has dispatched investigators to Arkansas to look into a police officer's use of a stun gun on a 10-year-old girl who refused to take a shower.
A New York state man has been convicted of reckless endangerment after leaving his 85-year-old father in a car on a hot day and finding him dead three hours later.
An Indiana prison no longer serves lunches to inmates on Fridays and weekends in what it says is an efficiency move designed to free up more time for classes and recreation.
Former college and professional basketball player Sam Bowie is looking to crack into another exclusive club.
Justice Secretary J. Michael Brown has scheduled a Friday afternoon press conference to discuss the findings of investigators who looked into the cause of a prison riot at Northpoint Training Center in August.
Indiana's unemployment rate of 9.8 percent in October is slightly above September's adjusted jobless rate of 9.7 percent, but state officials said the change is statistically insignificant.
Christian activists have gone to Purdue University's main campus to hand out 2,000 copies of Charles Darwin's "Origin of Species" with a 50-page introduction intended to debunk his theory of evolution.
The lawyer for a former Knox County motel employee charged in the 2008 murder of a young Alabama woman says he was illegally detained.
It seems no one is willing to help, so Iran says it will send a communications satellite into orbit on its own.
A British man who said he strangled his wife during a nightmare about fighting off an intruder has been found not guilty in her death.
The U.S. ambassador to China is criticizing U.S. media coverage of President Barack Obama's trip, saying the negative tone failed to take into account important progress on many issues.
Fans who'll be in the audience at "The Oprah Winfrey Show" say they're excited to be on hand to hear the media mogul talk about what she plans for the future.
Authorities have positively identified a Mitchell teenager as the victim in a slaying this month that involved a body found in the trunk of a burned car.
Police are looking for Louisville man who is suspected of calling in a bomb threat to a Lawrenceburg day care center.
An Indianapolis man convicted of killing three children and four adults during a home invasion robbery three years ago is facing a sentence of life in prison.
A Terre Haute church upset some residents with a message on its outdoor sign that mentioned Allah.
A 100-year-old rail car once used by the Glasgow Railway Co. is on its way to being restored and put on display at the Historic RailPark and Train Museum in Bowling Green.
Asbury College in central Kentucky is graduating to university status in the spring.
An 18-year-old is in police custody after he warmed up a bottle for a crying baby inside the house he was allegedly robbing.
The military says a Fort Campbell soldier was charged after refusing to allow a search of his vehicle and causing a gate into the installation to be shut down.
South Bend residents outraged by a dog's shooting death during a home robbery are collecting reward money they hope leads to the arrest of the dog's killer.
The unemployment rate in the Commonwealth is above 11 percent for the month of October. With more than one in 10 Kentucky residents looking for a job this holiday season, the competition is tight. Many stores we checked with said the same thing - their seasonal positions have been filled.
H1N1 clinics are more than a week away for Jefferson County public school students, but officials say there is already a snag in the process. The problem is in the paperwork. A mistake on the form can be the difference between getting a vaccine or not.
Authorities in Henry County say a cyanide leak at a copper manufacturing plant in Eminence has been contained. An official with the Kentucky Emergency Management Agency said the leak at Hussey Copper LTD Company on Mulberry Lane started around 10 p.m. Thursday.
Louisville’s outgoing Metro Animal Services director did not get the job he was up for in Florida. The newspaper Florida Today is reporting on its website that Gilles Meloche was not the pick for animal services director job in Brevard County
Gov. Steve Beshear has expressed doubt that Kentucky will land a Harley-Davidson manufacturing plant. The governor released a statement Thursday saying the potential for pulling off a deal with the company is "significantly diminished."
Hundreds of people greeted Sarah Palin with cheers as she arrived in central Indiana for a book signing, telling her fans they were "hard-core patriots."
The state's jobless rate climbed to 11.2 percent in October despite signs that the economy is improving.
Some of the men hoping to help fix the problem are hoping you will vote to send them to Washington. Six of the candidates vying for the Senate seat being vacated by Jim Bunning spoke to the Kentucky Association of Counties Thursday afternoon.
Two major events from Mother Nature left Kentuckiana in a mess. 769,000 people lost power and the two storms left behind over a billion dollars in damages. The September 2008 wind storm and the January 2009 ice storm caused the two largest power outages in Kentucky history and the Kentucky Public Service Commission says everyone can learn from the storms.
U.S. Marshals have made an arrest in a shooting on November 14 in Louisville. 44-year-old Randall Kiper was arrested in Ohio County early Thursday morning.
In the heart of tobacco country, two of the biggest schools in Kentucky started banning smoking on their campuses. According to University of Louisville officials, the ban is supposed to helping people quit and lead a healthier lifestyle.
The wife of U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar, R-IN, has been charged with drunken driving and hit & run after hitting a parked car in northern Virginia.
A Tennessee man has died in a Lexington hospital after being struck by a car and police are still searching for the owner.
Six more Indiana swine flu deaths were reported last week, even as the number of people hospitalized with flu symptoms continued to drop.
Hundreds of people lined up at stores in Fort Wayne and Noblesville in hopes of meeting Sarah Palin.
The attorney for former Kentucky lawmaker Steve Nunn has entered a not guilty plea for his client in a Lexington courtroom on a murder charge stemming from the shooting death of Nunn's ex-fiancee.
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It's almost nine months to the day since lawmakers passed the Federal Stimulus Act and we're starting to see more and more of those recovery projects in Kentuckiana. But we are also hearing more stories around the country of errors, non-existent jobs and bogus projects. So we wanted to know how that money is being used in Kentuckiana.
Just about everyone nowadays has a cell phone. And almost all of them will allow you to also send text messages. But have you ever thought about just how dangerous it is to use that everyday device while driving your car?
Each year the Jefferson County Attorney's office prosecutes over 3,000 driving under the influence crimes. Many of these involve first time offenders. In an effort to heighten awareness of the potentially tragic consequences of drinking and driving, and to prevent re-offenders, the County Attorney's office has developed the DUI Diversion Program.
If more time and access with your doctor sounds too good to be true, think again. For $1,500 a year, patients in an MDVIP practice get VIP treatment. With two more Louisville doctors joining a growing list of physicians signed on with MDVIP, there is some growing concern from the patients they are leaving behind.
If there's one thing we all love about Dawne Gee, it is the fact that what you see is what you get. For six years, Dawne has made no secret of the fact that she has been battling a brain tumor. Though not cancerous, she recently made the difficult decision to undergo a risky surgery to remove it. Now she is sharing the rest of the story.
It is a legal battle pitting a small time, inventor against a huge corporation and it's all playing out in southern Indiana. He said they stole his invention; the company says not so fast.
For the past 40 years, he's been a staple in our lives, bringing us the daily forecast. In fact, you might even consider Tom Wills one of your family members. But what about his own family? In preparation for his retirement on July 31, we wanted to know what Tom is like off the air.
WAVE 3's Carrie Weil went undercover to find out what goes on in Clarksville's controversial Theatair X.
WAVE 3's Carrie Weil went undercover to find out what goes on in Clarksville's controversial Theatair X. She takes the results of our investigation to Clarksville town officials.
WAVE 3's Carrie Weil went undercover to find out what goes on in Clarksville's controversial Theatair X.
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