For the first time, the public is now seeing the police video of what happened during a controversial traffic stop, proving part of what the officer had said all along.
In an effort to reduce access to unused and expired medications, Kroger teamed up with Cardinal Health Foundation to host several drug take-back events on Saturday.
At a time when LMPD says shootings and homicides are up, and city funds are stretched thin, one Metro Council member is throwing more cash toward fighting crime.
Citizens Attacking Addiction is looking to make collaborative partnerships and gain support in their work to prevent addiction and educate families on what to do if a loved one is dealing with substance abuse.
The human cost of gun violence in Louisville was apparent at UofL Hospital on Thursday, but so was the healing power of doctors on the front lines of emergency medicine.
Some of the most powerful law enforcement agencies announced a sweep that took 57 people and 13 firearms off the streets. Federal investigators and LMPD completed raids targeting violent crime in Louisville.
Large, formerly abandoned houses, filled with 10 to 20 tenants, spilling out into the neighborhood, attracting prostitutes, severely impaired people, drug dealers doing transactions through car windows, and police officers responding to it all.
They are the so-called Violence Interrupters. They are part of a program that's seen major success in some cities, but came under fire in Louisville after an exclusive WAVE 3 News Troubleshooter investigation.
Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer called Tyler Park a gem as city officials and neighborhood leaders broke ground on renovations there Tuesday. Neighbors said they’re excited to see that gem get a little polish.
The Greenwood Cemetery in the Chickasaw neighborhood, where most of those buried are African-American, is lined with shifting headstones and uprooted trees.
The kits are brown paper bags with a small glass pipe, a copper scrubber that serves as a filter, and sometimes a lighter too, prepackaged and ready to go.
Money is pouring in to the Russell neighborhood of Louisville in an attempt to help residents and local businesses prosper without displacement. It's called Russell: A Place of Promise.
When is living in a former meth lab only sort of dangerous? That's the question facing hundreds of property owners across Kentucky as they grapple with the high cost of cleaning up toxic methamphetamine contamination.
From dancing to making new friends to just plain having fun, the inaugural WAVE 3 News Taking Back Your Streets Community Picnic proved that in a time of elevated violence, solidarity prevailed.
Sunday morning, Mayor Greg Fischer stopped by WAVE 3 News to talk about the recent crime in Louisville, and why Louisville Taking Back Your Streets is so important.
The editors at SafeWise.com used FBI crime data, population stats and other information to determine which Kentucky cities are the safest. See if your town made the list.
It's a Louisville neighborhood known for it's Kentucky Derby Heritage. But, an increase in crime and a growing number of abandoned business in the last few years made it an area that people began to avoid. But as WAVE 3 Investigator Connie Leonard reports, things are changing at Bashford Manor, thanks to a group of people who decided to take back their neighborhood.
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