An English student’s comparison of a Ku Klux Klan member to a police officer in a school assignment rocked a Kentucky high school and brought about a contentious discussion regarding social injustice, WLKY reports. An Honors English teacher at North Oldham High School in Oldham County asked her students to read To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee […]

Reginald Windham, a longtime employee of the Lincoln Village Juvenile Detention Center, amassed a record of misconduct, including charges of excessive force and negligence.

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Gynnya McMillen was discovered unconscious at the Lincoln Village Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Elizabethtown, Ky.

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Adam Satterly earned 60 days behind bars for the outburst.

A video of a Kentucky officer restraining an 8-year-old boy in handcuffs for over 15 minutes is the focus of a lawsuit enacted by the American Civil Liberties Union. Despite the visual evidence, the sheriff’s office in Kenton County in the state is openly defending the officer’s forceful actions. The Guardian reports that Sheriff Charles […]

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In a much-needed break from negativity about police encounters with African-Americans, a Louisville, Ky. officer is winning widespread praise after assisting a woman across the finish line in a 10K race over the weekend, reports USA Today. Louisville Metro Police Lt. Aubrey Gregory offered Asia Ford his arm during Saturday’s Rodes City Run after the […]

Jonathan Hardin (pictured) was reportedly fired from his post as a school resource officer at the Olmstead Academy North in Louisville, Kentucky, after he was arrested and charged with assault, official misconduct, wanton endangerment and false swearing charges, according to WHAS-TV. As of Friday, it’s the fifth complaint against officer Hardin. The 31-year-old law enforcer is […]

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A Louisville court cleared former officer Chauncey Carthan (pictured center) of wanton endangerment charges Thursday, almost three years after he drunkenly shot an unarmed civilian, the Courier-Journal reports. SEE ALSO: Obama Seeks To Tax The One Percent And Offer Breaks To The Middle Class However, the jury did find Carthan guilty of DUI, for which he will have to […]

Students in one rural Kentucky county are up in arms about the National School Lunch Program‘s healthy lunchtime offerings that are being touted by First Lady Michelle Obama (pictured). At a Harlan County public schools board meeting held last week, the general consensus held by students in the district is that the meals “taste like vomit,” reports The […]

There is one word in the English language that will forever make Austin Whaley (pictured) shake in his boots when he hears it: Bingo! The 18-year-old was cuffed by police and charged with disorderly conduct after he yelled bingo in a crowded hall in Covington, Ky., that was filled with elderly people who did not […]

PIKEVILLE, Ky. — An eastern Kentucky church under a firestorm of criticism since members voted to bar mixed-race couples from joining the congregation overturned that decision Sunday, saying it welcomes all believers.

PIKE, Kentucky-Gulnare Freewill Baptist Church a small church in Eastern Kentucky has voted to ban interracial couples from being members or worshiping in church. The vote came after a white woman, Stella Harville sang in church with her fiancée, Ticha Chikuni who is from Zimbabwe. Kentucky.com reports: In early November, Thompson proposed the church go […]