Investigations
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A Jefferson District Court judge amended a speeding ticket without telling the prosecutor. The Kentucky Court of Appeals says it was illegal.
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The Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting isn’t slowing down after 10 years of digging into systemic inequities, government corruption, injustice and harm.
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Heating is a legal right in Louisville. If your landlord isn’t providing it, then there are some resources to assist you.
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The company hired to lead the cleanup of the mess left behind the 2022 floods in eastern Kentucky now faces several lawsuits.
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Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg recommended local lawmakers divert $40 million in federal COVID-19 relief funds from a local health care nonprofit and move them to city parks and libraries.
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The Metro Council Republican says he will fight the commission’s ruling that he violated ethics laws. Anthony Piagentini said the Louisville Metro Ethics Commission members were biased against him and their investigation lacked the evidence needed to find he violated laws.
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The Louisville Metro Ethics Commission ruled Thursday that the Republican council member’s involvement in a COVID-19 relief grant violated six different ethics rules.
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Investigative reporter Chris Otts recently published an account that details a powerful local health care nonprofit’s questionable spending on businesses owned by its leader’s family members.
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A family said a property manager failed to repair their home’s air conditioner. Their son died after he spent the night in the family’s car to beat the heat. Now, a local lawmaker wants to strengthen the city’s outdated housing code.
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A report from a local child advocacy group shows one out of three kids that leave foster care in Kentucky will experience homelessness or housing insecurity as an adult.
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Researchers with the Vera Institute for Justice found the expansion in Kentucky’s criminal justice system has coincided with economic decline as coal and manufacturing jobs left the state.
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Reporters for the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting and Louisville Public Media spent months digging into the dirty business of disaster cleanup.