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Fern Creek Baptist Church in Louisville was expelled in June by the Southern Baptist Convention, because it has a female pastor. Congregants at the church say still they support their pastor.

The workout sessions give people with Parkinson’s disease a chance to exercise and socialize together. The number of participants at the Southwest Family YMCA has slowly grown since the center started offering the program there this year.

Just over half of Kentucky’s 120 counties, including Jefferson, need people to join the state’s Citizen Foster Care Review Boards.

The Perseid meteor shower will hit its peak this weekend, with the most meteors visible in the hour just before dawn on Sunday morning.

Commission members voted 6-2 to overturn a preservation committee’s March ruling against Collegiate. The school can now move forward with a controversial plan to tear down three vacant apartment buildings it owns for a parking lot.

Mine advocates and companies commented in Washington, D.C. this week, expressing lots of different concerns. If passed, the new rules would attempt to keep mine workers, including coal miners in Kentucky, safer while they work.

Louisville will be under a heat advisory Thursday and Friday with temperatures expected to be in the high 90s. Hot weather increases risks of heat strokes and heat exhaustion.

Political attacks on transgender people escalated this year in Kentucky and other states. Trans Kentuckians say peer support groups are a vital source of community, especially now.

Chess players gathered at Shawnee Library Saturday for the first Shawnee Neighborhood Chess Classic.

The $800K investment from Heaven Hill, a locally owned bourbon brand, will be split between local nonprofits, sewer infrastructure improvements and more trees and shrubs.