Metro Louisville

Louisville's police chief gave false testimony in a recent civil trial over a 2021 police chase, which has raised questions about who can hold the city's top law enforcement officer accountable.

Mayor Craig Greenberg announced Wednesday that Elizabeth Strojan will be the next executive director of the Louisville Metro Housing Authority. Strojan is currently an executive at the New York City Housing Development Corporation, the nation’s largest affordable housing agency.

The Louisville Metro Police Department released body camera footage of an incident on Nov. 13 in which an officer shot a man attempting to flee on foot.

A federal judge declared a mistrial Thursday in the case against former Louisville Metro Police Department detective Brett Hankison, after a jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict.

The federal trial of former Louisville detective Brett Hankison is drawing to a close. Prosecutors and defense attorneys on Monday attempted to frame the evidence they presented to jurors over the past two weeks, just before the judge sent the 12-member jury out to deliberate.

The ex-Louisville police officer on trial for firing into Breonna Taylor’s apartment the night she was killed testified Thursday he had to react quickly after a fellow officer was shot in the leg during the drug raid.

Prosecutors rested their case against former Louisville police detective Brett Hankison Wednesday afternoon, handing things over to his defense team. The 17-year veteran of the Louisville Metro Police Department is facing two federal civil rights charges for his role in the deadly 2020 raid on Breonna Taylor’s apartment.

Louisville Metro Police Department officers responded to calls about an “active aggressor” at duPont Manual High School and Frederick Law Olmsted Academy North Wednesday morning. But found no evidence of shots fired on arrival.

There were no surprises in Louisville’s local legislative elections Tuesday night, as Metro Council Democrats won districts the party has held since the 2003 merger created the body.

Prosecutors in the federal trial of former Louisville Metro police detective Brett Hankison called prominent witnesses to the stand Friday: Breonna Taylor’s younger sister, Ju’Niyah Palmer, former detective Myles Cosgrove and deputy police chief Paul Humphrey.