It’s great that so many celebrities are worried about voter suppression in Kentucky for our primary this year. LeBron James and others fired up the issue on Twitter over the weekend because Lexington and Louisville each have only one in-person polling site on Tuesday due to COVID-19 concerns; Lexington at Kroger Field and Louisville at…… more »
As John Bolton reportedly writes in his new book, President Donald Trump said he would have made Bolton his secretary of state if it wasn’t for that “son of a b**** Rand Paul” from Kentucky. Bolton, who later became Trump’s national security adviser, recalls the March 2018 conversation in which the president brought up Paul…… more »
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — Some Louisville voters received ballots for the June 23 primary election opposite of their party’s registration, the Jefferson County Clerk’s Office confirmed to WDRB News. In Kentucky primaries, a voter can only cast a ballot for the party they’re registered with. “Shock, total shock — like this was not mine,” Andrea…… more »
Burke County, Ga. Sheriff Alfonzo Williams argued Tuesday that Atlanta police officer Garrett Rolfe was “completely justified” in using lethal force against 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks, whose death has sparked a new round of protests and controversy over policing and racial discrimination in the U.S. Brooks was shot as he attempted to flee Rolfe and another…… more »
On April 9, 1865, General Robert E. Lee surrendered his Confederate troops to the Union’s Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, marking the beginning of the end of the grinding four-year-long American Civil War. But it would be more than 16 months before President Andrew Johnson would declare a formal end to the…… more »
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — Thousands of Kentuckians received absentee primary ballots containing an error because of a computer glitch, and some of them worried their votes would not count — or worse, that they might be in legal trouble. Mary Stephany Meadows goes by her middle name, but on the ballot she received, her middle…… more »
One officer has been fired and another placed on administrative duty. A Times video analysis shows the sequence of events leading to the fatal shooting. The Atlanta Police Department said early Sunday that an officer had been fired over the fatal shooting of Rayshard Brooks, 27, at a Wendy’s restaurant. The officer, Garrett Rolfe, who…… more »
In April 2005, Charles Duelfer, the CIA’s top weapons inspector in Iraq, admitted in the CIA’s final report that after an extensive search, no weapons of mass destruction could be found. “After more than 18 months, the WMD investigation and debriefing of the WMD-related detainees has been exhausted,” wrote Duelfer, the leader of the Iraq…… more »
A peaceful march turned physical Saturday morning when a group of protesters confronted Lexington Police Chief Lawrence Weathers during a march organized by the National Bar Association John Rowe Chapter. Later, at a forum on race at Southland Christian Church, protesters chanted as Mayor Linda Gorton tried to speak, with some chanting “white silence is…… more »
Former “Saturday Night Live” star Jay Pharoah said Friday that in February, a police officer kneeled on his neck in a case of mistaken identity. Pharoah released surveillance footage of the encounter along with a message of support for the Black Lives Matter movement. In the 4-minute video, posted to Instagram, the 32-year-old comedian said…… more »
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