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A U.S. Army private from Kentucky pleaded guilty Friday to charges that he plotted to murder members of his unit in an attack that he planned to carry out in 2020 on behalf of a group that promotes extreme violence to bring about the demise of Western civilization, authorities said. Ethan Phelan Melzer, 24, of Louisville, Kentucky, entered the plea in Manhattan federal court. In court papers, federal authorities say Melzer was already a member of a radical violent group known as the Order of Nine Angles, or 09A, before joining the Army in December 2018.

An Army officer was found negligent and sentenced to four months in prison for failing to follow safety procedures at a Fort Campbell firing range.

The prosecution in Kentucky was thought to be one of the first times in U.S. history that a woman was on trial for self-inducing an abortion.

ALLEN PARK -- The Detroit Lions have signed second-round defensive end pick Josh Paschal to his rookie contract. Lions head coach Dan Campbell said the issue is related to one he worked through at Kentucky, admitting: “Yeah, a little bit. The Lions spent six of their eight picks on the defensive side of the ball, with Aidan Hutchinson and Paschal in this most recent draft. “You hope it’s a foundation for the future,” Lions defensive line coach Todd Wash said of the investments on that side of the ball. “I think I fit as that guy, a big guy, a big defensive end,” Paschal said in early May from Allen Park.

Though Louisville is more diverse than ever, segregation has proven stubborn.

The Kentucky's Supreme Court has issued a sharply divided ruling against the warrantless use of cellphones as tracking devices by police.

“I’ll never have another door hanger.”

Kentucky women’s basketball assistant Gail Goestenkors has retired from on-court coaching but will remain on coach Kyra Elzy’s staff until her replacement is hired.

Hornets center Montrezl Harrell was scheduled to be arraigned Monday.

Self-checkout theft has become so common that a whole new lexicon has sprung up to describe it, including the "banana trick" and "pass around."

Some Mayfield, Kentucky residents who endured a round of powerful tornadoes in December are still in limbo as they pick up the pieces.

Impress your friends during National Bourbon Day with these interesting facts and figures about Kentucky's signature drink.

“It doesn’t take a lot of it to really kill an animal,” a University of Kentucky expert says.

Darrell Taylor, 32, was indicted today by a federal grand jury in Louisville, Kentucky, for using unlawful force against a pretrial detainee while Taylor was an officer at the Louisville Metro Department of Corrections. Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, U.S. Attorney Michael A. Bennett for the Western District of Kentucky and Special Agent in Charge Jodi Cohen for the FBI Louisville Field Office made the announcement. Today’s indictment charges Taylor with one count of deprivation of rights under color of law. The indictment alleges that Taylor used unreasonable force when he assaulted pretrial detainee B.R., resulting in bodily injury to B.R., including a broken jaw. An indictment is merely an allegation and the defendant is presumed innocent unless proven guilty.

The Michigan baseball team’s third straight NCAA Tournament will begin in Louisville, Kentucky. Michigan will open against Oregon in the Louisville regional pic.twitter.com/DECYt6QbpV — Ryan Zuke (@ryanzuke) May 30, 2022The entire 64-team field was announced Monday afternoon on ESPN2. It has been a rollercoaster season for the Wolverines, who needed to win the conference tournament to qualify for the NCAA Tournament. A 1-6 stretch preceded winning three of their final four games of the regular season. Michigan’s pitching, which had a ballooned 7.03 ERA during the regular season, turned the page last week against several of league’s top offenses.

GRAND RAPIDS, MI — A Caledonia-based farm says its lettuce and salad greens are now being sold at Meijer stores across Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky and Wisconsin. Revolution Farms grows its products inside a three-acre greenhouse in Caledonia, and says they are grown using less water and land than other farms that grow lettuce and salad greens. “Supporting local farms and carrying the freshest, most nutritious ingredients is important to us and to our customers,” Sarah Jennings, a produce buyer at Meijer, said in a news release. Frey, a Grand Rapids native who previously spent nearly a decade in Hood River, Oregon, running a small, outdoor apparel company, was the company’s first CEO. Frey and Steketee are no longer with the company.

Ted Cruz is also scheduled to speak at the event, which will be held in Houston, just a few hours' drive from the mass shooting in Uvalde.

Kentucky Derby winner Rich Strike remains on track to race in the Belmont Stakes on June 11.

Early Voting won the 2022 Preakness Stakes, outracing Epicenter and Creative Minister. Early Voting came into the race as one of the favorites to win.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, along with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and others have been investigating a multistate outbreak of salmonella senftenberg infections and they are linked to a product so many of us enjoy daily.

A tornado reportedly touched down in southeastern Illinois, knocking down trees and damaging a high school in Mount Carmel.

Rep. Madison Cawthorn is facing a challenge, supported by major state GOP figures. One Democratic House primary may have been reshaped by the abortion rights debate. And a key Senate race will be set.

Among Kentucky's competitive primaries: U.S. Senate, and Districts 3 and 4 for the U.S. House.

The governor's race has top billing, as Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin, who has the endorsement of former President Donald Trump, is challenging sitting Republican Gov. Brad Little.

The GOP Senate contest is a tight three-way race, despite Donald Trump trying to boost TV doctor Mehmet Oz. There's also a high-stakes race for governor.

A term-limited Gov. Kate Brown means there's an open race for governor. And Democratic Rep. Kurt Schrader faces a progressive challenger.

A Republican congressman whom Donald Trump once called a “third rate Grandstander” and a “disaster” for Kentucky coasted to victory Tuesday in his primary election. Rep. Thomas Massie had angered Trump by opposing a massive COVID-19 relief package in 2020 when he was in the White House.

Kentucky Derby runner-up Epicenter has been set as the morning line favorite for the Preakness.

Voters prepare to cast their ballots for primaries in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Kentucky, Idaho and Oregon.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky celebrated Kalush Orchestra’s win in the Eurovision song contest as the war raged at home.

Perry told Chelsea Handler that “it reminds you that Hollywood is not America.”

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell says senators who visited Ukraine on Saturday have reaffirmed that the U.S. will back Ukraine until it wins its war with Russia.

The assignment asked kids to write a letter to an imaginary gay friend expressing that "homosexuality will not bring them satisfaction."

Several states are asking voters in coming months to amend state constitutions in hopes of permanently changing abortion rights.

The NWS filmed a straight-lined wind storm system moving through Sioux Falls on May 12, 2022.

Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) blocked the passage of the $39.8 billion House-passed Ukraine aid after Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) presented a unanimous consent on behalf of himself and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell today. Schumer urged Paul to pass the bill and claimed that the Senator from Kentucky wanted to add certain changes directly to the bill, which have been opposed by members of both parties. Paul asserted that the aid amount will almost equal the entire military budget of Russia and that the U.S. will have to borrow the money from China to send it to Ukraine.

Kentucky Derby winner Rich Strike will not run in the Preakness.

Former President Donald Trump was so late he only got to watch the Derby itself, but posed for photos with everyone who went to the event, one attendee told the Herald-Leader.

Rich Strike came charging up the rail to overtake the leaders in the closing strides for a stunning 80-1 upset in the Kentucky Derby.

Anyone anticipating a return to normalcy in the Kentucky Derby got a dose of crazy Saturday when an 80-1 shot came charging up the rail to win at Churchill Downs. With favorite Epicenter and Zandon engaged in a duel at the front, Rich Strike stole the show with the second-biggest upset in the Derby's 148-year history. The chestnut colt beat 4-1 favorite Epicenter by three-quarters of a length.

Former U.S. President Donald Trump attended the 2022 Kentucky Derby and made an appearance at a political fundraiser held at Churchill Downs.

Longshot and final entry Rich Strike has crossed the finish line first in the 148th Kentucky Derby, outracing favorite Epicenter and Zandon.

There are two types of people who watch the Kentucky Derby: Those who bet money and want to win, and spectators who just want to admire the strange names given to the horses.

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Bob Baffert has been the face of American horse racing for nearly 30 years.

A deal for Drug Free Sport International to police medication in horse racing is in place two months before the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority takes effect.

The Supreme Court is leaving in place the illegal campaign contributions conviction of Kentucky businessman and former Democratic Party chief, Jerry Lundergan.

The Supreme Court is leaving in place the illegal campaign contributions conviction of Kentucky businessman and former Democratic Party chief, Jerry Lundergan. The high court on Monday turned away Lundergan's appeal of his conviction. Lundergan and a codefendant were convicted in 2019 of orchestrating a scheme to funnel illegal contributions to the failed 2014 U.S. Senate campaign of Lundergan's daughter, Alison Lundergan Grimes.

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Grammy Award-winning singer Naomi Judd, who performed at the CMT Awards earlier this month, has died at age 76, her daughters Wynonna and Ashley Judd said on Sunday. The sisters said they lost their mother "to the disease of mental illness."

Louisville's mayoral race is taking place in a city roiled by racial tension, a spike in gun violence and deep misgivings many harbor about the Louisville police department.

Another draft pick, another defensive lineman taken for the Detroit Lions. With their first pick in the second round of the 2022 draft, the Lions picked up defensive end Josh Paschal of Kentucky on Friday night.

ALLEN PARK -- Last year, Brad Holmes used two of his first three draft picks on the defensive line. The Detroit Lions have selected Kentucky defensive end Josh Paschal in the second round of the NFL draft. He joins Michigan edge rusher Aidan Hutchinson and Alabama receiver Jameson Williams in this year’s draft class, and is the fourth high draft pick invested in a defensive line that suddenly looks very different. Levi Onwuzurike was added in the second round of last year’s draft, while Alim McNeill was added in the third round. Paschal was added with the 46th overall pick, which Detroit added in the trade up for Jameson Williams.

Relatives say a 22-year-old former U.S. Marine has been killed alongside Ukrainian forces in the war with Russia, in the first known death of an American citizen fighting in Ukraine.

Janelle Monáe revealed that she does not conform to the traditional gender binary in a new interview that premiered on “Red Table Talk."

In a victory for abortion rights advocates, the judge blocked a law that effectively eliminated abortions in Kentucky after the state's two remaining clinics said they couldn't meet its requirements.

The law, passed last week, had halted all abortions across the state.

Kentucky forward Oscar Tshiebwe says he will return for his senior season with the Wildcats after a breakout season in which he swept national player of the year awards.

Officials in Kentucky say the nation's last stockpiles of a deadly chemical agent have been safely eliminated.

A teenager from Kentucky is recovering after suffering an apparent shark bite while vacationing in Gulf Shores. Blake Berry, 17, said he was in waist-deep water last Tuesday when he felt something clamp on to his ankle. “I felt a little flabbergasted - like what just happened to me?” Berry told WCPO. “I’m super grateful.”Berry was bit by what was estimated to be an 8-foot-long bull shark. He was taken to the hospital where he required surgery and more than 50 stitches.

Mississippi is ditching a state song that’s based on the campaign tune of a former governor who pledged to preserve segregation.

Measures in Kentucky, Florida and Oklahoma are among new limits being passed ahead of a much-anticipated Supreme Court ruling this summer.

Investigators said Gilday told them he was determined to get access to a bunker in the multi-million dollar home and was willing to kill everyone inside.

Two lawsuits were filed after the state's Republican-controlled legislature overrode Democratic Gov. Beshear's veto of a restrictive abortion bill.

An Illinois man has been sentenced to a year in prison after admitting he illegally caught sturgeon and sold the fish roe to a caviar distributor in Tennessee.

As states across the country rush to pass antiabortion restrictions ahead of the Supreme Court decision expected this summer, abortion rights advocates say Kentucky will be the first state forced to halt all abortion procedures. The law takes effect immediately.

Abortion-rights groups claim the law is "impossible to comply with," making it a "de facto abortion ban" in violation of Roe v. Wade.

Abortion-rights groups claim the law is "impossible to comply with," making it a "de facto abortion ban" in violation of Roe v. Wade.

Kentucky's governor says a Japanese battery technology company will build a $2 billion factory in Kentucky, creating 2,000 jobs.

Oscar Tshiebwe of Kentucky has won the John R.

The Indiana State Police say they used genealogical data and crime scene evidence to link an Iowa man who died in 2013 to the killings of three female motel clerks and sexual assault of a fourth in Indiana and Kentucky from 1987 through 1990.

North Carolina, Duke and Kansas are bona fide basketball bluebloods, the best of the best in the men's college game.

Twelve people, including three U.S. Army soldiers, are accused in a large-scale gun trafficking ring that prosecutors allege supplied nearly 100 guns to gang members in Chicago.

The bodies of four Marines who died in a military aircraft crash during a NATO exercise have been transferred back to the U.S. The U.S. Marine Corps said an Osprey aircraft crashed on March 18 in a Norwegian town in the Arctic Circle, killing the four Marines.

Bob Baffert has transferred four of his promising 3-year-old colts to other trainers, which will allow them to earn qualifying points for the Kentucky Derby while the Hall of Fame trainer appeals his 90-day suspension.

Michigan and Kentucky stood out in a study examining the men’s and women’s NCAA Tournament brackets based on graduation rates, academic success and diversity in the head coaching ranks.

Here's a pretty safe bet: last week was the first time ever that two St. Peter's University men's basketball games landed among the Nielsen company's top 20 shows.

March Madness is finally part of the women’s NCAA Tournament vernacular and the first round has so far aptly fit that phrase.

A federal judge has ruled that a former Kentucky clerk violated the constitutional rights of two same-sex couples, who were among those to whom she wouldn’t issue marriage licenses.

Tiny Saint Peter’s took down basketball royalty, getting 27 points from Daryl Banks III in an 85-79 overtime victory over second-seeded Kentucky in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.

Kentucky's Rhyne Howard has become the ninth player in women’s basketball history to earn first-team Associated Press All-America honors three times.

Kennedy Chandler scored 19 points, Zakai Zeigler added 11 and No. 9 Tennessee held off fifth-ranked Kentucky 69-62 in the final minutes to reach the Southeastern Conference Tournament final for the third time in the last five years.

South Carolina is still No. 1 in The Associated Press women’s basketball poll despite suffering its second loss of the season.

Florida forward Keyontae Johnson got a ceremonial start on senior day against No. 7 Kentucky.

An industry group says American whiskey exports have started rebounding, but distillers have yet to fully recover.

A Kentucky jury has cleared a former police officer who fired shots during the 2020 drug raid that ended with Breonna Taylor’s death.

The Supreme Court has ruled that Kentucky’s Republican attorney general may continue defending a restriction on abortion rights that had been struck down by lower courts.

United States border officials seized a box of Lucky Charms that was stuffed with marijuana, authorities said.

One of the nation’s leading police research groups is calling on the Justice Department to study how police use less-lethal weapons like tear gas and bean-bag guns.

Brett Hankison said he believed the Louisville officers who raided Breonna Taylor’s apartment were taking fire from an AR-15 rifle.

A Democratic mayoral candidate in Kentucky’s largest city said he is “shaken but safe” after a man stormed his campaign headquarters and fired a weapon directly at him.

Gonzaga has reclaimed the No. 1 ranking in The Associated Press men’s college basketball poll.

Jury selection began this week for the trial of a former Kentucky police officer who took part in a botched raid that left Breonna Taylor dead.

Jury selection has resumed for the high-profile trial of a former Kentucky police officer involved in the deadly raid that killed Breonna Taylor.

The questioning of potential jurors has been delayed for the trial of a former Kentucky police officer involved in a botched raid that killed Breonna Taylor.

Auburn remains No. 1 in The Associated Press men’s college basketball poll for the second straight week.

The century-old Mayfield First United Methodist Church has long been an anchor in its Western Kentucky town, home to countless worship services, weddings, funerals and baptisms.

Kellan Grady scored eight points in overtime, including consecutive 3-pointers about a minute apart, and Sahvir Wheeler added two free throws to lift No. 12 Kentucky over Mississippi State 82-74 on Tuesday night.

Auburn has climbed past Gonzaga and into the No. 1 spot in the AP Top 25 men's college basketball poll for the first time ever.

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