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Police in Bullitt County are investigating an apparent hate crime at a convenience store. Someone reportedly broke into Jacob’s Smoke Shop in a shopping center off of Highway 44 and tore up just about everything inside. They had also splattered paint all over the walls, and spray painted a message one of the walls . [...]

A Western Kentucky University student from Elizabethtown has won the Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Award. Andrew Gott and another WKU student won for their poster presentation at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society held in Austin in January.

State Representative Linda Belcher-a democrat from Shepherdsville-has introduced a measure that would make it legal for Kentucky counties to pay coroners to cremate unclaimed bodies, rather than bury them. Cremation cost far less than a burial. The Courier Journal says the bill has passed the House and is on its way to the state senate. [...]

A Radcliff man has been arrested along with a Louisville resident on drug charges. Louisville police stopped a car for expired plates, and they say when they got closer to the vehicle, they could hear police scanner dispatches. The passenger in the car had a phone app that allows him to monitor police scanners. He [...]

Kristie Allen’s death has officially been ruled a homicide. LaRue County Coroner Todd Skaggs says the 28-year-old’s cause of death is asphyxia, a type of suffocation. Allen was found dead in December inside a Buffalo residence where she was house sitting. The Larue County Herald says the man seen feeling from the murder scene in [...]

We were telling you last week that the superintendent of Bullitt County schools was considering outsourcing the custodial work at all the schools, in the hopes of saving some money. Now WAVE 3 is reporting the idea is off the table. Superintendent Keith Davis says the school board was swamped with e-mails, phone calls, and [...]