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The University of Louisville's education department is the target of a federal investigation that was announced Friday, according the department's outgoing dean.

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Papa John's International is making plans to open 100 new franchise restaurants in Malaysia during the next 10 years.

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With Ford's long-awaited announcement last week that its next-generation, U.S.-market Ford Focus will finally be built on the same vehicle architecture as its European and Asian counterparts , speculation has ...

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A 44-year-old Louisville woman faces charges for a weekend homicide in the Park Duvalle neighborhood.

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The Coast Guard is investigating a minor oil spill on the Ohio River near Louisville.

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Louisville Gas and Electric wants its customers to beware of a telephone scam asking for payment of their utility bill.

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Mayor Jerry Abramson says, "This is the only commitment in the country at this point in time to be able to place additional VA hospitals in the queue for construction." Congressman John Yarmuth secured the ...

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Federal prosecutors confirmed that there is an an ongoing investigation on the University of Louisville campus.

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Kentuckians and Hoosiers struggling with rising prices at the gasoline pump and grocery store may find some savings when insurance bills arrive by mail.

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The U.S. Conference of Mayors has awarded Louisville first place in its annual City Livability Award competition.

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LG&E has issued a warning that someone made calls Wednesday afternoon pretending to be the electric company, trying to get people's banking information.

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Officials say a pilot died Wednesday when a small plane crashed short of a runway and burst into flames at a central Kentucky airport.

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An educational program that for 25 years has aimed at keeping high-performing students in Kentucky when they're finished with college is facing tough financial times because of state budget cuts.

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Louisville Metro Police last night held the second in a series of workshops aimed at helping reduce crime in western Louisville.

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Authorities arrested a man after 19 stolen grave markers were found at his home in Lebanon Junction, south of Louisville.

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A federal parolee who spent more than two decades in prison for verbally threatening former President Jimmy Carter has been charged with murder and tampering with evidence following the death of a woman a a ...

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Tomatoes are coming back on the menus at many U.S restaurants. Louisville, Kentucky-based fast-food company Yum Brands says it is starting to resupply its restaurants with tomatoes from areas that have been ...

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Curlin looked as good in his return to the United States as he did when he left.

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Tom Logano had modest goals for son Joey when the 18-year-old prodigy made his NASCAR Nationwide Series debut last month in Dover.

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Interactive look at Russert's life and career Share your memories of NBC's Tim Russert A people's memorial to Tim Russert is going up outside the NBC Bureau in Washington, D.C. People are leaving flowers, cards ...

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Just a week after area fire fighters stepped up to the plate to collect money for the 55th annual Crusade For Children, one local firefighter's family needs some help of their own, after their home was ...

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The American Red Cross is asking for people to come in and donate blood after they lost close to 600 units due to flooding last week.

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Louisville Mayor Jerry Abramson expects no surprises out of Friday's Ford meeting in Detroit.

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Public health officials say a Louisville woman contracted a salmonella infection as part of a nationwide outbreak being linked to tomatoes.

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Discover Louisville’s most extraordinary shopping, dining and entertainment venues along the historic Frankfort Avenue corridor, during the festive all-American F.A.T. Friday “Freedom Hop” on Friday, June 27, 2008, from 6:00 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.

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The trial will begin in Georgia on Monday in the case of a man who is charged with arranging the contract killing of his daughter-in-law. Chiman Rai is accused of paying $10,000 to have his son's black wife ...

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Police in Louisville believe one person was trying to save the other before both drowned in a pond.

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There were two separate hit-and-run accidents involving pedestrians Friday morning -- one proved to be deadly.

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The effects of a tight state budget are beginning to show up on campus. The University of Louisville's budget cuts more than $6 in expenses and contains no faculty pay raises.

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Amid substantial fanfare, Louisville officials made a strong pitch yesterday to woo the National FFA Organization's lucrative annual convention 'back home.' After 14 cities initially entered the bidding, ...

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Ford Motor plant managers and union representatives from across the country will gather Friday to discuss the company's business plans.

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Some Louisville firefighters celebrated promotions Wednesday morning. Mayor Abramson administered the oath of office to the 19 members of the Division of Fire.

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A Louisville Metro Police officer who was injured in a head-on collision on the Gene Snyder Freeway on Monday remained hospitalized in serious but stable condition yesterday, police said.

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Police say four people are now charged with dumping dozens of meth labs along the side of the road in Louisville.

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His job may not be on the line, but Kentucky's education commissioner has been feeling the heat about his state car.

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This time Andy is exposing a chimney sweep who several customers say is doing a dirty job.

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Members of Congress say some Americans are finding the government-issued coupons intended to help pay for digital television converter boxes are expiring before they can be used.

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Authorities say seven people attending high school graduations in South Carolina are facing charges after police say they cheered while students' names were being called.

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Washington County school board member Pat Clements is under fire after allegations have come out about him hosting an underage drinking party.

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Is it the news anxious Louisville Ford employees have been awaiting? One day after Ford announced it would not be laying off nearly 600 Louisville Assembly Plant workers, the Detroit News reports that the ...

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Union workers at GE's Appliance Park are voting right now on a deal proposed between their union and the company.

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Police are looking for a 17- to 23-year-old male who raped a Louisville woman between 1 a.m. and 2 a.m. on June 2 in southwest Louisville, Detective Ann Cohen said at a press conference.

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A Louisville mother is facing assault charges, after an unusual confrontation with a man in her house.

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DeWayne Warrick had built a waist-high pile of ruined chairs, couch cushions and other furniture on the curb outside his home by Tuesday afternoon.

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The search is on for a man police say is responsible for raping a woman at gunpoint.

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Demolition work at the site of Louisville's new downtown arena may resume Wednesday.

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Two men have been charged with murdering a man last summer in the parking lot of the White Castle at Seventh Street and Broadway.

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Solve one problem and create another. The No-call list has worked so well stopping telemarketers that door-to-door solicitation is on the rise.

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A U.S. Coast Guard spokesman says Ohio River traffic has resumed after the collision of a barge with a concrete wall shut it down for about 8 hours.

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The Louisville Urban League and The Chamber Jeffersontown will hold the Community Career Expo Jeffersontown, on Wednesday, June 25.

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Officials with Florida-based Brown Jordan International Inc. hope to woo retailers at an upcoming trade show with a new furniture line called La-Z-Boy Outdoor Select.

The line, which was designed at BJI's Louisville offices, is set to debut in July at the Summer and Casual Furniture Manufacturers Association Pre-Market show, which will be held in Chicago.

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It's being called some of the worst flooding in a century in southern Indiana. One person is dead and 22 counties have been declared disaster areas in Indiana.

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The pairings are set for this week's Forcht Bank/KHSAA State Baseball Tournament at Applebee's Park in Lexington, Ky. No. 1-ranked Pleasure Ridge Park is among five Top 25 teams in the field, joining No. 4 Apollo, No. 8 Lexington Catholic, No. 16 Harrison County and No. 22 Greenup County.

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Union workers at GE's Appliance Park will vote Wednesday on a proposal to eliminate 183 jobs from the plant's payroll through early retirement, the company said.

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It was the crumpled dollar dropped into a restaurant pickle jar. The $5 crammed into a firefighter's boot at an intersection. The dime that was dropped into a cup at a child's lemonade stand.

It's not just them, it's also the children with the lemonade stand who raise $3, and the $40,000 in pennies we got last year

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Aquila, the Louisville Zoo's one remaining polar bear took a vacation earlier this week.

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One teenager dead and another charged with murder and it appears they were friends.

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Nine-year-old Emma Greenwood thinks it's pretty cool to have a father who is a police officer.

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The air traffic controllers' union is petitioning a federal safety board to reopen its findings on a 2006 plane crash in Kentucky that killed 49 people.

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Ford Motor Co. today reported that May sales of Explorer sport utility vehicles, produced at the Louisville Assembly Plant, decreased 41.2 percent year-over-year. Ford sold 8,122 units in May 2008, compared ...

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The Coast Guard reports that traffic on the Ohio River near downtown Louisville was closed after two barges carrying iron ore sank Friday afternoon.

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Louisville police say two young men were fatally shot when they were apparently breaking into a house.

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Hard work plus dedication equals success. That is the formula Susan Priest lives by.

And, it works.

Susan is an Account Executive with Time Warner Telecom, which is a fiber-based provider of data and voice services to businesses.

If you work hard and believe in yourself, you will succeed

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Clarksville and New Albany police have been investigating at least 4 reported gang rapes in recent months.

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The man who survived an armed robbery, then shot and killed the intruders at one of his rental properties is telling the story.

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Kentucky's attorney general says the explosion in computer criminals warrants a big focus on cybercrime.

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WHAS11 news has learned that General Electric is offering nearly 200 longtime union workers early retirement as part of a deal that would keep it's big warehouse from being sold or outsourced to another ...

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Claude and Chas Stephens, the founders of Generation 14, are 7th generation Louisvillians, and the current heirs to land held by their family since 1790.

They can clearly see how past decisions affect the present, a concept which served as the inspiration to form Generation 14, an environmental consulting company with a mission to help businesses make strategic decisions that will support a healthy and prosperous community.

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Just two weeks ago, Hillary Clinton trounced Barack Obama in the Kentucky primary and judging by one of Clinton's biggest local supporters, Barack Obama has a lot of work to do to win over Clinton voters in the ...

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A second man has died after a home invasion in Louisville's west end. Home invasions by total strangers are not a frequent crime in Louisville.

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A second man has died after a home invasion in Louisville's west end. Home invasions by total strangers are not a frequent crime in Louisville.

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There are more charges against a Bardstown High School drama coach who was charged with sexually abusing a student last month.

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A judge in Louisville has taken the unusual step of unsealing the juvenile record of a man accused of murder as an adult so the public can evaluate if homicide charges against him 12 years ago were properly ...

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Louisville Metro Police are looking for a robbery suspect. Police say this man, robbed the Circle K at 4301 Preston Highway on Sunday at knifepoint.

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Dave Armstrong is a former mayor of Louisville. Dave Armstrong, a former attorney general, Louisville mayor and Jefferson County judge-executive, is the new chairman of the Kentucky Public Service Commission.

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When Christiane (Chris) Benson was diagnosed with Stage 4 Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, she thought her story might be coming to an end.

But one year later, her story seems to be only beginning.

While in the hospital, and during her treatments for the cancer, she would receive gifts from well-meaning friends and family members. The gifts were nice thoughts, she tells us, but for a cancer patient some of them were not useful.

I learned a lot about what cancer patients need because I went through it

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WHAS11 has learned more about the relationship between a weekend homicide victim and the 17-year-old charged with murder in his death.

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There are new developments in the story of the Bullitt County school bus driver who was removed from her job after being charged with driving under the influence of marijuana.

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Elizabethtown Police are investigating a tragic murder. Police say one woman has been killed and her mother in law is the only suspect.

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Louisville Metro Police are trying to locate a man they say is behind numerous sexual assaults against women in Louisville's east end.

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Chuck Wilson may have been born an Air Force brat in Okinawa, but a his family moved to Kentucky a year and a half later and he's been a Louisville resident ever since.

I’m always looking for people with great customer-service exerience

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Louisville police are hoping publicity will help solve a 25-year-old mystery. Ann Gotlib vanished from Bashford Manor Mall on June 1, 1983 and hasn't been found, despite hundreds of tips and hours of ...

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Louisville-based Pizza Hut is turning 50 years old. The world's largest pizza chain is greeting the half-century mark with an updated look that includes plasma TVs, sports bars and local sports memorabilia.

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UPS Inc., the world's largest shipping carrier, said Wednesday it is working toward an agreement with DHL's U.S. Express unit to carry air freight for some DHL units within the United States.

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The records of more than 300 traffic cases were stolen this month from the Jefferson County court archives, leading court officials to update their security and warn citizens of potential identify theft.

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Kentucky and Ohio are feuding over a large rock that may have writings made by Native Americans.

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A section of eastbound Interstate 64 in the Louisville area that was closed when a tractor-trailer turned over has reopened.

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General Electric Chief Executive Jeffrey Immelt said yesterday that companies in South Korea, Mexico and China are among the potential bidders for GE's appliance business.

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Oil futures traded in a narrow range Friday as investors tried to determine whether recent price declines were temporary.

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