While working for the FBI in 1992, Oldham County's police chief answered the call that led to the arrest of Mel Ignatow, who later confessed that he had murdered his fiancée, Brenda Sue Schaefer.

Chief Mike Griffin also worked for the FBI on the case of Shively Police Chief Michael Donio, who was convicted in 1984 of taking bribes from a strip-club operator.

For the last eight years, Griffin has overseen the Oldham County police force as the county's population soared by more than 10,000 people.

Griffin, 68, is retiring Wednesday.

"This is a younger man's game now, and it's time for someone else to come in and steward the department," he said.

Lt. Col. Billy Way will fill in as chief until the end of the year, when the next judge-executive will hire a new chief.

Magistrate David Voegele, the lone candidate for judge-executive, said he is interviewing candidates and may form a committee to advise him during the hiring process.

Griffin worked for the FBI for 22 years. He was working with the agency the day he got a call from someone installing carpet in Ignatow's former home. The installers said they had found jewelry and film canisters. The film was developed and revealed pictures of Schaefer being tortured.

After two years of wrangling, Louisville's Metro Council is finally caving in to pressure from the Justice Resource Center to rename part of 34th Street, in memory of JRC's founder, the late Reverend Louis Coleman, who died in 2008 after a series of seizures. Council member Cheri Bryant Hamilton (D-5th District), who, along with Dr. Judy Green (D-1st District) co-sponsored the name-change proposal, indicated Wednesday that she will introduce a measure to keep the 34th Street name, and put up double signage that also would designate the street with the honorary name of Louis Coleman Jr. Blvd.

The plan is to change the name of 34th Street to Louis Coleman Jr. Blvd. from Parker Avenue on the north to Duvalle Drive on the south. In an interview with Sheldon Shafer of The Courier Journal, Hamilton said, "My preference would be for dual signage" along 34th, reflecting both the 34th and Coleman names. "I can understand people not wanting to go through having to change their address, and all that," she said. "There seems to be a growing consensus that people prefer honorary signage, rather than an official name change."

The top candidates vying to become Louisville's next mayor split endorsements from the city's police and fire unions Wednesday.

The Fraternal Order of Police endorsed Republican Hal Heiner while the firefighters union gave its nod to Democrat Greg Fischer.

Both campaigns claimed victory over their respective endorsements.

"I am very excited by this endorsement. I went back through the interview process.. I am excited to be endorsed by the 2000 officers," Heiner said.

When asked about the firefighters endorsement, Fischer said, "Obviously these guys and gals put their lives on the line everyday. So to get their trust is something I am very proud of."

But only the FOP re-opened its interview process with the candidates following the May primary.

Heiner has not publicly stated whether LMPD Police Chief Robert White would have a role in his administration.

Fischer has said he would retain White.

Heiner says he does not support naming personnel chairs before being elected.

On July 31, The C-J published a lengthy story concerning the disciplinary record of LMPD Officer Charles Moore. As the president of River City FOP Lodge #614 it would be irresponsible for me to publicly discuss the disciplinary record of any officer/member that I represent. However, the article, the interviews cited in the article, and some of the comments regarding the article bring to light some important issues that deserve attention and/or clarification.

There seems to be an assumption by some in the general public that the FOP does or has the ability to impede the disciplinary process as it involves police officers. This is simply not true, and any suggestion or insinuation otherwise is completely inaccurate and disingenuous. In fact, Article 12 of the contract between RCFOP Lodge #614 and Metro Government specifically spells out that disciplinary matters are not subject to the grievance procedure and that all disciplinary matters shall be appealed pursuant to state statute and the rules and regulations of the Police Merit Board. In other words, discipline is handed out at the sole discretion of the Chief of Police and any officer wishing to appeal his/her discipline must do so before the Police Merit Board. So, let us discuss the Police Merit Board.

If you search for information about the murder trial McKenzie Mattingly faced in 2004, you won't find anything in the Jefferson County judicial system.

The files, arrest records and videotapes of the trial are gone. They were expunged after Mattingly, an officer for the Louisville Metro Police Department, was acquitted of murder in the case of Michael Newby. Newby was 19 when he was shot and killed by Mattingly during an undercover drug operation in January 2004.

After the shooting, Mattingly lost his job with the department and was charged with murder. His trial lasted a week and in the end the jury found him not guilty.

While the case was over in the judicial proceedings and the file essentially erased from the record, it was just the beginning for Mattingly. He eventually was reinstated with the department and given back pay. But Mattingly immediately resigned, citing "incompatible working relationship with the police chief."

Mattingly was soured on his experience with the Louisville Metro Police Department's chief, but he wasn't ready to give up on being a police officer. On Monday, more than six years after being cleared of murder charges, he regained that chance after being hired by the Bardstown Police Department as a patrol officer.