At least three people are dead and as many as three more injured in an outbreak of shootings Thursday afternoon near West Broadway.

At 1 p.m., police received a report of multiple shootings in the 1000 block of 32nd Street. When they arrived at the scene, they found two men dead of gunshot wounds, police spokesman Dwight Mitchell said. A third man was taken to University Hospital with life-threatening injuries.

Louisville Metro Government has presented new EMS and Corrections contracts to a Metro Council committee.

The contracts are for five years and cover 230 EMS workers and 403 Corrections workers. New provisions in the contracts mandate that employees must work more than 40 hours a week before receiving overtime. Sick time and vacation time do not count as time worked.

Louisville Metro Councilwoman Barbara Shanklin has been under fire for keeping her grandson on her City Hall payroll despite numerous criminal charges.

After first suspending her grandson, on Tuesday she fired him. WDRB was the only TV station there when Shanklin made her unexpected announcement.

A Louisville man and woman were arrested after police said the duo stole items from purses during a Sunday church service.

Churchgoers told police they witnessed the crimes inside Second Presbyterian Church on Old Brownsboro Road. An officer caught up with the suspects outside a nearby PNC Bank, using what police called a perfect description of the pair.

A Louisville Metro Police Officer shot and killed a dog Thursday after the dog attacked a mail carrier in the Fincastle neighborhood.

It happened on Loudoun Trace near Westport Road.

"The way that animal was throwing her around, the poor lady didn't have a chance," said a witness who didn't want her identity known.

A west Louisville family is reliving a nightmare, the slaying of a loved one, at the same location they lost another nearly four decades ago.

On Monday night, 49-year-old Dana Maurice Loud was gunned down on Louis Coleman Drive near Vermont Avenue.

Loud's slaying is the latest incident in an area where crime has become the norm.

I was recently contacted by several friends regarding “rumors” that KRS 15.520, known as the Police Officers Bill of Rights was being scuttled, abandoned, violated etc. in favor of the powers that be.

There are various rulings that have come out of the various Circuit Courts which were upheld by the court of appeals in recent years that seem to be fueling these rumors. The main issue stems from broad appeals where complainants/defendants are basing their defense upon 15.520 and the differences found therein regarding investigations brought forth by departments alleging misconduct vs. by those brought forth in the form of a citizen complaint.

Cannons Lane was shut down in both directions at I-64 Sunday evening after shots were fired at an officer during a police pursuit.

It happened during a foot chase near Cannons Lane and Winchester Road not far from I-64.

The incident started when a suspect attempted to rob a store in the 800 block of Blankenbaker.