Jury deliberations begin Tuesday in the disappearance and presumed death of Bardstown mother Crystal Rogers.

A judge on Tuesday denied motions to acquit two men charged in the disappearance and presumed murder of a young Bardstown mother. The ruling means the case will proceed before a Warren County jury.

Ahead of Oscar Smith’s execution Thursday morning for the murder of his wife and two of her children, people close to the case have expressed a wide span of thoughts and emotions leading up to this day.

Tennessee will execute Oscar Franklin Smith this week, while a lawsuit challenging the state’s new lethal injection protocol makes its way through the court system.

On Thursday, Tennessee plans to carry out its first execution since 2019 by means of lethal injection. It’s the fourth scheduled execution date since 2020 for Oscar Smith, who was convicted of killing his estranged wife Judith Smith and her two sons Jason Burnett and Chad Burnett in 1989.

Clearing its first major hurdle, a Jefferson County judge ruled Monday the victims of the 2023 Old National Bank shooting and their families have the right to sue the gun seller and manufacturer who furnished the shooter.

In Tennessee, prosecutors can charge people for crimes committed by another person, even if they weren’t directly responsible. Activist groups are working with state legislators to change that.

On May 7, actors in New York City will perform a reading of a WPLN News story about rural domestic violence in order to facilitate a conversation about gun violence prevention. WPLN listeners can take part in the live discussion via Zoom.

She told a police officer she was in labor. The Louisville Metro Police Department lieutenant cited her for unlawful camping as the ambulance arrived. She had a baby later that day.

Police officers discovered seven people shot during a 21st birthday party in Florence, Ky., shortly before 3 a.m. Saturday. The suspected shooter later died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.