The omnibus tough-on-crime bill often called the Safer Kentucky Act passed a Senate committee despite a “no” vote from the committee chair.

After recently accepting a plea agreement, Steven Lopez will serve time in prison for a shooting at a protest in 2020 that killed a local photographer.

Survivors and families of victims of the Old National Bank mass shooting last April are suing River City Firearms for selling the shooter an AR-15 and ignoring his behavior at the time of purchase.

Academy @ Shawnee’s former band director Cyr Wilson has been charged with three counts of rape in the third degree and one count of sex abuse in the first degree.

Kentucky is one of just four states where local and state law enforcement can’t get a warrant to wiretap a criminal suspect’s communications, leaving only federal officials with such powers.

The commissioner of Kentucky’s troubled Department of Juvenile Justice will resign at the end of the year. Vicki Reed helmed the agency amid a series of violent incidents including assaults, rape, riots and a brief escape.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation announced Wednesday they arrested Brooks Houck in connection with the 2015 disappearance of Crystal Rogers from Bardstown, Ky.

In the “Safer Kentucky Act,” Louisville Republican legislators proposed 18 measures that would increase penalties for existing crimes, place restrictions on nonprofit bail funds and ban on “street camping” and homeless encampments in public areas.

Two Kentucky men exonerated for a decades-old killing have settled with the city of Louisville for $20.5 million after spending more than 20 years in prison, lawyers for the men said Friday.

Formerly-incarcerated advocates say the process to clear criminal records is cost and time-prohibitive. A bill in the Kentucky legislature aims to automate the process.