Rick has been a member of the WFPL News team since 2001 and has covered numerous beats and events over the years. Most recently he’s been tracking the Indiana General Assembly and the region’s passion for sports, especially college basketball.
More than two dozen teenagers and adult advisors from across the state are spending several days tackling issues that affect teen health such as obesity, pregnancy, drugs, bullying and suicide.
Institute director Stacie Steinbock says the teenagers will be expected to come up with a plan of action to take back to their hometowns.
A three-mile stretch of Interstate 65 northbound in downtown Louisville will be shut down this weekend to allow for repaving work.
The northbound lanes of I-65 from the Watterson Expressway to Chestnut Street will be closed from 7:00 this evening until 5:00am Monday.
Andrea Clifford with the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet says it’s more efficient to shut down the entire stretch than to allow limited traffic and pave one lane at a time.
For the second time this week, the reopening of a busy portion of Louisville’s Spaghetti Junction has been delayed.
The exit ramps from Interstate-65 northbound to I-64 west and east and northbound I-71 have been closed since June 25 as part of the larger Kennedy Bridge repair project.
Planned Parenthood of Indiana has won an administrative victory in its opposition to a state law that seeks to block Medicaid funding for the reproductive services organization.
But the standoff with the state over the 2011 statute is far from over.
A federal hearing officer has upheld an earlier ruling by Medicaid officials that the state law denies women the freedom to choose their health care providers.
Information for this story also came from the Associated Press
Jockey John Velazquez says he continues to heal from an injury suffered in a spill last month at Churchill Downs and hopes to be racing again later this month.
Velazquez says doctors have cleared him to begin exercising horses next week. He suffered a broken collarbone June 16 when the horse he was riding in the ninth race at Churchill broke down.
Velazquez won the Belmont Stakes aboard Union Rags June 9 and is hoping to ride the colt in the Haskell Invitational on July 29.
The newly-established Kentucky High School Basketball Hall of Fame will induct its first class Saturday.
The inaugural class has 16 members---players and coaches from the 1940s through the 1990s.
The class includes Louisville Male High School’s Darrell Griffith and Seneca’s Wes Unseld, both of whom would go on to play for the University of Louisville and in the NBA.
Rex Chapman of Owensboro Apollo and Richie Farmer of Clay County will be inducted. They both went on to star at the University of Kentucky. Chapman also played in the NBA.
