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.
The 71-year-old Dickson is the longest-serving current member of the five-member Supreme Court and became the acting chief justice when Randall Shepard retired in March. He was sworn as chief justice by Gov. Mitch Daniels during a Statehouse ceremony today.
Dickson takes over a court in transition. After 10 years of no changes, the court has its third vacancy in the past two years.
The stretch will be shut down starting Friday evening to allow for interchange improvements.
"This section is commonly known by people in the area as Old Brownsboro Road, and it’s the section between U.S. 42 and Warrington Way," says Andrea Clifford with the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet
UPDATE: Several hundred LG&E customers were still without service across the Louisville area as of midday today. Duke Energy says several dozen southern Indiana residents were still without power.
Delta Air Lines is sending termination notices to Comair employees, as Delta begins shutting down its shrunken, 35 year old regional carrier and switches to bigger jets.
Comair is down to 290 flights a day. More than 1,000 of the carrier's remaining 1,700 Comair employees are in the Cincinnati and northern Kentucky region, some 700 of those in Kentucky.
Comair has slashed its fleet, flights and workforce in the last seven years. Delta said the smaller regional planes are expensive to fly because they are not as fuel-efficient and cost more to maintain as the fleet ages.
The Kennedy Memorial Bridge deck replacement project is nearly complete.
The $18 million repair job began June 21, forcing the closure of two or more lanes of traffic in each direction, shutting down several ramps and causing daily traffic delays.
The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet’s Andrea Clifford says all lanes and ramps at the bridge are scheduled to be open by next Wednesday, August 1.
Indiana House Minority Leader Patrick Bauer says he won't resign from his leadership post and believes his fellow Democrats will be making a mistake if they try to oust him before the November election.
Bauer held a Statehouse news conference Wednesday amid reports his caucus would meet Thursday in Lafayette to vote to remove him as its leader.
The lingering drought has led the U.S. Department of Agriculture to declare a natural disaster in 14 more of Indiana's 92 counties.
The USDA added the north-central Indiana counties today. Along with adjacent counties, they qualify for low-interest relief loans from the federal government.
Fifty counties earlier had been declared natural disaster areas.
The extended drought has brought has given people in northeastern Indiana a glimpse of history.
Receding waters in the Salamonie Reservoir have revealed the remains of Monument City. It was one of several small towns bulldozed and submerged to make way for the Army Corps of Engineers flood control project.
What was left of Monument City had been under water since 1967, but the reservoir is now 14 feet below its regular summer level, revealing stone foundations, roads and the remnants of trees.
The University of Louisville has begun raising funds for an $8 million academic center for student athletes. The project is getting a boost from Maker's Mark.
The bourbon maker is donating proceeds from a commemorative bottle featuring U of L football coach Charlie Strong.
More than 8,000 of the bottles went on sale at retail outlets last Friday and quickly sold out.
Information for this story also came from the Associated Press
The Indiana State Department of Heath has launched a new website aimed at making it easier for parents to keep track of their children’s vaccination records.
The site, paid for with federal stimulus dollars, is called MyVaxIndiana.
Parents can log into the site with a personal identification number provided by their doctor, health department or child’s school.
