Fri Nov 20, 2009 3:26 PM EST
A Kentucky appeals court upheld a $6.1 million award to a former fast food worker who was forced to strip in a McDonald's restaurant office after someone called posing as a police officer.
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Tue Nov 10, 2009 12:03 PM EST
An Air Force veteran and a one-time contractor who served in Iraq are suing military contractors Halliburton Co. and KBR Inc., accusing the companies of exposing them to toxic fumes by burning everything from human remains to tires in massive open-air pits.
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Tue Oct 13, 2009 4:47 PM EDT
Prosecutors are saying a Kentucky man who served about nine years in prison for a shooting death and robbery is innocent.
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Fri Sep 18, 2009 5:12 PM EDT
Bart Curtis knows running and conditioning are part of preparing football players for a game.
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Fri Sep 18, 2009 4:10 PM EDT
A Kentucky doctor has reached a $5 million settlement with the federal government over the deaths of her husband and 8-year-old daughter, who died after flooding washed them over a 184-foot waterfall at a national park in Hawaii.
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Fri Aug 28, 2009 3:28 AM EDT
A coroner's report completed months before a high school football coach was charged with reckless homicide in a player's death declared the death an accident.
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Thu Aug 27, 2009 2:49 PM EDT
A military contractor under investigation on allegations he overbilled and did faulty repair work on Navy and Army aircraft has been charged with threatening to kill witnesses in the case, according to a complaint unsealed Thursday.
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Fri Jul 31, 2009 6:03 PM EDT
A former federal prosecutor was appointed Friday to represent a woman charged with trying to extort Louisville coach Rick Pitino, three weeks after her prior attorney quit the case citing "irreconcilable differences" with her.
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Mon Jun 29, 2009 2:43 PM EDT
The University of Kentucky Athletics Association says former Kentucky basketball coach Billy Gillispie has sued the wrong people and in the wrong place.
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Fri Jun 12, 2009 1:04 PM EDT
The Jockeys' Guild and its one-time head have settled a long-running legal dispute, a key step toward allowing the organization to emerge from bankruptcy proceedings.
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Sat May 23, 2009 12:04 PM EDT
The beautiful, dark-haired girl in the photograph stands near a wall in pre-invasion Iraq. What is unseen and now lost, her family says, is her dream of moving to the big city and getting married.
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Wed May 13, 2009 8:29 PM EDT
A former soldier convicted of raping an Iraqi teenager and murdering the girl and her family "signed his own name" to a death sentence because of the brutality of the killing spree, a federal prosecutor said Wednesday.
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Wed May 6, 2009 5:39 PM EDT
A former soldier who could be sentenced to death for rape and murder in Iraq had an unusually stressful combat tour in a unit that suffered heavy casualties and didn't get sufficient Army leadership, two former Marine officers testified Wednesday.
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Fri Apr 24, 2009 7:32 PM EDT
A former U.S. Army soldier accused of raping and killing a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and slaying her family was upset after losing several friends in combat but didn't appear to struggle more than anyone else in his unit, one of his commanding officers testified.
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Fri Apr 24, 2009 4:58 PM EDT
College tuition. Two cars. A fully paid off house. Ten million dollars. That's what the FBI says the estranged wife of an equipment manager tried to extort from Louisville men's basketball coach Rick Pitino.
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Tue Mar 3, 2009 6:16 PM EST
A high school football coach behaved recklessly by adding sprints to the end of practice on a blistering hot day, a prosecutor said, explaining for the first time why he was charged with reckless homicide in a player's death.
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Wed Feb 25, 2009 11:46 AM EST
Former western Kentucky landowners and their families are not entitled to compensation for their property the U.S. government used to build a military camp at the start of World War II, a federal court said in 2-1 ruling Wednesday, ending a 15-year legal battle in the case.
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Tue Nov 25, 2008 9:33 AM EST
There will be no Who-ville in Louisville this Christmas.
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Mon Nov 24, 2008 3:18 PM EST
A lawsuit can continue against the Vatican alleging that top church officials should have warned the public or authorities of known or suspected sexual abuse of children by priests in the Archdiocese of Louisville, a federal appeals court ruled Monday.
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Wed Nov 19, 2008 2:26 PM EST
John Delaney faced the toughest moment of his legal career — his condemned client wanted to drop his appeals and die by injection, an act Delaney opposed and had been trained to try to prevent.
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Tue Nov 11, 2008 1:39 PM EST
The head of a Kentucky-based Ku Klux Klan organization led a failed plot to kill the co-founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups and challenges white supremacists, a former Klan member testified Thursday.
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Thu Nov 6, 2008 4:54 PM EST
A sale to buy a minority interest in Horse of the Year Curlin failed to produce an acceptable offer.
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Wed Oct 22, 2008 12:35 PM EDT
A former Army soldier accused of raping and killing an Iraqi teen and slaying her family was a "chatterbox" after his arrest, voluntarily making nearly two dozen statements while in custody, prosecutors said in court documents filed Wednesday.
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Thu Sep 25, 2008 2:56 PM EDT
A Kentucky man who claims his penis was removed without his consent during what was supposed to be a circumcision has sued the doctor who performed the surgery.
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Tue Aug 26, 2008 5:54 PM EDT
A federal judge in Kentucky has upheld civilian charges against a former 101st Airborne Division soldier accused in the sexual assault of an Iraqi teenager and the slayings of her and her family.
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