Louisville landmarks work together to attract tourists and other top stories.

• Louisville landmarks work together to attract tourists

  

  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Eight landmarks in Louisville are working together to promote history and attract tourists. Officials say the sites have united to form National Historic Landmarks of Louisville. The group comprises Actors Theatre, Belle of Louisville, Churchill Downs' Twin Spires, Life-Saving Station #10, Locust Grove, Louisville Water Company Pumping Station No.1 and Water Tower, the U.S. Marine Hospital and Zachary Taylor's Boyhood Home. National Historic Landmarks of Louisville says i..

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• Welcome home: Spring 2017 guide to Louisville living

  

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• See where Louisville ranks on this list of the top meeting destinations

  

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• We now have a better idea of who Ford will be cutting loose

  

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• 35+ must-see art exhibits May 21 & beyond in Louisville

  

  Artist Robert Pruitt's open pages for "Fantastic Sagas #3," is part of "Pulp Art: Out of the gutter and on the walls" at The Carnegie Center for Art & History.(Photo: Courtesy The Carnegie Center for Art & History.)21C Museum. 700 W. Main St. “The Future is Female.” Ends June 30. 502-217-6300.849 Gallery at the Kentucky College of Art + Design, 849 S. Third St. Senior Thesis by Kentucky College of + Design seniors. Ends June 30.B. Deemer Gallery. 2650 Frankfort Ave. “The Dance of Light,’ pastel..

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• SWAT: A full-time job in Louisville

  

  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WHAS11) — After a bad year as well as a record year last year in Metro Louisville for homicides and shootings, the city is looking at more of the same for 2017.In November, the Louisville Metro Police Department’s highly trained SWAT teams went full-time, and it’s been a full-time job going after Louisville’s Most Wanted.SWAT says it’s on pace this year to serve over 200 “high-risk warrants.”“Even in Louisville, the murder rate's gone up, becoming a more violent city,” full..

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• Louisville Event Invites You To Explore 'Your Place In Space'

  

  About a year ago, MaryLiz Bender attended a lecture by Stephen Watson, a NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory engineer, about the Juno mission to Jupiter. At the time, Bender was working as a web developer at a startup and had just casually joined the Louisville Astronomical Society. “But this was a turning point,” Bender says. “I was so incredibly inspired and so emotional after the fact, I went up to [Watson], I asked him a ton of questions about the software they used to communicate with the space..

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• 21 must-see concerts in Louisville May 18-24

  

  Man playing guitar on stage(Photo: Getty Images/Comstock Images)Kirk Franklin, Jay and The Team. St. Stephen Church, outside, 1018 S. 15th St., 6 p.m. Saturday, May 20. General admission, $25 (bring your chair); reserved seating, $50. 502-583-6798.Justin Townes Earle. Headliner’s Music Hall, 1836 Lexington Road, 9 p.m. Friday, May 19. $18 advance, $20 day of show. www.headlinerslouisville.com.Kentucky Opera’s Sidecar Concert. Mercury Ballroom, 611 S. 4th St., 9 p.m. Friday, May 19. Stephanie Bly..

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• Chickasaw residents slam local rubber company's request to ease ...

  

  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- At what cost will it take to guarantee clean air to residents of the Chickasaw neighborhood? “We have people in our neighborhood who are suffering from illnesses that can be attributable or agitated by chemicals coming from those chemical plants,” says Eboni Cochran, who has lived in the Chickasaw neighborhood for 14 years.Cocrah was just one person packed into the final public meeting Wednesday addressing the request of American Synthetic Rubber Company to ease restric..

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• Red Hot Chili Peppers Heat Up the Yum! Center: Louisville.com ...

  

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