David Mattingly

2 weeks ago | wilx.com | David Mattingly |Logan Perrone

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - The final two candidates for JCPS superintendent faced a gauntlet of public scrutiny Tuesday. H. Brian Yearwood left Columbia, Missouri, after schools there raised annual performance scores by 16 points. “Our students must feel valued,” Yearwood told members of the district’s Superintendent Search Advisory Committee. “They must know, hey, we want you here. I don’t care if they come to school with certain traumatic experiences or difficulties, and so on.

2 weeks ago | wave3.com | David Mattingly

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - The final two candidates for JCPS superintendent faced a gauntlet of public scrutiny Tuesday. H. Brian Yearwood left Columbia, Missouri, after schools there raised annual performance scores by 16 points. “Our students must feel valued,” Yearwood told members of the district’s Superintendent Search Advisory Committee. “They must know, hey, we want you here. I don’t care if they come to school with certain traumatic experiences or difficulties, and so on.

2 weeks ago | wave3.com | David Mattingly

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - The Louisville Medical & Education District (LOUMED) is about to get a little greener. The densely developed area dominated by Norton and UofL Health hospitals will soon make room for a public park. “If you go into a strange place and there are lots of hard structures, brick buildings, tall buildings, buildings that come right up to the street,  it’s a little off-putting,” UofL Health Chief Operating Officer Ken Marshall said.

3 weeks ago | wave3.com | David Mattingly

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - During Louisville Metro Police’s biweekly briefing on Thursday, May 15, Chief Paul Humphrey reported violent crime has continued to track below numbers from 2024. Compared to other cities, Louisville has lagged behind in seeing a sustained post-pandemic drop in violent crime. Numbers released today by Chief Humphrey stated that there have been 40 homicides so far this year, which is a 31 percent drop from last year.

3 weeks ago | wave3.com | David Mattingly

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - Since 2018, Karen Cairns has been fighting a losing battle against bamboo. From her backyard deck, she points to bamboo from a neighbor’s yard, taller than the houses, straining against fences and popping up in yards. “It was all under the deck, and all along there, a ton of bamboo,” Cairns said.