Isaiah Kim-Martinez
Senior Reporter at WHAS-TV (Louisville, KY)
Senior Reporter at @WHAS11 – Formerly w/@newschannelnine & @NBC6Sports – Don’t settle for average! South Florida Boy ☀️
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5 days ago |
whas11.com | Isaiah Kim-Martinez
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A prominent Kentucky nonprofit group says the Trump administration and its Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) defunded the organization overnight. Kentucky Humanities is calling it a "wake-up call," telling WHAS11 its $850,000 in yearly federal grant money was cut in early April, about the same time record rainfall and historic flooding pounded the state. The organization's executive director, Bill Goodman, says they're losing 70 percent of their operating budget.
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6 days ago |
whas11.com | Isaiah Kim-Martinez
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Kentucky's public universities and K-12 school districts are on the clock to decide how to respond to state and federal directives to eliminate Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) programs from their campuses. Changes are coming to the University of Louisville in a race to comply with Kentucky’s new anti-DEI law, set to go into effect by the end of June.
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1 week ago |
whas11.com | Isaiah Kim-Martinez
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — After 9 days of what the Louisville Mayor called “biblical weather” and catastrophic flooding – the worst downtown has seen since 1997 – the focus is now on a rapid cleanup before the Kentucky Derby in May.
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1 week ago |
whas11.com | Isaiah Kim-Martinez
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The spirited effort by Kentucky State Rep. Jason Nemes (R-Middletown) to allow the state to destroy cars used in street takeovers came up just short this year. Deemed the "car crushing" bill, House Bill 465, would have cracked down on illegal street racers, but it failed to get the full Kentucky Senate’s approval needed to become law. And it appears the crushing element, which would have applied on a second offense, was the sticking point.
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2 weeks ago |
whas11.com | Isaiah Kim-Martinez
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Experts say it’s a miracle the powerful EF-3 tornado that ripped through Jeffersontown last week didn’t strike a subdivision. “There’s tremendous damage, but no one died. It’s amazing,” Meteorologist John Gordon, a WHAS11 special contributor and former head of the National Weather Service in Louisville, said.
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Evidence that the flood waters have receded some here on the Great Lawn by the river. Plenty of debris, alongside that infamous boat that we saw floating in that same spot days ago. The city is inviting the community to help clean up here 9 am-Noon tomorrow https://t.co/mirKMqic2S
The Ohio River may have crested yesterday, but it’s going to take days for the flood waters to recede in Louisville @WHAS11 @WHAS11Doug This stretch of Mellwood Ave is currently a river in its own right https://t.co/LfPLRWXDak
RT @AlyssaKNewton: Kentucky's state capitol has been one of the hardest hit areas by floods. Frankfort's community now has parts of the c…