Richard Essex
Broadcast Reporter at WDRB-TV (Louisville, KY)
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1 week ago |
wdrb.com | Richard Essex
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Kentucky's state-owned fiber optic network once touted as the solution to Kentucky’s digital divide is now at the center of a contentious debate over its management and potential. Top Stories The Kentucky Communications Network Authority (KCNA), the board responsible for overseeing the state’s broadband infrastructure, went into closed session Thursday to discuss pending litigation.
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1 week ago |
wdrb.com | Richard Essex
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A severed line in Kentucky’s statewide broadband network has reignited tensions between state officials and a private company tasked with helping expand high-speed internet across the commonwealth. The KentuckyWired network, which provides internet backbone service to public institutions, took a hit during flooding several weeks ago. A portion of the line connecting Frankfort to Somerset was severed—disrupting a cable that contains 288 strands of fiber.
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1 week ago |
wdrb.com | Richard Essex
FRENCH LICK, Ind. (WDRB) — More than 20 vehicles once owned by former Clark County Sheriff Jamey Noel hit the auction block Friday, and every single one of them sold — including a white Ford Crown Victoria, a decommissioned ambulance, and a Lincoln Town Car with a bullet hole in the hood. Even though several of the cars didn’t start and had to be left in the parking lot, interest in the auction was high.
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2 weeks ago |
wdrb.com | Richard Essex
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2 weeks ago |
wdrb.com | Richard Essex
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — A Louisville mother is calling for action after her front porch security camera captured a terrifying crash over the weekend — a car flying through the air and slamming into a tree, just feet away from where her daughter had been sitting. Katelyn Tucker said it sounded like a train roaring through her neighborhood on Northwestern Parkway. "It sounded like a train," Tucker recalled.
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