Governor-elect Holcomb announces name during opening ceremony. The East End Crossing opened to traffic Sunday, December 18, following an earlier opening ceremony, marking completion of the $2.3 billion Louisville-Southern Indiana Ohio River Bridges project. Indiana Lt. Governor and Governor-elect Eric Holcomb announced the newly named Lewis and Clark Bridge by executive order of Vice President-elect Governor Mike Pence at a ribbon-cutting ceremony on the Indiana approach of the new bridge.

Nicole Breazeale put pieces of her soul in a box adorned with mementos her late husband loved, then set it on a chair outside of her Lexington home Monday, the one-year anniversary of his death. The next day it was gone.

Two months ago, Nicole Breazeale filled a box with mementos and inscribed books her late husband loved and put the box on a chair outside her Lexington home. It was the anniversary of his death. Breazeale hoped the box would be used as a free library for

Logan Tipton, the 6-year-old Versailles boy who was stabbed to death Monday while he slept, made it onto a football field one last time. Hundreds from the community of about 9,000 sat in bleachers at Falling Springs Recreation Center on Friday morning to say goodbye to one of their own. Woodford Youth Football League president Peter Barnhardt said coaches frequently ask players to give the game everything they’ve got.

Everything was supposed to have led to this. Months of product tie-ins, trailers that have moved middle-age priests to tears and speculation over whether BB-8 identifies as a boy or a girl have fed and sustained the hype for a new Star Wars film that opened this week.

What happened to the Miami senior two weeks ago may have been classified as a hate crime, according to KRS 532.031. The state statute makes the acts of aggression against a person “intentionally because of race, color, religion, sexual orientation or national origin” a felony. Lawyers say the act seems to fit the description of a hate crime.

Louisville Metro police said Wednesday that they are investigating the death of University of Louisville cheerleader Danielle Cogswell as a suspected drug overdose. Cogswell, 22, was found dead Monday morning in the Cardinal Towne apartment complex on the north edge of U of L's campus. Police spokesman Dwight Mitchell issued a statement reiterating that no foul play is suspected and that no witnesses were involved, other than in reporting the death.

University officials are all atwitter about students using social media irresponsibly. Student disciplinary policy changes to fix that are in the works. But Howard Bailey, Vice President for Student Affairs, said potential changes in policy are news to him. WKU’s social media crackdown got started when @PimpRansdell, the most popular of the fake President Gary Ransdell accounts, was removed from Twitter from Jan. 4 through Feb. 12 in the university’s move to monitor social media usage.

"Transformers: Age of Extinction" is tanking and it's awesome. At least that's the argument posed by Bennett Duckworth to his longtime friend and former co-worker Beau Kaelin Saturday night at Baxter Avenue Theatres. Kaelin points out that the fourth "Transformers" movie is breaking box office records.

In just 21 minutes on Thursday, the Atherton High School school-based decision making council ended weeks of discussion and debate on how transgendered students are treated by passing a policy that allows students to use the restroom and locker room of their sexual identity. Atherton principal Thomas Aberli said the council, which voted 8-1 in support of the policy at a special meeting, took a stand on the issue that will last for "this administration and all further administrations."

While the media swarmed the halls of Atherton High School during weeks of debate over the school's non-discrimination policy and bathroom facility policy for transgender students, advocates for transgender rights from across the country watched intensely. a lawyer and director of policy for Washington D.C.

The Louisville Metro Housing Authority is reevaluating a plan that would implement a $75 monthly rent for randomly selected Section 8 participants after housing advocates called the proposed study unfair. Department of Housing and Urban Development asked the housing authority to participate in the study, which is designed to stretch public housing dollars and encourage more household heads to get jobs.