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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Welcome to the reading of the Courier Journal for Wednesday,
October first, twenty twenty five. The Courier Journal is brought
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Radio E is a reading service intended for people who
are blind or have other disabilities that makes it difficult

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to read printed material. Your reader for to day is
Blanc of Michael Ward. We begin with w h A. S.
Eleven's weather forecast for the next several days. To day,
expect a high of eighty three, sunny and warm, to
night a low of sixty partly cloudy. Thursday a high

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of eighty four, a low of sixty one, mostly sunny
and warm. Friday a high of eighty five, a low
of sixty one, sunny and very warm. Saturday a high
of eighty four, a low of sixty sunny and very warm.

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Sunday a high of eighty five, a low of sixty five,
mostly sunny and warm, and Monday a high of eighty
a low of sixty eight, mostly cloudy and warm. Your
Almanac readings for the Louisville area are as follows. Temperature

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high eighty eight, low sixty two, normal high seventy seven
normal low fifty seven. Record high of ninety nine degrees
was set in nineteen fifty three and a record low
of thirty six degrees in nineteen sixty seven. Precipitation Monday

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zero month to day four point seventeen inches normal months
to date three point fifty two inches year to date
forty three point fourteen inches normal year to date thirty
six point ninety three inches. Pallen count. The pollen count

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will be high in grass and weeds, low in trees,
and moderate in molds. The air quality today is good.
Sun and moon Wednesday sunrise seven thirty nine am, sunset
seven twenty six pm, moon rise four thirty five pm,

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moonset one ten am. Thursday sunrise seven forty am, sunset
seven twenty four pm, moon rise five o nine pm,
moonset two sixteen am. There will be a full moon
October sixth a last moon October thirteenth, a new moon

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October twenty first, and a first moon October twenty ninth.
And now for a bit of weather history. On October first,
seventeen fifty two, the second hurricane in two weeks hid
coastal North Carolina. The storm erased Beacon Island. We continue

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with today's headlines from the front page of the Courier Journal.
Battery makers sued over refusing to pay suit. Blue Oval
es Q doesn't compensate for actions relating to work. Trump

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Hagseeth address top brass at gathering. They vow to weed
out wokeness. Plan aims to keep five miss billion dollars
in South End. We begin with this story, Battery makers
sued over refusing to pay suit Blue Oval sk doesn't

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compensate for actions relating to work. This was written by
Olivia Evans of the Louisville Courier Journal USA Today Network.
A lawsuit has been filed against Blue Oval sk alleging
unlawful practice of refusing to pay workers at its six

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billion dollar battery plant in Glendale. In the lawsuit, workers
claim the electric vehicle battery maker requires employees to start
and finish necessary work related activities to complete their jobs
outside of the scheduled shift time, but does not compensate

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the workers for this time. The court filing show workers
also allege that Blue Oval escay rounded or altered employees
clock in and clock out times as a result of
Blue OVAL's compensation system and other practices and policies followed
by Blue Oval plaintive and though similarly situated, are not

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paid for all of the time which they work presently,
and they've not been paid for all of the time
they have worked since the Glendale, Kentucky facility has been opened.
The complaint file September twenty fourth stated. The complaint, which
was filed in a federal court in Michigan, claims hourly

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workers who are eligible for overtime pay are required to
go through a checkpoint where they put on foot gear
for sanitary reasons and must walk hundreds of yards prior
to proceeding to their work area within the battery park.
The lawsuit continues that Blue Oval Eska deems a worker's

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compensable work time begins at a schedule st start time,
rather than at the time of putting on the foot gear. Additionally,
the complaint states that workers shift in time is scheduled
time and not when they have returned to the required
checkpoint and removed their foot gear. The complaint alleges that

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blue Oval Eska, a joint venture between Ford Motor Company
and South Korean esk On, is in violation of both
the fair labor standards Act and the Kentucky Wages and
Hours Act for not properly paying employees for all time worked.
Blue Oval Eska did not respond to a Courier Journal

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request for comment. The legal team that filed a lawsuit
also did not respond to request for comment. The complaint
lists Blue Oval s K, Battery Park employee, Bobby mc
knight and all others similarly situated as the plaintiffs and

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names Blue Oval s K as the defendant. While mc
knight is listed as a resident of LaRue County, and
the Blue Oval Eska bought battery Park, where the alleged
unlawful payment practices occurred is in Hardin County, the plaintiffs
file the complaint in the Michigan district, where Blue Oval

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Esk's headquarters are listed. Lawyers for mc knight want a
jury trial for the case, which was filed as a
collective and class action complaint, and could allow for other
eligible parties to join the lawsuit as well. According to
additional court documents, as of September twenty ninth, Paul Engler,

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Donald Coon, Randall Moore, Michael Newsom, Amber Shower, Alonso Simpson Third,
and Bill Wilmouth have signed consent to become party plaintiff
documents indicating their desire to formally join the collective action lawsuit.

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The collective and class action complaint looks to cover all
current and former hourly workers at the Blue Oval Sk
Battery Park in Glendale that work or have worked at
the facility in the past three years and were required
to put on and take off footgear prior to and

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following the completion of a work shift. The Blue Oval
Sk Battery Park, which officially started production August nineteen, has
faced a slew of other issues stemming from worker complaints.
In May, a Courier Journal investigation found dozens of workplace injuries,

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hospitalizations related to respiratory issues, unshakable mold contamination, a bat
infested training facility, blocked emergency exit doors, and chemical exposure
risks at the battery park, Blue Oval s K has
publicly and repeatedly denied workers assertions of unsafe conditions. Additional

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documents the Courier Journal obtained via open records requests from
the state found employees of the battery park openly refused
to work with a hazardous chemical in the plant, joining
a pattern of tension between oval ESK and plant employees,

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including some who have repeatedly said they felt unsafe working
with various toxic substances they don't fully understand. Then ev
Battery Maker has received at least one citation for health
and safety issues from the state. The Courier Journal previously
reported additional health and safety complaints are still under investigation

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by the state. Most recently, workers citing health and safety
concerns as a key issue, voted by a narrow margin
to unionize with the United Auto Workers, the same union
that represents Ford workers across the US. Now, the election

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outcome is being challenged, tying up the proceedings with the
National Labor Relations Board and leaving workers in limbo for
an indefinite period until a decision is finalized by the
government agency. Next we have this story, plan aims to

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keep five million dollars in South End was written by
Killian Barlaire of the Louisville Courier Journal USA Today Network
Louisville officials must relocate more than five million dollars after
U of L Health's plans to build an expansive health
care facility for labor and delivery services in the South

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End fell through the process for determining where the money
should go is at an early stage, though a South
Louisville Metro Council member has crafted a proposal that would
keep the funds in the area. When asked about his
priorities for the funding at a September eighteenth news conference,

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Mayor Craig Greenberg said he'd been in conversations with u
of L Health and Metro Council about the next steps.
The mayor did not offer concrete details, saying will have
an announcement in the very near future. For years, U
of L Health had planned to open the Birthing Place

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at the Mary and Elizabeth Hospital in South Louisville with
the help of a city appropriation into twenty twenty two.
The birthing center, which was planned to be built in
part of the main entrance at Mary and Elizabeth Hospital,
where an administrative office previously existed, was supposed to have

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eight suites for labor delivery and recovery, as well as
a C section suite, a Level one nursery, and a
labor lounge. Council members an advocates said the birthing facility
would have filled a gap in Louisville's health care ecosystem,
as there is currently no facility in South Louisville that

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provides birthing services. In August, u of L Health announced
the hospital renovations would be curtailed, sighting looming Medicaid cuts
included in the One Big Beautiful Bill backed by President
Donald Trump, a shortage of obstetric physicians, and other factors. Now,

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the facility, which underwent renovations totaling eighteen million dollars, will
act as an outpatient surgery center with a special focus
on women's surgical services. U of L Health spokesperson David
MacArthur told The Courier Journal in a written statement, halting

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our plans for the birthing center was disappointing, but a
necessary financial decision. Influenced by the nationwide shortage of obstetric
physicians and medical liability environment in Kentucky. Coupled with a
decreasing trend in birth rates and reimbursement changes at the

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state and federal level, plans to add labor and deliver
services became unviable. MacArthur said, U of L Health appreciates
the support of the Mayor's office and Metro Council for
the revised vision and look forward to learning how they

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will invest the remaining funds to further support our community.
Precisely how much money the city will retain is marquee.
In an email to The Courier Journal, Greenberg Press Secretary
Matt Mudd said the city had already advanced just over
three million dollars to u of L Health prior to

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learning of the project's halt, with about five point one
hundred seventy five million dollars slated to stay with the city.
MacArthur said the nonprofit healthcare system, however, did not receive
five point twenty five million dollars of the amount allocated

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for the project. Cou and Jennifer Chappelle, who represents the
district Mary and Elizabeth Hospital sits in, said in an
interview that she has written a proposal for the funding
that also accounts for roughly five point twenty five million dollars.
Metro Council works to determine new use of funds. Louisville

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Metro officials are now working out contractual details with u
of L Health, a necessary first step before advancing any
proposal to reallocate the money, said Councilman Kevin Kramer, who
chairs the Budget Committee. Kramer said he expects at least

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a portion of the money will plug holes in the
fiscal year twenty twenty six budget and fund a set
of projects the Council identified as priorities for any surplus revenue.
Councilman Anthony Piagentie, chair of the Minority Caucus who sits
on the Budget Committee, agreed he would like the money

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to go toward uses already outlined in the budget. Those projects,
according to budget records, include two point seventy four million
dollars for reinstating unallocated infrastructure grants, four point four million
dollars for economic development projects, including a recently announced ge

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Appliance's investment, five hundred thousand dollars for the Association of
Community Ministries. If federal funds are cut, we actually already
have a process for this, Piagentini said, we put things
in the budget that were not fully funded. Essentially, you

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can think of it like, hey, we have a trend
of having surpluses, and we have over the past several years.
You know, if we were to have a surplus, here's
the next couple million dollars of projects we would like
to get funded. If any money were to remain. After
funding those priorities, then the council, likely working closely with

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the Mayor's office, would identify additional projects to receive funding,
Kramer and Piagentini said, but Chappelle has different ideas for
the money. She said she crafted an ordinance currently under
review by the Jefferson County Attorney's Office that would spread

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the funds to several community organizations and different projects. She
noted she did not vote in favor of the current budget.
I don't feel beholden to what that budget says. I
didn't hang my hat on that. Chappelle said. While she
wanted to maintain the original intent of the appropriation, namely

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by keeping the money in the South End, she also
sought to fashion a proposal that would satisfy council member's priorities.
It was something that was an investment made in South
End families, South End health, South End women, South End children,
Chappelle said, I really wanted to focus my legislation on this.

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Her proposal would dedicate roughly two million dollars to redevelop
green space in the Hazelwood neighborhood that was formerly occupied
by a public housing complex, two million dollars to help
renovate the Sun Valley Pool, one million dollars for the
Family Health Center's locations at Iroquois High School in the

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American Center, and the remaining fund split five ways between
non profit organizations Metro United Way Parkers, with two delivering
related health and social services. With the initial intent of
the money to be spent on birthing, I really felt

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like the money should still continue to go into a
birthing initiative. Chappelle, a Democrat, said, Kramer and p Gentini
said Republican Council members have not yet put forward a
proposal for the funding. We continue with this story. Trump

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Hagseeth addressed top brass at gathering they vowed to weed
out wokeness. This was written by Sybil Mays, Austermann, Zach Anderson,
and Davis Wink of USA Today Dateline, Washington. President Donald
Trump threatened to fire top military leaders who might disagree

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with him September thirtieth as his War secretary. Formally, the
Defense Secretary accused the Pentagon of suffering from weakness and
woke decay. Trump praised the generals as incredible people straight
out of Central Casting. But more notably, he told a

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packed meeting of top military commanders in Quantico, Virginia. If
you don't like what I'm saying, you can leave the room.
Of course, there goes your rank, there goes your future.
But you just feel nice and loose, okay. With Trump
as his backstop, War Secretary Pete Hegseth told the country's

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military elite they had gone soft and that reforms would
weed out political correctness from the world's most powerful armed forces.
He decried fat generals and admirals, echoing Trump's threats, The
former Fox News host said, if the words I'm speaking

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today are making your heart sink, you should do the
honorable thing and resign. He announced ten new directives, including
implementing physical fitness standards, bringing combat arms positions up to
the highest male standard, and ordering troops to shave their

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beards and cut their hair short. While generals and admirals
at the meeting wouldn't be forced to take their own
physical fitness test, every member of the Joint Force would
be required to take a physical fitness test twice a
year and meet height and weight standards. We're not talking

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hot yoga and stretching, Hagseth said. HEGs has remarks dovetailed
with his long held views, the subject of his twenty
twenty four book, The War on Warriors, that diverse city initiatives,
political correctness, and a perceived lowering of standards on behalf

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of women has made the military weaker. At the Quantico meeting,
he said those convictions let him to fire a number
of top officers, an apparent allusion to the abrupt retirements
of Joint Chief's Chair, Air Force General C. Q. Brown,

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former Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Lisa Franchetti, Army General
Timothy Hall of US Cyber Command and the National Security Agency,
and the top lawyers of the Army and Air Force,
among others. It's nearly impossible to change a culture with

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the same people who helped create or even benefited from,
that culture, Hagsas said, explaining he attempted to spare officers
who were merely complying with the previous administration's orders and
to fire only those who are truly invested in the
woke department. Trump spoke for seventy two minutes. At one

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point he made a reference to a racial slur, noting
that he sent nuclear submarines over to the coast of Russia.
In response to provocative comments by a Russian spokesperson referencing
a nuclear control system. We can't let people throw around
that word, he told his mostly stonefaced audience. I call

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it the N word. There are two N words, and
you can't use either of them. The president's attacks on
former President Joe Biden were met with silence, as per
a pool report. Trump also said dangerous cities should be
used as military training grounds. Days after he spash dispatched

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the National Guard to Portland, Oregon, he had already deployed
the National Guard to the southern border, to Los Angeles
to quell protests against mass deportations, and to Washington, d C.
Where many are now tasked with beautification projects like picking
up trash and raking leaves. He said it was his

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idea to change the Defense Department's name back to the
War Department, a name it carried through World War II.
The department's name change was probably the first sign of wokeness,
he said. It was a rare and mandatory gathering of
hundreds of top generals and admirals, called with just a

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week's notice. The Pentagon did not provide an attendee list,
but a camera pan appeared to show two of the
military's most far flung brass Army General Xavier Runson, who
leads US and United Nations forces in South Korea, and

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Navy Admiral Samuel Paparo, who heads the U s Indo
Pacific Command from Hawaii. Other top generals on the official
video feed included US Northern Command leader, Air Force General
Gregory Guillot, who oversees the military's work along the Mexico

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border and its immigration enforcement support, Army General Bryan Fenton,
who heads US Special Operations Command, and Air Force General
Anthony Cotton, who oversees the nation's nuclear arsenal, a top
US strategic command. Responding on MSNBC, retired Lieutenant General Mark

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Hurtling said Trump's speech was somewhat shocking and filled with mistruths. Hurtling,
the former commander of Army Forces in Europe, said I
found my mouth open. I just couldn't believe some of
the things that were being said to this group of
individuals who have such experience. I find it really offensive

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that anyone is insulting them and claiming that their promotions
and their advancement through the services are the result of
policies or wokeness or dei. Hurtling continued, it's just not true.
Democratic lawmakers and other critics blasted the unprecedented meeting before

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it began as a waste of money, and said taking
the nation's top generals off their jobs for a pep
rally type event was a bad idea. The meeting raises
profound concerns about security, cost and operational impacts, among them

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that are absaries will know that many of our most
senior commanders from around the world are tied up together
with some portion of the highest level of the civilian
chain of command. Democratic senators Tommy Dupworth and Maisie Hrono,
who both sit on the Armed Services Committee, wrote in

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a letter to Hagseeth the cost of the gathering, including
transportation and security, could add up to millions of dollars.
Experts told USA Today there's a little bit of expense,
not much. Trump said, we continue with this story. LMPD

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seizes drugs weapons from Newburgh home during search. This was
written by Caroline Neil of the Louisville Courier Journal. USA
Today Network. Large amounts of drugs and weapons were seized
from a Newburgh home, according to a Facebook post from
Louisville Metro Police. As part of an ongoing narcotics investigation,

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LMPD EXEU detectives executed a search warrant in the five
thousand block of Ulane around six p m. September twenty six,
investigators said. According to the post, detective seized one pound
of pure fentanyl, which police said is enough to kill

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around two hundred twenty five thousand people. Investigators also seized
two unlawfully possessed guns, five point twenty six ounces of
high purity cocaine, and eight ounces of marijuana. This operation
removed a massive amount of poison from our community and

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significantly disrupted a dangerous drug network, improving the safety and
quality of life for residents in the area. LMPD investigators
said LMPD is continuing to investigate with the systems from
federal agencies. We now turn to today's obituaries, where we

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read only the name, age, and location. If you would
like further information on any of the obituaries, please call
us during the weekdays at eight five nine four two
two six three nine zero and we will be glad
to read the entire obituary for you. I will repeat
that number at the end of the listings. Today's death

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notices include Kevin Cisel sixty two, Louisville, Bruce Michael Hart
eighty Louisville, Lewis Barnett Gillian eighty six, Louisville, Joe Dean

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Henry eighty five, Louisville, Lisa Gale, Oxner Medley Hence Hensley
sixty seven, Louisville, Thelma Ruth Jenkins one hundred three, Jeffersontown
Glenn A. Moore seventy eight, New Albany, Indiana. James Jim

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Warren Moss ninety five, Louisville, Mary Lee Maxley ninety Louisville,
Betty Jean Ruley O'Flynn eighty three, Louisville, Donald Wayne sixty three, Clarksville, Indiana.

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If you would like further information about any of today's listings,
call us during the week at eight five nine four
two two sixty three nine zero, and we will be
glad to read the entire item to you. Two facing
charges in connection to copper wire theft near I sixty

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five I two sixty five. This was written by Caroline
Neil of the Lowville Courier Journal USA Today network two
men were arrested in connection to a copper wire theft
near Interstate sixty five in Interstate two sixty five September
twenty seven. According to a Facebook post from Louisville Metro Police,

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Daniel Bentley, forty three and Robert Kelly, fifty four, were
charged with first degree criminal mischief while tampering with key
infrastructure assets and trespassing of key infrastructure assets. According to
court records, Bentley and Kelly are being held at the
Louisville Metro Department of Corrections, each with a twenty five

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hundred dollars bond. Officers responded to a report of a
theft in progress near I sixty five and I two
sixty five on September twenty seventh. LMPD official said upon arrival,
officers conducted a sweep of the area and found two
individuals actively stripping and burning the infrastructure wire in an

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attempt to obscure its identity. Bentley and Kelly reportedly admitted
to police they had taken the wire from the interstate
guardrail with the intent to scrap it for profit. This
swift response and coordinated effort by our officers preventing further
loss and damage to critical infrastructure. Official said we remain

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committed to protecting public property and holding those accountable who
seek to exploit it. Bentley and Kelly are scheduled to
appear in court September twenty ninth for an arraignment hearing.
We continue with this story. Police too dead in shooting
in Okolona neighborhood. This was written by Lillian Metzmeyer of

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the Louisville Courier Journal USA Today Network. Two men are
dead after a September twenty ninth shooting in Louisville's Okolona neighborhood.
LMPD spokesperson John Bradley said the LMPD seventh Division responded
to a call reporting a number of shots fired in

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the nine thousand block of Napa Valley Court around ten
fifteen a m. When police arrived, the men were found
dead in an apartment building. They have not yet been identified.
Official said witnesses spotted multiple suspects running from the scene.
Bradley said LMPD will use surveillance footage to help identify

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potential suspects. He also said officers are looking to establish
a motive. The LMPD Homicide Unit will lead the investigation.
LMPD encourages anyone with potential information on the shooting to
contact the department's anonymous tip line at five zero two

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five seven four l MPD. Next, we have this story.
Lawson files to appeal verdict was sentenced to twenty five
years in prison in Roger's case. This was written by
Lillian Metzmeyer of the Louisville Courier Journal USA Today Network.

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Joseph Lawson, one of the three men convicted in connection
with the disappearance of Crystal Rogers, filed a notice of
appeal with the Kentucky Supreme Court to overturn his verdict
in the case September twenty ninth. According to court records,
Lawson was convicted of conspiracy to commit murder and tampering

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with physical evidence in the case in July, and was
sentenced to twenty five years in prison September seventeenth. Additional
documents show Lawson submitted the appeal in former pauperas meaning
without cost, due to his financial situation. Rogers, a thirty

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five year old mother of five, disappeared from Bardstown around
July third, twenty fifteen. Her body has never been found
and she is presumed dead. Lawson's appeal comes after Lawson's father,
Stephen Lawson, filed a notice for appeal September second for
his own death role in the Rogers case. Stephen Lawson

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was sentenced seventeen years for conspiracy to commit murder and
five years for tampering with physical evidence, which would run concurrently.
We continue with this story Louisville restaurants bars that opened
closed in September. This was written by Amanda Hancock of

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the Louisville Courier Journal USA Today Network. As September ends,
let's take a look back at some of the biggest
food news of the past month. In just the last
few days, a new location of seven Brew opened at
forty twenty three Poplar Level Road. Falacha Coffee opened a

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second shop, and the first Louisville location of Dave's Hot
Chicken landed in Saint Matthew's Seven Brew opens a new
location in Lue. Louisville has gained another location Seven Brew
Coffee at forty twenty three Popular Level Road. The popular
drive through coffee chain held a soft opening on September

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twenty nine, and a grand opening the set for October fourth.
In addition to coffee, seven Brew offers energy drinks, as
well as a variety of smoothies, teas, and shakes. You
name it in the beverage category and we have it,
said franchise owner Ralph Co. Christmas holiday pop up bars

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announced return to Louisville. With less than one hundred days
to go until Christmas, Miracle and Sipping Santa announced their
festive return to Louisville. Since starting over a decade ago,
the annual celebration of holiday themed bars and cocktails has
spread to more than two hundred locations across the country

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and Canada. According to a news release, Louisville's Galaxy Bar,
located at seven twenty three East Market Street, will again
transform into Miracle on Market starting in early or mid November.
A Louisville location for Sipping Santa, which has a tropical vibe,

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has not yet been announced, but the release did indicate
one would open in the city. Each year. We aim
to make Miracle and Sipping Santa feel like coming home
for the holidays, just with brighter lights, a sense of escapism,
and a one off a kind cocktail in every hand.

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Greg Boehm, founder of the Miracle Events, sat in the release.
For twenty twenty five, we've taken things even further with
inventive new drinks and playful, standout glassware. What we love
most is how Miracle connects people from all over the
world together through shared moments of joy in kits Kitshee nostalgia.

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It's more than just a pop up, It's a holiday tradition.
Opening dates for twenty twenty five will be announced later
this year. Dave's Hot Chicken opens first Louisville location after
landing in southern Indiana in late twenty twenty four, Dave's
Hot Chicken opened a location on September twenty sixth at

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forty six hundred Shelbyville Road, Suite six forty two. The
Saint Matthew shop serves chicken tenders, sliders, and loaded fries
and adds to more than three hundred locations for the
popular chain. Dave's Hot Chicken launched in twenty seventeen when
four friends turned nine hundred dollars and a friar into

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a popular parking lot pop up in Los Angeles, according
to its website. By twenty twenty one, the Nashville style
Hot Chicken operation got a boost from the rapper Drake,
who became a significant investor in the concept. Other famous
investors include Samuel L. Jackson, Maria Shiver, Michael Strahn, and Usher.

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Hilltop Tavern announces closure. Hilltop Tavern, a beloved Frankfort Avenue
bar in Clifton, closed for good in late September, less
than thirty days left till Hilltop closes forever. Please come
say goodbye to our little neighborhood tavern as we moved
to a new era in our lives, read an August

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twenty ninth post on the bar's Facebook page. Known for
its meat loaf, sandwiches, draft beer selection and allegedly ghosts,
the bar opened in twenty twelve in a more than
century old building at eighteen hundred Frankfort Avenue. While Hilltop
is going away, the owners of the bar, Skelton Brothers,

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are set to open up a new bar about three
quarters of a mile down the road at twenty two
thirty five Frankfort Avenue, in the former location of the Hub.
The new venture, called Dive Bar on Frankfort, does not
appear to have an opening date yet. However, a June

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post on Hilltop Tavern's Facebook page said Dive Bar on
Frankfort would be opening in a couple of months, Hurry
for Curry opens in former Cafe three sixty spot on
Bardstown Road. A restaurant serving Indian cuisine opened on the
first day of September in Louisville's Deer Park neighborhood, moving

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into the former location of a bar and restaurant that
sparked controversy in twenty twenty four. About a year after
Cafe three sixty closed, Hurry for Curry held a soft
opening on September first and is awaiting its liquor license owner.
The owner told The Courier Journal Hurry for Curry serves

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a mix of Indian, Nipali and Tibetan food, as a
sign on the restaurant's door says it's a neighborhood spot
for global taste. I've been cooking my whole life. Saraswati
Adhikari said he is running the restaurant with her boyfriend.

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Previously told The Courrier Journal, we thought this would be
a good opportunity for us. While Hurry for Curry has
a limited menu for now, Adikari said, momos or Tibetan
and Nepali steamed dumplings are among the most popular items.
For now. Hurry for Curry is open eleven am to

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ten pm daily and maybe opened later on the weekends.
A grand opening is set for October. Louis Hot Chicken
Change's menu rebrands weeks after Louie's Hot Chicken and Barbecue
closed temporarily to rework its menu. The business at four

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two two two Poplar Level Road reopened on August twenty
seven as Loui's Soups and Sandwiches. According to its Facebook page,
the menu posted online features fifteen sandwiches, including a French dip,
Cuban grilled cheese, chipotla, turkey and salami, and a roast

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a roasted steak option with caramelized onions, garlic, ooli, roamain, lettuce, jalapeno,
and cilantro. On September tenth, Louie's announced smoked chicken wings
were on the menu and back by pop demand, and
later on September twenty six, Louis added a hot chicken

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sandwich and French fries to the menu. The restaurant is
open eleven a m. To eight pm Monday through Thursday,
and eleven a m. To nine pm Friday and Saturday.
The new Albany Tavern opens in southern Indiana, The owners
of the Old Louisville Tavern and Grille and the Hillcrest

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Tavern opened another concept called the New Albany Tavern. The
Barn restaurant opened at one fourteen East Market Street, the
spot formerly occupied by Pintes and Union. The menu features sandwiches, burgers,
and entrees such as Railroad smoker, mac and Cheese, which

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is served with blackened chicken and churiso, and beer battered
fish and chips. Earlier in September, the New Albany Tavern
kicked off its weekly food specials, including a crispy crabcake
sandwich and a turkey burger. North of Bourbon names new

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executive chef. For the first time since North of Bourbon
opened in late twenty twenty one, the popular German Town
restaurant has tapped a new executive chef. Chef Britney Kelly,
a thirty year old native of Estell County in Kentucky
who joined the North of Bourbon team in May twenty

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twenty two as a Sioux chef, stepped into the top row.
Kelly's appointment comes shortly after North of Bourbon announced the
departure of Lawrence Weeks who served as executive chef since
the Southern meets Cajun eatery opened on New Year's Eve
in twenty twenty one. Weeks, a twenty twenty four James

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Beard Award semi finalist, also split with Enso coinciding with
a highly acclaimed Clifton restaurant's abrupt closure on August eighth.
He has since announced plans to open Murray's Creole Pub
at the current location of Pines and Union, located at

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fifteen seventy six Bartstown Road, later this year. Kelly worked
under Weeks at North of Bourbon for several years, she
told The Courier Journal, including when the restaurant was at
nine thirty five Gass Avenue was named one of the

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New York Times Best Restaurants of twenty twenty four. With
years of culinary skills under her belt, she hopes to
bring those influences to revamped North of Bourbon menus in
the future. It's definitely going to be a larger menu
overhaul than what we've had before, she said. I'm excited

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about that Falter Coffee open second location in Louisville. Falch Coffee,
the Nepali owned coffee destination at one zero zero one
Mary Street in Germantown opened a second shop in Saint
Matthew's on Saturday, September twenty seventh. Since opening in March

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twenty twenty four, fal To Coffee has become known for
serving ube and seasonal and creative coffee flights. Falter just
dropped a Fall flight which includes a trio trio of
lattes made with pumpkin spices, ube, cardamom Thai, and maple spice.

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The Fall menu also includes a pistachio pandon latte and
an apple caramel waffle. Falch Coffee opened at thirty nine
hundred Shelbyville Road, next to the second location of Lemon Isal,
which opened earlier in twenty twenty five. Falta has four owners,

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including Priya Gail and her sister Shristi Gail, along with
husband and wife Bishan Sewal and Krittimala. The Louisville area
residents met a few years ago and bonded over originally
being from Nepal. The Courier Journal previously reported, we're all

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from Nepal, so we got together and decided to do something.
Priya Gao previously tell the Courier Journal you don't see
a lot of Nepali restaurants or coffee shops here. Swig
opens location in Jeffersonville. The dirty soda trend continues in

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the Louisville area. Swig, a popular chain known for serving
creative concoctions of sodas, first land here in December twenty
twenty four with a location at three zero zero nine
Poplar Level Road. Another location of Swig at forty fourteen

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East tenth Street, Jeffersonville, Indiana, held a soft opening in September,
and it is expected to host a grand opening the
first week of October. Swig is open ten am to
seven pm daily. And now this story manufacturer to lay

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off one hundred Kentucky employees. This was written by Matthew
Glowicki of the Louisville Courier Journal USA Today Network, a
century plus old manufacturer, intends to shutter a Kentucky facility.
Leggett and Platte plans to lay off one hundred employees

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when it closes its Georgetown Adjustable Bed, a manufacturing operation
at one zero eight Summer Court in Georgetown, about seventy
miles east of Louisville. The Missouri based company dates back
to eighteen eighty three and manufactures home and office furniture,

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adjustable beds, automotive seating systems, and more. This decision is
a result of difficult business conditions and is intended to
enhance operational efficiency within the organization, the company wrote in
a September tenth letter to the State Education and Labor Cabinet.

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Employers with more than one hundred employees are required to
submit advanced notice of mass layoffs and certain planned closings
under the US Department of Labour's Worker Adjustment and Retraining
Notification Act. This action is the result of sustained challenges,

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including reduced customer demand and tariffs on imported components, which
have significantly impacted the viability of production at this location,
the company said in a statement to The Courier Journal.
An initial wave of layoffs is expected to happen on

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or around November tenth, with future layoffs expected to be
done in phases through the first quarter of twenty twenty six.
The company is exploring several sources of outplacement assistance. The
notification reads nearly all of the one hundred employees work

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in production and production support, with a balance either in
management or administrative roles. There are approximately one hundred twenty
two positions at the facility, one hundred of which are
expected to be eliminated in the coming months. The company
noted that its adjustable bed Returns facility in Georgetown will

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remain operational to continue supporting its warranty business. As of
December twenty twenty four, the company had one hundred nineteen
manufacturing facilities in eighteen countries, located mostly in North America, Europe,
and Asia. Of its seventeen thousand, seven hundred employees, about

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eleven thousand, five hundred were in production roles, according to
the company. In the company's most recent earnings call on
August first, President, CEO and chairman Karl Glassman said while
changes in US tariff policy were a net positive for

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the company, leadership was concerned that wide range tariffs would
drive inflation and dampen consumer demand. And now this story
two arrested in twenty twenty four Lindon death case. This
was written by Caroline Neil of the Louisville Courier Journal

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USA Today Network. Two men were arrested in connection to
a twenty twenty four Lindon homicide. According to a news
release from Louisville Metro Police. Andrew Jackson, twenty fourth, was
arrested September twenty ninth. LMPD spokesperson Aaron Ellis said Andre Jackson,

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twenty sixth, who was also indicted, was already in custody
as of September fifteenth. Ellis said both men were charged
with murder, receiving stolen property, obscuring the identity of a machine,
and tampering with physical evidence in the death of Adrian Lewis,

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thirty one. Both are currently being held at the Louisville
Metro Department of Corrections. According to court records, Andrew Jackson's
cash bond was set at five hundred thousand dollars. Andre
Jackson's partially secured bond was set at one hundred thousand dollars.
Andre Jackson pleaded not guilty during the September fifteenth hearing.

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According to previous reporting, Lyndon Police officers and personnel from
Saint Matthew's Fire and Ems responded to a report of
a shooting in the eighty three hundred block of Vermissa
Court around five thirty pm May eleventh. Upon arrival, officers
found Lewis, who had been shot multiple Times officials said

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he was pronounced dead at the scene. It is unclear
when Andrew Jackson will appear in court. Andre Jackson is
scheduled to appear in court November thirteenth for a pre
trial conference. And now this Hamas reviewing Gaza peace plan

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group under pressure as Trump issues deadline. This was written
by Andrew Mills and Nadal al mcgrabi of Ruiters Dateline Dubai.
President Donald Trump on September thirtieth gave Hamas three to
four days to accept a United Nations, a United States

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backed peace plan for the Gaza Strip, warning of a
very sad end if the group rejected the proposal, he
said was close to ending the two year old conflict.
Mediators Katar and Egypt shared the twenty point plan with
Hamas late on September twenty ninth, after Israeli Prime Minister

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Benjamin Netanyahu had appeared alongside Trump at the White House
and endorsed the documents, saying it satisfied Israel's war aims.
Hamas was not involved in the negotiations that led to
the proposal, which calls on the Islamist militant group to disarm,

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a demand it has previously rejected. However, an official briefed
on the talks told Ruders that the group would review
it in good faith and provide a response. Speaking to
reporters in Washington, Trump said Israeli and Arab leaders had
already endorsed the plan and that we're just waiting for

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Hamas to make its decision. He gave the group three
or four days to respond. This concludes readings for the
Courier Journal for Wednesday, October one, twenty twenty five. Stay
tuned for more news to follow immediately. Your reader has
been Blanca Michael Ward