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LMPD said officers were dispatched around 6:15 p.m. on July 4, 2026 to the 9900 block of Blue Lick Road.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A man died after being hit by a vehicle in the Fern Creek area early Sunday morning. Louisville Metro Police said officers were dispatched around 1:30 a.m. on a reported crash and pedestrian struck near Bardstown Road and South Watterson Trail. Investigators said an unoccupied vehicle was stopped in the left lane of Bardstown Road, just north of Watterson Trail, from a previous collision.

After a brutal last few days with a ton of heat alerts we are finally done with them! There are no longer heat alerts out for our area! That doesn't mean it won't be hot & muggy, but we won't be dealing with the "dangerous" heat that we saw this last week. Instead, now that we have broke down that heat dome that plagued us all last week, we're settling into more of a rinse & repeat pattern for our area that we often see during the summer.

President Donald Trump has mixed partisan politics with patriotic appeals as he commemorated the 250th anniversary of American independence, a moment he declared "one of the most joyous and glorious

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump commemorated the 250th anniversary of America's independence on Saturday after storms prompted a roughly two-hour evacuation of the National Mall, with severe weather disrupting celebrations in several East Coast cities. “There’s no way we can be deterred,” he said to a crowd that returned after the evacuation was lifted.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Severe weather disrupted celebrations of America's 250th anniversary of independence Saturday in several East Coast cities, including Washington, where storms prompted a roughly two-hour evacuation of the National Mall. President Donald Trump said he will still speak there later Saturday night. Elsewhere, severe weather prompted the cancellation of celebrations in Hartford, Connecticut, along with Harrisburg and Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said he will still deliver a July Fourth speech after severe weather prompted an evacuation of the National Mall earlier Saturday. “I’m not going to let some rain stop our 250th,” Trump said in a social media post. Event organizers Freedom 250 said Trump plans to give his speech on the Mall at 11 p.m. followed by fireworks, and gates for the Salute to America event would reopen at 9:45 p.m. THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.

It has long been a one-way street. City officials said they are making these changes to make areas safer, create more direct travel routes through the city and give drivers easier access to their destinations. Soon, there will be two-way traffic on West Muhammad Ali Boulevard between 9th Street and Southwestern Parkway. The city recently removed the traffic lights in the area and replaced them with stop signs. People who live in the area think the city should add flashing lights to the stop signs.

A time capsule from 1975 was opened Saturday in Bardstown, Kentucky, to celebrate America's 250th anniversary.