Newburg, Kentucky

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• Cut-back library plan calls for $120 million in work
  

  Louisville's cramped and aging libraries would get a $120 million makeover over the next 12 years under a slimmed-down plan that library officials will make public today.

• Identity of suspect police shot and killed after high-speed chase
  

  The investigation continued Monday into a high-speed chase that ended with police shooting and killing a robbery suspect.

• Deadline tomorrow to file claim in CSX derailment suit
  

  People wishing to join the federal class-action lawsuit over the CSX train derailment in Brooks have until tomorrow to file claims.

• Police Investigate Second Homicide At Apartment Complex
  

  Ita TMs a case of deja vu for metro police as theya TMre called to a homicide at an apartment complex where another fatal shooting had happened just weeks earlier.

• Police investigate death in Newburg area
  

  Louisville metro police are on the scene of what is being called a homicide in the 4300 block of Shady Villa Drive, off of Poplar Level Road south of the Watterson Expressway, near the Newburg neighborhood.

• Family In Shock After Newburg Slaying
  

  A family is in shock after a Louisville man dies of multiple gunshot wounds during an early-morning shooting.

• Man charged with robbing 3 gas stations
  

  After receiving several tips from the public, Louisville Metro Police arrested a man Monday night and charged him with committing three robberies within an hour early Sunday.

• Newburg library plans unveiled
  

  The Louisville Free Public Library held a public meeting Oct. 21 at the Newburg Community Center to unveil the design for the new Newburg branch.

• UPS group helps Lighthouse Community Center shine
  

  Karen Stinnett and a crew of her co-workers from the UPS Customhouse Brokerage proved Brown could do a few things for the Lighthouse Community Center last week, including putting a fresh coat of white paint on ...

• Center to hold kids 'Halloween event
  

  JEFFERSON A Spooky Book night will be featured from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. tomorrow at the Baxter Community Center, 1125 Cedar Court.

• Newburg in line for 'cyber-library'
  

  Construction will begin next month on a new library branch in Newburg -- a 21st century 'cyber-library' that will cater to children, be generously stocked with computers and serve as a model that Mayor Jerry ...

• Where to get a shot
  

  You can call your doctor about getting a flu shot, but there are other resources for flu vaccination.

• Agency to begin taking heating-aid applications from elderly, disabled
  

  The Louisville Metro Community Action Partnership will begin accepting pre-registration heating assistance applications Monday from residents who are disabled or elderly and receive Social Security, SSI, ...

• 6th Division relocatesto new headquarters
  

  The 6th Division of the Louisville Metro Police Department is proud to announce that it has moved to a new building at 5600 Shepherdsville Road.

• Insurance companies swamped with windstorm damage claims
  

  Since Sunday's wind storm, insurance companies have been taking claims 24 hours a day.

• Apparent victim of generator fumes identified
  

  The Jefferson County coroner's office has identified a Louisville woman who died last night after she, her husband and child were apparently overcome by carbon monoxide in the 5000 block of Delaware Drive.

• Generator Fumes May Have Killed Woman
  

  LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A 22-year-old mother is dead, and the coroner is investigating carbon monoxide poisoning as the cause.

• Two spared death penalty in fatal home invasion
  

  A Jefferson Circuit Court jury has spared two Louisville men the death penalty for their roles in a fatal home invasion in the Newburg area last year.

• Newburg Middle is model school
  

  Where: 4901 Exeter Ave. What: About 160 Newburg students have signed up to take the 12-week GO, KIDS, GO! fitness challenge.

• Monarch Valley Leather Couch & Loveseat - Immaculate Condition!
  This Monarch Valley genuine leather couch & loveseat set was purchased at Ashley Furniture in October 2006 for $2300. They are a dark brown/mahoghany color with mahoghany wood and riveted detail on the arms. These are SUPER comfortable - you will LOVE them! They are in absolute immaculate condition....

City Description

Newburg is a former census-designated place in Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 20,636 at the 2000 census. On January 6, 2003, The area was annexed to the city of Louisville due to a merger between the city and Jefferson County's unincorporated communities. Newburg is now a neighborhood within the city limits of Louisville. It was settled in the 1820s by four German families, and was a small village called Newburgh a decade later. The 'h' was dropped and the modern spelling emerged as the name of the post office by the end of the 19th century. Newburg has historically had a black population, once centered around the nearby Petersburg area, at the junction of Shepherdsville and Newburg Roads. By 1851, Eliza and Henry Tevis, a free black couple who owned slaves, operated a 40-acre (160,000 m) farm in the area. After the civil war, freed blacks bought land in the area and started farms. Into the 1900s, Petersburg and Newburg were still surrounded by farmland. Newburg at some point had become the chosen name for the area, most likely because it was the name of the post office. Suburban sprawl reached the area by the 1960s, and it became popular with

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• Kentucky
• Jefferson County
• Louisville
• Louisville-Jefferson County, KY-IN Metropolitan Statistical Area

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