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The FBI Louisville Division is inviting all Kentucky high schoolers to their annual Teen academy. 

The 2025 FBI Louisville Teen Academy will be held July 14 through 17 at the FBI Louisville Field Office, located at 12401 Sycamore Station Place in Louisville.

The academy is open to all high school students, including seniors graduating this summer and freshmen entering high school this fall. The academy offers high school students a behind the scenes look at the Bureau, with instruction on topics such as how evidence is collected from crime scenes, how FBI SWAT executes arrests, and programs focused on terrorism, civil rights, crimes against children, and cyber crimes. The FBI emphasizes that the Bureau does not only hire individuals with a criminal justice background, so any student with an interest in the FBI and its mission is encouraged to apply.

All students will be evaluated based on their application and an essay to determine which students will be offered an academy spot. The application and more information is available on the Community Outreach section of the FBI Louisville website. Applications must be submitted by May 23.

Goodwill Industries of Kentucky is offering support for residents impacted by flooding across the commonwealth through vouchers available at their stores and opportunity centers.

“If you are near an opportunity center and have the need for vouchers, which you can use for clothing and wares at Goodwill Industries of Kentucky stores (there are 66 stores statewide), we urge you to find your nearest store or opportunity center and obtain those vouchers,” said Goodwill Industries of Kentucky Communications Coordinator Kyle Williams. 

The vouchers are also available at Community Action Kentucky offices.

“They’re valued based on need for items in our stores,” Williams said. “They can be used at any store. We do ask that the full amount be used at one store, and an ID is required to obtain a voucher.”

The vouchers are part of Goodwill’s efforts to support communities in crisis.

“While we are not a disaster relief agency, we obviously see the tremendous need for some things that we can offer, so we step in in ways that we find necessary,” Williams said.

Visit the Elizabethtown Goodwill Opportunity Center at 243 West Dixie Avenue. To find your nearest Community Action Kentucky office, visit www.capky.org.

Nolin River Wildlife hosted their third annual Born to be Wild Gala this past weekend, and Nolin River Wildlife board member Jerry Mraz said the event did even better than expected.

“We came in at raising just a little bit above $60,000, and that is all free and clear,” Mraz said. “All of that money goes directly to the operations of Nolin River Wildlife.”

Mraz said there is no better acknowledgement of the community’s generosity than the success of the gala.

“It’s a great opportunity to not just raise money, but it raises awareness for our local wildlife, for our local mammals, and it gives us an opportunity to recruit volunteers and tell people just in general the kinds of things that we do at Nolin River Wildlife,” Mraz said.

All proceeds from the event will go directly towards Nolin River Wildlife’s mission of helping injured wildlife heal and grow.

“We have veterinary bills,” Mraz said. “Some of our animals come to us injured, and so there are vet bills that may come up and run up to unknown amounts of money. We can’t really guess that part, but between food and vet bills, that’s the lion’s share of what normally costs between $6,000 to $8,000 a month to operate.”

You can learn more about Nolin River Wildlife and find ways to contribute to the organization by visiting their website or Facebook page.