State & Regional - Wire

The younger son of Kentucky Senator Julie Denton died a one-car accident in Lexington.

Ground combat in the 1991 Persian Gulf War lasted just 100 hours, but it's meant 17 years of pain and anguish for hundreds of thousands of veterans.

Eastern Kentucky University is planning a research center aimed at developing fuel from non-edible plants.

A little horse is causing a big commotion in one central Kentucky city.

A circuit judge has pronounced Republican Tim Moore winner of a disputed state House seat in a legislative district that includes Fort Knox.

Kentucky State Police in eastern Kentucky are investigating a shooting that resulted in the death of a 16-year-old boy.

A Whitley County truck driver has filed a demand that President-elect Barack Obama prove he is a natural-born U.S. citizen - one of the requirements to become president.

Ground combat in the 1991 Persian Gulf War lasted just 100 hours, but it's meant 17 years of pain and anguish for hundreds of thousands of veterans.

Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear is meeting with President-elect Barack Obama and other governors this week and said Monday he plans to ask for federal help in covering state expenses such as Medicaid and unemployment benefits.

Two Kentucky men who previously apologized for hanging an effigy of President-elect Barack Obama on the University of Kentucky campus want their case heard by a Fayette County grand jury.

The president of the Kentucky Community and Technical College System says he won't accept a raise or bonus in his 2009 compensation package.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is being sued over a permit issued to Tennessee Valley Authority's Paradise plant in western Kentucky.

A pedestrian was killed after being struck by two vehicles.

Ownership of reigning Horse of the Year Curlin remained divided Monday after a judge's surprise ruling rejecting a proposed sale that would have consolidated control of the horse under winemaker Jess Jackson.

Louisville Mayor Jerry Abramson has announced budget cuts, saying street and road repaving will be stopped and some community services will be more limited.

The Cincinnati Zoo has scuttled a short-lived ticket promotion with a Kentucky museum that teaches a Biblical version of the Earth's origins.

Inspectors at the Blue Grass Army Depot in central Kentucky have discovered a GB, or sarin, vapor leak there.

A more than $450 million hole in Kentucky's state budget is likely to fill much of the General Assembly's time when lawmakers convene in January.

A federal inmate being held at a county jail in western Kentucky has died in his cell.

Northern Kentucky teenager Brian Becker was so ill with a sinus infection the day he took his ACT college admissions exam, his parents suggested he skip it, but the Covington Latin High School senior toughed it out and couldn't be happier that he did.