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Massey Energy's management has agreed to increase oversight of the coal company's environmental and safety compliance to settle a shareholder lawsuit.
Murray State University has settled a sexual harassment lawsuit for $170,000 that was filed by the school's former director of equal opportunity.
Frankfort police arrested two people Sunday on charges stemming from a June 4 shooting in downtown Frankfort. William Brewer, 20, was charged with first-degree assault in the shooting of Charles Randle on East Third Street. Police also charged Sarah Ellen Young, 26, of Frankfort with hindering apprehension and prosecution of a suspect. Both were taken to the Franklin County Regional Jail.
Employees of four departments here are working together to cover and remove graffiti. Covington's police, public works, code enforcement and parks and recreation departments are joining forces to battle the graffiti. On a recent afternoon, code enforcement specialist John Coulter was covering graffiti on the back of a traffic sign with silver spray paint.
Big bugs have landed around Owensboro and more are coming. One of the critters landed at the Daviess County library. When the 11-foot praying mantis showed up on the building's corner recently, it had heads turning.
Raging Midwest floodwaters that swallowed crops and sent corn and soybean prices soaring are about to give consumers more grief at the grocery store.
The faithful gathered for church services Sunday in towns hard hit by flooding along the Mississippi River, and many found comfort in word that the swollen waterway apparently was near its high point.
A soccer game on a dirt field between two amateur teams -- one U.S. Army soldiers, the other local Iraqis -- might not seem like a big deal in the scope of the wider war.
A suicide bomber concealing explosives beneath her black robe struck outside a government complex northeast of Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least 15 people and wounding more than 40, U.S. and Iraqi officials said.
A fiery former GOP congressman who gained national prominence for doggedly pursuing impeachment of President Clinton has some Republicans worried he'll play spoiler in a tight presidential contest.
Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai withdrew Sunday from this week's run-off presidential election in the beleaguered southern African nation, saying he could no longer participate in a race marred by the widespread intimidation, torture, mutilation and murder of his supporters.
Dudley Webb is hardly the first ambitious businessman to want to leave his mark on the block in the center of downtown Lexington. A five-member city board will decide this week whether Webb should be able to erase the marks of all those who came before him.
Critics fear the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will adopt a rule in the waning days of the Bush administration that will make it easier to build coal-fired power plants near national parks.
Kentucky has set out thousands of traps in an effort to catch the emerald ash borer if the destructive insect crosses the border into the state.
First, they lost their land. Now the people whose families were evicted in the 1960s to create a vast nature preserve in Western Kentucky and Tennessee are wrangling with the U.S. Forest Service over how to present their history to visitors.
For decades, giant drilling rigs off the Texas and Louisiana coastlines have plumbed the Gulf of Mexico for vast oil and gas riches, creating jobs, bolstering state revenues and perpetuating vibrant coastal communities.
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