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UK president Eli Capilouto spoke on April 20, 2012, at Wildcat Alumni Plaza, across from Memorial Coliseum on Avenue of Champions in Lexington Photo by Laura Strange | Staff

UK president blogging on Huffington Post

University of Kentucky President Eli Capilouto has a new gig on the side: blogging for The Huffington Post.

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PUBLIC SAFETY

State troopers fatally shoot Carter County man

An Carter County man was shot and killed by state troopers Wednesday after police said he pointed a rifle at them and refused to put it down.

22 hours ago
POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT

Without Lexington and Louisville, Obama would have lost Kentucky to 'uncommitted'

President Barack Obama's poor showing in Tuesday's Democratic primary could mean trouble for Kentucky Democrats on the ballot this fall.

22 hours ago
STATE

Man pleads not guilty in double slaying

A Danville man arrested in a triple shooting that killed two and injured one has entered not guilty pleas to the charges against him.

1 day ago
POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT

Ron Paul acolyte from Texas poured money into Ky. congressional race

Armed with an inherited fortune and a devotion to Ron Paul, John Ramsey, 21, a college student from Nacogdoches, Texas, plunged into a little-watched Republican House primary in Northern Kentucky this spring to promote his version of freedom.

18 hours ago
STATE

NC master flatpicker Doc Watson listed as critical

Master flatpicker Doc Watson was in critical condition Thursday at a North Carolina hospital after falling at his home in Deep Gap earlier this week.

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STATE

AWOL Muslim soldier guilty in Fort Hood bomb plot

A federal jury on Thursday convicted a Muslim soldier on six charges in connection with a failed plot to blow up a Texas restaurant full of Fort Hood troops, his religious mission to get "justice" for the people of Iraq and Afghanistan.

4 hours ago
STATE

Ex-W.Va. doctor pleads guilty in pill mill probe

A former West Virginia doctor and minor political figure pleaded guilty Thursday to providing prescriptions for pain and anti-anxiety pills to people without examining them or determining they needed such drugs.

54 minutes ago
STATE

Governor sees potential bourbon market in Taiwan

Gov. Steve Beshear is back from a trade mission to Taiwan where he worked to establish new markets for Kentucky-made bourbon whiskey.

1 hour ago
STATE

Ky. inmate to get hearing on mental disability

A Kentucky death row inmate won a hearing Thursday on his claim of being mentally disabled and ineligible for execution for a 1987 kidnapping, rape and slaying of a northern Kentucky woman.

8 hours ago
STATE

Condemned Ky. inmate loses appeal on mental state

A Kentucky inmate awaiting execution for the 1990 slayings of a Lexington couple outside their business lost a challenge on Thursday to his death sentence based on his mental state.

7 hours ago