University of Kentucky News

Another group has looked at Kentucky's large prison population and costs and found more or less the same solutions - but they're not likely to be the answers most lawmakers seek.

A coal company whose president helped raise $7 million for a new athletics dorm at the University of Kentucky has been a major contributor to state political campaigns.

A new study by the Meals on Wheels Association of America shows roughly six million seniors are at risk of being hungry.

The tobacco ban at the University of Kentucky includes outdoor areas and applies to chew, pipes, cigars and snuff as well as cigarettes.

Former University of Kentucky men's basketball player Sam Bowie said Thursday that he has applied for membership in Lexington's Idle Hour Country Club, which has never had an African-American member.

FRANKFORT, Ky. - The coal company that has found itself embroiled in controversy over the firing of a key state mining regulator has been a major contributor to political campaigns and committees in Kentucky the past five years.

Smoking was officially snuffed out Thursday at the University of Kentucky with the start of a strict tobacco-free policy everywhere on the sprawling campus in the heart of burley tobacco country.

A former University of Kentucky men's basketball player accused of running a ticket scam totaling more than $70,000 has been indicted on 23 counts of theft by deception.

The largest university in the tobacco-growing state of Kentucky and home to a tobacco research center is banning all smoking on campus.

Before Kentucky faced a crumbling budget and the bottom fall out of tax collections, lawmakers were looking ways to save money on a growing prison population.

CPRIT receives requests totaling over $28 million in response to its initial prevention funding opportunities.

LEXINGTON , Ky. Major Joe Monroe was named permanent University of Kentucky Chief of Police today, following a three-year tenure as the department's senior officer.

LEXINGTON, Ky. The University Health Service has been allotted 2,000 doses of H1N1 intranasal vaccine from the Lexington-Fayette County Health Department.

Crews responded Thursday morning to a wreck involving a school bus and one other vehicle.

A San Francisco Bay area wine keeper about to stand trial for a fire that destroyed a warehouse filled with 6 million bottles of wine has scheduled a change-of-plea hearing.

Police are searching for the owner of a car involved in a hit and run accident that left a man in a coma.

In the past three years, 49 Kentuckians have been killed by their husbands, boyfriends or former mates - victims of the ultimate form of domestic violence, according to a state advocacy group and news accounts.

With the help of a gum chomping machine and years of careful chemistry, University of Kentucky researchers have developed a chewing gum that can help replace toothpaste and a toothbrush, thus improving the health of soldiers in the field as well as children in poor countries.

The University of Kentucky has issued a crime bulletin after reports of "suspicious activity" on campus.

Times-Tribune Staff Report The driver of a Mercury Mountaineer was admitted to the University of Kentucky hospital after his vehicle reportedly collided with a Laurel County school bus Thursday morning.