University of Kentucky News

The Second City company coming to the University of Kentucky on Friday includes, from left, Sayjal Joshi, Katy Marquardt, Katie Rich, Michael Lehrer, Shad Kunkle and Tim Stoltenberg. Second City The Second City What: Touring company of the legendary Chicago comedy troupe.

Eastern Kentucky officials say coal is to eastern Kentucky's economy what Toyota is to the Blue Grass and say the state cannot afford to lose it.

Criminal charges continue to accumulate against two former University of Kentucky basketball players accused of conducting ticket scams throughout the state.

Researchers at three universities have received $6 million in federal stimulus grants to study the genetics of how plants make compounds used in medicines.

A Versailles man died Monday night after a car crash in Woodford County. Hunter Roberts, 23, hit a plank fence in his car just before 9:30 p.m. on Big Sink Road in Woodford County, according to the Fayette County coroner's office.

Blackboard Inc. today announced an alliance with Microsoft Corporation to offer students and learners access to information from their online courses on Web browsers, enabling them to keep up with important course updates while surfing the Web, not just when logged into their BlackboardA accounts.

Valerie Di Maria, director of client strategy at Peppercom strategic communications firm, will deliver the 2009 James C. Bowling Executive-in-Residence lecture at 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov.

ST. LOUIS, Oct 29, 2009 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- Sigma-Aldrich announced today it has teamed with 3M to distribute TIPS Pentacene, a high-performance soluble organic semiconductor for printed and flexible electronics.

Former University of Kentucky coach Billy Gillispie has pleaded guilty to driving under the influence of alcohol.

Is Richie gonna play tonight? That's the question echoing throughout Kentucky since former University of Kentucky basketball player and current state Agriculture Commissioner Richie Farmer told The Associated Press last week that he is considering a run for governor.

When Loren Mohead arrived from Dayton, Ohio, as a freshman at the University of Kentucky, she enthusiastically embraced life on a major college campus, signing up for 18 credits, including a difficult class like Roman art.

A group led by Alliance Coal has received approval from the University of Kentucky to build a new $7 million dorm for the men's basketball team.

She was injured Frida9 when mount Golden Stride clipped heels and fell during the firs4 race, her third at the Keeneland fall meet.

Lawmakers on the Interim Joint Committee on Local Government hammered Corrections Commissioner LaDonna Thompson with questions.

Spirituality and religion may seem similar, but they can have vastly different influences on sexual behavior, according to a University of Kentucky study.

As a young boy, Rex M. Best would rush home from school to watch his soap operas.

Lexington Police say a man was walking into his apartment building on East Maxwell when he was grabbed by the robber shortly before 11 p.m. Sunday.

University of Kentucky officials have approved the name of a new residence hall for the University of Kentucky men's basketball team.

FRANKFORT - University of Kentucky basketball icon Richie Farmer said Tuesday he is considering a run for governor on the Republican ticket.

LEXINGTON, Ky. Researchers from the University of Kentucky Sanders-Brown Center on Aging will begin testing an intriguing new approach to slowing down the progression of Alzheimer's Disease using Intravenous Immune Globulin , also known as gammaglobulin.