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

Still need a swine flu shot? More H1N1 vaccinations are available Saturday. The Louisville Metro Health Department is offering 3,000 doses -- a mix of nasal mist doses and injections -- at the Urban Government Center on Barret Avenue.

The Kentucky Emergency Management Agency said the leak at Hussey Copper LTD Company in Eminence started around 10 p.m. on Thursday.

Police are looking for Louisville man who is suspected of calling in a bomb threat to a Lawrenceburg day care center.

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 new restaurant in Butchertown and a building renovation project on East Market Street are among companies awarded small-business loans recently by Louisville Metro Government.

The Ultimate Skid Steer Smackdown takes a "D-Tour" with the launch of John Deere's new D-Series skid steers and compact track loaders , including stops at trade shows and real job sites.

If the federal government approves stimulus money for Louisville's Big Four Bridge, people could start walking and biking across the Ohio river in less than two years.

Karen Sypher is now charged with retaliating against U of L coach Rick Pitino for filing a police report against him this summer.

How is the city of Louisville going to come up with more than $45 million in back pay they owe firefighters? The metro council will take up that issue at Thursday night's meeting.

Longtime Louisville Mayor Jerry Abramson is heading to Harvard University to speak to a group of new mayors.

LOUISVILLE - A south-central Kentucky girl is recovering at a Louisville hospital after being attacked by a pit bull.

LOUISVILLE, KY Louisville Metro Police have arrested five people in the murders of a mother and son Thursday afternoon on Tipsy Circle.

U.S. marshals have arrested a suspect wanted in connection with a fatal shooting in Owensboro.

Phoenix has rules limiting how long motorists can let their vehicles' engines idle.

U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell announced Monday that the Senate approved his request to name the current and future VA hospital in Louisville the "Robley Rex Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center." The idea of naming the hospital after Rex was first brought to the attention of Senator McConnell by a Kentucky veteran.

Police say they've arrested a suspect in the fatal shooting of a convenience store clerk during a robbery in Owensboro.

A months-long battle in Louisville's Butchertown neighborhood could end Monday. The Metro Board of Zoning can shut down the Swift meat packing plant because of company violations, but Swift workers plan to organize to keep that from happening.

As historians, scientists and the religious community debate whether the world is heading to catastrophe in the year 2012, a Kentucky man said he has the answers , WLKY-TV in Louisville, Ky., reported.

This is a review up to the 2009 festival. What started out as an event to raise donations for charity has now become one of the nation's top balloon festivals.