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The 50 students haven't even started ninth grade yet, but they're gathered this summer at a high school for a special program on statistics, language and social awareness taught by teachers who specialize in Advanced Placement classes.

She wore a gold-colored earring that resembled a bee, with pink-colored stones on the upper sides and a single clear stone at the bottom.

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The Kentucky long rifle was effectively used as a sniping weapon during the Revolutionary War - allowing colonial soldiers to pick off officers at range due to its rifling and superior accuracy.

Last week, Kentucky coach Mark Stoops offered a scholarship to defensive back Jairus Brents, a 13-year-old who hasn't yet begun the eighth grade.

Some community-based organizations and local health departments are hosting free test events for HIV this month, as National HIV Testing Day is marked on June 27. The goal is to let individuals learn their status and be linked to services if needed.

Cynthia Bohn lived all over the country, as well as in England and the Netherlands, during her 30-year career as an IBM computer engineer and executive.

Linda J. Hawkins, owner of Heart to Heart Publishing Inc., was recently invited to participate in the Kentucky Export Initiative' Trade and Business Mission to Canada.

Results were released last week for a national study done by Feeding America. The study shows that many Eastern Kentuckians do not know where their next meal will come from.

Phone calls were received by law enforcement officials in Northern Kentucky just before 4 p.m. indicating that a body was seen floating down the river near Anderson Ferry in Constance, Ky.

Many quarterback recruiting dominoes have fallen recently, as several Elite 11 Finalists have made up their minds the past several days.

A Confederate general whose brother-in-law was the Union president is depicted in new bronze busts being sold to finance a statue destined for Elizabethtown's Public Square.

His grandfather Willard Thacker raised 16 children on a miner's pay, beginning in the days when the back-breaking job involved blasting down coal and loading it into carts with a shovel.

The offers for the class of 2014 are slowing, but the UK staff hasn't slowed. They've been working hard to get commitments and it has paid off this week with almost a recruit a day committing to the Cats.

Patrick Newcomb will seek his place in state golf history in the Kentucky State Amateur Championship.

Prosecutors say Geneva Case heard her spouse admit to killing a man two years ago and saw her clean blood out of the man's van and abandon it in Southern Indiana.

During a recent meeting of the Lynch City Council, a discussion was held about the opening of a gift shop in their newly restored Firehouse located near Portal 31. Council woman Linda Adams said she had received a request from local resident Rosemary Davenport, who designs and monograms purses, key chains, T-shirts, polo shirts and other items ... (more)

Kentucky state officials are launching a year-long study to find out whether the state's controversial new laws cracking down on prescription drug abuse are making a difference in curbing one of the nation's worst pain-pill epidemics.

Morehead State University, in cooperation with veterans' services, community, volunteer and business organizations, sponsored the first Eastern Kentucky Veterans Expo Friday, June 14, at the Boyd County Middle School.

Non-traditional lenders across Appalachia are getting a big boost when it comes to finding money for small businesses often considered not quite bankable.