Kentucky News

Former Kentucky Democratic Party Chairman Bill Garmer said Friday he is considering running for the U.S. Senate next year if Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes declines to enter the race against Republican incumbent Mitch McConnell.

Thanks to Ray O'Brien for forwarding this news from Biddy Hayes: The Berea Bluegrass Band from Kentucky will play the Church of Ireland in Bruff, Co.

New Albany Police Chief Sherri Knight said severe mental illness is what led to New Albany resident Jaime Clutter to drown her two children, then herself, in Falling Run Creek on March 13.

A member of Gov. Steve Beshear's cabinet, Tourism, Arts and Heritage Secretary Marcheta Sparrow, is retiring at the end of May.

The cities of Bardstown and Maysville have joined the list of official Kentucky Cultural Districts, bringing the total number of state-certified communities to six.

To some observers, Jarvis Williams would seem to be the ideal tenure-track professor.

Kentucky's poet laureate is fulfilling a childhood dream by getting behind the wheel of a bookmobile in his hometown.

U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander told a top U.S. Army Corps of Engineers official at a budget hearing today that he would restrict the Corps' ability to transfer new funds to projects if it doesn't abandon "unreasonable" fishing restrictions that amount to "thumbing your nose at elected officials," saying, "It sounds to me like we have a life jacket ... (more)

Morehead State University Police Department has received its fourth, five-year certificate of accreditation by the Kentucky Association of Chiefs of Police .

This article caught me off guard as I read it in a Fox News.Com report stating political leaders in Kentucky had called a local retailer, the Urban Outfitters, to advise them to halt the sale of flasks, shot glasses and pint glasses because they look like real prescription pill bottles.

The Kentucky sports hero turned politician Farmer has pleaded not guilty to charges related to his management of the Department of Agriculture.

It's called kynect: Kentucky's Healthcare Connection. Kentucky's Office of the Health Benefit Exchange will run it.

Bowling Green Police say just before 8:00 p.m. on Thursday, May 9, two men entered Walmart on Morgantown Road.

Members of the Decorative Concrete Council, St. Louis, Missouri, traveled to Hanson to work on a therapeutic garden at the Western Kentucky Veterans Center.

By Alan Reed Tribune-Courier News Editor areed@tribunecourier.com The closing of a Kentucky Medicaid contractor will leave a debt of $112,834 to the Marshall County Health Department.

As of Sunday, just 39 percent of the state's corn crop had been planted, barely half the pace of the five-year average and far behind last year, when corn planting was nearly finished, according to the USDA's Agricultural Statistics Service's Louisville field office.

Kentuckians who take the high school equivalency test between Wednesday and July 31 will have their fee of $60 to $120 paid by Kentucky Adult Education.

A 12-year-old boy accused of fatally stabbing his 8-year-old sister in their Central California home is due in juvenile court Wednesday after his attorney said the boy had been charged with murder.

The National Transportation Safety Board said the primary cause of the Delta Mariner's collision with the Eggners Ferry Bridge was the crew's reliance on a pilot's advice.

In June 2013, two bluegrass music traditions - KET's Jubilee and the International Bluegrass Music Association Fan Fest - come together in a groundbreaking collaboration: live performances from the IBMA Fan Fest are captured for the first time ever on the new season of Jubilee, recorded in Nashville in September 2012.