Posted: 8:06 AM Here is Governor Steve Beshear’s weekly address ‘About Kentucky’.
This week the Governor honors the nine thousand Kentucky police officers that put their lives on the line each day to protect us.
Posted: 5:26 PM Lieutenant Governor Daniel Mongiardo has changed his mind and decided not to seek a recanvass of votes in last night’s Democratic Primary for U.S. Senate.
Posted: 11:49 AM Tea party favorite Rand Paul, fresh off his GOP Senate primary victory, said he does not plan to change his message even as Democrats suggested he is a fringe candidate who will make an easy target in November.
Posted: 1:43 PM After you vote, I hope you will make plans to watch WYMT’s Election Night Coverage. We are the only television station devoted to covering Eastern Kentucky politics.
Updated: 11:45 AM Republicans are accusing President Barack Obama and the Democrats of promoting economic policies that rely too much on spending and not enough on cutting.
Posted: 11:32 AM President Barack Obama says pending financial overhaul legislation would empower consumers and bring back-room investment deals "into the light of day."
Updated: 11:23 AM Here is Governor Steve Beshear’s weekly address ‘About Kentucky’. This week the Governor talks about Kentucky as a summer tourist destination.
Updated: 11:29 AM Rand Paul continues to build his lead over Trey Grayson for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate. A new WHAS/Courier Journal Bluegrass poll shows Paul opening up a 16-point lead in the final week of the campaign with 11-percent of likely voters still undecided.
Posted: 10:51 AM Daniel Mongiardo and Jack Conway are neck and neck as they head into the home stretch for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. A new WHAS/Courier Journal Bluegrass poll shows Mongiaro clinging to a slim one point lead with 12-percent of voters still undecided.
Posted: 5:26 PM Trey Grayson picked up the endorsement of the Conservatives of America. Meanwhile, Rand Paul picked up the endorsement of a prominent Republican fund-raiser, former Ambassador Cathy Bailey.
Posted: 10:48 AM Believe it or not, a group of senior citizens was told they could not pray before their meals. In what some have a called a “ridiculous decision”, Georgia Senior Citizens, Inc. said because the organization receives federal money “it violates federal rules” to pray before meals.
Posted: 11:30 AM Former Governor and longtime Senator Wendell Ford is throwing his support behind Jack Conway in the Democratic Primary for U.S. Senate. Conway’s campaign says the endorsement is “huge” and calls it a “game changer.”
Posted: 11:55 AM Republicans are taking aim at Senate legislation overhauling the financial system, saying lack of controls on giant government-sponsored mortgage finance firms is a major flaw.
Posted: 4:49 PM In his Stoplight commentary, Stuart Shepard compares a federal judge’s logic regarding the constitutionality of the National Day of Prayer with that of the guy on the dollar bill.
Posted: 4:47 PM The theme for this year’s National Day of Prayer is “Prayer for such a time as this.”
Here is a message from Franklin Graham, the Honorary Chairman for the 2010 National Day of Prayer.
Updated: 2:41 PM 4th District Congressman Geoff Davis says a federal judge’s ruling that declared the National Day of Prayer unconstitutional is “not what our Founders intended.”
Updated: 2:02 PM Shirley Dobson says she believes Thursday's National Day of Prayer will be "a Valley Forge moment for people of faith." She told CBN News that a judge declaring the annual event unconstitutional should prompt Americans to cry out to God, as George Washington is said to have done for his suffering colonial army.
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- Kentucky Emergency Management (KYEM) officials are learning that officials in Moore, OK are becoming overwhelmed with unneeded donations and self deployed volunteers.
Posted: 2:53 PM
- The painting depicts the island from across the East River against a dark silhouette of buildings. The island was renamed for President Franklin Roosevelt in 1971.
Posted: 2:13 PM
- A company that sent layoff notices to about 260 workers at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant says it will delay implementing them for at least 30 days.
Updated: 4:36 PM
- The tea party has won the first round in a lawsuit that questions the legality of the Kentucky Health Benefit Exchange that Gov. Steve Beshear set up last year by executive order.
Updated: 11:31 AM
- Clothing and accessories company Rue21 has agreed to be taken private in nearly $1 billion deal with private equity firm Apax Partners.