Updated: 2:41 PM A suspected meth lab in Laurel County sends three people to the hospital, including a firefighter.

Updated: 2:59 PM A murder trial is expected to begin in the stabbing death of a retired school teacher in Mercer County.

Updated: 2:34 PM A truck plummets into a ravine after swerving to avoid collision. Three people were trapped.

Posted: 12:07 AM It was all part of the first annual "Patsy's Picnic."

Updated: 5:35 PM More than a dozen Kentucky National Guard members left Monday, headed for the state of Texas to be on stand-by in case of a Hurricane emergency.

Updated: 2:44 PM A grand jury declined to indict an eastern Kentucky woman accused of abandoning her newborn on the step of a Catlettsburg church earlier this month.

Updated: 3:52 PM A southern Kentucky man is dead after drowning in the Cumberland River.

Updated: 2:49 PM Gov. Ernie Fletcher owns guns. So does his Democratic challenger Steve Beshear. And so do each of their running mates.

Updated: 2:51 PM Henderson County Judge-Executive Sandy Watkins is conflicted about the idea of giving a company tax incentives to build a coal-to-natural gas plant in his county.

Updated: 2:54 PM The state's largest facility for the mentally retarded, harshly criticized in recent years for poor living conditions and patient abuse, has made significant improvements under new management, according to an independent monitor.

Updated: 2:54 PM A West Virginia woman says she was sexually assaulted and taken against her will to Kentucky.

Updated: 4:12 PM Residents in one Lexington neighborhood are rattled after shots are fired; endangering the lives of several people.

Updated: 5:21 PM Hurricane Dean, with top sustained wind strength of 150 mph, could threaten the Gulf Coast by Wednesday.

Updated: 4:23 PM The legal mess is getting stickier for the man known in northeastern Kentucky as the "Duct Tape Bandit."

Updated: 4:24 PM The head of the state's Medicaid program is stepping down at the end of the month after a little more than a year on the job.

Updated: 4:19 PM A former Kentucky State Police trooper faces sentencing in November after pleading guilty to trying to persuade someone to lie to a federal grand jury about his forced sexual contact with a confidential informant.

Updated: 4:18 PM A former assistant police chief in tiny Manchester, Kentucky has become the latest city official to plead guilty to racketeering charges.

Updated: 3:45 PM A long-running legal fight between Toyota and some of its paint-shop workers may be headed back to Scott County Circuit Court.

Updated: 4:25 PM KSP officers have arrested a Hamilton, Ohio man in a connection with two armed robberies at a convenience store in South Williamson, Ky. over the past month

Updated: 1:03 AM Lexington Police and UK Police warn remind students to stay safe after recent sexual abuse cases on campus.

Updated: 11:17 AM A central Kentucky woman has pleaded not guilty to charges that she physically and sexually abused three girls she adopted after serving as their foster parent.

Updated: 4:32 PM Lexington Police are investigating a fatal shooting that occurred late Friday night at the Heritage Apartments.

Posted: 7:05 PM The old Vaughan Tobacco Warehouses dates back almost 3 quarters of a century. It once stretched for almost a mile off West Main Street. The demolition has begun and 400,000 pounds of wood from the warehouses were hauled away by train Friday and will be recycled to build houses.

Updated: 6:35 PM Crystal Grimes was sentenced Friday after she pleaded guilty to theft and tampering with physical evidence charges.

Posted: 4:40 PM Gov. Ernie Fletcher signed an executive order on Friday calling lawmakers back the Capitol for a special legislative session to consider approving tax breaks for a proposed $3 billion coal gasification plant.