Updated: 10:00 PM Investigators say the body of the hiker, who's from out of state, was found around 5 p.m. Tuesday.

Updated: 7:22 PM Madison County is mourning the death of Sheriff Jerry Combs. He was working in his parents' garden Monday evening when he collapsed and suffered an apparent heart attack. Combs' father, Elvin, says he was always helping out.

Updated: 7:24 PM The Fayette County School District changes its tornado preparedness plan following the devastation at an Oklahoma school.

Posted: 6:16 PM Eastern Kentucky University says it's giving buyout packages to 127 employees who applied for them and were accepted.

Posted: 6:14 PM Former Agriculture Commissioner Richie Farmer's sister has resigned as assistant executive director of the Kentucky Registry of Election Finance.

Updated: 7:22 PM More than a year after a tornado outbreak destroyed hundreds of homes in Laurel County, the survivors say stories from Oklahoma hit close to home.

Updated: 7:26 PM The lines are a dozen cars deep outside some Kentucky banks in the middle of the night. Police in a handful of cities say when those crowds gather on the first of the month, crime rates go up.

Posted: 4:22 PM The National Weather Service says the tornado that hit Moore, Okla., was a top-of-the-scale EF-5 twister with winds of at least 200 mph.

Posted: 4:20 PM The Bluegrass Chapter of the American Red Cross along with local media outlets are joining together to raise money for Oklahoma tornado relief.

Updated: 4:17 PM The father of an 8-year-old Oklahoma boy says a teacher saved his son's life as a tornado tore into their school yesterday.

Posted: 4:09 PM The U.S. House has passed legislation that would put a two-year moratorium on an Army Corps of Engineers plan to erect barriers to prevent people from fishing below dams on the Cumberland River.

Updated: 5:08 PM A former gubernatorial aide to three governors will take over as tourism secretary on June 1.

Posted: 3:59 PM Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. has named Ann Laurence publisher of the Richmond Register.

Posted: 2:49 PM A Madison County man is in jail accused of letting a small child drive him home because he was drunk.

Updated: 2:33 PM Kroger is joining forces with the American Red Cross to provide aid to victims of the Oklahoma tornado. Starting May 21st, customer donations will be accepted at all Central Kentucky Kroger locations.

Posted: 2:04 PM Hospital officials say they've treated hundreds of patients, including dozens of children, since a tornado hit an Oklahoma City suburb.

Posted: 1:56 PM Gov. Mary Fallin says an Oklahoma suburb that was devastated by a deadly tornado will be rebuilt.

Updated: 5:05 PM A new poll finds that teens are sharing more about themselves on social media. They're also moving increasingly to Twitter to avoid their parents and the "oversharing" that they see on Facebook.

Updated: 1:13 PM Tea party activists have rallied outside a federal building in Louisville, chanting it's time for the IRS to go because of its extra scrutiny of conservative groups.

Updated: 7:20 PM The parents of a Kentucky man survived the tornado in Moore, Oklahoma by taking cover in a safe room.

Posted: 11:56 AM The Dalai Lama called aggression a sign of weakness and compassion a sign of strength as the Buddhist spiritual leader spoke to a group of students in Louisville.

Updated: 11:50 AM A coroner says a worker helping crews prepare to paint the Glover H. Cary Bridge in Owensboro has died.

Updated: 10:48 AM President Barack Obama says he is instructing his disaster response team to get tornado victims in Oklahoma everything they need "right away."

Posted: 10:23 AM The former head of the Internal Revenue Service heads to Capitol Hill on Tuesday, giving lawmakers their first opportunity to question the man who ran the agency when agents were improperly targeting tea party groups.

Posted: 10:22 AM A leading Senate Democrat says the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups was intolerable, and he is promising to get to the bottom of how it happened.