Updated: 6:39 PM Seven counties in central Kentucky are now under a water shortage advisory.

Updated: 9:04 AM At least 337 people were killed by a powerful 7.9-magnitude earthquake that shook Peru's coast, toppling buildings, shattering roads and injuring more than 827 others, officials said Thursday.

Posted: 8:57 AM The Iraqi government says at least 400 people were killed in Tuesday's terror attack on members of an ancient religious sect in northern Iraq.

Updated: 9:20 AM Investigators in Laurel County are trying to figure out how a man ended up in the middle of a road early Thursday with a serious head injury.

Updated: 8:47 AM Lexington Police spent hours overnight trying to find thieves who broke into an auto parts yard off Athens-Boonesboro Road.

Updated: 8:37 AM Once officers put a suspect in the police cruiser, they say she kicked out one of the cruiser's back windows.

Posted: 8:29 AM One man is in jail, another in the hospital, after an early morning shooting Thursday in Whitley County.

Updated: 8:23 AM Lexington Police are searching for a suspect in an early Thursday morning shooting at a Lexington apartment.

Updated: 1:13 PM A convicted sex offender, accused of killing an eastern Kentucky mother and her two young daughters and then setting their home on fire to cover the crime, appeared in court on Thursday morning in Carter County.

Posted: 10:11 PM The Martin County man says his son complained about a terrible smell at Inez Elementary School.

Posted: 5:39 PM For the first time in eight years, the temperature in Lexington hit 101 degrees on Wednesday.

Updated: 5:03 PM A high school science teacher accused of molesting two students in the 1970s has been released from jail after posting a deposit on his bond.

Updated: 11:13 PM Three people were killed in a violent head on collision in Lincoln County Wednesday afternoon. It happened along U.S. 127 near Hustonville.

Updated: 7:08 PM A Madison County mother sat in court Wednesday and cried as investigators outlined their case against her and her boyfriend. Both are charged with the murder of her 2-year-old daughter.

Posted: 4:50 PM Investigators are looking into a "possible connection" between a Louisville bank robbery and a double murder in Lexington, a Louisville police spokesman said Wednesday.

Posted: 12:50 PM America will now decide if a Winchester filmmaker will claim a million dollar prize and gain a shot at becoming a major director.

Updated: 9:08 AM There's no need to search for the newest entertainment at the Kentucky State Fair - it will go looking for you.

Posted: 11:33 AM Scores on the American College Test improved slightly for high school seniors who start college this fall, education officials announced on Wednesday.

Posted: 11:29 AM China's problems with lead in consumer products go far beyond tainted toys.

Updated: 6:00 PM There was a major interruption of business on Wednesday morning in one of the busiest shopping areas in Lexington after a gas line break.

Updated: 1:11 PM Police say it appears a man was randomly attacked outside his Lexington apartment Wednesday morning.

Updated: 8:49 AM A former Lexington police officer who arrested country music star John Michael Montgomery has filed another lawsuit, this one aimed at getting his old job back.

Updated: 8:43 AM About 200 people in a Central Kentucky town woke up without water after two water lines and several service lines broke.

Posted: 12:27 AM An execution date has been requested for a Kentucky Death Row inmate convicted of killing a sheriff and deputy in 1992.

Posted: 12:25 AM It cost 1.2 million dollars and a lot of man hours, but now a stretch of the Big Sandy River is clean again.