Updated: 11:24 PM A standoff tonight, after man barricades himself inside a home on Sewanee lane with a gun.

Updated: 12:10 AM Former Hazard Mayor Willie Dawahare died 21 years ago this week.

Updated: 12:52 PM When most people dial 9-1-1 there's usually an emergency. But a 27 NEWSFIRST Investigation found many of the calls coming into 911 call centers across Central Kentucky have nothing to due with a true emergencies and it's costing you money.

Posted: 10:47 PM Attorney General Greg Stumbo is considering a run against Senator Mitch McConnell next year.

Posted: 10:45 PM The state's largest facility for mentally retarded adults has been cited again over the injury of a patient.

Posted: 10:42 PM Peabody Energy has joined with a second company on a proposal to construct a three (B) billion-dollar coal-gasification plant in Kentucky.

Updated: 3:15 PM The government is warning consumers and retailers to rid their shelves of 90 different products linked to a botulism outbreak.

Updated: 10:23 AM If you need to get a drug test quickly in Paintsville, you're now in luck.

Posted: 10:29 PM Barry Wayne Burch is accused of embezzling more than $176,000 while he was a loan officer at Union Planters Bank.

Posted: 10:25 PM A civil lawsuit filed against former Williamsburg Police Officer Brad Nighbert has been settled.

Posted: 10:10 PM Police are trying to figure out if three church burglaries in less than a week are connected.

Posted: 9:32 PM It's what was found along with the building materials and bottles in the illegal Pulaski County dump that has landed a man in trouble with the law.

Posted: 6:40 PM The state's largest facility for mentally retarded adults has been cited again over the injury of a patient.

Updated: 6:39 PM The comic will replace Bob Barker, who retired earlier this year.

Posted: 6:25 PM The Barbourville Advocate reports police arrested 68-year-old John T. Croslin of Barbourville last week.

Updated: 6:51 PM Hard to believe schools will be starting up again soon, Fayette County's first day is August 13th and the school system is trying to get things in place for that first day.

Posted: 6:21 PM Court officials tell us 27-year-old Jonathan Brown and 26-year-old Michael McDavid will be in court Tuesday morning.

Posted: 6:10 PM The first base coach of an Arkansas minor league team was killed Sunday by a foul ball.

Posted: 6:06 PM Kentucky Attorney General Greg Stumbo has formed an exploratory campaign committee to weigh his chances.

Updated: 9:03 PM Some are calling it brutal and even cruel, but fighting animals for money isn't rare.

Updated: 7:24 PM Police say the boys, ages 14 and 16, broke into several cars in Pulaski County over the weekend.

Posted: 3:58 PM The top death scene investigators in North America are in Saint Louis this week learning the latest advancements in forensic sciences.

Posted: 3:54 PM Tractor rollover crashes during farm work killed one Kentucky farmer last year, according to figures compiled by the University of Kentucky.

Posted: 3:25 PM Iran's ambassador to Iraq confirms he's going to meet tomorrow with the U-S ambassador in Baghdad.

Posted: 1:56 PM A founding father of the Lexington fitness scene has died.