Updated: 12:10 PM A drought in the Southeastern United States has heightened demand for hay.

Updated: 1:47 PM Al-Qaida is expected to use its contacts and capabilities in Iraq to ount an attack on US soil.

Updated: 12:29 PM An investigation continues today into a deadly accident at an Eastern Kentucky coal mine.

Posted: 10:49 AM The E.W. Scripps Co. said Tuesday it will end publication of The Cincinnati Post and The Kentucky Post on Dec. 31, when a joint operating agreement with Gannett Co. and The Cincinnati Enquirer expires.

Posted: 9:28 AM A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed in federal court at Ashland, seeking compensation on behalf of the estate of a man killed in a 2006 car crash in Greenup County.

Posted: 9:25 AM The Princeton review has listed Northern Kentucky University's College of Business among the best in the United States.

Updated: 3:08 PM The state Board of Education has a new education commissioner if it wants to hire Marion County Superintendent Roger Marcum. While Marcum is an educator who would take the job, Fayette County Superintendent Stu Silberman says he's not interested, but would strongly consider the post should it be offered.

Posted: 8:55 AM Kentucky lawmakers are being paid right now even though they are not meeting in Frankfort.

Updated: 10:46 AM Some will, others won't, take the state Board of Education commissioner job.

Updated: 8:46 AM A Lexington ice cream truck driver says he was kidnapped late Monday night at gunpoint.

Updated: 1:11 AM Lexington Police say gunmen opened fire this week hitting at least six vehicles, homes and signs.

Updated: 11:24 PM A three-year old boy is safe after a bizarre explosion in Laurel County.

Updated: 11:24 PM Many pizza delivery drivers in Lexington are concerned after a rash of robberies.

Updated: 2:08 AM The funding measure passed a key House Committee and the money will go to the Commonwealth's Office of Drug Control Policy to be used across Kentucky, once the measure is signed into law.

Posted: 11:10 PM State officials say it happened at the Cam LLC Mine Number One in Pike County.

Posted: 9:26 PM House Speaker Jody Richards will go ahead with plans to meet with Peabody Energy's chief executive officer, and he may take Gov. Ernie Fletcher along.

Posted: 9:24 PM There's been no letup in demand for David Glover's southern Kentucky hay crop from livestock producers with stunted pastures and hungry herds.

Posted: 9:22 PM Kentucky Supreme Court Justice William McAnulty Jr. was released Monday from a hospital where he had been recovering from brain surgery to remove a cancerous lesion.

Updated: 9:12 PM An affidavit accuses Knott County's judge executive and other officials of paving private roads as part of a vote-buying effort, The Courier-Journal reported Monday.

Posted: 7:54 PM A search for a possible meth lab in Laurel County led to a major drug bust this weekend.

Posted: 7:48 PM They say Oakie Fannin drove to his ex-wife's house where he tried to run over her husband Charles Burchet.

Posted: 7:36 PM A man accused of beating another and leaving him for dead is sentenced to 10 years in jail.

Posted: 7:16 PM Police arrested James Dunaway and charged him with bigamy earlier this month.

Posted: 7:44 PM Kentucky drivers now have a new option... for their cars' license plates.

Updated: 7:03 PM The Whitley County Grand Jury will now consider whether to indict the man accused of causing a deadly crash on I-75 last week.