Massie gets spot on government oversight committee
Posted: 4:24 AM Massie also was selected Monday to serve on the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and House Committee on Science, Space and Technology Committee.
Posted: 4:24 AM Massie also was selected Monday to serve on the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and House Committee on Science, Space and Technology Committee.
Posted: 4:22 AM It's in a building off Highway 15 next to CVS Pharmacy.
Posted: 4:15 AM Obama proposes $1.6 trillion in higher taxes over a decade and heightened presidential power to raise the debt limit.
Updated: 4:13 AM The issue threatened to become the biggest sticking point in a $631 billion defense bill last week.
Updated: 10:09 AM Taxes are the root of the hang-ups on "fiscal cliff" talks.
Posted: 8:49 AM Romney's loss has left the party rudderless and in disarray during what may be the most important policy debate in a generation.
Updated: 5:52 AM Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear is expecting an improved relationship with Senate Republicans now that they've elected new leaders.
Updated: 1:19 PM The Department of Revenue will keep its field offices open until 9 p.m. local time to accommodate an expected final-day rush.
Posted: 3:59 AM The president's trip comes amid signs of impatience in the negotiations between Republican leaders and the White House.
Updated: 5:03 AM Congressional auditors say doing away with dollar bills entirely and replacing them with dollar coins could save taxpayers $4.4 billion over the next 30 years.
Posted: 4:00 AM The running fight over gay marriage is shifting from the ballot box to the Supreme Court.
Updated: 3:54 PM Former Rep. Geoff Davis (R-Ky.) is joining forces with Hunter Bates, a GOP lobbyist, in a new firm.
Posted: 6:28 PM U.S. Rep. Hal Rogers -- known for his success in funneling federal dollars into his impoverished Appalachian district -- has been re-elected to a second term as chairman of the powerful House Committee on Appropriations.
Updated: 12:04 AM The governor's office went blue, politically, in 2007 when Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear was elected. Now the carpeting is catching up.
Posted: 4:13 AM The latest squabble came within an hour of moderate Rep. Shelly Moore Capito's announcement Tuesday that she was running for West Virginia Democrat Jay Rockefeller's Senate seat in 2014.
Posted: 4:02 AM GOP senators are signaling they will try to scuttle Rice's nomination if President Barack Obama taps her to be the next secretary of state.
Posted: 3:46 AM Republicans in the Kentucky Senate have chosen Robert Stivers of Manchester to be the chamber's new president.
Posted: 4:18 AM The 50-year-old governor announced his intention to seek a second term Monday.
Posted: 4:09 AM Officials said the discussions will focus on her much-maligned explanations of the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans.
Posted: 3:52 AM The Prestonsburg Democrat believes making the school a four-year state institution is the best way to improve access to higher education for students in Appalachia.
Updated: 11:52 PM Republican state senators are expected to choose their chamber's next president in a meeting Tuesday in Frankfort
Updated: 11:54 PM Earlier this year, the Kentucky Court of Appeals in a 2-1 ruling rejected an argument by contractor Leonard Lawson that his privacy would be invaded if the 1983 statement was released.
Posted: 4:09 AM The Child Fatality and Near Fatality External Review Panel will look at practices of government agencies charged with preventing such deaths and injuries.
Posted: 4:06 AM The case stems from a 2009 incident at Nelson County High School in which a student was charged with illegally dispensing a controlled substance.
Posted: 6:54 AM Polly Judd is skeptical of talk that her famous granddaughter, actress Ashley Judd, might run for U.S. Senate in Kentucky as a Democratic challenger to Republican Leader Mitch McConnell.
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