Updated: 11:44 AM President Barack Obama says the explosions at the Boston Marathon are being investigated as an act of terror, although authorities still don't know who is responsible.

Updated: 6:51 PM Actress Ashley Judd had purchased a house in the northeastern Kentucky city of Ashland when she was considering running for U.S. Senate.

Posted: 4:24 PM One of the men tied to a secret recording of U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell has set up a fund to pay his legal bills.

Posted: 1:27 PM Gov. Steve Beshear could be weeks away from deciding whether to expand the state's Medicaid program to cover, by some estimates, an additional 300,000 Kentuckians.

Posted: 12:24 PM Gov. Steve Beshear says he won't run against U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell despite encouragement from lots of people do so.

Updated: 5:18 PM Gov. Steve Beshear has appointed a union leader to take over as his labor secretary effective May 15.

Posted: 5:37 PM Actress Ashley Judd isn't the only one who has been in the political crosshairs of Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell.

Updated: 6:55 PM First Lady Michelle Obama will be one of the speakers at Eastern Kentucky University's spring commencement ceremonies.

Posted: 10:24 AM Most drones would be prohibited in Kentucky under a proposal that a state representative wants to take up in the next legislative session.

Updated: 7:41 AM Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell has joined U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida in introducing legislation that would allow states to return unwanted federal funds to the Treasury to help pay down the national debt.

Posted: 2:52 PM Kentucky education commissioner Terry Holliday says the first 57 school districts that raise their dropout age from 16 to 18 will be given a $10,000 state grant.

Posted: 4:58 PM Former U.S. Rep. Ron Lewis has donated his congressional papers to Campbellsville University.

Updated: 8:56 PM A recording of a private campaign meeting at Senator Mitch McConnell's campaign headquarters has surfaced on the Internet.

Posted: 10:18 AM The U.S. government wants to try to do something about a growing trade in items such as elephant ivory and rhinoceros horn and is enlisting the help of another animal to accomplish that.

Updated: 7:42 AM A tea party activist has filed a lawsuit in Frankfort challenging the legality of the Kentucky Health Benefits Exchange that Gov. Steve Beshear approved last year by executive order.

Updated: 7:42 AM Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell has raised nearly $12 million so far for his re-election bid, giving him an enormous head start over any potential Democratic challengers.

Updated: 10:29 PM Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear is betting the commonwealth's "finest bourbon and country ham" that the Louisville men's and women's basketball teams will rule all of college basketball this year.

Updated: 3:12 PM Dr. Michael T. Benson has been named president of Eastern Kentucky University.

Updated: 3:07 PM Kentucky law will now allow industrial hemp farming if the federal government ever lifts restrictions on the plant.

Updated: 4:38 PM Gov. Steve Beshear has signed legislation intended to shore up Kentucky's financially troubled pension plan for government retirees.

Posted: 4:24 PM Gov. Steve Beshear has signed legislation lifting a Prohibition-era ban on the sale of alcohol at restaurants, bars and retail stores on Election Day.

Posted: 3:27 PM The state will release nearly $2 million in low-interest loans to help a small southeastern Kentucky town stop the flow of human waste into the Cumberland River during rainstorms and to upgrade the town's water metering system.

Updated: 3:19 PM Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer is offering bourbon and some other trinkets to back up his wager that the University of Louisville men's and women's basketball teams will advance to the NCAA championship games.

Posted: 3:07 PM Dave Bunnell, the driving force behind making golf accessible to kids in Kentucky passed away this morning after a battle with cancer. He was 65 years old.

Posted: 2:23 PM The Eastern Kentucky Board of Regents is set to select a new university president from a group of three finalists.