Updated: 12:29 PM The Republican-controlled House is set to approve a bill allowing workers to trade their overtime pay for more time off.

Updated: 1:25 PM Former NBA star Dennis Rodman is tapping his friendship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to call for the release of a Korean-American man detained in the North

Updated: 5:07 PM Anti-gambling advocate John-Mark Hack has filed candidacy papers to run as an independent for a vacant legislative seat in central Kentucky.

Posted: 3:21 PM A top Labor Department official who took the blame for budgeting mistakes and cost overruns at the federal Job Corps program has resigned.

Updated: 3:21 PM University of Kentucky basketball icon Richie Farmer is asking that his trial on charges of misappropriating government resources while serving as agriculture commissioner be postponed until early next year.

Updated: 2:53 PM The state is reporting that the economic impact of the tourism industry in Kentucky reached $12.2 billion in 2012.

Updated: 2:54 PM Protesters in Louisville are criticizing Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell for voting against a bill that would have expanded background checks for gun sales.

Posted: 11:41 AM The Kentucky Court of Appeals has upheld the conviction of a former death row inmate in a 1998 slaying in Lexington.

Posted: 11:26 AM A Christians-only medical program that had been banned in Kentucky is expected to resume operations next month, unless officials at the Department of Insurance decide to continue a decade-long legal fight.

Updated: 5:07 PM Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell was joined by most of Kentucky's federal delegation in a letter to the Drug Enforcement Administration seeking clarification on the industrial hemp issue.

Posted: 2:27 PM Kentucky's chief election official is scheduled to begin a series of meetings Tuesday evening to gauge public support for allowing Kentucky to join other states that allow early voting.

Updated: 4:59 PM Education Commissioner Terry Holliday has named Thomas G. “Tommy” Floyd to the newly created position of chief of staff at the Kentucky Department of Education. Floyd is currently the superintendent of the Madison Co. Schools.

Posted: 2:21 PM An eastern Kentucky lawmaker filed for $22,804 in expense reimbursements last year, the most by any state legislator.

Posted: 1:39 PM Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell has unveiled legislation aimed at forcing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to expedite the process for coal companies seeking permits to open new mines.

Posted: 5:16 PM A special legislative election in central Kentucky could be the first test of Kentucky's new military voting law passed earlier this year to help ensure soldiers deployed to foreign counties get to cast ballots back home.

Posted: 3:45 PM The Kentucky Supreme Court has ordered Kentucky child welfare officials to publicly release records of child abuse cases resulting in death or serious injury.

Updated: 8:10 AM The Governor's Office of Early Childhood is making nearly $200,000 available to strengthen early childhood advisory councils and to promote school readiness.

Updated: 8:16 AM Environmental attorney Tom FitzGerald says he may seek the Democratic nomination to run for U.S. Senate next year but perhaps not if Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes gets in the race.

Posted: 4:17 PM The Wall Street meltdown of 2008 and the ensuing recession did little to help make high school seniors financially savvy and less than half have a solid understanding of economics.

Posted: 4:08 PM The White House now says it's willing to consider legislation that would give the administration the budget-cutting flexibility to avoid furloughs of air traffic controllers.

Posted: 4:02 PM More than 1,000 people in Kentucky have had medical debts paid by a nonprofit agency in New York.

Posted: 3:55 PM Joseph (Jay) Morgan, who has been associate provost for graduate education and research since 2010.

Updated: 3:36 PM U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell is being criticized in a new radio ad for voting against expanded background checks for gun buyers.

Updated: 8:18 AM The Federal Reserve says it will begin circulating a redesigned $100 bill this fall, more than two years after its initial target.

Updated: 11:17 AM A Democratic state representative from Midway has resigned.