Updated: 4:53 PM Many Fort Campbell families are getting good news as flights of soldiers return home early from their nine-month deployments to Afghanistan.

Updated: 12:54 PM Coyotes could be shot night or day under a bill that appears headed for passage in the Kentucky Legislature.

Updated: 12:55 PM Federal spending cuts that are set to take effect Friday may mean no military jets will participate in the air show during this year's Thunder Over Louisville.

Posted: 5:56 PM A Kentucky House committee chairman is planning to scale back an industrial hemp bill to allow the University of Kentucky to seek permission to study the crop currently banned by the federal government.

Posted: 5:48 PM Legislation that would institute a statewide smoking ban in restaurants and other public places has been sent to the House Judiciary Committee for further review, making it unlikely it can pass in this legislative session.

Updated: 4:28 PM Governor Steve Beshear would get an extra year in office and Kentucky's statewide elections would be aligned with national elections under an amendment that has passed the senate.

Posted: 1:56 PM Counties could abolish their constable offices under a bill that has cleared a House panel.

Updated: 6:46 PM A large crowd turned out Tuesday morning for a meeting of the Boyle Fiscal Court to discuss the decision to remove prayer from the meetings.

Posted: 1:58 PM The Senate has overwhelmingly passed a bill that would prohibit Kentucky from enforcing any federal gun control laws if they're enacted.

Updated: 1:59 PM Lawmakers won't pursue a 6 percent tax on lottery tickets as a source of revenue to shore up Kentucky's financially troubled pension system for government retirees.

Updated: 9:03 AM A Senate committee voted in favor of a measure to allow gay marriage Thursday. But Senate Democrats delayed a floor vote because three supporters needed for passage were absent.

Updated: 3:50 PM Comer has made legalizing hemp production in Kentucky one of his top priorities.

Posted: 4:53 AM Facing intense pressure, Boehner agreed Wednesday to schedule a vote Friday.

Posted: 4:51 AM The 113th Congress will convene at the constitutionally required time of noon today.

Posted: 4:35 AM Spokeswoman Kerri Richardson said Wednesday that the exact date hasn't yet been pinned down.

Posted: 4:30 AM Barr, a Lexington attorney, won election in November over Democratic U.S. Rep. Ben Chandler in a bitter race to represent the 6th Congressional District.

Posted: 4:31 AM Democratic state Rep. Carl Rollins of Midway drafted a measure that would make Kentucky's stiffest sentence life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Updated: 4:54 AM The tax package negotiated by President Barack Obama and Senate Republicans and passed by Congress will protect 99 percent of Americans from an income tax increase.

Updated: 8:18 AM Some issues still must be worked out between party leaders in Congress as a deadline for a deal on the fiscal cliff looms.

Updated: 5:36 AM House leaders have yet to say whether they will allow a vote on a farm bill.

Updated: 5:27 AM A Friday afternoon meeting among congressional leaders and the president stands as a make-or-break moment for negotiations to avoid across-the-board first-of-the-year tax increases and deep spending cuts.

Updated: 5:28 AM Gov. Steve Beshear issued an executive order earlier this month creating the Kentucky Center for Education and Workforce Statistics.

Updated: 5:36 AM President Barack Obama returns from Hawaii Thursday to this familiar showdown in the nation's capital, with even a stopgap solution now in doubt.

Updated: 4:24 AM City officials are expecting 600,000 to 800,000 visitors for the Jan. 21 inauguration, far less than the 1.8 million people who flooded the National Mall four years ago.

Updated: 5:33 AM Raising tax rates is suddenly part of a GOP House plan to avert a potential fiscal crisis.