Posted: 6:26 AM The Kentucky Fire Commission and the Kentucky National Guard are celebrating the opening of the new National Responder Preparedness Center.

Posted: 6:23 AM Jewelry-maker Tiffany & Co. will expand its Lexington manufacturing facility, adding 75 new jobs.

Posted: 6:17 AM A writer and University of Kentucky history teacher has won this year's Kentucky Literary Award for his first book, which looks at how the race has weathered cultural changes of nearly 140 years.

Updated: 8:09 AM Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Friday.

Posted: 4:56 PM The Obama administration is asking the Supreme Court to overturn a lower court decision that found the president's recess appointments to a labor agency unconstitutional.

Posted: 4:41 PM Firefighters and first responders from all over Texas have gathered in Waco to honor those who died in last week's fertilizer plant explosion in West.

Posted: 4:10 PM NASA researchers say a series of test flights in California has shown a commercial jet could safely fly with a blend of jet fuel made from camelina plant oil while producing fewer emissions.

Posted: 1:46 PM Conservationists are warning that elephant meat is now flooding the markets in villages near a famed wildlife reserve in Central African Republic.

Posted: 11:52 AM Pieces of what appeared to be human skull and teeth have been discovered at a South Florida airport inside a passenger's carry-on bag.

Posted: 11:25 AM The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee says he want to overhaul the way the U.S. grants asylum to immigrants after the Boston Marathon bombing.

Updated: 4:27 PM The dedication ceremony for the George W. Bush Presidential Center has begun.

Posted: 10:49 AM Federal regulators are telling airlines they can fly Boeing's 787 Dreamliners again as soon as they replace its problematic lithium ion batteries with a revamped battery system.

Posted: 10:46 AM The Rhode Island medical examiner's office says a body found in Providence is that of a Brown University student missing since last month.

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.

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.

Posted: 12:07 PM The leader of the Ohio Senate says the Republican-controlled chamber is ready to move forward with a bill essentially outlawing Internet cafes.

Posted: 11:49 AM The Columbus Zoo's recent additions include a monkey named after a quirky scientist character on the CBS comedy "The Big Bang Theory."

Updated: 8:18 AM Alexandria, Va., and Knoxville, Tenn., are cities for readers, if not always the kinds of books your parents wanted you to read.

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.

Posted: 11:24 AM General Motors says the battery-powered version of its Chevrolet Spark mini-car can travel up to 82 miles on a single charge, putting it among the leaders in mass-market electric vehicles sold in the U.S.

Posted: 11:15 AM West Virginia University is losing more than $13 million in state funding for the next academic year.

Updated: 5:15 PM A federal appeals court is weighing whether a family of home-schoolers from Germany should be granted asylum and allowed to continue living in Tennessee.

Posted: 4:26 PM The Senate's second-ranking Democrat is pressing the Obama administration to explicitly spell out its justification for using drones for targeted killings.