Updated: 10:53 AM Rutgers has fired basketball coach Mike Rice after a videotape aired showing him shoving, grabbing and throwing balls at players in practice and using gay slurs during practice.
Posted: 10:22 AM Parts of southeastern Missouri, western Tennessee and western Kentucky got a little bit of a shake.
Updated: 9:59 AM A Kentucky man charged with killing a woman he sought to marry won't fight extradition from Ohio, where he's being held in jail.
Updated: 10:02 AM Employees at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant will still have jobs in 60 days as United States Enrichment Corporation officials continue discussions regarding future operations.
Updated: 7:40 AM The head of the Kentucky Derby Festival says Academy Award-winning actress and Louisville native Jennifer Lawrence has a standing invitation to be grand marshal of the annual Pegasus Parade. But it won't be this year. She's too busy.
Updated: 10:02 AM The grandson of one of the first men to fly over Mount Everest says he marked the 80th anniversary of the pioneering flight by flying to the world's highest mountain.
Updated: 10:03 AM Stanford University is collaborating with Harvard and MIT on a computer system that allows colleges to offer free online courses.
Updated: 7:42 AM President Barack Obama travels to Colorado today to step up his call for universal background checks for gun buyers and at least a vote in Congress on an assault weapons ban and limits on large-capacity ammunition magazines.
Updated: 7:41 AM Scientists taking a first look at the genetics of the bird flu strain that recently killed two men in China say the virus could be harder to track than its better-known cousin H5N1 because it might be able to spread silently among poultry without notice.
Updated: 7:40 AM A British couple are facing long jail terms when they're sentenced today for starting a fire that killed six of their children, in what prosecutors say was an attention-grabbing stunt gone tragically wrong.
Posted: 5:50 AM The West Point Cemetery has taken in graduates of the Long Gray Line from the age of the cavalry charge to the dawn of drone strikes.
Updated: 7:41 AM The U.S. Department of Agriculture is taking applications for $3 million worth of health care projects for communities of up to 50,000 people in the eight-state Delta region.
Updated: 7:39 AM The Department of Vehicle Regulation's Special Plate Committee has approved the license plate design "Fighting Lung Cancer" by Big Daddy's Race for Time Inc., a lung cancer foundation.
Posted: 11:42 PM Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Wednesday.
Posted: 2:07 PM Like a quiet neighborhood cut up by an expressway, northeastern forests are changing as pipelines and other structures crisscross them amid the region's gas drilling boom.
Posted: 11:17 AM Thousands of dead fish are washing up on the Lake Erie shoreline in the Buffalo area, but state Department of Environmental Conservation officials say it's nothing to be alarmed about.
Updated: 12:35 PM Gov. Susana Martinez is scheduled to visit the southern New Mexico city of Truth or Consequences on Tuesday afternoon to sign a bill that will shield commercial space travel companies from some damage lawsuits.
Posted: 10:55 AM A lawsuit accuses Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington of trashing a New York City loft that she leased from a documentary filmmaker.
Posted: 10:23 AM A regional shooting competition that would have brought hundreds of people to Montrose has become the latest casualty of new Colorado gun laws set to kick in just a few days before the competition.
Posted: 10:18 AM U.S. factories rose sharply in February from January, helped by a surge in demand for volatile aircraft. The gain offset a drop in orders that signal business investment.
Posted: 10:10 AM Crews from the Kentucky Division of Waste Management have taken soil samples at a former toxic waste dump in Louisville to check for contaminants.
Posted: 10:08 AM A regional shooting competition that would have brought hundreds of people to Montrose has become the latest casualty of new Colorado gun laws set to kick in just a few days before the competition.
Updated: 5:00 PM A researcher at the Medical College of Wisconsin is charged with espionage after prosecutors say he stole details of a cancer-fighting compound that he wanted to share with China.
Posted: 8:34 AM Chrysler says its U.S. sales rose 5 percent last month from a year ago.
