Posted: 11:10 AM FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Gov. Steve Beshear is scheduled to leave Sunday on trade mission to Taiwan where he will promote the sale of bourbon whiskey.

Posted: 6:52 AM Republican Mitt Romney is trying to return the focus of his campaign to the sluggish economic recovery.

Posted: 6:49 AM President Barack Obama heads to economically struggling Nevada on Friday. He's turning his attention to the economy after a day spent raising millions of dollars for his campaign and riding a media wave on his newly declared support for same-sex marriage.

Posted: 5:25 AM Defense lawyers for John Edwards will ask a judge Friday to dismiss corruption charges against their client, arguing prosecutors failed to prove the former presidential candidate intentionally violated the law.

Posted: 5:18 AM State Attorney General Darrell McGraw is set to open a satellite office in the Eastern Panhandle.

Posted: 5:12 AM Retiring state Sen. Vernie McGaha is encouraging voters in southern Kentucky's 15th District to choose Republican Mark Polston as his replacement in Frankfort.

Posted: 3:58 AM The new research and more thorough analysis are part of an environmental impact statement covering Navy training and testing planned for 2014 and 2019.

Posted: 3:55 AM The Rev. K.Z. Smith of Corinthian Baptist Church in Cincinnati says that while he believes Obama's support for gay marriage goes against what the Bible teaches, he prefers the president to Mitt Romney on issues that affect the poor.

Posted: 3:53 AM Almost two-thirds of those who answered the Associated Press-GfK poll disapprove of President Obama's handling of gas prices.

Posted: 3:52 AM A search and rescue agency spokesman says the bodies are being prepared to be transported from the crash site by helicopter. All 45 people on board are feared dead in Wednesday's crash.

Posted: 3:50 AM The Bowling Green-Warren County Bar Association unveiled the portrait during Law Day 2012 celebrations Wednesday at the Southern Kentucky Performing Arts Center in Bowling Green.

Posted: 1:36 AM U.S. Sen. Rand Paul has taped footage for a TV ad supporting tea party congressional candidate Thomas Massie in Kentucky's 4th District.

Posted: 11:16 PM KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - State officials say southbound lanes on heavily traveled Interstate 75 in Campbell County, Tenn., will remain closed for repair work until May 21.

Posted: 11:11 PM SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) - A panel of federal health advisers has endorsed the first drug shown to prevent HIV infection in healthy people, clearing the way for a potentially landmark approval in the 30-year-old effort against the virus that causes AIDS.

Posted: 11:08 PM LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - The Courier-Journal in Louisville plans to start charging online users for access to all content in print, web, mobile or tablet platform.

Posted: 11:05 PM FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Kentucky is reporting a decline in general government revenue in April after several months of growth.

Posted: 10:49 PM It's killing people and tearing families apart! Police in Kentucky say the meth problem is reaching epidemic proportions.

Posted: 1:28 AM Mississippi authorities say a fugitive accused of a double-slaying and kidnapping has been killed but the two girls he fled with are safe.

Posted: 1:30 AM A man had to be rushed to the hospital after, police say, someone shot him outside a nursing home.

Posted: 8:26 PM An Evarts man is now convicted on charges of distributing child pornography.

Posted: 8:23 PM The trial of a Bell County constable and his wife, accused of stealing money from a charity is postponed.

Posted: 8:20 PM A Williamsburg woman accused of stabbing another woman during a fight about a bra pleads not guilty.

Posted: 7:00 PM FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Kentucky is reporting a decline in general government revenue in April after several months of growth.

Updated: 4:42 PM The organizers behind the "Stand in the Gap" march and prayer service last year are now pushing for the task force. Investigators say where Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia all meet in the Cumberland Gap is a hot bed for prescription pill trafficking.

Posted: 6:57 PM FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - U.S. Sen. Rand Paul has taped footage for a TV ad supporting tea party congressional candidate Thomas Massie in Kentucky's 4th District.