Posted: 4:17 PM FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - The Senate Appropriations and Revenue
Committee has approved a $4.5 billion transportation budget but not
before inserting language that would restore nearly $50 million for
road construction projects that had been vetoed by Gov. Steve
Beshear.
Posted: 11:52 AM WASHINGTON (AP) - A White House official says President Barack
Obama will nominate Republican Kristine Svinicki (svih-NIH'-kee) to
a new term on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Posted: 11:39 AM WASHINGTON (AP) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney
is set to deliver this year's commencement address at Liberty
University, the evangelical Christian institution founded by the
late televangelist Jerry Falwell Sr.
Posted: 11:35 AM NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Southern Baptist Convention's public
policy arm says it will investigate claims that the group's
president plagiarized controversial remarks about the Trayvon
Martin case.
Posted: 8:09 AM WorkForce West Virginia says storm victims in Lincoln, Marion and Wayne counties have until April 23 to apply. The deadline for Logan County storm victims is April 25.
Updated: 12:46 PM Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes will send a mobile office to eastern Kentucky communities ravaged by tornadoes last month.
Updated: 2:18 PM A Clay County man, 30-year old Jessie Bowling said he believes he was treated unfairly after police responded to a call made by one of his own family members about a domestic dispute. He now faces nine charges, including assaulting a police officer.
Posted: 6:49 PM Police in Cleveland have found a man who they
say abducted his four children and then told his wife that he was
going to kill the kids and himself.
Posted: 5:59 PM CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - A model of emergency breathing devices
widely used in U.S. coal mines has a critical defect, but federal
regulators have no immediate plans to remove them.
Posted: 1:31 AM Police and families touched by drug abuse held a rally at the Capitol to push support for legislation aimed at cracking down on prescription drug abuse.