Posted: 5:14 PM FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - The Kentucky Fish and Wildlife Commission has voted to set aside a week each year for shooting a limited number of bears that dogs have chased up trees or cornered on the ground.

Posted: 5:05 PM LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - A federal appeals court has upheld a law requiring new, bigger graphic warning labels on cigarette packs.

Updated: 5:12 PM Thursday's heavy rains caused serious flooding problems in Leslie County. The flooding was so widespread school officials called off classes for Friday.

Updated: 12:12 AM The coroner tells Mountain News two people are dead following a shooting in the Marrowbone area.

Posted: 8:48 AM State police tell WKYT they found several heater cores and hundreds of pounds of copper and aluminum inside Matthew Jenkins' car.

Updated: 8:49 AM State police say they found the lab inside a glass jar in 19-year-old Joshua Caldwell's car.

Updated: 9:55 AM An arson investigation was opened for a suspicious fire that started Sunday afternoon at about three o'clock.

Posted: 8:51 AM The Governor will be in West Liberty and Sayersville Monday afternoon to see how the recovery efforts are going.

Updated: 8:52 AM The center in Inez opened Sunday for people who had property damage or other hardships from severe storms and tornadoes that passed through the area on Feb. 29-March 3.

Updated: 6:29 PM Nearly 1,000 dollars was raised for a woman with cancer in Hazard thanks to her coworkers.

Updated: 9:34 PM The clean-up continues after severe thunderstorms Thursday night caused mudslides and flooding in Leslie County.

Posted: 10:59 PM A new head has been named for Kentucky's Division of Abandoned Mine Lands.

Posted: 10:56 PM UNDATED (AP) - A lawyer representing the American soldier accused of killing 16 civilians in Afghanistan last weekend says the suspect is 38-year-old Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales from Lake Tapps, Washington.

Posted: 10:51 PM A former Rutgers University student has been found guilty of invasion of privacy for using a web cam to spy on his gay roommate's love life.

Posted: 10:48 PM Some students in Floyd County had the opportunity to review their college and career plans.

Posted: 10:43 PM Tornadoes tore across parts of Michigan Thursday night.

Posted: 7:57 PM It has been two weeks since tornadoes devastated parts of eastern Kentucky, and many people are still not sure how to begin picking up the pieces.

Posted: 6:14 PM On Thursday night, heavy rains caused flooding problems in Leslie County.

Posted: 11:01 PM It's months since a massive tornado flattened the town of Joplin, Missouri. Now, nearly a year later, volunteers are still helping rebuild the town.

Updated: 9:38 AM An industrial plant in Barbourville is temporarily closed after last night's heavy rain.

Updated: 5:17 PM The principal at West Liberty Elementary School says bright and early Monday morning, the desks will be full of students looking to take small steps back to a normal life inside the school they're calling the "Miracle on the Hill".

Posted: 11:00 PM We've heard a lot of stories of survival from the devastating tornadoes that ripped through Kentucky. Today we are sharing a a unique one.

Updated: 7:01 PM Police say 35 year old Mark Scott was a passenger in a car that ran into the back of a coal truck Thursday night along U.S. 119 near Pike Central High School.

Posted: 4:49 PM However, officials with the National Center for High Education Management Systems agreed with the current legislative plan to use coal severance dollars to give scholarships to upper-level students to help them complete their degrees.

Posted: 4:45 PM The funding would pay for road and bridge construction across the state.