Posted: 4:57 PM Last year, more than 64 million Americans received an average tax refund of $2,985, the IRS says.

Posted: 12:41 AM Jackson County School leaders say they're running about 5 weeks ahead of schedule because they've only taken 6 snow days. That means they'll be getting out in early May instead of early June.

Updated: 6:33 PM Rising gas prices have people in the mountains talking.

Updated: 6:45 PM Test results released by Kentucky's Department of Education Tuesday show improvement in test scores among 8th and 10th graders.

Updated: 6:42 PM The House Education Committee in Frankfort continued their hearing Tuesday morning about whether UPIKE should become part of the state public university system.

Updated: 10:24 PM Police say 31-year old James Adams of Pikeville escaped a short time ago.

Updated: 1:54 AM The Very Worst Thing, the documentary film about the worst school bus crash in U.S. history, will be screened at the Mountain Arts Center in Prestonsburg, Kentucky on Friday, March 2nd, 2012 at 7:30pm.

Posted: 10:29 AM State Superintendent of Schools Jorea Marple announced Monday that the waiver would give the state the flexibility to offer a well-rounded curriculum that will not focus on standardized test scores.

Updated: 10:28 AM Earlier this month, a WKYT Investigation found only four counties in the state have enacted ordinances to ban the sale of such drugs.

Posted: 10:25 AM More than 60 members of the Agribusiness Development Team 3 are returning to Kentucky.

Updated: 1:12 PM Beshear joined several physicians Tuesday in the Capitol for the unveiling of the newly formed Kentucky Cancer Foundation.

Updated: 10:25 PM Cleveland CBS affiliate WOIO reporting a second victim died overnight.

Posted: 12:12 AM Seven small drinking water treatment systems in Kentucky will receive financial assistance.

Posted: 12:08 AM Americans United for the Separation of Church and State has joined in a call for Gov. Steve Beshear to cancel a prayer breakfast next week.

Posted: 12:02 AM A federal judge has denied a new trial for an Upper Big Branch mine security chief convicted of lying to investigators after the worst U.S. coal mine disaster in four decades.

Updated: 11:52 PM Folks at some marinas such as Lee's Ford in Pulaski County say the warmer weather this winter has resulted in more fisherman patronizing their establishments.

Posted: 11:51 PM According to UNICEF, an estimated one million children are forced to work in the global sex industry every year.

Updated: 12:29 AM One man’s fate will be in the hands of others in a Perry County attempted murder case.

Updated: 12:26 AM The Hazard City Police Chief said he wanted to try to prevent another accident at one intersection in Perry County.

Updated: 12:33 AM Hazard City Police Chief Minor Allen said House Bill 463 could be one reason that shoplifting has gone up in the past six months.

Posted: 7:46 PM Kentucky will receive more than two million dollars in federal aid to strengthen infrastructure in Adair and Morgan Counties.

Posted: 7:42 PM LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Kentucky linebacker Ridge Wilson has been dismissed from the football team after being arrested on felony drug trafficking charges in Louisville.

Posted: 7:40 PM A grand jury has indicted a university student for allegedly possessing and distributing child pornography.

Updated: 7:19 PM House Bill 463 went into effect last year, and it's changing how law enforcement officials and prosecutors in Kentucky are doing their jobs.

Updated: 7:05 PM The debate concerning the University of Pikeville being allowed to become the state's 9th public university is expected to continue Tuesday in Frankfort.