Updated: 3:05 PM Knott County has joined the growing list of counties or cities where voters will decide this year if they want to allow alcohol sales.

Posted: 8:12 PM A sex offender accused of raping and attacking two teenage girls in Paintsville last year has pleaded guilty.

Posted: 8:08 PM A McCreary County man is out of jail after allegedly sending inappropriate pictures to a minor.

Updated: 8:16 PM Officials in the city of Martin say the Floyd County fiscal court owes them nearly $60,000. Floyd County officials say that is not true. Now the matter is going to court.

Posted: 7:50 PM A Knox County Constable, who found himself on the other side of the law, pleaded guilty to DUI charges Tuesday.

Posted: 8:24 PM Local school districts could raise the dropout age to 18 under a bill that's now heading to the House for consideration.

Updated: 12:39 PM UPDATE: The search for a missing Whitley County man has ended. Just before 6 p.m. Wednesday, search crews said they had located 62-year-old Richard Martin.

Posted: 8:25 PM Gov. Steve Beshear is expecting a proposal to amend the state Constitution to allow casino-style gambling to be filed soon.

Updated: 12:39 PM Kentucky State Police have confirmed a child in southern Kentucky has been shot.

Updated: 11:29 PM Thieves hit an unusual target in Paintsville last week. Police say the Paintsville Funeral Home was burglarized.

Updated: 8:13 PM PIKEVILLE – Copper theft has been a problem for some time in Appalachia, but a recent spike in these criminal acts has caused Sen. Ray S. Jones II, D-Pikeville, and Pike County Judge-Executive Wayne T. Rutherford to try and curb the increasing problem.

Updated: 11:20 PM Police in Prestonsburg say they had another successful day with their drug interdiction program.

Updated: 8:29 PM For the fifth year in a row, Kentucky can claim a title no one wants to take.

Posted: 5:59 PM FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Lawmakers have been scurrying to file candidacy papers in old legislative districts after a judge tossed out newly drawn House and Senate boundaries because they didn't meet constitutional muster.

Updated: 11:53 PM Abraham Lincoln, the Kentuckian will come back to life in theaters this summer.

Posted: 4:34 PM You’ve probably heard this quote attributed to Benjamin Franklin: “Nothing is certain except death and taxes.”

Posted: 3:17 PM Currently it is against the law in Kentucky for anyone to text while driving for obvious safety reasons. But just how dangerous it is? Well high school students at Pineville Independent now know that answer.

Posted: 8:23 PM A House committee changed courses just one week after rejecting a bill dubbed "Cooper's Law"

Updated: 3:08 PM The former Pennsylvania senator acknowledges Romney has a substantial advantage in political fund-raising, but says, "We feel like going forward we're going to have the money we need to make the case we want to make."

Posted: 8:38 AM Carville was chief strategist for President Bill Clinton's run at the Whitehouse in 1992, at the same time that Matalin was director of President George H.W. Bush's re-election campaign. They married after the election.

Posted: 8:36 AM They say the stabbing happened in the area of 30th Street and Greenup Avenue.

Posted: 8:35 AM Sen. George Barker's bill cleared the Senate on a 28-12 vote Tuesday. It now goes to the House of Delegates.

Posted: 8:22 AM The wreck happened Tuesday night on Highway 363 in Laurel County, near Piney Grove Market.

Updated: 12:34 AM Health and Family Services Secretary Janie Miller has resigned, saying she will pursue other opportunities.

Updated: 12:28 AM Access to potable water will soon be available to 165 households in Perry County.