Updated: 1:40 AM Some local police agencies say they can no longer afford to do undercover drug investigations.

Posted: 12:01 AM A Scott county restaurant still allows you to smoke inside, but that could change if new legislation is passed.

Updated: 7:24 PM Some local law enforcement officials in the Big Sandy region say budget problems and the new law designed to ease jail overcrowding have shut down their long-term undercover operations.

Updated: 7:20 PM We have some new information about a shooting incident involving a Hazard Police Officer.

Updated: 8:37 AM It could be on the ballot in November for Kentucky voters to decide.

Posted: 6:27 PM FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Gov. Steve Beshear says allowing Kentuckians to take part in casino-style gambling could generate needed money for the state budget.

Updated: 4:18 PM It’s one of the most debated bills in this year's general assembly.

Updated: 1:42 PM Most recognize Zach Davis for his accomplishments on the basketball court but we are recognizing him for his efforts off the court.

Posted: 1:02 PM West Virginia veterans returning from overseas duty have a new resource to help them re-enter civilian life.

Posted: 12:59 PM A U.S. Army depot in Utah is destroying its last chemical weapons, part of a campaign taking place around the nation and in 177 other countries.

Posted: 12:57 PM The attorney for a man charged in the suffocation death of a western Kentucky toddler says investigators have wrongly discounted the possibility that other children might have caused the boy's death.

Posted: 12:55 PM Kentucky's first sandhill crane hunt in a century has ended with hunters taking only a fraction of what they were allowed.

Posted: 12:53 PM Kentucky soldiers killed in action in Iraq and Afghanistan would be listed on a war memorial under a proposal pending in the state legislature.

Posted: 12:04 AM Singer Miranda Lambert had to postpone her Lexington concert due to a death in the family.

Posted: 8:19 AM The Costa Concordia cruise liner had more than 4,200 passengers and crew on board when it slammed into the reef Friday off the tiny island of Giglio after the captain made an unauthorized maneuver.

Posted: 8:18 AM WASHINGTON (AP) - The House is kicking off its second session under GOP control by staging a politically-fueled vote against raising the government's borrowing limit by $1.2 trillion as permitted under last summer's bipartisan debt and budget agreement.

Posted: 8:16 AM LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Some Louisville doctors are offering healthy advice in the form of tweets that remind followers to do such things as protect themselves from the sun and prepare food safely.

Posted: 8:15 AM SOMERSET, Ky. (AP) - An organization that works to improve educational achievement in southern and eastern Kentucky has produced a video to encourage students to stay in school.

Posted: 8:13 AM LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - Kentucky producers of livestock, honeybees and farm-raised fish have until the end of the month to apply for emergency assistance if they sustained losses due to disease, adverse weather or other conditions.

Posted: 12:32 AM Gov. Steve Beshear has left revenue from a portion of the state's coal tax unallocated in case lawmakers choose to create a new state university in Pikeville.

Posted: 12:29 AM Gov. Steve Beshear is seeking to avoid cuts to the Kentucky Department for Community Based Services, the agency that oversees child protective services.

Posted: 12:25 AM Government services for military veterans wouldn't be cut under Gov. Steve Beshear's budget proposal.

Posted: 12:06 AM FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell has $4.25 million for a re-election campaign that's still nearly three years away, a signal to potential Democratic challengers they'd likely enter the race at a distinct financial disadvantage.

Posted: 11:59 PM The Wallins Elementary School in Harlan County has dealt with heating problems for years and while building a new school is not out of the question, staff members do think it's out of their price range.

Posted: 12:27 AM The interchange for I-64 and the Mountain Parkway in Clark county might be getting some much needed modifications.