Posted: 4:20 PM Governor Steve Beshear announced Tuesday he has ordered the study for the University of Pikeville.

Posted: 4:21 PM Attorneys for Richie and Rebecca Farmer say all that's left is for the judge to sign off on the settlement.

Updated: 7:48 PM A Kentucky woman who claims her 9-year-old autistic son was stuffed into a duffel bag at school says she plans to speak out at January's school board meeting

Updated: 7:48 PM It appears the cause of a Christmas Day blaze that killed three children and their grandparents was related to a fireplace in the home.

Posted: 11:52 PM Workers at the Lawrence County Courthouse are getting an extended holiday break of sorts.

Posted: 11:46 PM Construction is continuing on a plant in Madison County that will begin to destroy a stockpile of chemical weapons in about five years.

Posted: 11:44 PM Workers have started installing 1,200 tons of steel beams on the Sherman Minton Bridge in Louisville. It closed in September because of a crack.

Posted: 11:43 PM The Pulaski County Sheriff's Office says 37-year-old Paul Pitman held up the D&D Shell north of Somerset on Christmas Eve.

Updated: 2:32 PM Shoppers at the Middlesboro Mall said that they thought after-Christmas crowds were not too bad this year. “I had a purse that I don't know I didn't really like the color of it and I am probably going to take it back and get a red one ‘cause I like red better,” said Danielle Hoffeditz, a shopper who was on her way out of the mall with a friend.

Posted: 6:46 PM The West Virginia Department of Education is questioning some findings in an outside audit of the state's public school system.

Posted: 6:43 PM Police say two men working for an Ohio cable servicing firm used a bucket truck to steal about $8,000 worth of copper wire from utility poles in western Pennsylvania.

Posted: 6:41 PM From New England to the South, state archivists are using the sesquicentennial of the Civil War to collect a trove of wartime letters, diaries and mementoes that have gathered dust in attics.

Posted: 6:39 PM Drug companies are working to develop a pure, more powerful version of the nation's second most-abused medicine.

Posted: 6:37 PM Construction is continuing on a plant in Madison County that will begin to destroy a stockpile of chemical weapons in about five years.

Posted: 5:40 PM As 2011 winds down to a close this week, we wanted to take a look back at the stories that made news this year.

Posted: 5:26 PM The Kellogg's "Share Your Breakfast" program gave Perry County schools twelve thousand dollars to help increase the number of students who eat breakfast at school.

Posted: 5:22 PM A pump failure last week caused the entire county to be without water most of the week.

Updated: 11:20 AM The new pills contain the addictive painkiller hydrocodone. They pack up to 10 times the amount of the drug as medications such as Vicodin.

Posted: 5:17 PM Police say Christopher Joseph of Viper and Terry Siler Junior of Hallie broke into the Blue Goose liquor store in the Leatherwood community earlier this year.

Posted: 5:13 PM It happened on Joe Hooker Lane near London Saturday night.

Posted: 5:07 PM Officers say 20 year old Shane Maxwell of Pikeville confessed to burglarizing the Mount Zion Baptist Church last week.

Posted: 5:03 PM Deputies were alerted that the guns could be at a home in the Bailey Switch community.

Posted: 4:56 PM The Mayo Clinic says Dr. Luis Bonilla and procurement technician David Hines were on their way to a University of Florida hospital in Gainesville to retrieve a heart for a transplant in Jacksonville when the helicopter went down early Monday.

Updated: 5:01 PM During the past few weeks, we have reported on several fires across the region.

Posted: 4:50 PM A terminal at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport was evacuated for a short time after a fire alarm sounded.