Updated: 3:22 PM The Laurel County Fiscal Court voted on an ordinance to ban the sale of all cannabinoids. The first reading of the ordinance passed unanimously. All magistrates and Laurel County Judge Executive David Westerfield said they wanted to ban synthetic marijuana.

Posted: 10:41 PM Seventeen families lost their homes when the old Hazard High School burned Sunday night and neighbors across the region want to help them. The Perry County unit of the Red Cross,Community Ministries and the Housing Development Alliance held a meeting at city hall to form a community-wide response.

Posted: 7:51 PM Last December, Dorris Morgan of Leslie County lost her life while driving on the back roads of eastern Kentucky.

Updated: 7:00 PM Two fire departments closed without warning in Bell County.

Posted: 11:09 PM Lawmakers in the House were briefed on the budget Tuesday.

Posted: 6:26 PM A Breathitt County man admits that he illegally sold three federally protected birds.

Posted: 6:01 PM Many non-compliant sex offenders are now in jail thanks to a statewide roundup!

Updated: 10:25 PM Police targeted street level drug dealers in eastern Kentucky in a round-up.

Updated: 7:03 PM Hundreds if not thousands of people are without water in Knott County after both water pumps failed.

Posted: 5:27 PM When I was younger, I came home from Grandma’s every Christmas and dumped half my presents into the trash can.

Posted: 8:37 AM The U.S. Attorney's Office says Dr. William Ryckman was illegally getting and then selling Xanax in the Williamson area back in February, 2010.

Posted: 8:32 AM RAINELLE, W.Va. (AP) - Five people face charges stemming from the burning of five vehicles at the West Virginia State Police's Rainelle detachment.

Posted: 8:22 AM Water will be turned off from 8 to 11 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 20, during installation of a new valve.

Updated: 10:17 AM The fire broke out at around 3 a.m. Tuesday at East Anderson Hardwoods, which is off U.S. 27 South, near Eubank on the Lincoln-Pulaski County line.

Posted: 8:34 AM An environmentalist dressed in a Santa suit has delivered lumps of coal for Christmas to Gov. Steve Beshear and other state officials who have done nothing to halt mountaintop removal mining.

Updated: 11:29 PM Several parents came to express their opinions but in the end, the board members came voted three to two to close Beckham Bates Elementary. Another four to one vote also will make Martha Jane Potter a kindergarten through fifth grade school and transform Fleming Neon into a middle school for sixth to eighth graders. Both were previously Kindergarten through eighth grade.

Posted: 11:12 PM A Bowling Green man is in jail in Pulaski County and is accused of trying to kill another man.

Posted: 12:33 AM The Republican-controlled House intends to wait until Tuesday to reject a Senate measure providing a two-month extension of Social Security payroll tax cuts due to expire on Dec. 31.

Posted: 11:08 PM The search continues for two suspects involved in an armed robbery in Pike County.

Posted: 12:34 AM Republican Senator Julie Denton of Louisville wants Secretary Janie Miller to step down from her post with the Cabinet for Health and Family Services.

Posted: 11:05 PM Police say Robert Adkins tried to turn west onto U.S. 460 from Blair Adkins Street in the Yellow Hill area when he pulled into the path of an oncoming car.

Posted: 11:00 PM She is accused of bringing drugs from Michigan Back to Kentucky.

Posted: 6:54 PM A leading lawmaker has called for the resignation of Health and Family Services Secretary Janie Miller.

Posted: 6:53 PM Thousands of gallons of liqueur has spilled into Louisville's sewer system after a worker at the Brown-Forman plant apparently neglected to shut a valve as the liquid was being transferred from tank to tank.

Updated: 7:05 PM Officials are still trying to determine what caused an overnight apartment building fire in Perry County.