Posted: 10:08 AM The Louisville Democrat filed candidacy papers on Monday at the state Capitol in Frankfort.

Updated: 10:12 AM Pike County school officials tell Mountain News several schools will be closed again Tuesday, due to ongoing water problems.

Posted: 6:18 AM A 64-year-old woman was hurt in a strong-armed robbery Monday as she tried to place a handicapped family member's wheelchair on the back of her vehicle.

Posted: 12:01 AM NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Jeremy Shelley kicked five field goals and Trent Richardson broke a 34-yard touchdown run late in the fourth quarter as No. 2 Alabama beat No. 1 LSU 21-0 on Monday night - the first shutout in BCS title game history.

Posted: 11:32 PM A possible home invasion in Whitley County leads to one man getting stabbed.

Posted: 11:26 PM It happened at the Knott Prescription Center just off Highway 80 near Hindman.

Updated: 8:51 PM The basketball action starts Jan. 10, but the center of the WYMT Mountain Classic started on Jan. 9. Nearly 150 students received scholarships this year as part of 25th annual event.

Posted: 10:51 PM Less than a month after one of two Iraqi men facing terrorism-related charges in Kentucky pleaded guilty, the second defendant in the case has been granted more time to review the charges against him.

Posted: 10:47 PM Gov. Steve Beshear says he and Attorney General Jack Conway have rejected ideas that officials at University Hospital in Louisville submitted after Beshear decided the hospital could not merge with two large health care companies.

Posted: 10:42 PM House Speaker Greg Stumbo says he's still not sure if a proposal to redraw legislative district boundaries will get through the General Assembly this year.

Updated: 7:43 PM The Mountain Basketball Classic kicks off tomorrow night at Knott County Central High School.

Updated: 10:34 PM A couple thousand customers are without water service in parts of Pike County. Mountain Water District officials say a water pump broke, creating problems from Marrowbone to Elkhorn City.

Posted: 10:28 PM Vincent Swope never thought he'd have the chance to win $10,000 at a UK game. But that's exactly what happened this past Saturday.

Posted: 6:38 PM Two people are dead after a wreck in Pike County. Police say the trailer of a flat bed truck crossed the center line on US-460 and hit a mini-van.

Posted: 5:19 PM C. Wayne Creech has been named the new police chief.

Updated: 6:39 AM Pike County School officials tell Mountain News that due to water issues several of their schools will be closed today.

Posted: 6:23 AM Four churches around Laurel County are broken into in the same night, the thieves took thousands of dollars in equipment, but left behind three odd pieces of property that may connect the crimes.

Posted: 6:22 AM Novartis is recalling some bottles of Excedrin, NoDoz, Bufferin and Gas-X Sunday over concerns that the bottles could contain stray pills from other medicines, or chipped or broken tablets.

Posted: 6:24 AM The Laurel County Sheriff's Office says Michelle Murphy, 37, and Michael North, 34, tried to rob a Family Dollar Saturday night in Bell County.

Posted: 6:24 AM A deputy coroner tells 27 Newsfirst Shawn Evans, 39, died when he crashed into a car on Highway 192 at 229 in Laurel County.

Updated: 8:37 PM People in one Eastern Kentucky city want to decide for themselves how alcohol sales should be regulated in their community.

Posted: 6:23 AM Brandon Bayes, 6, has been upgraded from serious to fair condition at UK Hospital. Bayes was injured Saturday while trying to go back into his family's burning home in Laurel County to save a pet.

Posted: 6:23 AM A family mourns the death of a young girl while her little brother fights for his life. The children were badly injured in a car crash Saturday afternoon at US-150 and Maretburg Road in Rockcastle County.

Updated: 9:27 AM An explosion spooked many people in the Wheelwright section of Floyd County last night.

Posted: 11:16 PM The Pulaski County Sheriff's Office tells us the crash happened just after four Friday afternoon on Highway 39 north of Somerset.