Posted: 6:25 PM WASHINGTON (AP) - The House has voted to ban certain synthetic drugs now sold legally in most states that mimic the hallucinogenic and stimulant properties of marijuana, cocaine and methamphetamines.

Updated: 8:24 PM A similar bill never made it to either a House or Senate vote last year.

Posted: 6:15 PM Police found a meth lab inside a home and now three people are behind bars.

Updated: 10:13 PM Emergency workers have spent most of the day trying to pull a vehicle out of a creek in Breathitt County.

Posted: 6:02 PM Sheriff Dwayne Price will pay people up to $100 to be drug informants. He says they need the community's help to find out who is dealing drugs and stop the problem.

Updated: 7:33 PM State police: Va. Tech shooter was not the person pulled over during traffic stop.

Updated: 6:00 PM UPDATE: A law enforcement official says the gunman who fled after killing a police officer on campus is believed to be dead.

Updated: 2:07 PM Compared to other mid-sized cities, Lexington is among the worst for dedicating land for parks.

Updated: 4:43 PM Virginia Tech says gunshots have been reported on campus, and authorities are seeking a suspect.

Posted: 9:25 AM Cold temperatures and icy conditions have led to at least two crashes.

Posted: 9:24 AM Bell County schools superintendent George Thompson tells Mountain News a water outage will lead to the early dismissal at two schools.

Posted: 8:18 AM RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - The Virginia Department of Transportation has reached an agreement with Alpha Natural Resources for engineering work on a section of the Coalfields Expressway in southwest Virginia.

Posted: 8:16 AM FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway is joining with colleagues from other states in asking Congress to oppose allowing businesses to place automated calls to cell phones.

Updated: 1:17 PM School officials in Powell County say they hope today is the last day they have to deal with the boil water advisory. They say they've gone to some great lengths to make sure the students have water.

Posted: 11:14 PM Unwrapping presents on Christmas morning is a tradition for both young and old, but there will be some who don't have a single gift to unwrap.

Posted: 11:04 PM The United States Postal Service is in the process of down sizing due to decline in revenue. A public meeting was held at the Hazard Forum to discuss the possible relocation of a mail processing office in Hazard, KY to Knoxville, TN.

Posted: 12:02 AM The U.S. Postal Service expects to deliver 16.5 billion cards, letters and packages between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day.

Posted: 10:35 PM FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - The American Bar Association is calling on Kentucky to suspend executions, saying there are too many errors in the system.

Posted: 7:55 PM WYMT has teamed up with Home Federal Bank to honor our men and women serving overseas and here at home.

Posted: 7:51 PM Seventy years ago, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor sending us into our Second World War.

Posted: 7:33 PM Police found several working meth labs inside a home.

Posted: 7:27 PM Ronald "Sonny" Fentress is the new temporary head of Laurel County Schools.

Posted: 7:15 PM A southern Kentucky man faces several charges after getting into a scuffle with some officers.

Updated: 7:44 PM A Jackson County mother is dead after a car crash on Highway 21 in Madison County.

Posted: 12:04 AM Pearl Harbor survivor looks back seventy years later.