Posted: 8:09 AM BEIJING (AP) - More than 40 coal miners are trapped underground by a gas leak in southwest China less than a week after dozens of miners were pulled out safely from a cave-in at another Chinese coal mine.

Posted: 8:23 AM A manuscript hidden for decades shows Colonel Harland Sanders was more than an entrepreneur with a special fried chicken recipe and a vision that helped create the fast-food industry.

Posted: 8:31 AM Investigators say Jonathan Whitley died in the crash in Rowan County.

Updated: 12:45 PM We are told it started just after one Thursday morning at a house off oF Highway 80.

Posted: 3:47 AM STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) - Penn State trustees fired football coach Joe Paterno and university president Graham Spanier amid the growing furor over how the school handled sex abuse allegations against an assistant coach.

Posted: 12:00 AM Residential customers of Louisville Gas & Electric Co. and Kentucky Utilities Co. will find some rate changes as a result of an order from the Kentucky Public Service Commission.

Posted: 11:14 PM ROCHESTER, Mich. (AP) - United in agreement for once, Republican presidential rivals warned forcefully Wednesday night the United States could be doomed to the same sort of financial crisis that is afflicting Europe unless federal deficits are drastically cut and the economy somehow revived.

Updated: 11:14 PM Joey Combs said her son 34-year-old Phillip Slone has changed after being beaten within an inch of his life on Oct. 15. “He is not himself,” said Combs. “He is not the same boy as he was before he got hurt. he is different and i guess anybody would be that way, it really took a big toll on him.”

Posted: 11:54 PM The producer of a documentary about the 1988 Carrollton bus crash is hoping to win a contest prize that he says would cover the costs of making the picture.

Posted: 10:50 PM A woman who was caught trying to sell herself in a Corbin Walmart parking lot has been sentenced.

Posted: 10:37 PM WYMT and Home Federal Bank have partnered to honor our men and women serving in the military.

Posted: 10:08 PM A boil water advisory is in effect for hundreds of customers in Harlan County.

Posted: 10:04 PM London, KY -- Kentucky Equality Federation confirmed today that a meeting will be taking place on November 10, 2011 with prosecutors from both the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the United States Department of Justice to address the recent hate crimes in the Commonwealth.

Posted: 9:59 PM 34 year old Karen Dople was sentenced in court last week on prostitution, resisting arrest, evading police and drug charges.

Posted: 9:56 PM Discrepancies were reported across the country during the first-ever test of the Emergency Alert System Wednesday. Some television and radio stations did not air the test at all. Some who aired it stayed with the signal longer than others.

Posted: 7:04 PM Flu season is here and according to the CDC, it's officially in Kentucky.

Posted: 6:36 PM OWENSBORO, Ky. (AP) - Officials in Owensboro are trying to find the best way to rid the western Kentucky city of synthetic marijuana.

Posted: 9:56 PM The McCreary County courthouse was on lockdown for several hours this afternoon after a man threatened to kill a social worker.

Posted: 6:24 PM A former Magoffin County principal and teacher is sentenced after pleading guilty to federal drug and gun charges.

Updated: 7:56 PM James Garcia and Cindee Collins are charged with manslaughter for the death Garcia's four year old son last year.

Posted: 10:17 PM It was one of the only local races yesterday - Whitley County Jailer. Incumbent Ken Mobley won by more than 2,000 votes.

Posted: 6:14 PM A Magoffin County man is sentenced after a federal jury convicted him of vote fraud.

Updated: 7:36 PM Jeff Price visited the spot where his son, Kevin, was found weeks after police say he was murdered on Nov. 9, 2009.

Posted: 6:05 PM A sheriff's deputy is arrested after police say he was found traveling with a missing sixteen year old from Virginia.

Updated: 7:13 PM The prosecution says he is responsible for killing his girlfriend's two year old daughter.