Posted: 11:50 PM A panel appointed by Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear to review cases of severe child abuse and neglect says it expects to issue its first report later this year.

Updated: 11:27 PM The attorney for former State Agriculture Commissioner Richie Farmer has some requests for prosecutors.

Updated: 9:44 PM The Harlan Independent School Board chose a new superintendent.

Posted: 7:37 PM Sheriff Danny Webb chose to serve and protect his community. That dedication has allowed Danny Webb to serve the people of Eastern Kentucky as a state trooper and Letcher County's sheriff for decades. Family, friends and coworkers managed to keep Sheriff Danny Webb Highway a surprise.

Updated: 6:18 PM Bill Hall was a long time member of the WYMT Mountain Basketball Classic committee.

Posted: 11:02 PM It was the deadliest drunk driving crash in U.S. History. 25 years later, people across Kentucky are remembering the 27 lives lost in the Carrollton bus crash.

Updated: 6:59 PM In Jackson County, tension filled the fiscal court meeting Tuesday morning as Sheriff Denny Peyman asked the court for some equipment.

Posted: 5:32 PM State and federal agents will release this week the findings of an investigation into a deadly explosion at a Texas fertilizer plant.

Updated: 11:17 PM Jackson County Sheriff Denny Peyman put a proposal before the local school board back in April suggesting principals and some teachers be deputized and armed.

Posted: 5:27 PM The targeting of conservative groups by the Internal Revenue Service could be more widespread than the agency has acknowledged.

Posted: 5:24 PM An influential tea party group has endorsed Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's campaign for a sixth term next year in Kentucky.

Posted: 4:48 PM The online financial publication bankrate.com rates Kentucky as the fourth best state you to retire in.

Posted: 4:36 PM Fallen law enforcement officers are being recognized for their service across the country, including here in the mountains.

Posted: 3:52 PM A new report says hard times are expected to continue for the coal industry in Central Appalachia, which at one time was the hub of the nation's coal production.

Updated: 6:35 PM Wiggins, a 6-foot-8 forward, is rated one of the best high school prospects since LeBron James. He made the announcement with little fanfare at Huntington Prep High School in Huntington, WVa. shortly after noon.

Posted: 10:26 AM Authorities in Mount Washington have charged a man who officers say had an overnight cookout in a closed supermarket.

Posted: 1:01 PM Angelina Jolie says she's had a preventive double mastectomy. The actress says in an op-ed for today's New York Times that she had the mastectomy after learning she carried a gene that makes it extremely likely she'll get breast cancer.

Posted: 5:53 AM Jason Owens of Putnam County's emergency management center says fire crews were dispatched at about 3:20 p.m. Monday to Airgas, a distributor of specialty gases.

Posted: 5:51 AM The ticket was sold at the Shell Food Mart in the 2000-block of Greenup Avenue.

Posted: 5:37 AM Officials with the National Park Service say 1,620,340 visitors which is 359,202 less than what was seen during the same period in 2012.

Updated: 12:32 AM Kentucky voters are still a year and a half away from casting their ballots in the 2014 U.S. Senate race. But many people across the state are wondering who the Democrats will run in a potential matchup with incumbent Republican Mitch McConnell.

Posted: 11:53 PM An Eastern Kentucky eye doctor faces federal fraud charges.

Updated: 12:06 AM An escapee from Ohio is now behind bars in Eastern Kentucky. Monday, Kentucky State Police and Laurel County sheriff's deputies captured 28-year-old Ryan P. Wolf a few miles east of London.

Updated: 11:16 PM Police have arrested a woman after they say she called them to report a false incident while high on drugs.

Posted: 11:07 PM The U.S. Attorney's Office has filed a lawsuit against a Somerset eye doctor and his practice, claiming he defrauded Medicare and Medicaid.