Updated: 5:13 PM A major announcement for healthcare in the mountains on Thursday. Pikeville Medical Center and Mayo Clinic officials announced a collaboration to connect doctors with Mayo Clinic specialists.

Updated: 11:42 AM The statue, after the unveiling, will be donated to a museum in Cleveland, Ohio.

Updated: 4:36 PM The tea party has won the first round in a lawsuit that questions the legality of the Kentucky Health Benefit Exchange that Gov. Steve Beshear set up last year by executive order.

Posted: 11:31 AM Clothing and accessories company Rue21 has agreed to be taken private in nearly $1 billion deal with private equity firm Apax Partners.

Updated: 8:38 AM History is always more interesting when you get to experience it. And folks with the Battle of Leatherwood will now be able to enhance your experience.

Posted: 4:44 AM More than 2,000 locations nationwide are opening their doors at no charge to military personnel and up to five family members.

Posted: 4:42 AM Powell Valley High School shut its doors almost a decade ago, along with it this vocational school. It sat empty until a few years ago when the county leased the building to Servolution Health Services, which is now opening the county's first free clinic.

Updated: 12:51 AM Wednesday was the 100th anniversary of the founding of the American Cancer Society

Updated: 12:16 AM Officials with Hazard/Perry County Community Ministries are assisting some of the fire victims in paying rent on their new homes.

Updated: 11:37 PM Elmer Meade died Wednesday at UK Hospital. The Navy veteran and his wife Barbara were interviewed in 2007 about being married for more than 60 years.

Posted: 10:34 PM Whitesburg police tell us Lenville Hendrix, 22, stole laptops, speakers and 20 iPads valued at $300 a piece from the Walmart in Whitesburg.

Updated: 11:20 PM Just last year, a tornado devastated West Liberty and now the city's fire department has come up with a way to help tornado victims in Oklahoma.

Posted: 9:02 PM Officials say the tornado destroyed or damaged as many as 13,000 homes, and that it may have caused $2 billion in overall damage.

Updated: 6:32 PM Officials in Johnson County say a warning system that alerts folks with a phone call might keep people safe during severe weather.

Updated: 6:32 PM Q95FM in Prestonsburg is partnering with the Red Cross to collect donations.

Posted: 5:41 PM The 70-year-old was convicted of the 1997 killings of Willa Jean Ferrier, Crystal Conaster and Chris Boswell. Last year, the State Supreme Court ruled with the death row inmate to force DNA evidence be reviewed and submitted into court.

Updated: 6:43 PM A report shows on-site employment dropped by 990 jobs in Kentucky coal mines to an all-time low of just more than 13,000 jobs.

Posted: 4:32 PM Governor Steve Beshear has ordered flags at all state office buildings to be lowered to half-staff as a show of respect for the victims of the Oklahoma tornadoes.

Updated: 5:06 PM Insurance officials say they received at least 15 reports of homes damaged in Perry County after Tuesday’s storms, eight of those were by the Wendell H. Airport.

Posted: 8:56 PM The planned expansion of Kentucky's Medicaid program coupled with a push to help the uninsured obtain health coverage will worsen the state's shortage of physicians.

Posted: 11:43 AM The shooting incident early Wednesday took place in Orlando, where an FBI agent along with other law enforcement personnel were interviewing the man.

Posted: 6:07 AM Officers with the Whitley County sheriffs department say last Saturday and Monday, Charles Helton, 18, broke into the alternative school in Rockholds, stealing thousands of dollars in items.

Posted: 6:03 AM The bridge, which connects US 52 in Ohio with US 23 and US 60 in Kentucky, was struck by a vehicle on the Ohio approach early Tuesday morning.

Posted: 5:56 AM We are told people posing as LKLP employees are offering to do home repairs for money.

Updated: 6:03 PM Police are calling it a death investigation and hope to release more details later today.