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.

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: 9:52 AM An awards ceremony to celebrate people who made outstanding contributions to education in Eastern Kentucky was today in Somerset. More than 120 people attended.

Updated: 1:38 AM Not many graduates can tell their children the first lady of the United States delivered their commencement address, but as of Saturday close to 600 alumni from Eastern Kentucky University can say just that.

Updated: 6:58 PM Monday, Kentucky Power officials were in Hazard talking to community leaders about what their plan is to power eastern Kentucky while keeping rates low for customers.

Updated: 6:40 PM Kentucky State Police say a car hit a utility pole on Abbott Creek Road in Prestonsburg.

Posted: 6:32 PM Some folks in Pike County say they have been fighting for sewer service for more than one decade.

Posted: 5:13 PM The records obtained by the Justice Department listed incoming and outgoing calls, and the duration of each call, for the work and personal phone numbers of individual reporters, general AP office numbers in New York, Washington and Hartford, Conn., and the main number for AP reporters in the House of Representatives press gallery, according to attorneys for the AP.

Posted: 4:35 PM WILLIAMSON, W.Va. (AP) - A man accused of fatally shooting Mingo County Sheriff Eugene Crum is set to make his first court appearance.

Updated: 4:36 PM Fire officials in Martin County are calling a house fire suspicious and officials say arson fires have become a problem in the area.

Updated: 4:59 PM POCA, W.Va. (AP) - Emergency officials say crews are responding to reports of explosions and a fire at an industrial site in Putnam County.

Posted: 4:20 PM The government has filed a last-second appeal that will delay the sale of the morning-after contraceptive pill to girls of any age without a prescription.

Updated: 4:01 PM It's being called the first music video made in space.

Posted: 5:59 AM The West Virginia Democrat launched the statewide listening blitz in 2011. The meetings are intended to let his constituents express their views.

Posted: 5:58 AM Gov. Steve Beshear appointed Michelle Keller to the high court in April to fill the unexpired term of Justice Wil Schroder who resigned in January because of health issues.

Posted: 5:54 AM The Bristol Herald Courier reports new schools are being built for Union High School in Big Stone Gap and Central High School in Wise, while Eastside High School in Coeburn is getting an addition and undergoing renovation.

Posted: 5:49 AM Departments say that’s one reason they’re happy to have inexpensive training through Mingo County’s 6th annual fire school, sponsored by an extension program of West Virginia University.

Updated: 3:40 AM A man wanted for attempted murder was arrested along with a woman following a police chase and some detective work.

Posted: 11:44 PM Friends and family members of the former Coon Creek Fire Chief, Ronald “Ronnie” Melton, said their final goodbye Sunday.

Posted: 3:41 AM It's the middle of May, and yet gardeners and plant nurseries are having to worry about an overnight frost harming their plants.

Posted: 11:40 PM A crash this afternoon sent a car into a culvert and caused it to burst into flames.

Posted: 11:06 PM The park served a special buffet for the day. Park officials say they do this for all holidays but Mothers Day brings the largest crowd to the park.