FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Kentucky health officials are urging parents of college students to make sure their children are up-to-date on their mumps vaccination. A statement from the Kentucky Department of Health on Wednesday says recent cases at the University…
BOONEVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Kentucky State Police investigators are asking for help in tracking down anyone responsible for a half-dozen fires in eastern Kentucky. State police say the fires occurred in Owsley, Lee and Jackson counties between Jan. 1 and…
FORT KNOX, Ky. (AP) - A deployment ceremony is planned for about 100 Fort Knox soldiers who are being sent to Afghanistan. A statement from the central Kentucky Army post says the ceremony is planned on Thursday for soldiers with…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Authorities say an Alabama couple has admitted to using their used car business to defraud dozens of banks. Federal prosecutors in Nashville say Douglas Scott and Azar Ardestani, both of New Market, Alabama, pleaded guilty to…
PINEVILLE, Ky. (AP) - A conservation group has purchased 2,050 acres on Pine Mountain in an effort to protect it. Media outlets report that Kentucky Natural Lands Trust announced Tuesday it had completed the purchase. The trust says the tract…
KILN, Miss. (AP) - Officials have recovered the body of a Stone County man who went missing. Hancock County Sheriff's Department Chief Deputy Don Bass tells media outlets that officials recovered the body of 31-year-old Brody "B.J." Brown after it…
EFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - The Missouri Senate could vote Thursday on whether to send the House a proposal creating religious protections for those objecting to gay marriage. The Republican-led Senate gave initial approval early Wednesday to the proposed constitutional…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A man federal prosecutors say placed a noose on a statue of a civil rights activist will get a second chance to plead guilty. Federal court filings show Austin Edenfield is set for a March 24…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The office of the state attorney general says a Magee man employed at a mental health facility has been charged with improperly touching a patient. Attorney General Jim Hood's statement Wednesday did not identify the victim…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - Girls who want an abortion in Missouri would need to meet tighter requirements under legislation endorsed Wednesday by the House. Girls younger than 18 already must submit to an abortion provider the written consent of…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves and Republican senators are renewing their effort to push through a $575 million package of tax cuts, even as Mississippi officials consider a revenue shortfall and the prospect of raising other taxes…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Keeping up its coordinated offensive aimed at abortion providers, the Kentucky Senate passed a bill Wednesday that would put new restrictions on abortion clinics. The measure is part of a series of bills passed in recent…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The head of a downtown Jackson development group is charged with misusing money in an investigation that has also led to hindering prosecution charges against two high-ranking employees of state Auditor Stacey Pickering. Ben Allen, executive…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Tennessee attorney general is declining to give lawmakers details about his investigation into sexual harassment allegations against state Rep. Jeremy Durham. Republican House Speaker Beth Harwell called for Herbert Slatery's office to investigate after several…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Gov. Bill Haslam on Wednesday lauded a Senate committee for defeating a proposal to get rid of Tennessee's requirement to obtain a state-issued permit to carry handguns in public. Supporters of annual efforts to loosen handgun…
CARROLLTON, Ky. (AP) - Two police officers suspended from the force in the midst of misconduct allegations have been cleared of all wrongdoing. Media outlets report that on Tuesday, a Carroll County jury acquitted Carrollton Chief of Police Mike Willhoite…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A would-be burglar has been shot and killed by a homeowner in South Nashville. Media outlets report that the incident happened Tuesday evening at Hickory Pointe Apartments in Nashville. Metro Nashville Police say a resident fired…
GRAND RIVERS, Ky. (AP) - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is offering a $2,500 reward for information about the shooting of a bald eagle in western Kentucky. Officials say the federally protected bird was shot sometime around Christmas in…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A perennial proposal to get rid of Tennessee's requirement to obtain state-issued permit to carry handguns in public has failed in a Senate committee. The bill sponsored by Republican Sen. Mark Green of Clarksville failed on…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - The U.S. Attorney in Louisville says a former officer manager has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for embezzling $800,000 from the company where she worked. A release from U.S. Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr.…
OXFORD, Miss. (AP) - NBC's Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw returns to Oxford, Mississippi, to deliver the 163rd Ole Miss commencement address. Brokaw, the only person to host all three major NBC News programs: "Today," ''Nightly News" and "Meet the…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - A national magazine has given Metro Louisville a Top 10 ranking in economic development and job creation. A statement from Mayor Greg Fischer says Louisville placed seventh in Site Selection Magazine's list of top tier metro…
PASCAGOULA, Miss. (AP) - An Ingalls Shipbuilding employee has been found dead in his vehicle. Pascagoula Police Sgt. Doug Adams tells WLOX-TV it appears the victim got off work Monday, got in his truck and looks like he had a…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Officials say a graduate student at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee was stabbed to death in an attack in Israel. Chancellor Nicholas Zeppos writes in a letter to students, faculty and staff that American student Taylor Force…
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) - Police arrested a customer of a Family Dollar store after they say she fired a weapon following an argument with another shopper. The Sun Herald reports that Gulfport police arrested 40-year-old Tamika Nicole Guy on Sunday…
JONESBOROUGH, Tenn. (AP) - A federal judge has dismissed an inmate death lawsuit against the Washington County Sheriff's Office. The Johnson City Press reports a judge ruled Monday that Stewart Peppers' parents failed to present concrete evidence and facts supporting…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Protesters are congregating at the legislative office complex to voice their opposition to Republican Gov. Bill Haslam's plan to outsource the operation of more state buildings. The demonstrators unfurled banners, chanted and sang in the hallways…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Republican Gov. Bill Haslam's on-again, off-again gas tax hike could return this year. Maybe. The governor spent much of last fall traveling across the state to draw attention to the state's transportation funding needs, but said…
JONESBOROUGH, Tenn. (AP) - A federal judge has dismissed an inmate death lawsuit against the Washington County Sheriff's Office. The Johnson City Press reports a judge ruled Monday that Stewart Peppers' parents failed to present concrete evidence and facts supporting…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The warden of a new Tennessee prison is being sent to lead a privately run Nashville jail. The Tennessean reports private-prison company Corrections Corporation of America sent Warden Todd Thomas from Hartsville's Trousdale-Turner Correctional Facility to…
IRVINE, Ky. (AP) - Estill County officials say all tests so far have shown the air and water to be safe around a local landfill where low-level nuclear waste was illegally dumped last year. Judge-Executive Wallace Taylor told WKYT-TV on…
EDDYVILLE, Ky. (AP) - An 18-year-old woman who admitted to being uncooperative during their investigation into the shooting death of a Kentucky state trooper will not have to serve any time in prison. News outlets report that Ambrea Shanks of…
TUPELO, Miss. (AP) - The company that will be providing air service between Tupelo and Nashville has picked a name and plans to reveal more details of that service later this month. The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reports Corporate Flight…
MT. JULIET, Tenn. (AP) - A tractor trailer carrying several hundred beehives rolled over in an area just outside of Mt. Juliet in Wilson County. Media outlets report that the crash happened Monday afternoon in a rural area about three…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Students in Jefferson County Public Schools were physically held down or confined to a room more than 4,400 times last school year - but the school district only correctly reported 174 of those instances to the…
HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) - The former Hattiesburg American building in downtown Hattiesburg may soon have a new purpose and new tenants - if city officials can find the money to get on board with a renovation project. During Monday's meeting…
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) - Anyone entering a Harrison County Board of Supervisors meeting will be required to pass through a metal detector, one of a series of steps the Harrison County Sheriff's Department is taking to better secure the courthouses.…
PASCAGOULA, Miss. (AP) - Huntington Ingalls Industries' 10th San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock, John P. Murtha, spent four days in the Gulf of Mexico last week with Ingalls' test and trials team operating the ship and performing more than 200…
PASCAGOULA, Miss. (AP) - Jackson County supervisors have voted to keep flying the state flag on county property and at county buildings. Monday's vote was 4-1. In a resolution, they referred to a previous statewide vote 2001 to keep the…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Graceland Auctions says it is planning an auction of authenticated Muhammad Ali memorabilia later this year. The Memphis-based auction house says the auction of items associated with the 74-year-old former boxing champion will take place this…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - State Education Commissioner Stephen Pruitt wants to know how Kentuckians define school success. So he's planning a series of town hall meetings starting next week to gather comments. The suggestions will be used by state education…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Tennessee Highway Patrol is accepting applications for its first class of cadets made up of people with law enforcement training and experience. The lateral class will be made up of graduates from law enforcement training…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi holds its presidential and congressional primaries Tuesday, and the state will award 40 Republican and 41 Democratic delegates. Polls are open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., and voters must have a driver's license or another…
GEORGETOWN, Ky. (AP) - The fate of the last legislative chamber in the South still controlled by Democrats is in the hands of a few thousand Kentucky voters in four House districts scattered throughout the state. Those voters will choose…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - The state of Kentucky is asking residents to donate a portion of their tax returns to help feed the hungry. Commissioner of Agriculture Ryan Quarles asked taxpayers to check a box on their income tax return…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The state House has passed a bill to create a $50 fine for driving slow in the fast lane on major highways in Tennessee. The bill sponsored by Republican Rep. Dan Howell of Bradley County would…
LAUREL, Miss. (AP) - A teenager is dead, and another is in custody after a fatal shooting in Jasper County. WDAM-TV reports authorities were called to the suspect's mobile home in the Moss Community after a 911 call came in…
KILN, Miss. (AP) - The family of a missing Stone County man is offering a $10,000 reward for any information on his whereabouts or the arrest of anyone involved in his disappearance. The Sun Herald reports that state Sen. Sean…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - Law enforcement, health care, insurance and transportation groups are urging Missouri lawmakers to ban texting while driving. A House panel heard testimony Monday on three bills that would make it an infraction for a driver…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Toddlers would have to ride in rear-facing car seats for an additional year under a bill passed by both chambers of the Tennessee General Assembly. Democratic Rep. John Ray Clemmons of Nashville said the measure brings…
