A judge in south central Kentucky has made his district off limits to the General Assembly's plan to give some inmates credit from time served on parole toward fulfilling their sentences.

Police say Frankie Wofford broke into a woman's apartment and attacked her while she was sleeping. Video

A Confederate widow in Arkansas has died. Maudie White Hopkins was only 19 when poverty compelled her to marry Confederate veteran William M. Cantrell. He was 86.

Former Kentucky Attorney General Greg Stumbo says he's considering a run to be speaker of the state House.

An attorney for hundreds of Kentucky families forced to sell their farms to the Army during World War II argued in federal court Tuesday that government agents bullied them into accepting bad deals in the panic after Pearl Harbor.

A jury has returned a $63.4 million verdict against the admitted killer of a University of Kentucky football player.

Mike Ward was charged with his second DUI offense July 11.

Finance Secretary Jonathan Miller has named Valeria Cummings as the new Public Information Officer for the Finance and Administration Cabinet.

Appalachia suffers from disproportionately high rates of substance use and mental health disorders, including the alarmingly increasing abuse of prescription painkillers.

Three victims were riding motorcycles and one was not wearing a helmet.