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  • Emergency officials from Whitley and McCreary counties had to use ropes and a basket to carry a 70-year-old woman up a 30-foot embankment off a trail at…
  • The trial of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak resumes today following scuffles inside and outside the courtroom. Libyan officials loyal to Moammar Gadhafi reportedly fled to neighboring Niger. And Turkey announced it was "totally suspending" all trade, military and defense ties with Israel. Guest host Jacki Lyden discusses the latest news in the Middle East and North Africa with Al Jazeera International's Abderrahim Foukara and NPR Foreign Correspondent Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson.
  • Community leaders and company officials from ZF Steering Systems LLC Wednesday celebrated the completion of its $95.8 million expansion in Northern…
  • Since Sept. 11, the nation's leaders have warned that government can't protect the country on its own — private businesses and civilians have to do their part, too. Now NPR and the Center for Investigative Reporting have found that, at least in one community, these kinds of programs are entangling ordinary people with the police and FBI.
  • With the 10th anniversary of September 11 approaching, a Kentucky lawmaker shared more of his controversial and conspiratorial views on the terror attacks…
  • Court of Appeals Dismisses Case Against City
    The Kentucky Court of Appeals upheld a lower court’s ruling against Bowling Green Police Department Sgt. Shawn Helbig in his whistle-blower lawsuit…
  • Stewart David Nozette, who had high-level security clearances during decades of government work, admitted in federal court that he tried to sell classified information to an undercover FBI agent posing as an Israeli spy. He faces a sentence of 13 years in prison as part of a plea deal.
  • Discerning real tips from the merely suspicious or paranoid reports submitted to law enforcement is sometimes more of an art than a science.
  • In an interview, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld says that despite the fact that President Obama campaigned against Bush policies, he's ended up supporting them because "they couldn't think of a better solution."
  • The biggest challenges facing Leon Panetta: how to keep America safe, and keep putting pressure on al-Qaida — all for less money. In one of his first interviews since assuming his new position, Panetta also discusses the prospects of a U.S. troop presence in Iraq beyond the end of this year, when they are scheduled to leave.
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