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  • A cancer diagnosis can be devastating for the most world-weary adult. When it is a young child, it can be downright seismic for a family and an entire…
  • The identities of two miners killed in a highwall collapse at Equality Boot Mine in Ohio County have been released. The men were both from Hopkins County.…
  • Over Half of KY Manufacturers to Hire in 2012
    Fifty-eight percent of Kentucky manufacturers surveyed for the recently conducted 2011 Annual Manufacturing Wage and Benefits Survey said they are…
  • Kentucky’s three new managed care operators, MCOs, say they’re ready for members to switch over to privatized Medicaid care this week. The switch on Nov.…
  • The baseball team's skipper won his third World Series title on Friday. A sure-fire Hall of Famer, he has the third-most wins in Major League history.
  • The darkness of Tom Waits' lyrics is accentuated by the rumble and rasp of his voice, which sounded old even when he was young. On Bad As Me, Waits reflects on loneliness, life, death and heartbreak. Here, he talks to Terry Gross about performing, being a father and writing his haunting melodies.
  • A study of basketball players who caught the contagious norovirus in the locker room provides a play-by-play of how it spread. The bug is the second-most common reason players miss a game.
  • In what may be the most impressive and surprising sign of the Herman Cain phenomenon yet, the Republican presidential candidate was essentially tied with native son Gov. Rick Perry in Texas, of all places.
  • Because of the vote, the United States said it would cut its funding for the body. The U.S. said admitting Palestine was "premature."
  • The securities firm run by Jon Corzine, who was formerly the governor of New Jersey and head of Goldman Sachs, is the first American company to fall victim to the European debt crisis.
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