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One of the few weaknesses displayed by the WKU football team this season has been giving up long kickoff returns to the opposition. That issue came back…

Emergency workers in Kentucky were increasingly confident that fire crews had contained a blaze spewing flames and smoke from a derailed tanker car,…

The company managing Medicaid in the Jefferson County area for 15 years has filed a formal protest of the process that awarded next year's contract to…

Here's a list of the Daviess County and Owensboro Independent schools that received either Distinguished or Proficient ratings in the Unbridled Learning…

Here is a list of schools in the Barren County and Glasgow Independent systems that were rated either Distinguished or Proficient in today's release of…

Democratic Representative Joe Donnelly has jumped to a double digit lead over Republican Richard Mourdock in the Indiana Senate race.A new Indiana…

The final jobs report before Election Day had news both presidential campaigns could use. President Obama can point to the number of new jobs created to claim that his policies are working. And Mitt Romney can point to an uptick in the jobless rate to make the case that the economy is at a standstill.

George Smith, one of the famed Navajo code talkers who served the American military in World War II, has died. Host Michel Martin offers a tribute to his life and work.

The economy added 171,000 jobs in October, but unemployment edged up to 7.9 percent. Unemployment isn't the only economic issue on the table, there's also the deficit. Host Michel Martin speaks with economist and writer Julianne Malveaux and NPR Senior Business Editor Marilyn Geewax to see how those two factors affect the economy at large.

Communities along the East Coast are reeling from the impact of Hurricane Sandy, dealing with electric outages, flooded streets, damaged sewage plants and fractured transportation lines. Can cities rebuild stronger, more resilient infrastructure to weather the storms of the future?