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Posted 1 hour 26 minutes ago by Chief Meteorologist Bill Meck

Earl will be running along the coast of North Carolina during the night. Hatteras had a 52 mph wind gust at 11:00. Hurricane conditions are likely along the Outer Banks during the night with high winds/waves. Thankfully the storm has weakend considerably and is 'down' to a cat 2. It's still a hurricane, but nothing like the damage a cat 4 could do.
For us, some rain around Friday wit… Click to Read More

Posted 2 hours 39 minutes ago

A man who used to live in Greenup County is behind bars in St. Johns County Florida, accused of the most heinous crime the sheriff there says he's ever seen.

"How anybody could mutilate somebody to that degree is beyond me," said Sheriff David Shoar, of the St. Johns County Sheriff's Department.

He said, not only did former Greenup County resident Timothy Dale Rose kill his girlfriend, 48 year old Jan Dunn Keller, but he decapitated her, dismembered her, and buried her … Click to Read More

Posted 2 hours 53 minutes ago

FRANKFORT (AP) - Two dozen western Kentucky counties have been declared drought management areas by state officials after water supply levels dropped to dangerous levels.

The Office of the State Climatologist and the Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet issued a Level I Drought Declaration on Thursday.

The affected counties are: Fulton, Hickman, Carlisle, Ballard, McCracken, Graves, Marshall, Calloway, Livingston, Crittenden, Lyon, Caldwell, Hopkins, Trigg, Chri… Click to Read More

Posted 2 hours 56 minutes ago

FRANKFORT (AP) - Lifelong hunter Bill Haycraft of Kentucky sees his treasured outdoors heritage under siege and in need of constitutional protection from animal rights advocates.

He's one of many hunters backing a "right-to-hunt" amendment that's expected to be on his state's 2012 ballot.

Kentucky is just the latest in a long line of states that have passed or are considering right-to-hunt measures to head off a feared hunting ban.

Animal rights activist… Click to Read More

Posted 3 hours 52 seconds ago

CINCINNATI (AP) - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and Health Canada say they haven't yet found a link between Pampers Dry Max diapers and some babies' unusually severe diaper rash.

The CPSC said Thursday that both agencies will keep evaluating consumer complaints and provide updated information. The CPSC received nearly 4,700 diaper rash reports from April through August
and says both agencies evaluated the diapers' materials, construction and other characteristics… Click to Read More

Posted 3 hours 9 minutes ago

BETHEL, Ohio (AP) - For a second time, an Ohio woman has given birth to a baby who couldn't wait and arrived on the drive to the hospital.

Christina Schuler's 8 pound, 11 ounce son was born Tuesday in the front seat of the family's pickup truck. Her husband pulled over less than a mile from their hospital in southwest Ohio's
Clermont County.

The woman from Bethel says her labor this time was even shorter than it was in December 2006, when she gave birth to her son, … Click to Read More

Posted 3 hours 31 minutes ago

NEW YORK (AP) - American shoppers, taking advantage of deep discounts and tax-free holidays, opened up their wallets a little more for back-to-school spending compared with last year, giving
some retailers better-than expected gains for August.

The results provided a sliver of hope for the recovery amid an unrelenting batch of bad news, from slumping home prices and high unemployment, that have pointed to a stalling economy and set up
dire expectations for the back-to-sch… Click to Read More

Posted 3 hours 33 minutes ago

LOUISVILLE (AP) - The head of a Louisville-based nonprofit that runs inmate halfway houses says he will not apologize for spending tens of thousands of dollars on sports luxury suites because tax dollars were not used.

Ray Weis, CEO of Dismas Charities Inc., said Thursday the company paid for the suites at the University of Louisville basketball and football venues using investment income.

Dismas gets virtually all of its revenue from the federal government and the state… Click to Read More

Posted 3 hours 36 minutes ago

CINCINNATI (AP) - A prosecutor has determined a Cincinnati police officer won't face felony charges for driving his cruiser over a woman in a park, fatally injuring her.

Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters said Thursday that a review of all the evidence shows no "reckless" conduct that would support felony charges under Ohio law.

Deters says in a release that witnesses said it was impossible to see JoAnn Burton under the blanket covering her as she slept in the park Ju… Click to Read More

Posted 4 hours 5 minutes ago

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. (AP) - A small plane that crashed into a shallow lagoon off San Francisco Bay on Thursday, killing three people, belonged to the founder of a local steel company who was believed to be among the dead.

An employee of R.E. Borrmann's Steel Co. says the twin-engine Beechcraft Queen Air was owned by company founder 92-year-old Robert Borrmann.

Employee Charlene Marshall says Borrmann, his girlfriend and the pilot were believed to have been on the 1961-model … Click to Read More

Posted 4 hours 6 minutes ago by Mary Jo Perino

For Joker Phillips, this has been a long time coming.

He was named the head coach in waiting in in January of 2008 and at that point, facing Louisville in the season opener seemed a long way off.

Now, it's almost here.

"I am ready," Phillips said.

"I am ready. I am excited and ready to go. It seems like it has been forever but it has only been about eight months. I remember it seemed that a couple of days ago it was eight days and now it is two d… Click to Read More

Tagged As: Joker Phillips, Kentucky football, Louisville

Posted 4 hours 46 minutes ago

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Time Warner Cable Inc. customers will finally get access to the sports website ESPN3.com, even if they are not subscribers of the company's Internet service, according to a long-term deal with The Walt Disney Co. announced Thursday.

In the deal, 12.7 million Time Warner video subscribers and 2.4 million Bright House Networks video subscribers will get access to ESPN3.com without an extra charge. ESPN3.com offers full game videos, and recently it carried live World C… Click to Read More

Posted 4 hours 52 minutes ago

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - A federal judge overturned Nebraska's ban on flag mutilation Thursday, clearing the way for Kansas church protesters to continue trampling on the U.S. flag when they protest at military funerals.

The ruling from U.S. District Judge Richard Kopf said the law can't be applied as long as Megan Phelps-Roper and fellow members of the Westboro Baptist Church "otherwise act peacefully while desecrating the American or Nebraska flag during their religiously motivated protes… Click to Read More

Posted 7 hours 9 minutes ago

Numerous live webcams are available througout the North Carolina coastline that are watching the surf as Hurricane Earl approaches.

Here are the links to just a few of them:

EiLiveSurf

Hot Wax Surf Shop

Duck, North Carolina

Cap… Click to Read More

Posted 8 hours 19 minutes ago

A longtime Lexington high school basketball coach who became the first African-American on UK's Athletics Association Board in 1974 died Thursday at the age of 94.

S.T. Roach led the first Paul Laurence Dunbar High School in Lexington to two Kentucky High School Athletic League state championships and, after integration, two runner-up finishes in the Kentucky High School Athletic Association's Sweet Sixteen.

Roach finished his coaching career with a 610-166 record. Toda… Click to Read More

Tagged As: legendary coach, Lexington, high school basketball, dies at 94

Posted 8 hours 41 minutes ago

Police in Lexington say a busy thief hit a string of businesses along East Reynolds Road not far from the Fayette Mall.

Police say the burglaries happened at several different business sometime lat Wednesday or early Thursday in an office complex. They say several thousands of dollars in camera equipment was stolen from Studio Walz, and other businesses are dealing with break-in damage.

One of the business owners says a neighbor saw someone casing the office building on… Click to Read More

Tagged As: burglaries, Lexington office complex

Posted 8 hours 57 minutes ago

Eastbound lanes of I-64 were closed Thursday afternoon after an accident in Boyd County.

The accident happened at the 182 mile marker, just east of Coalton. Officials expect the road to be blocked for at least two hours.

Local law enforcement have established a detour at Exit 181 onto US 60 to KY 180 to reconnect to I-64 at Cannonsburg. This detour is for eastbound I-64 traffic only. Westbound traffic is unaffected.

Posted 9 hours 4 minutes ago

Though they may not get a direct hit, residents of North Carolina's coast are preparing for the worst as powerful Hurricane Earl is inching dangerously close. We'll have reports from the area, as well as from further north, where Massachusetts has issued a hurricane warning for its southern coast.

Also - another Gulf of Mexico oil rig exploded and caught fire Thursday, though, thankfully, it looks like no lives were lost and the oil spill from it may be minimal. We'll have the latest … Click to Read More

Posted 9 hours 29 minutes ago

BUXTON, N.C. (AP) - The last ferries pulled away from North Carolina's vulnerable barrier islands Thursday as Hurricane Earl spun closer with winds near 125 mph, putting the East Coast all the way to Canada on alert for what could be a blustery Labor Day weekend.

A hurricane warning was issued for the tip of Massachusetts, including Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard. New hurricane and tropical storm warnings and watches were issued for parts of Canada, adding to those already i… Click to Read More

Tagged As: Hurricane Earl, North Carolina

Posted 9 hours 34 minutes ago by Alan Cutler

It's a process. It can be a tremendous struggle trying to become a good quarterback. So much to learn. Even though Mike Hartline's season ended last year against South Carolina, it was the best game he's every played. He's dreamed of playing like that. Now that he has, Hartline now believes he can do it again.

"Everything seemed to be in slow motion," says Hartline.

"To me everything seemed to slow down a lot. I was in such a zone. I think it has to do with preparing and… Click to Read More

Tagged As: Mike Hartline, Kentucky Football

Posted 9 hours 50 minutes ago

This holiday weekend the Lexington Division of Police will be conducting a DUI Safety Check Point enforcement campaign.

This event is part of a statewide crackdown on impaired driving. The checkpoints will be set up at Leestown and Russell Cave Roads on September 4, 2010, from p.m. until 4 a.m.

“All too often, innocent, law-abiding people suffer tragic consequences and the loss of loved ones due to this careless disregard for human life. Officers will be intensify… Click to Read More

Tagged As: Lexington, DUI, checkpoints, police