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A central Kentucky autoworker is lucky he held on to the $128 million Powerball ticket he bought on Christmas Eve during some last-minute shopping — after all, it was printed by mistake.

Rioting inmates started fires that damaged several buildings at a central Kentucky prison, and some prisoners suffered minor ...

National Guard troops are going door to door today in Kentucky, checking on families in the worst-hit areas of what Gov. Steve Beshear called "the biggest natural disaster that this state has ever experienced in modern history."

More than half a million Kentuckians remained without power Saturday after a devastating ice storm hit the state earlier this week, Gov. Steve Beshear said. Ice-laden power lines and tree branches still drooped heavily Saturday, and temperatures remained below freezing.

A crippling winter storm has plunged about a million customers into the dark from the Midwest to the East Coast, and thousands of people in ice-caked Kentucky have sought refuge in motels and shelters.