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A new report shows the average income of the top one percent of Kentuckians is more than 18.4 times greater than the average income of state…

The Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 mandated that the government start tracking sexual abuse within the prison system. The first report by the Bureau of Justice Statistics says the government substantiated nearly 2,100 incidents of sexual violence in 2004.

On Sounds Good, Todd Hatton gets a status report on how our region is faring signing up for Affordable Health Care with kynect Program Manager Jackie…

surrounding blood-pressure drugs known as calcium-channel blockers. Studies have shown that, in some patients, the drug may be harmful. A panel of experts says the newer versions of the drug are safe, but caution against older versions.

in Taiwan. Instead of relying on donations like American parties, the ruling Kuomintang party owns over a hundred companies, from a bank to a movie studio. Political opponents claim the income from these enterprises allow the Kuomintang to unfairly dominate Taiwanese politics.

to be held in Washington, DC today. The meeting will bring together hundreds of people of different ethnic and religious backgrounds to discuss their differences. The Anti-Defamation League pulled out of the conference after learning that a minister from the Nation of Islam would take part.

the State of Illinois and the City of Chicago over Meigs Field, a small airport located along Lake Michigan. Under the compromise announced yesterday, the State will continue to operate the airport for five years, after which the City will be allowed to use the land for whatever purpose it wants.

that went into the 1996 election campaign, the most expensive in American history. Democrats and Republicans alike created new ways to raise and spend millions of dollars. Washington lobbyists say the pressure to contribute was enormous, as were the amounts they were asked to donate.

where the city is banking on a new high-tech traffic management system to help ease the Olympian sized strain that's expected to be put on the city's roadways for the next few weeks. Atlanta officials hope a network of highway cameras and computers will help manage the traffic swell.

on Turkey's newly installed prime minister, Necemettin Erbakan. He is the country's first prime minister from a religious party. But, in a country whose constitution is based on the separation of church and state, analysts wonder how far he will be able to promote Islamic-inspired policies.