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A group of researchers is challenging the popular theory that the disappearance of dinosaurs on Earth was caused by the planet's collision with a single asteroid 65 million years ago. The scientists say the Yucatan Peninsula's Chicxulub crater -- often thought to be the result of the catastrophic strike -- is too old to have been involved in the creatures' demise. NPR's Richard Harris reports.

The Washington Post won six Pulitzer prizes, including the public service medal for exposing shoddy treatment of America's war wounded at Walter Reed hospital, and the breaking-news award for coverage of the Virginia Tech massacre.

This is a compilation of work by WKMS during the immediate aftermath of the December 10th tornado that ravaged many communities in western Kentucky.

Tuesday afternoon, the Department of National Intelligence released a four-page summary of the main findings of a report by U.S. intelligence agencies on the vulnerability of America to terrorist attack -- and how the war in Iraq affects the effort to fight terrorism.

This week, U.S. intelligence agencies produced a new assessment of the violence in Iraq and the chances for political reconciliation there. The last National Intelligence Estimate in February said the security situation in Iraq was dire and getting worse. The latest report says it could "continue to improve modestly."

Kentucky State Police Commissioner Rodney Brewer is resigning effective this week, multiple media outlets have reported. The resignation comes days after…

The U.S. Department of Labor reported close to 99,000 additional unemployment insurance claims in the last week from Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia, as…

A cat named Hatty climbed onto a railroad bridge, and the BBC reports firefighters on ladders could not reach the animal. After the failed rescue, the cat eventually climbed down herself.

The suspect in the Austin bombings has been described as "troubled" by police and media. NPR's Audie Cornish talks to Code Switch reporter Gene Demby about people's reluctance to call him a terrorist.

A multi-county outbreak of Hepatitis A remains ongoing with the Kentucky Department for Public Health (DPH) now reporting 117 cases.According to the DPH,…