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may be only a matter of months away as a referendum will be held soon on whether to dissolve the city government.

in the Iraqi capital. Yesterday, Saddam Hussein insisted that the U.S. military mission over only when U.S. planes stopped violating Iraq's airspace.

, where rebel Taliban forces have continuously conquered territory and upset the balance of power in the region. The conservative faction has made religious purity an issue in the war.

about the state of emergency Albania has declared. The country has been shaken by violent protests and political restructuring resulting from massive financial upset.

by the new Congress. The Senate Subcommittee on Immigration has a new chairman, Spencer Abraham, a Michigan Republican, whose grandparents were immigrants from Lebanon.

Kentucky has huge declines in revenue from key tax sources despite a rebounding national economy. State Budget Director Jane Driskell released a monthly…

Kentucky officials say a new report shows a massive increase in the number of Kentucky adults and children receiving disability benefits.The report was…

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says the near-historic Mississippi River flood of 2011 caused $2.8 billion in damage and tested the system of levees,…

Journalist Matt Beynon Rees is now a crime novelist, too. The Collaborator of Bethlehem follows a Palestinian schoolteacher who turns detective to solve a murder set in the violence-ridden West Bank. Rees was based in Jerusalem as a Middle East reporter for Time magazine for more than a decade, serving as bureau chief from 2000 to 2006.

A report released Thursday by Washington-based Data Quality Campaign shows Kentucky has made progress in using data to improve student achievement. The “Data For Action 2012” report touts Kentucky as a leader for its longitudinal data system, which refers to data that can be tracked from kindergarten to career. Kentucky’s P-20 Data Collaborative—a joint effort by the Kentucky Department of Education and the state’s Council on Post-Secondary Education—provides high school feedback reports, which executive director of Data Quality Campaign Aimee Guidera says gives good feedback to the community regarding where students go after high school, said. Kentucky meets six of 10 categories DQC uses to determine effective use of data to improve student achievement. Last year, the commonwealth met two. What Guidara said Kentucky needs to improve upon is educating teachers and principals on how to use the data that’s available. “It’s really not only about making sure they have the technical skills to know how to access and use this data, but in addition its making sure we’re creating conditions and building a culture that really supports and nurtures the use of data,” she said. The report further shows Kentucky has done well at providing parents access to student-level data.