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The Kentucky State Democratic Executive Committee has reported that it raised nearly $58,000 in March. That's according to paperwork filed with the…

By Jacque Dayhttp://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wkms/local-wkms-857809.mp3Trigg County, Ky. – Trigg County residents have until 4 PM…

By Seth HeltonMurray, KY – Traffic is moving slowly through Kentucky and bordering Tennessee counties, as road conditions will likely remain slick as…

American-Israeli ZEV CHAFETS (SHAY-fetz). He is editor of "The Jerusalem Report," a news magazine published in Israel. He was the director of the government press office under prime minister Menacham Begin. He's also the author of "Inherit the Mob," a comic novel about a journalist lured into the Jewish Mafia, baited by a large inheritance.

NPR's Joe Palca reports that astronomers have seen the oldest alaxy ever discovered. It's called "8C 14-35," and astronomers estimate it to e 15-billion light years away, and 150 to 200-thousand light years wide. James raham and his colleagues at the University of California/Berkeley saw the alaxy through an infrared telescope at Mauna Kea (MAHN-uh KAY-uh), Hawaii. They eport their findings in the current isssue of the Astrophysical Journal.

Many controls imposed on the warring factions in Bosnia Hercegovina ave been slowly disintegrating as the deadline for the four-month cease-fire ears its May 1st expiration date. Areas once deemed safe and protected have ome under fire, and heavy shelling and firefighting have erupted between osnian government troops and Serbian forces throughout the region. Richard arruthers reports from Zagreb on the current turmoil in Bosnia as the United ations works to extend the deadline.

On the eve of the 50th Anniversary of V-E Day, PR's Anne Garrels reports from Moscow on the World War Two memories of former oviet soldier Yuri Nikulin (YUR-ee nih-KOO-lihn), and his wife, Tatiana tah-tee-AH-nah). After becoming a national war hero, Nikulin went on to achieve ame in Russia as a clown.

The Animal Welfare movement is affecting the way the fur rapping industry does its business. Paula Dobbyn (DAH-bin) of member station -T-O-O in Juneau reports on the Alaska Fish and Game Department's reaction to he newly approved ban on steel, leg-hold animal traps. In an effort to save the rapping industry in Alaska, department officials are holding seminars to ducate fur trappers in alternative snare methods, emphasizing the importance of ur trapping to the local economy.

Joyce Russell of member station W-O-I reports on programs that are trying to save the institution of the family farm by linking retiring farmers with young people who want to farm. Some programs find creative financing for the purcahse of small farms, others help new farmers find mentors in experienced farmers who don't want a full-time farm anymore but want to keep in contact with their land.

NPR's Jon Greenberg reports that President Clinton's nominee to head the Central Intelligence Agency, Michael Carns, has withdrawn his nomination. The move came after the FBI discovered that Carns may have violated U.S. immigration law by helping someone he knew enter the United States from the Phillipines. Today, President Clinton named John Deutch, the number two man at the Defense Department, to replace Carns as the nominee to head the nation's spy agency.