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  • Unemployment rates fell in every Kentucky county between April 2017 and April 2018. That’s according to the latest data from the Kentucky Center for…
  • Kentucky officials say unemployment rates fell in all but one of the state's counties between December 2015 and December 2016. The Office of Employment…
  • The Creative Arts Department of the Murray Woman’s Club holds a Christmas Bazaar, Bake Sale, and Raffle this Saturday morning from 8 to 11:30 at the…
  • The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is holding a public meeting tonight to discuss the results of its special inspection into uranium hexafluoride leak at…
  • The Oregonian reports the Iraqi Kurd bought a ticket through a website. His numbers won $6.4 million. Officials are keeping his identity secret for his security.
  • - Daniel talks with Bob Fulton, author of "The Summer Olympics: A Treasury of Legends and Lore" (Diamond Communications/South Bend, Indiana) about the first United States Olympic team. The 13 competitors arrived in Athens, Greece in 1896 for the revival of the long-dormant Games. Their prospects for success were dismal - but they went on to win more gold medals than any other nation in Track and Field. (6:00) ("Our First Olympics" by Bob Fulton, American Heritage magazine, July/August 1996)
  • Gene Bryan Johnson of member station WNYC reports on the trial of Lemrick Nelson and Nelson Price. Nelson was acquitted of state murder charges in a previous trial. In that hearing, he was accused of stabbing Yankel Rosenbaum in the violence that occured in Crown Heights, Brooklyn after a black child was killed by a car driven by a Hasidic man 6 years ago. Nelson is now being tried on federal charges of violating Rosenbaum's civil rights. Price is charged with violating Rosenbaum's rights by whipping the crowd into a mob that searched for Jews to attack.
  • Today marks the third anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda that killed up to one million people - mostly members of Rwanda's minority ethnic group, the Tutsis. On April 6th, 1994, a plane carrying the Presidents of Rwanda and Burundi was shot down mysteriously sparking 3 months of ethnic and political massacres. We present a retrospective of the events and explain what was behind the genocide and how the Zairean civil war is rooted in the Rwanda's tragedy.
  • Actress FRANCES MCDORMAND. This week she won an Academy Award for her performance as the very pregnant chief-of-police in a rural Minnesota town in the film "Fargo." She's worked with the Coen Brothers for 14 years, beginning with their film "Blood Simple." She also had roles in "Raising Arizona" "Mississippi Burning" and "Lonestar." (REBROADCAST from 5/6/96)12:28:30 FORWARD PROMO (:29)12:29:00 I.D. BREAK (:59)12:
  • Jazz Saxophonist, STAN GETZ. Born in Philadelphia in 1927, Getz got his start playing with Woody Herman's band. He later went on to form his own quartet. He has worked with such greats as Dizzy Gillespie and Lionel Hampton. In the early 1960's, Getz became the first American musician closely identified with the bossa nova movement. He died in 1991. (REBROADCAST FROM 6
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