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  • Good Read: Wicked Years Series by Gregory Maguire
    WKMS Youth Commentator Brynn Jones reviews the Wicked Years series, by Gregory Maguire. Hello, I’m Brynn Jones, here to give my review of the book Wicked,…
  • Speaker's Corner: Arthur J. Bauernfeind College of Business Dedication
    October 12th, 2012 Murray State University held a dedication for the newly named Arthur J. Bauernfeind College of Business. Dr. Bauernfeind is a 1960…
  • There's an empty space today where a Henri Matisse painting had been hanging at the Kunsthal museum in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Seven paintings were stolen Tuesday, including works by Pablo Picasso, Claude Monet and Paul Gauguin.
    Picasso, Monet Paintings Among Those Swiped From Dutch Museum
    Seven works by famous artists were stolen by thieves who broke into the Rotterdam museum around 3 a.m. The thieves set off an alarm, but managed to escape before police arrived.
  • Louisiana To Soon Have State's First Black Chief Justice
    Justice Bernette Johnson has the seniority that entitles her to take the seat when the current chief justice steps down at the end of January, the court ruled today. A racially charged challenge had been raised by some of her colleagues.
  • President Obama and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney first debated Medicare on Oct. 3.
    Medicare: Where Presidential Politics And Policy Collide
    Medicare is emerging as the most important health care voting issue — more important than even the Affordable Care Act. And with 10,000 baby boomers qualifying for the program every day, whoever wins the election will have to find some way to rein in spending.
  • Home health aide trainees Marisol Maldonaldo (center) and Nancy Brown (right), shown here with assistant instructor Miguelina Sosa, are studying to join one of the nation's fastest growing yet also worst paid sectors of the workforce.
    Home Health Aides: In Demand, Yet Paid Little
    The home care workforce is one of the nation's fastest growing, yet its 2.5 million members — nearly all women — are also among the worst paid. With fears of a labor shortage as baby boomers age, there are efforts to make the job more attractive.
  • Little Shop of Horrors Devours our Studio on Sounds Good
    Murray's Playhouse in the Park opens a three weekend run of the rock-horror-musical Little Shop of Horrors this Friday at 7 p.m. Sounds Good welcomes the…
  • A worker cleans a sign before Tuesday's presidential debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y.
    When The Debate Ends, The Advertising Debate Is Just Beginning
    Within hours of the first presidential and vice presidential debates, the campaigns of President Obama and Mitt Romney used debate footage in their ads. Expect the same after tonight's town hall-style showdown.
  • Court Reverses Conviction Of Bin Laden's Driver
    A federal appeals court ruled that providing material support for terrorism wasn't a crime when Salim Ahmed Hamdan was Osama bin Laden's driver from 1996 to 2001. The decision likely will not affect high-profile cases against suspected terrorists, NPR's Dina Temple-Raston reports.
  • A federal appeals court on Tuesday threw out the conviction of Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a former driver for Osama bin Laden, who served a prison term for material support for terrorism.
    Court Overturns Conviction Of Bin Laden Driver
    It said Salim Ahmed Hamdan's conviction for providing material support for terrorism had to be overturned because his actions — driving the al-Qaida leader around — were not a war crime at the time. The ruling does not directly affect Hamdan, who was released in 2009, but may have a big impact on cases at Guantanamo Bay that have yet to be litigated.
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