FRANKFORT -- An election-year investigation into teacher rallies at Kentucky's Capitol found more than 1,000 educators violated state law by participating in protests that shut down some schools, Gov. Matt Bevin's administration said Friday.

LOUISVILLE -- Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell underwent successful surgery to repair a fracture in his shoulder -- an injury he suffered when he fell at his Kentucky home earlier this month.

FRANKFORT -- Environmental officials say untreated wastewater from a distillery in Kentucky has spilled into a creek, killing an unknown number of fish.

FRANKFORT -- A feud at the top of Kentucky's government escalated into an extraordinary legal battle Thursday when the governor was sued by his hand-picked lieutenant governor over a bitter staffing dispute.

When Brittany Pike saw the back of a dollar bill framed at Lexington's Athens Chilesburg Elementary School last week, she couldn't have been more pleased.

ELKTON -- Just a week after students in Todd County returned to school for a new year, the Todd County Schools district has received a threat directed toward the Todd County Central High School campus.

The Burley Tobacco Growers' Cooperative, a cornerstone of Kentucky farming for decades, is at a crossroads.

LOUISVILLE -- U.S. Sen. Rand Paul has started easing back into public activities after his recent lung surgery sidelined him for part of the August congressional break.

LOUISVILLE -- President Donald Trump will headline a fundraiser for Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin, who is banking on his close ties with the Republican president as he faces a tough challenge from a Democratic rival in a state that Trump dominated in 2016.

FRANKFORT -- Kentucky's former House speaker on Friday dropped a lawsuit demanding that a woman give back the $110,000 she received in a secret sexual harassment settlement involving them.

FRANKFORT -- Kentucky's lieutenant governor says she has never talked with Gov. Matt Bevin about his administration's dismissal of two of her top staffers without her consent.

LOUISVILLE -- Twitter has reposted a video from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's campaign that showed protesters yelling threats in front of his Kentucky home.

PIKEVILLE -- Another Kentucky coal producer has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

FRANKFORT -- Months after Kentucky relaxed its gun laws, some lawmakers want to shift the focus to a proposal meant to keep guns away from people deemed as threats to themselves or others.

LOUISVILLE -- The Republican Party, the Trump campaign and other GOP organizations said Thursday that they are freezing their spending on Twitter to protest the platform's treatment of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

Federal appeals judges should restore a Kentucky law at the heart of a licensing fight that threatened to close the state's last abortion clinic, an attorney for Gov. Matt Bevin argued Thursday.

FRANKFORT -- Kentucky Attorney General Andy Beshear's office is weighing in on the personnel spat between Lt. Gov. Jenean Hampton and Republican Gov. Matt Bevin's administration.

FRANKFORT -- Sen. Rand Paul underwent lung surgery in a procedure he says stems from injuries suffered when a neighbor tackled him outside his Kentucky home in 2017.

FRANKFORT -- Kentucky's new pension law looms as a "negative" for the state's credit rating, according to a credit rating agency's report.

FRANKFORT -- Democrat Andy Beshear plays up the pastors in his family tree, stresses his faith and vows to treat people with "dignity and respect" in his first ad of Kentucky's general-election campaign for governor.

LOUISVILLE -- Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is recovering at home in Kentucky after suffering a shoulder fracture in a fall Sunday, a spokesman said.

FRANKFORT -- It's a showdown that's been boiling for years -- Republican Gov. Matt Bevin and Democratic Attorney General Andy Beshear competing in the cauldron of Kentucky's foremost political event.

LEXINGTON â€" Authorities say a package emitting a vapor led to the evacuation of an Amazon fulfillment center in Kentucky.

JUNCTION CITY -- A regional gas pipeline ruptured early Thursday in Kentucky, causing a massive explosion that killed one person, hospitalized five others, destroyed railroad tracks and forced the evacuation of a nearby mobile home park, authorities said.

FRANKFORT -- Gov. Matt Bevin unleashed an abortion-related attack Thursday that took aim not only at his Democratic challenger but also at a federal judge who struck down a state abortion law.

FRANKFORT -- Democrat Josh Hicks, a Marine veteran and former police officer who lost faith in President Donald Trump's Republican Party, on Thursday launched his campaign for the Kentucky congressional seat held by Republican Andy Barr.

FRANKFORT -- Gov. Matt Bevin claimed Wednesday that gambling-related suicides are nightly occurrences as he criticized his political opponent's support for expanded gambling as a way to help fund the state's struggling public pension systems.

LOUISVILLE -- Republican Sen. Rand Paul says he'd help pay for a minority congresswoman to return to the country she fled as a child, saying she might better appreciate the U.S. upon her return.

FRANKFORT -- Democratic gubernatorial nominee Andy Beshear endorsed term limits and a lifetime lobbying ban for Kentucky lawmakers in releasing an ethics plan for state government Tuesday.

LEXINGTON -- Schools across Kentucky are working to fulfill a new state law requiring the national motto "In God We Trust" be displayed in a prominent place before classes begin.

FRANKFORT -- Democratic gubernatorial nominee Andy Beshear won an endorsement Monday from a longtime Republican state lawmaker who criticized GOP Gov. Matt Bevin for "running around the state insulting" people -- including teachers in his own family.

BOWLING GREEN -- The story goes like this: On a hot summer night in August 1955, a farming family in the Christian County town of Kelly experienced an "invasion" from gray "little men."

LOUISVILLE -- The Kentucky Baptist Convention Mission Board has chosen Todd Gray to lead the organization.

LOUISVILLE -- A federal judge has thrown out a Kentucky teen's lawsuit accusing the Washington Post of falsely labeling him a racist following an encounter with a Native American man at the Lincoln Memorial.