Oh, Kentucky

"We wonder where it is that our leadership has gone."

Europe.

Murray State is hiring.

Middlesboro's Oasis Pizza Palace has been hanging in there. Paris's blackberry gum is just getting started. So's Moore's Karate in Shelbyville. Draffenville's Ponderosa is celebrating 25 years. Maybe a Kroger in Union?

Living the good life for less in Paducah.

The widow of the head of security at a Lynch coal mine for 33 years tells her "story of intrigue, heartbreak" to Dr. Vivian Blevins for The Middlesboro Daily News.

Northern Kentucky's only homeless shelter is on the move.

Caldwell and Lyon counties want to get all of their residents connected.

Here's how Butler Countians' tax dollars are spent.

Columbia's Dakota Meyer is advocating for more U.S. State Departmetnt support of Afghan translators.

A revealing map of Louisville's 2013 homicides.

A helpful guide to Kentucky's fall foliage.

The Milton-Madison Bridge is no longer one of them, but Kentucky numbers 145 bridges that are deemed both "structurally deficient" and "fracture critical." Not good.

Lewisburg School has inducted its first class of hall-of-famers. Great!

We just completed Week 2 of the KET News Quiz season, and I'm dominating these HeathPostdotcom fantasy-league standings.

Oh, Kentucky

Sheep boom, which, of course, recalls ...

Bridge boom (video here, too, but not Johnny Carson).

Good jobs news from Glasgow, Lexington and Louisville.

I think I vote for "Small City. Big Surprises."

I'm pretty sure I used to get my hair cut in this building.

I'm glad to see that the president scheduled his and Cody Keenan's economics speech so that none of us Hilltoppers have to miss tonight's episode of The Neighbors, which airs at 8:30 Central tonight on ABC but appears to be moving to Fridays next season (Jami Gertz!). ABC truly is the network of WKU.

Well, exactly what would the Kentucky AG do with the "highly spoiled underachiever"?

Good stuff from Nancy Daly of NKy.com on the history of the African Methodist Episcopal church, especially in Elsmere/"South Erlanger."

Apparently, it was fine-free day.

Part 1 of the 411 on meth from Muhlenberg County's sheriff.

The C-J's editor is saying when this week.

Rest in peace, Helen Thomas, who followed fellow Kentuckian Honest Abe north and then to the White House.