Kentucky

How 1 State Is Scaling Back Both Hunger And Obesity

Tamara Sandberg | Posted 05.23.2012

Tamara Sandberg

Protecting our children from obesity requires more than increased physical activity and access to healthy food at school. It also compels us to do all we can to be sure they aren't coming home to poorly stocked kitchen cabinets. Childhood obesity and hunger are related and real problems -- and both are also really solvable.

Family Secrets Get Surreal

Posted 05.23.2012

Margo Selski's paintings -- with ball gowns made of eyes, braids of hair with agency of their own and the pointiest feet you've ever seen -- look like...

Autism and My Grandson's First Swim

Don McNay | Posted 05.20.2012

Don McNay

My grandson and I recently went to a baseball game. He is learning about the sport his grandfather loves. While we were there, he completely reprogrammed my cell phone. He fixed a problem in thirty seconds that Apple's tech people couldn't fix in three hours.

DEADLY SHOOTINGS: 5 Shot, 3 Dead In Louisville

AP | BRETT BARROUQUERE | Posted 05.18.2012

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Three people were killed Thursday after a chaotic shooting scene that had crowds running for cover in a crime-ridden section o...

'Just Like Anybody Else...It Hurts': Debate To Give Death Row Inmate $56,000 Hip Replacement

AP | BRETT BARROUQUERE | Posted 05.17.2012

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A condemned killer's fight to receive surgery for agonizing hip pain pushed Kentucky officials into an uncomfortable debate ov...

Howard Fineman

Derby Diary: President Faces Long Odds, But Will Still Bring Home The Purse

HuffingtonPost.com | Howard Fineman | Posted 05.04.2012

LOUISVILLE -- Politics has a family flavor in Kentucky, and to a surprising degree, the Obamas are family here in Louisville, even if they are not muc...

PHOTOS: Swoon Over Vintage Kentucky Derby Hats

Posted 05.03.2012

Get out that cocktail mixer: the Kentucky Derby is almost upon us, meaning the day-drinking and hat-wearing is about to commence! While we don't li...

WATCH: Fighting Racism With Urban Farming

Daniel Klein | Posted 05.02.2012

Daniel Klein

The ideas of cooperative work are central to many movements in Latin America. Nelson Escobar has brought those ideas from his home in El Salvador to Louisville, Kentucky.

PHOTOS: Funniest Kentucky Derby Hats

Posted 04.30.2012

Some people look good in hats, some don't. But if you're going to the Kentucky Derby, you don't seem to have a choice; elaborate hats are the order of...

Did This Man Suffer Cruel And Unusual Pain During Execution?

Reuters | Steve Robrahn | Posted 04.27.2012

(Reuters) - A Kentucky judge ordered state officials to consider using a single drug to carry out executions instead of a series of three drugs used b...

LOOK: Mysterious 'Monster' Fossil Found By Amateur Paleontologist

AP | Posted 04.26.2012

Experts are trying to figure out what a fossil dubbed "Godzillus" used to be...

PHOTOS: Poorest County In America Celebrates Prom

The Huffington Post | Eleanor Goldberg | Posted 04.26.2012

Up close, it could’ve been a classic prom scene in any U.S. suburb. Girls swayed in big pouffy princess dresses and fussed with their pinned...

College Basketball: UCLA Has No. 1 Class After Addition of Tony Parker

Carl Berman | Posted 04.24.2012

Carl Berman

UCLA has joined Kentucky as one of the top two 2012 recruiting classes with the addition of top-25 prospect Tony Parker on Monday.

WATCH: Herding Goats In The City

Daniel Klein | Posted 04.24.2012

Daniel Klein

It's not often that you look out your suburban backyard to find a man herding goats, but that is what people in one neighborhood in Louisville experie...

'The Amazing Race': Bollywood Dance Too Much For The Men

Posted 04.23.2012

On a trip to India, a Bollywood style challenge proved a huge difference for the men of "The Amazing Race" (Sun., 8 p.m. ET on CBS). Of the five remai...

Back from Kentucky

Bill Telepan | Posted 04.09.2012

Bill Telepan

Cooking is transformative, and small changes make such a big difference in communities like the ones we have visited in Kentucky.

COLUMN: No More 'Student-Athletes' After Kentucky Title?

AP | JIM LITKE | Posted 04.03.2012

-- It's time to bury the term "student-athlete." It died at 11:42 p.m. Monday, just about the time the confetti falling from the roof of the Superdom...

Twitter Listens To Kentucky Riots On #LexingtonPoliceScanner

The Huffington Post | Chris Greenberg | Posted 04.03.2012

After Kentucky defeated Kansas to win the 2012 men's basketball national championship, the party got rowdy in a hurry back in Lexington. Just as they ...

Why Kentucky Basketball Matters

Jonathan_Miller | Posted 04.03.2012

Jonathan_Miller

College basketball, particularly here in the heartland, really does matter. And flaws and all, big-time, big-money college roundball is not only the people's sport; it's also good public policy.

Dozens Arrested After Kentucky Victory

AP | DYLAN LOVAN and BETH CAMPBELL | Posted 04.03.2012

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Doctors amputated the foot of a man shot during raucous street celebrations in Lexington after Kentucky won the NCAA basketball...

Wildcats Won And Done

AP | EDDIE PELLS | Posted 04.03.2012

NEW ORLEANS — Before his confetti-flecked suit gets back from the cleaners, John Calipari will be on the road. Such is life for a coach who rec...

Anthony Davis Does It All.. But Score

AP | NANCY ARMOUR | Posted 04.03.2012

NEW ORLEANS — A few weeks ago, Kentucky coach John Calipari asked his players how they helped the team when they weren't scoring. Anthony Davis...

And the MOP Is..

AP | Posted 04.03.2012

NEW ORLEANS — Kentucky's Anthony Davis has been selected the Most Outstanding Player at the Final Four after dominating defensively in Monday ni...

Kentucky Wins National Championship

AP | EDDIE PELLS | Posted 04.03.2012

NEW ORLEANS — No matter where Anthony Davis and his buddies go to make their millions, their ol' Kentucky home will long remember this champions...

READY OR NOT: Kentucky vs. Kansas

Posted 04.02.2012

By Brian Otskey, Rush The Court College basketball fans, this is it. A champion will be crowned tonight in front of 70,000+ people packed into the ...