Updated: 6:20 PM Democrat Martha Shoffner resigned effective Tuesday from the office she has held since 2007 and was re-elected to in 2010.

Updated: 6:07 PM For those who want to help the victims in Oklahoma and across the Midwest, the Better Business Bureau says it's time to be aware.

Posted: 4:59 PM Many school districts require them to develop a plan and in this case Rathbun said there's no safer place he'd rather be.

Posted: 4:57 PM Glasgow Police Sgt. Jessie Barton has been placed on Administrative Leave without pay pending the outcome of an investigation.

Updated: 6:18 PM Students from the Western Kentucky University Meteorology Department are in the Midwest tracking severe storms as part of their field methods class.

Posted: 4:47 PM Tea party activists have rallied outside a federal building in Louisville, chanting it's time for the IRS to go because of its extra scrutiny of conservative groups.

Posted: 4:44 PM Another round of protests involving United Mine Workers of America and their supporters results in about a dozen arrests in downtown St. Louis.

Posted: 4:43 PM Former Agriculture Commissioner Richie Farmer's sister has resigned as assistant executive director of the Kentucky Registry of Election Finance.

Posted: 4:40 PM Eastern Kentucky University says it's giving buyout packages to 127 employees who applied for them and were accepted.

Posted: 3:33 PM The National Weather Service says the tornado's path was 17 miles long and 1.3 miles wide.

Updated: 3:08 PM The Warren County Board of Education will hear public comment on the non-resident agreement tonight during a &p.m. board meeting.

Posted: 11:42 AM The Dalai Lama called aggression a sign of weakness and compassion a sign of strength as the Buddhist spiritual leader spoke to a group of students in Louisville.

Posted: 11:40 AM The health department in northern Kentucky says it plans to stop offering well-child visits because Medicaid no longer offers reimbursement for them.

Updated: 5:02 PM A coroner says a worker helping crews prepare to paint the Glover H. Cary Bridge in Owensboro has died.

Posted: 11:36 AM Families and friends will be meeting loved ones this week at Fort Campbell, where more soldiers are returning to the post on the Kentucky-Tennessee border from Afghanistan.

Updated: 4:45 PM Two former officials of defunct cattle broker Eastern Livestock are set to be sentenced for their roles in a $32 million check-kiting scheme.

Posted: 11:46 PM The Oklahoma state medical examiner's office says that 20 children are among the dead in the tornado that ripped through Oklahoma City suburbs.

Updated: 2:01 AM Explosive materials, marijuana and drug paraphernalia were found inside a home in Hancock County Monday.

Updated: 9:50 PM A Treasury official says the department told the White House twice that the IRS was preparing to make public its targeting of conservative political groups.

Updated: 9:28 PM The Campbellsville Police Department is searching for a missing juvenile, Donald Powers.

Posted: 6:45 PM Authorities say a Kentucky teenager known as a jokester was strangled by a dog lead he put around his neck while playing with friends at the start of summer vacation.

Posted: 6:42 PM Sen. Rand Paul and Republican National Committee chairman are distancing themselves from conservatives who suggested in recent days that President Barack Obama could face impeachment for the developing scandal at the Internal Revenue Service.

Posted: 6:38 PM The Executive Branch Ethics Commission has handed down public reprimands and fines to three former employees in the Kentucky Department of Agriculture.

Posted: 5:01 PM The White House says it would like to see more cuts to agriculture subsidies in a massive farm bill moving through the Senate this week.

Posted: 4:59 PM House Speaker Greg Stumbo has offered a Senate redistricting plan in hopes of speeding up what has become a drawn-out process.