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LOUISVILLE, KY. -- Former Miss America Heather French Henry says she is being encouraged to run against senior Kentucky U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell, but she tells WDRB News she has not made a decision yet.

Compared to the relatively smooth Senate procedure for immigration reform, the process in the House of Representatives resembles a confused, three-headed monster that will baffle even relatively informed voters.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. Jefferson County Public Schools recently announced layoffs affecting 41 teachers.

There appears to be at least one remaining holdout within the bipartisan House immigration group that announced an "agreement in principle" on a far-reaching proposal Thursday: Rep.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives said on Thursday they had reached a tentative deal to revamp the immigration system, after disputes over a temporary worker program and healthcare benefits threatened to derail their efforts.

The Internal Revenue Service has been turned into an arm of the Obama administration, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell charged Tuesday as the Department of Justice began an investigation of the agency's targeting of conservative groups seeking tax exempt status.

Joanne Golden Hill, a Burnside resident with deep roots in the community, spent last week in Washington D.C. with the Alliance for Appalachia group, which bills themselves as "a regional coalition" dedicated to ending the practice of coal mining by mountaintop removal.

Behind the scenes, RaAol Labrador and Luis Gutierrez are using their bond over heritage to get a comprehensive overhaul through the House-all with Paul Ryan's blessing.

After a whirlwind trip this week through the marble halls of Washington, state Agriculture Commissioner James Comer said Friday he is more hopeful than ever that Kentucky could plant hemp in 2014.

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell was joined by most of Kentucky's federal delegation in a letter to the Drug Enforcement Administration seeking clarification on the industrial hemp issue.

When the Maine State House voted 111-33 this week to call for a constitutional amendment to overturn the US Supreme Court's ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the support for this bold gesture was notably bipartisan.

As one of the top negotiators for immigration reform in the House of Representatives finalizes secret negotiations over a comprehensive bill, hundreds of immigrant families in her district crowded a San Jose church on Monday night to weigh in.

Mandatory, automatic across-the-board cuts at the Federal Aviation Administration forced the agency to begin furloughing air traffic controllers, causing airport delays that affected thousands of flights.

On Thursday, House Democrats proposed a new bill that would create a minimum 45 percent tax rate on income more than $1 million, and a rate of 49 percent on income more than $1 billion.

It looks like we might have to get more conservative-Americans to do the job that the GOP-controlled House won't do.

If the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is guilty of anything in Eastern Kentucky, it's doing too little too late to avert a potential public health catastrophe.

On Tuesday, residents, activists, and scientists of Appalachia traveled to Washington, DC to speak directly with members of the House of Representatives and their staff about the ACHE Act .

New information has surfaced that Russian authorities asked both the FBI and the CIA in 2011 to check out alleged Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev, expressing concerns that he was connected to Chechen terrorists.

Two new assembly lines for producing high-efficiency frontload washing machines and dryers have started up in Building 1 at GE's massive Appliance Park in Louisville, KY, U.S. GE invested more than $100 million in the laundry appliances line.