LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Newly released poll results say more than half of Kentucky's residents report having no dental insurance.

And while 70 percent of adults in the U.S. say they have visited a dentist or dental clinic within the past year, that number is just 61 percent among Kentucky adults.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Clean energy was the subject of an Earth Day protest at the University of Kentucky.  Members of the student environmental group Green Thumb collected petitions urging the campus’s Climate Action Plan Committee to meet as it has promised.

Organizer Kara Cooper says the committee has been slow to act in the past.   

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Organizers raising funds for The Kentucky Theatre says, despite his canceled appearance this Friday, Michael Shannon remains committed to helping the cause.

We want you to be the star – and here’s how. Use your smart phone or other audio device to record your voice and send it to WUKY or call (859) 257-9151 and leave your message as voicemail. We’re interested in…

• Station IDs
• Testimonials
• Interviews
• Poems and stories
• Musical performances

Also, we are currently working on a documentary devoted to the assassination of Medgar Evers, and we are especially interested in your reminiscences of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - The investigation into Richie Farmer’s tenure as Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner has resulted in a five-count federal indictment.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Mary Todd Lincoln will be the subject of a 90 minute documentary airing tonight on C-SPAN.  The film is part of a series examining the influence and image of America’s First Ladies.  Mrs. Lincoln’s childhood home and other Lexington locales are featured prominently in the film according to Mary Todd Lincoln House Executive Director Gwen Thompson.

FRANKFORT, Ky. -- When Kentucky passed a law in 2010 to require insurers to cover autism treatment, Heather Dales felt like a weight had lifted off her family.  Until she billed the insurance company.

Since the law took effect in early 2011, Dales said the plan failed to reimburse her and her husband for tens of thousands of dollars' worth of care. Most of it paid tuition to the Highlands Center for Autism in Prestonsburg, Ky., which she said drastically improved the development of her son, Hunter, now 6.