Brenna Angel

LEXINGTON, Ky. - A weekend event is planned in Lexington to honor the firefighters who rushed up the stairwells of the World Trade Center towers on 9/11.

The Fraternal Order of Firefighters is hosting a memorial stair climb Saturday at Lexington's tallest skyscraper, the Fifth-Third Bank building. 

LEXINGTON, Ky. - In an effort to improve undergraduate education and deal with budget cuts, the University of Kentucky is implementing what officials call a strategic realignment of the Provost’s office.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Despite opening the season with a loss to Louisville, UK Athletics Director Mitch Barnhart says the Wildcat football team is excited and ready to hit the field again. He’s hoping the fans will be excited, too.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - What started as a small school of about a dozen students in a Lexington church basement has now more than doubled and outgrown its original space.

FRANKFORT, Ky. - Hundreds of Kentuckians who have been through foreclosure or are struggling with high mortgage payments are getting help from the national mortgage foreclosure settlement.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - It’s been 49 years since Dr. Martin Luther King gave his famous “I Have a Dream Speech,” yet a top civil rights official says he’s amazed at some of the discrimination and harassment that continues across the country. 

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Kentucky’s two systems of career and technical education for high school students are merging.

WASHINGTON - The Department of Defense announced Friday that three units representing more than 9,600 personnel will deploy to Afghanistan this winter.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - The President of Feeding America, a nationwide network of food banks and anti-hunger agencies, is calling on Congress to maintain funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as SNAP or food stamps.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - ACT college entrance exam scores among Kentucky’s high school juniors and seniors are up from last year, but thousands of students are not meeting standards for college readiness.