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The panel is being held as part of the NEA Big Read Paducah. This is where community members are encouraged to read and discuss the book "Fahrenheit 451."
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A first test will come midday Tuesday when the session gavels open to vote on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s proposed rules for debate.
Police in Benton, Kentucky, are warning the community about a phone scam making the rounds. This time, the scammer is pretending to be with Kentucky State Police.
The joy of pregnancy can quickly turn to fear when multiple miscarriages occur, especially when those miscarriages have no explanation. But researchers discovered why a woman’s blood sugar levels may be a factor.
Burks Chapel was filled with members of the community Monday night who came out to remember Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
A section of a state road in Calvert City, Kentucky, is blocked as crews fight a structure fire, the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet says.
In Illinois, the Carbondale NAACP celebrated Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy with the 38th annual King Scholarship Breakfast.
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From warm meals during the day to warm cots at night, many people are turning to Community Kitchen in Paducah to escape the bitter cold.
Hundreds gathered in Paducah on Monday to walk in solidarity to the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. monument on Park Avenue to celebrate King's legacy.
Dozens of local students took part in a workshop Monday learning from some of our own about what it takes to land a job.
A large gun-rights rally in Virginia's state capital unfolded peacefully Monday despite earlier fears of the kind of violence that took place in nearby Charlottesville three years ago.
WPSD Local 6 received the first ever Fred Paxton Diversity Employer of the Year award from the Paducah-McCracken County NAACP at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Luncheon in Paducah on Monday.
The Senate will debate and vote on the resolution setting the rules of the trial on Tuesday.
A man wanted in connection to a Sunday police chase that started in Sikeston, Missouri, and a carjacking in Mississippi County was arrested Monday in Cape Girardeau, police say.
"Dorie Miller stood for everything that is good about our nation," Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly said. "His story deserves to be remembered and repeated wherever our people continue to stand the watch today."
Memphis authorities are searching for the person responsible for the fatal shooting of a 10-year-old boy, police said Monday.
Two men are in custody after officers were shot at and a police vehicle was intentionally rammed during a chase that began in Cape Girardeau and ended in Illinois.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker has signed a law that eliminates driver's license suspensions for most non-moving violations.
Thousands of gun-rights activists — some brandishing their military-style rifles — crowded the streets surrounding Virginia’s Capitol building Monday to protest plans by the state’s Democratic leadership to pass gun-control legislation.
Marshall County Fiscal Court has responded to a lawsuit filed last year by Jackson Purchase Energy and West Kentucky Rural Electric Cooperative.
The Trigg County Coroner says both men died of blunt force trauma.
Chief Justice John Roberts swore in senators Thursday to officially begin the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump.
(CNN) -- A strong winter storm began delivering a blast of snow, freezing rain and sleet across the country Friday, leaving thousands of passengers stranded.
Chattanooga residents are using cast iron cookware to put a new spin on curling.
The crash happened early Sunday morning in Pope County, Illinois.
Troopers say the car hit a tree, overturned several times, and then caught on fire.
State officials and U.S. hate-monitoring groups are warning about the potential for violence ahead of a gun-rights rally in Virginia that's expected to draw a mix of militias, firearms advocates and white supremacists to Richmond.
Super Bowl LIV will be played at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida on February 2.
Police in Kansas City, Missouri, say at least two people are dead and 15 people were reportedly injured in a shooting outside a bar.
Major international airlines are canceling and re-routing flights in the Middle East after Iran fired more than a dozen missiles at two Iraqi military bases that house US forces.
After three days of vehement denials, Iran admitted that it mistakenly shot down a civilian airliner hours after it launched a missile attack on US troops in Iraq to retaliate against the US killing of Quds Force leader Qasem Soleimani.
Malaysia sends back 150 containers of plastic waste to 13 mainly rich countries after saying it won't be the world's waste bin.
Democratic presidential candidates spent the weekend grappling with how to address questions surrounding sexism and gender bias as they sought to balance support for women against concerns of a political blowback.
UPDATE: U.S. 68 at the intersection with KY 139/South Road at Cadiz is now open.
The Paducah-McCracken NAACP is celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day in a big way.
A man was shot and killed at a trampoline park Saturday night in Flint Township, Michigan.
Sanders says outside political groups that can raise and spend unlimited sums backing candidates for public office should be abolished — including those supporting his own bid for the White House.
The Paducah Fire Department is now fully staffed after 14 of its members retired last year.
A conference in Berlin that convened warring factions in Libya as well as their foreign backers to establish a permanent ceasefire called for sanctions against parties found in violation of any agreed-upon truce, according to a communique from the meeting.
Two police officers are dead, and one is injured after a gunman opened fire before allegedly setting fire to a home.
Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders compared the challenges women face in politics today and his running for president at the age of 78.
After months of anticipation, SpaceX's new crew-worthy spacecraft, Crew Dragon, reached its last major milestone in a years-long testing program.
Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe presided over a ceremony that marks the 60th anniversary of the signing of a security treaty between Japan and the U.S.
Illegal crossings plunge across the border after the Trump administration made more asylum-seekers wait in Mexico for hearings in U.S. court.
Lead impeachment manager Adam Schiff says intelligence agency is withholding Ukraine documents from Congress.
Scientists say the Australian landscape is permanently altered as a warming climate brings profound changes to the island continent.
Alabama county preserves jail cell where Martin Luther King Jr. was held.
Friends and family come together in Chicago to say farewell to a soldier killed in Kenya.
Overcrowding in the Mayfield-Graves County Animal Shelter creates difficulties.
Joe Biden has called for Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign to “disown” what he calls “doctored video” that some Sanders supporters say shows the former vice president endorsing Republican calls to cut Social Security and Medicare.
One local family is picking up the pieces after tragedy struck their home.
