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Louisville businessman Matthew Bevin is being rumored as a potential Tea Party primary challenge to Republican Mitch McConnell in the U.S. Senate race.

by Kentucky Public Radio's Tony McVeighKentucky Education Commissioner Terry Holliday says the state will learn in early August if it’s a finalist in its…

Each week, members of the WFPL news team spotlight interesting stories we've read and enjoyed, for your weekend reading pleasure: Devin Katayama: "By the beginning of this year, almost half the states required teacher reviews to be based in part on test-score data," Amanda Ripley writes in The Atlantic. With all the obsession over teaching quality, this story suggests school systems may benefit from including student evaluations of their teachers in the overall evaluation system. Read Why Kids Should Grade Their Teachers.Gabe Bullard: Budget overruns, cocaine, speakeasies, a subplot about a magical car. This article about the making of the movie Blues Brothers has everything. Read Soul Men: The Making of The Blues Brothers.Joseph Lord: Louisville saw a spike in homicides in 2012. Task forces have been assembled to address violent crime. New positions are being created. Louisville Metro Police have created a new unit assigned to take aim at the city's most violent offenders. Though not quite to scale, the situation harkens to the drastic rise in crime in New York and other cities in the latter years of the 20th Century. Was the economy responsible then for crime? A rise in drugs? This Mother Jones story suggests an environmental cause. Read America's Real Criminal Element: Lead.Laura Ellis: This profile piece about professional pickpocket Apollo Robbins also gets into the neuroscience of pickpocketing and magic. Most magic tricks work because of what our brains tend to focus on, and how much we can miss when we're focused on something else. The whole piece is fascinating, but my favorite parts are the beginning, when he picks the pocket of magician Penn Jillette, and the end, when he describes the trick that will be the finale of the autobiographical stage show he wants to put together. I totally want to meet this guy now, and let him pick my pocket. That's not a euphemism; I want him to steal my stuff. Read A Pickpocket's Tale.

U.S. Sen. Rand Paul will be one of two GOP senators providing a rebuttal to President Barack Obama's State of the Union address on Tuesday. Paul is

State Representative Reginald Meeks thumped Tea Party challenger Wendy Caswell in Tuesday’s Democratic primary.Meeks carried 80 percent of the vote in the race for the state House’s 42nd District seat, which covers parts of Old Louisville, downtown and the West End. Caswell is the founder and former president of the Louisville Tea Party, who said she has always been a registered Democrat.Meeks said Caswell was a fraud and he pressured party leaders to file suit against her candidacy, though they never did.No Republican is vying for the seat.

State Representative Reginald Meeks thumped Tea Party challenger Wendy Caswell in Tuesday's Democratic primary.Meeks carried 80 percent of the vote in the…

A national group that hopes to give voters more choices in this year's presidential election is bringing its campaign to Kentucky.Americans Elect wants to…

A national group that hopes to give voters more choices in this year's presidential election is bringing its campaign to Kentucky.Americans Elect wants to field a presidential ticket in all 50 states. The group will nominate a candidate through a primary online at AmericansElect.org. The group will soon petition to get a candidate on the ballot in Kentucky.“We will begin collecting signatures for shortly, probably in a month, we will collect 10,000 signatures and the requirement is 5,000,” says Spokeswoman Ileana Wachtel.

Preservation Louisville revealed their annual top ten lists Thursday and announced the removal of the Whiskey Row buildings from 105-119 W. Main St from…

The just-concluded Kentucky State Fair drew 615,648 paid patrons this year—a 2.6-percent increase from 2012. It's the largest number of attendees since 621

A consortium of 22 Kentucky school districts is beginning the school year with new programs and supports funded by one of the largest federal Race to the

Which city should be first in line for an NBA team, should one relocate or an expansion franchise be created?Louisville, writes attorney Darren Heitner on Forbes.com.Heitner is a professor of sports management at Indiana University and the founder of the Sports Agent Blog. He writes that Seattle and Virginia Beach are contenders, too, but Louisville has advantages such as an existing NBA-caliber arena and demonstrated support for basketball, albeit at the college level.In the Forbes.com piece, Heitner writes:While Seattle would be an excellent choice for an expansion NBA franchise or an existing team’s relocation (the city plans to build a new $490 million arena) and Virginia Beach has shown plenty of interest in moving the Kings to its shore, they are not the only cities worthy of an NBA team within their borders. There are many reasons to place Louisville, Kentucky at the top of that list. And whereas Seattle and Virginia Beach are not immediately available as destinations for an NBA team, Louisville is in a position to accept a franchise as early as today. Although not everyone agrees.Heitner delves into the particulars of Louisville's situation -- the recent study that downplayed the benefits to the city, the response from NBA advocates, Mayor Greg Fischer's support, the University of Louisville's lease with the KFC Yum! Center.But, he concludes, "There are too many signs of success concerning an NBA team in Louisville for the NBA and its teams to ignore."As it happens, WFPL will have a special at 1 p.m. today on this very issue.