All federal and state governmental offices will be closed on Monday, Jan. 20, in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

Rep. Bobby McCool, R-Van Lear, is the new chair of the Kentucky House’s Veterans, Military Affairs, and Public Protection Committee, House Speaker David Osborne announced in a statement.

Russians in the southern city of Anapa took their traditional Epiphany dips in waters affected by a major oil spill, ...