LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Southern Baptists leaders are asking followers to put aside squabbles over political and social issues and look inward at a time when the nation's largest Protestant denomination is hoping to stop declining membership.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- The Southern Baptist Convention's president says the denomination's vision for the future should include more giving to worldwide missions and an increased effort to attract minorities.

BALTIMORE - Miss Kentucky, a business student who says pop stars may be getting too edgy for young people who see them as role models, now has a chance to be a role model herself - as the new Miss USA.

LOUISVILLE, KY. - Calvin Borel was in a familiar place, along the rail and urging Mine That Bird to fly through the mud. Trainer Bennie Woolley Jr. was someplace he never imagined — the Kentucky Derby, with his horse in the lead.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Bear Bryant’s brief and successful tenure as Kentucky football coach hasn’t been matched since his departure 55 years ago.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A top Barack Obama adviser urged Democrats to unite behind the Illinois senator for the fall campaign and bring the marathon contest for the presidential nomination to a close, but some Hillary Rodham Clinton supporters weren't buying that as Oregon and Kentucky held primaries Tuesday.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Anna Nicole Smith's ex-boyfriend arrived in Kentucky from the Bahamas on Tuesday with their infant daughter and said he is looking forward to introducing the baby to his family.

The No. 13-ranked Arizona State women’s basketball team survived a scare from unranked Western Kentucky Friday night. Despite leading by as many as 18 points in the second half, the Sun Devils (5-1) found themselves in a struggle in the game’s final minute in their eventual 67-63 win in the first round of the 2006 Paradise Jam at St. Thomas, Virgin Islands.

EVANSVILLE, Ind. - A tornado tore across western Kentucky and Indiana early Sunday, killing at least 22 people as it cut through a mobile home park and obliterated trailers and houses as residents slept.

TUCSON - The University of Arizona has named Niya Butts, Kentucky associate coach and a former star on Tennessee teams that won back-to-back NCAA championships, as its new women's basketball coach.

March 20, 2005

FRESNO, Calif. - Early in the first half, Arizona State women’s basketball coach Charli Turner Thorne told her team to keep getting stops.

FRESNO, Calif. - Early in the first half, Arizona State women’s basketball coach Charli Turner Thorne told her team to keep getting stops.