Purdue remained atop the AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll for the third straight week while Gonzaga dropped to No. 24 after a loss to San Diego State but managed to keep alive its streak of 142 consecutive weeks in the poll.

A group of students enrolled in a Societal Health class will visit Letcher County, Kentucky, where some of the worst flooding occurred.

The National Weather Service has extended a flood watch for areas of eastern Kentucky ravaged by high water more than a week ago and said there’s a threat of thunderstorms in the region for much of the coming week.

Officials say at least 8 people were killed in the flooding in Kentucky.

Hardest hit areas have seen anywhere from an estimated 6-12" of rain since Wednesday

Liberty advances to the ASUN baseball finals with another win.

The Flames defeated Eastern Kentucky in game one and knocked off the host #9 Tennessee in game two.

“Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains,” Ballantine Books, by Cassie ChambersWritten by a young lawyer whose roots run deep in the Appalachian Mountains of Eastern Kentucky, “Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains” is a collection of personal memories and those of author Cassie Chambers' family members that narrate life in Kentucky's thinly populated and impoverished Owsley County. Chambers narrates this deep poverty with the help of her own family. Wilma was the youngest and only child from among seven siblings (one of whom died in infancy) to receive a college education. Her education was hard won, but with her husband, Orlando, they knitted together a prosperous life, which led the author to her own successful path. This book is better for its glimpse into one extended family’s hardscrabble existence and the difference that an education can make.

Now, to ease the miners' financial burden, a former coal tycoon has donated over $1 million to directly assist those miners and their families. On Monday, the Richard and Leslie Gilliam Foundation donated over $1 million to give 508 Blackjewel miners in immediate need $2,000 each. The coal operator owes its 1,700 miners about $5 million in back pay, according to attorney Joe Childers, whose firm represents miners in litigation with the employer. Richard Gilliam grew up in the coal mining region, and built his business there. Since selling the coal operating business, Richard Gilliam runs a family investment firm and serves as the director of his foundation.