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The University of Louisville, according to the U.S. Department of Education, earned a 16 million dollar profit for it's basketball team in 2009-2010 season. That's a significant difference for smaller mid-major schools like Murray State. But, MSU is in the middle of an historic Cinderella Story season. We hear more about potential revenue from this season from MSU President Dr. Randy Dunn.

The first musical written by Rodgers and Hammerstein tells the stories of love in the turn of the century, the adventures of cowboys, and the land of Oklahoma. Almost 70 years after "Oklahoma!" opened on Broadway, the Mayfield Purchase Players are opening their own production of it. Rose Krzton-Presson sat down with Director Samantha Doran and Music Director Justus Wright earlier this week to talk about their experiences putting this show together.

Todd Hatton spoke with Calloway County Constable Tim Stone to find out more about what he and his colleagues do, how they're funded, and what the future may hold for them if SB 30 becomes law.

A traveling exhibition from the Smithsonian Institution called "Journey Stories" is at Murray State's Wrather West Kentucky Museum through March 10th.

This past week, the Tennessee House passed a bill that would force Occupy Nashville's encampment off the plaza outside the capitol.

Kentucky's General Assembly session continues in Frankfort, where lawmakers continued talks on regulating pseudoephedrine, raising the high school dropout age and Medicare's Managed Care Organizations.

Two documentary film makers from England stumbled upon Cairo a little more than four years ago and have now finished the film called "Between Two Rivers." One of the films two directors Jacob Cartwright joins Chad Lampe from Nottingham to talk about the film.

The Infamous Stringdusters are touring Yonder Mountain String Band for the next two weeks. The 'Dusters just released their first recording from their independent label High Country Recordings called We'll Do It Live and will release their next album Silver Sky on March 12th.

For the past several years, the building that once housed Draffen's Department Store has sat vacant on a street corner in Calvert City. Boards cover its front windows and "Keep Out" signs warn people away from its unsteady walls, but at one time, the store operated as one of the city's chief centers of commerce. Yet money counts more than memories in the preservation of buildings, and Saturday, Calvert City will lose another historical landmark to demolition. Casey Northcutt has more.

It's been two weeks since the Delta Mariner crashed into the Eggners Ferry Bridge, collapsing a 300 foot section of the road deck. The biggest question still remaining for motorists and business owners who depend on the traffic over the bridge is when and how will traffic be restored.

Hear Kenny Colston rundown the top headlines from the state capitol this week in a chat with Rick Howlett in Louisville.

We are in our first extended cold snap of 2012 following a warm couple of months. While the cold weather means layering your clothing to keep warm, it also to some has historically been a predictor for a normal spring insect population.

Amidst the basketball fever sweeping the Jackson Purchase, one area high school took time out to celebrate some former western Kentucky basketball greats. Sixty years ago, the Cuba Cubs, a small Graves County high school basketball team, took the Commonwealth by storm with an unlikely march to the state championship. Graves County Highs School celebrated that 1952 championship season during half time of a recent basketball game, and invited some of the players from that team to come and be honor

McCracken County's Susan Guess and her daughter Morgan have a message for bullies: enough is enough. Through videos and posts on social media sites Susan and Morgan are getting the word out on the dangers of bullying and how to stop it.

Theatre Workshop of Owensboro is running Steven Sodenheim's famous musical "Sweeney Todd" about a vengeful barber in post-industrial London.

The effect of Kentucky's prescription drug abuse problem reaches beyond the state's borders. In the final segment of a three-part series, Kentucky Public Radio's Brenna Angel reports on the challenges of launching a nationwide prescription monitoring network.

Shelly Baskin speaks with Kentucky Transportation Cabinet spokesman Keith Todd for some perspective on the process of restoring Eggner's Ferry Bridge.

The 2012 Murray Shakespeare Festival gets underway next Tuesday, but festival chairs Dr. Rusty Jones and Dr. Barbara Cobb of MSU's English Department could argue that it's not only already begun, it's an ongoing process.

As you may have noticed, it's been a fairly mild winter thus far. Today's February 3rd, and highs are in the 60's. So Gary Pitts spoke with McCracken County Emergency Management Meteorologist Beau Dodson to find out what's behind the mild weather, and what we can expect for the coming month.

The Glema Mahr Performing Arts Center in Madisonville opens the John Cariani play "Almost, Maine" Thursday.