Lisa Autry

The WKU Board of Regents met in special session Friday morning to sign off on the university's $389 million budget for the new fiscal year. The budget includes a 4.8% increase in tuition and fees, which amounts to nearly $200 more per semester.

The governor’s commission on tax reform will be in Bowling Green Tuesday evening.  The panel will hold a public meeting from 6-8pm at Greenwood High School. Business, education, and political leaders make up the commission, but Governor Steve Beshear says they don’t have the only say.

The GED test is changing nationwide and officials says those who haven't completed the test should go ahead and do so.  A new, more difficult and more expensive test will be in place starting January 2014. 

A retired Florida teacher is heading to prison for traveling to Kentucky for sex with two juveniles.  U.S. District Judge Karen Caldwell sentenced 60-year-old Dale Chisena for interstate travel to engage in sex acts with a person under 12 years of age.  

Production at the Bowling Green General Motors plant will cease for all of July to allow for construction in preparation for the next-generation Corvette.  The plant is making a $131 million investment to build the new C-7.