Radcliff City Council plans to draft a resolution opting out of plans for a unified local government in Hardin County. A majority of the council provided vocal support to the resolution, proposed by Councilman Don Yates, after several residents urged the council Tuesday night to reject unification efforts.

The judge-executives of Boone, Kenton, Campbell and Grant counties Tuesday morning touted regionalism, warned against the dissolution of the Northern Kentucky Area Planning Commission, talked of possible 911 dispatch mergers and urged the need for the federal government to fund a new Brent Spence Bridge. They spoke to hundreds of business leaders Tuesday morning during the Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce "State of Northern Kentucky" address in Erlanger.

Days after it was stolen from a Los Angeles hotel, a pen and ink drawing by the 17th-century Dutch great Rembrandt was recovered at a church. How the $250,000 artwork got there is a mystery, especially considering that police said the heist was elaborate and professional and likely involved more than one person.

A group of University of Kentucky freshmen will arrive on campus in the next few days as members of a new technology-based learning community. The group of 175 freshmen, to be housed at an updated Keeneland Hall near Memorial Coliseum, will be given new iPads and have access to touch-screen technology in the front lobby.

The Union College board of trustees named Dr. Thomas McFarland acting president last week following the announcement of President Edward de Rosset’s indefinite leave of absence. McFarland, a 1969 graduate of Union College, has served the college in various roles for more than 25 years, most recently as vice president for academic affairs.

Hospitals around the country have started offering deeply discounted CT scans for smokers worried about lung cancer.

Their pitches point to recent findings that screening current or former heavy smokers with CT scans before they show symptoms of lung cancer could modestly reduce their risk of dying from the disease. But some experts question whether the strategy is simply a marketing ploy that could bring more harm than good.

In a statement, yesterday, China denied a report that Pakistan allowed it to inspect the remnants of the specially modified Black Hawk helicopter that malfunctioned during the Osama bin Laden raid in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

The BBC reports:

"Those reports are entirely groundless and very ridiculous," the Chinese defence ministry said in a statement.

Four tobacco firms filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration arguing that new regulations that require them to put graphic warning labels on cigarette packages violate their constitutional rights.

In a statement, a lawyer who represents Lorillard, Inc., the third largest manufacturer of cigarettes in the U.S., said the regulations "violate the First Amendment."

There they sat with the President of the United States at the Old Market Deli in Cannon Falls, Minnesota, five veterans of our two most recent wars. With a turkey sandwich on his plate, Mr. Obama acknowledged their service, and the disproportionate sacrifice small towns and rural counties have made in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the military in general.

It's a story that has sent "shockwaves through the world of college sports," as NPR's David Greene said earlier today on Morning Edition: