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Two people were arrested Friday after they were allegedly found passed out at the gas pumps at a gas station in Laurel County.

A Laurel County Sheriff’s deputy was called to the Pilot station about 10 miles south of London on U.S. 25E where he found a man and a woman apparently intoxicated inside a pickup truck.

The deputy arrested 28-year-old David Landry of Lily and 31-year-old April Mitchell of Gray.

Landry was charged with operating a vehicle under the influence.  Mitchell was charged with public intoxication.

Both were lodged in the Laurel County jail.

It will now cost lottery players a little more to purchase a Powerball ticket.

The price of Powerball tickets went up Sunday from $1 to $2.

Lottery officials say the jackpot will be bigger, beginning at 40 million instead of the current 20 million.  And, they say the chances of winning will also increase, with the odds of claiming the jackpot going from 1 in 195 million to 1 in 175 million.

The first drawing under the new price is set for Wednesday.

Online shoe seller Zappos.com says a hacker may have accessed the personal information of up to 24 million customers.

The hacker apparently gained access to its internal network and system through the company’s servers in Kentucky.  Zappos’ discounting site, 6pm.com, was also hacked.

Zappos  says customers’ credit card and payment information was not stolen.  But names, phone numbers, email addresses, billing and shipping addresses, the last four digits from credit cards and more may have been accessed in the attack.

The company is contacting customers by email and urging them to change their passwords.

Kentucky won its 19^th National Championship in cheerleading over the weekend, making Kentucky the most decorated cheering program in America.

University of Kentucky won a record 19^th time in Division 1A at the Universal Cheerleaders Association finals Sunday in Orlando.

The championship is UK’s fourth in five years and seventh in nine.  UK has failed to win the national championship just three times since 1995 and has reclaimed the title in the following year each time.

A report by the Kentucky Personnel Board says the Agriculture Department broke state law when it hired two people into protected government jobs without a formal interview.

The report called the department’s hiring process “totally arbitrary” and ordered employees of the agency to attend training on how to advertise for openings.

The board won’t pursue misdemeanor criminal charges because the department no longer has the same leadership.

A death investigation continues in Somerset after a man was found dead in the snow.

65-year-old David Stockton was found dead in the snow in a yard at the corner of College and Limestone Streets Saturday morning, just 100-feet from his home.

Preliminary autopsy results indicate Stockton died from “reasons other than homicide” but did not confirm an official cause of death.

Police speculate a medical condition and weather exposure may be factors.

The state has bought nearly a thousand acres in McCreary County to help protect a high-quality section of the Little South Fork of the Cumberland River.

The river provides habitat for a wide range of mussels and fish, including one, the palezone shiner, which is an endangered species.

The fish is known to exist in only one other river in the United States.

The state paid $1.77 million for the land with money from the Heritage Land Conservation Fund, which is funded from the sale of nature license plates and the collection of unmined mineral taxes and environmental fines.