Snickers, the 5-month-old Dachshund puppy that went missing during Tuesday's flash-flood evacuation of Metro Animal Services' shelter on Manslick Road, was recovered Friday afternoon.

Frank Graves Dickey, the fifth president of the University of Kentucky and the youngest man in the school's history to attain that position, died Friday in Lexington after a long illness. He was 91.

The bottom half of the walls in Pamela Malone's Maple Street home have been cut out. The carpet is gone, exposing a concrete floor. There are no appliances in the kitchen; no toilet, bathtub or sink in the bathroom. The wooden landing at the bottom of stairs leading to the second floor has been removed.

A Pleasure Ridge Park assistant football coach said that on the day sophomore lineman Max Gilpin died last August, Coach Jason Stinson was in a hospital waiting room with other coaches wondering if "we could have done different."

Gov. Steve Beshear Friday moved two veteran state government officials into different cabinet positions. Beshear appointed Executive Cabinet Secretary Larry Hayes as secretary of the state's Economic Development Cabinet.

Despite sustaining water damage from Tuesday morning's flash flooding, two events at the Iroquois Amphitheater will go on as scheduled, Metro Parks officials said Friday. The events are Saturday night's free showing at 9 p.m. of "Hotel for Dogs" and a Simon and Garfunkel tribute concert on Aug. 15, said Marty Storch, assistant parks director.

The term "peace church," usually brings to mind such pacifist groups as Quakers and Mennonites. But a large black Baptist convention proudly wears that label in its own way, rooted in its traditions of non-violent civil disobedience.

One week after a bicyclist was killed during a triathlon event in eastern Louisville, the city on Friday unveiled a new marketing campaign to encourage safety for pedestrians and cyclists.

Louisville is getting $3 million to improve Second Street between Main Street and River Road, along the east wall of the downtown arena scheduled to open in November 2010.