Today at 10:15, area schools and businesses will take part in the Great Central U.S. Shakeout Earthquake Drill. Sarah Terry with the American Red Cross Central Kentucky Chapter in Danville says there are ways to prepare in advance for any disaster, like donating blood.






For more information on the Shakeout, go to shakeout.org.

Attorney General Jack Conway says that Kentucky has joined 18 other states in a settlement with NCO Financial Systems, Inc. to resolve concerns about NCOF's debt collection practices. The settlement was filed today in Franklin Circuit Court. In the settlement, NCOF agrees to: Comply with the federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act, and all applicable state laws. For debts reported to the credit reporting agencies, notify the credit reporting agencies within 30 calendar days of (1) any verbal or written consumer dispute or (2) receiving the results of an investigation into the accuracy or completeness of previously reported information.

There's more at http://ag.ky.gov/consumers.

Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear says he wants a "coordinated effort" to fight prescription drug abuse. Beshear says its caused some 82 overdose deaths in the Commonwealth each month. Beshear wants the legislature to make the issue a top priority for this session. One of the bills Beshear wants passed calls for doctors to use the state's prescription monitoring system. The other says pain clinics should only be owned by physicians.

Its another story of a drug bust. this time though, its a 71 year old man and his 30 year old daughter-in-law. Boyle County deputies made the bust on Sunday around 10:30 p.m. in Junction City, charging Steve Douglas and Tiffany King with felonies after deputies found meth making material, right where they'd made a bust last year. King faces charges related to actually making the meth, and Douglas was charged with felony tampering with evidence for trying to hide the meth.