Tom Duncan, a longtime newspaper and television correspondent who went on to lobby for Kentucky’s coal industry for more than a decade, died late Tuesday at Cardinal Hill Rehabilitation in Lexington. He was 83.

University of Kentucky research into cleaner-burning coal technology received a $19.4 million boost on Monday, most of it from the federal government.

Louisville Gas and Electric officials on Monday night tried to explain test results that at first found “significant amounts” of coal ash on three homes near its Cane Run power plant, only for it to be determined later that lesser amounts of ash were approaching the homes.