Kentucky

Peanut butter potentially contaminated with salmonella bacteria was included in school lunch programs and emergency meal kits sent to Kentucky after last week's ice storm, officials said Thursday. Nearly 168,000 emergency meal kits sent by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to the state had been recalled more than two weeks earlier because some contained peanut butter that could have been contaminated, federal officials told the Associated Press.

In just the last couple of weeks, he clumsily pronounced a Supreme Court justice to be near death and suggested he could sue a fellow senator and the Republican Party. He's raised almost no money for his reelection bid next year and is in serious danger of losing his once-safe seat to the other party. Party insiders are terrified practically every time he opens his mouth, but he seems determined not to go gently into the night.

at Arkansas 44, No. 17 Auburn 23: Michael Smith rushed for 145 yards and a touchdown, and the Razorbacks (3-2, 1-2) held off a late Auburn rally to hand the Tigers (5-1, 2-1) their first loss of the season. at No. 25 South Carolina 28, Kentucky 26: Stephen Garcia threw for three touchdowns and ran for another, and the Gamecocks (5-1, 2-1) stopped a potential tying two-point conversion in the fourth quarter to beat the Wildcats (2-3, 0-3), keeping Coach Steve Spurrier a perfect 17-0 against Kentucky.

The body of the asphyxiated man was discovered in the backwoods of Clay County, Ky., near an old family cemetery. A rope around his neck was tied to a tree. He was a 51-year-old part-time teacher and a former Boy Scout employee -- a gentle man who, one relative said, never caused any trouble. That would be mystery enough. But the dead man, William E. "Bill" Sparkman, was also a part-time employee of the U.S. Census Bureau. He was found with the word "FED" written across his chest in what appeared to be a felt-tip marker, according to Jim Trosper, the county coroner.

No. 3 Alabama 38, at Kentucky 20: Mark Ingram ran for a career-high 140 yards and two touchdowns against mistake-prone Kentucky. Alabama quarterback Greg McElroy added a pair of scoring passes as the Crimson Tide (5-0, 2-0) pulled away from the Wildcats (2-2, 0-2) during a dizzying stretch in the second and third quarters when it scored 24 points in just over five minutes. No. 21 Mississippi 23, at Vanderbilt 7: Jevan Snead passed for three touchdowns to overcome his three interceptions for the Rebels.