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"Do you, personally, identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender?" 

That was the question Gallup posed to ​121,290 people June 1 and Sept. 30, 2012. The result is the largest single study of the distribution of the LGBT population in the U.S. on record, revealing data that turns the stereotype of the affluent, white, gay man on its head. For starters, African Americans and other ethnic minorities are more likely to be LGBT than white people. 

Each week, members of the WFPL news team will spotlight interesting stories we've read over the past week for your weekend reading pleasure:

A 30 yard field goal by John Wallace gave the Louisville Cards a 34-31 overtime victory over the Cincinnati Bearcats on a rainy Friday night at Papa John's Cardinal Stadium.

The Cards got their chance to win the game after intercepting a Cincinnati pass on the first overtime possession. The winning score came right after Wallace's first field goal attempt. There was a high snap on the first try, but the play was whistled dead because Cincinnati coach Butch Jones had called time out.

In a new television ad airing statewide, Republican Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock is going on the offensive in response to a series of attacks from his opponent and national Democrats.

The spot slams Congressman Joe Donnelly for "sleazy politics," and escalates what has become a national race for control of the Senate. Mourdock's camp is specifically responding to tough ad put out by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee that targets the GOP nominee's comments about that pregnancies resulting from rape were intended by God.

Mourdock's campaign says Donnelly and the Democrats are "twisting" his word and "attacking his faith" over the issue of abortion.

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At the top - Only one proposal for development of the Kentucky Kingdom site is known to have been submitted.  Ed Glasscock, of the team led by Ed Hart, joins us to go over the nuts and bolts of their proposal, review all the numbers, and give a preview of park amenities if their plan is chosen.

College football resumes tonight with Louisville hosting Cincinnati. The 16th ranked Cards are undefeated at 7-0 and hope to hand the Bearcats (5-1) their second straight loss.

Cincinnati dropped out of the top 25 after losing last weekend at Toledo.

Kickoff at Papa John’s Cardinal Stadium is 8:00pm.

The Kentucky Wildcats visit Missouri Saturday.

Both teams are winless in SEC play. This is Missouri’s first season in the conference, and playing in Columbia will be a new experience for Joker Phillips’ Wildcats.

The University of Michigan awarded the prestigous Wallenberg Medal to mountaintop removal activist Maria Gunnoe earlier this week.

Gunnoe lives in Boone County, W.Va., and has spent the past eight years campaigning against mountaintop removal and its environmental effects in Appalachia. Gunnoe was also the 2009  Goldman Prize honoree from North America.

The three projected best teams in men's college basketball are within a two-hour drive of Louisville.

Indiana is No. 1 in The Associated Press' preseason Top 25 for the third time and the first since the 1979-80 season.

The Hoosiers return all five starters, including 7-foot sophomore Cody Zeller.

They received 43 first-place votes from the 65-member national media panel Friday. Louisville and Kentucky, the teams ranked second and third, received the rest of the first-place votes with Louisville getting 20 and the defending national champion the other two.

WFPL is proud to sponsor the University of Louisville’s Kentucky Author Forum presentation of Ray Kurzweil and Jim Fleming on November 26th at the Kentucky Center. Kurzweil is an inventor, a futurist, and author of How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed. Kurweil will be interviewed by public radio's "To the Best of Our Knowledge" host, Jim Fleming.