The pairings are set for the men’s NCAA college basketball tournament that begins this week across the country.

The Kentucky Wildcats, one of the four number one seeds in the tournament, will face 16 seed East Tennessee State Thursday in an East Region opener in New Orleans.

Murray State, seeded 13th, opens play Thursday against number four seed Vanderbilt in the West Region at San Jose.

The ninth-seeded University of Louisville Cardinals begin tournament play in the South Region Friday in Jacksonville, taking on number eight seed California.

Kansas is the overall number one seed, followed by Kentucky, Duke and Syracuse.

Democrat Greg Fischer and Republican Chris Thieneman hold narrow primary leads in a Courier Journal/WHAS11 Bluegrass Poll of voters in the Louisville mayor’s race published today, but many of those surveyed say they’re undecided about the election.

Twenty percent of Democratic voters surveyed said they would cast their ballot for Fischer. Metro Councilman David Tandy is second in the poll with 17-percent followed by Jim King, also a Metro Councilman, with 12-percent. Tyler Allen is fourth, with eight percent, followed by Burrel Farnsley (4%), Lisa Moxley (3%), Connie Marshall (2%) and Shannon White (2%). The Democratic poll has a 3.9-percent margin of error and 32-percent of the voters say they’re undecided.

On the Republican side, 34-percent of those surveyed said they would vote for Thieneman, a Louisville developer. Metro Councilman Hal Heiner is second with 30-percent and business owner Jonathon Robertson is third with six-percent. The GOP poll has a 4.7-percent margin of error and 30-percent of those surveyed say they’re undecided.

The poll of 656 likely Democratic primary voters and 449 likely Republican voters was conducted by SurveyUSA.

UK’s John Wall was named the tournament’s Most Valuable Player.

The pairings for the men’s NCAA tournament will be announced at 6:00pm Sunday.

The Louisville Metro Department of Health and Wellness will hold its second-annual food summit Saturday.

The summit will feature a tour of Louisville, a screening of the documentary Food Inc. and workshops on food issues and problems in Louisville.

Stevon Edwards with the health department helped plan the event. She says one of the biggest issues with food in Louisville is access.

“There are areas of the county where farm-fresh food is more available to some than to others,” she says. “And the action steps that we are providing is to get involved in starting a community garden in your area, start a garden in your backyard.”

The summit is being held in conjunction with the Healthy Hometown Movement and the Community Farm Alliance. It begins at 9 AM at Meyzeek Middle School.

Sergeant Salvador Melendez says time changes are the best opportunities to replace batteries because they come every six months, which is the minimum life expectancy of many 9-volt batteries.

“That basically ensures that you’re changing your battery before the life expectancy of that battery has expired, and thus you’re always protected,” he says.

Melendez says it may also be beneficial for families to review their home fire escape plan.

Business First of Louisville reports that Florida-based Signature Healthcare LLC will likely soon move its headquarters to Louisville. Signature is expected to buy the former Sears, Roebuck and Company call center building on Bluegrass Parkway and bring about 75 jobs to Louisville.

Signature and government officials have not confirmed the report, though governor’s office spokesperson Kerri Richardson says there will be an announcement of some sort on Monday.

“There is an economic development announcement that we are looking forward to making,” she says. “There’s nothing I can confirm or deny at this point.”

The Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority gave preliminary approval for up to four million dollars in tax benefits for Signature last year.

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Part of the Wolf Creek Dam safety project in southern Kentucky remains on hold after monitoring equipment detected movement and increased hydrostatic pressure this week.

Project Manager David Hendrix of the Army Corps of Engineers says the monitoring equipment is doing its job.

“The instrumentation is doing exactly what it’s designed for. It’s telling us that the dam is reacting to either something that we’re doing or something that’s going on in the foundation. We’re going to make that assessment before we continue,” he said.

Hendrix says the suspension of weork is a precautionary move, and people living in the area should not be alarmed. The temporary suspension only involves 600 feet of the 44-hundred foot concrete barrier wall. That wall is a key part of the $584 million rehabilitation project at Wolf Creek Dam.

A bill allowing instant wagering in Kentucky on previously conducted horse races has cleared a Senate committee in Frankfort.

Sen. Damon Thayer’s bill would let Kentucky horse tracks install electronic machines that accept wagers on thousands of previously run races. Thayer says the games are not the same as video slots.

“It’s just another form of wagering on horse racing, which is already legal in Kentucky. My position on video slots or electronic games of skill has not changed. It needs to be done via a constitutional amendment to let the people of Kentucky decide,” he said.

Thayer says a small percentage of the money generated by the machines would be used to boost the state’s horse industry. None of the proceeds would benefit the state’s General Fund. The bill passed the State and Local Government Committee, 11-1, with Sen. Mike Reynolds of Bowling Green voting no.

The New Albany-Floyd County Board of Education has voted to close four elementary schools in the district.

Galena, Silver Street and Pine View Elementary and Children’s Academy of New Albany will shut down at the end of the current school year, with students reassigned to other schools next year.

It’s part of a broader plan by Superintendent Bruce Hibbard to cut about $6.6 million from the budget.

School districts across Indiana are looking for ways to cut costs amid a $300 million reduction in state funding.