FRANKFORT - The Executive Branch Ethics Commission will meet Friday to review allegations that Gov. Paul Patton misused his office to reward and then punish a Western Kentucky business-woman with whom he has admitted having an affair. Jill LeMaster, the commission's executive director, said the five-member panel would have to vote whether to investigate Patton, who remained secluded in his Capitol office yesterday. An investigation probably would take at least a month, she said. Last night Steve Pence, U.S. district attorney for the Western District of Kentucky, said he could not "confirm or deny" whether a federal investigation into the...