Thursday, January 5, 2017

Lexington, Slovakia Announced As Potential Sites For 2022 World ... and other top stories.

  • Lexington, Slovakia Announced As Potential Sites For 2022 World ...

    Lexington, Slovakia Announced As Potential Sites For 2022 World ...
    Two cities have been announced as Official Candidates to host the FEI World Equestrian Games™ 2022. Lexington, Kentucky (USA) and Samorin (Slovakia) have both been selected as potential hosts for the FEI flagship in six years' time. “We are very happy to have two such strong official candidates for the 2022 FEI World Equestrian Games”, FEI President Ingmar De Vos said. “Both the Kentucky and Samorin venues have the infrastructure in place already to host the Games, which is one of the bigg..
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  • Three areas Kentucky basketball needs to improve before SEC play

    Three areas Kentucky basketball needs to improve before SEC play
    It’s doubtful the hardcore Kentucky basketball fan cares what John Calipari wears to his post-game press conferences or who’s on the guest list for his new podcast.Your hardcore Kentucky basketball fan sees the home loss to UCLA, the 47-point performance by Malik Monk needed to beat North Carolina and the road loss at Louisville and cares more about the improvement needed as SEC play begins Thursday at Ole Miss.When the Cats return from Christmas break for the resumption of Camp Cal, here are t..
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  • Lexington police searching for suspects in Versailles Road robbery

    Lexington police searching for suspects in Versailles Road robbery
    Lexington police are looking for suspects that reportedly bound and robbed two people at a Versailles Road business Friday. The three suspects, one armed with a gun, entered Beat the Clock Tax Service just before 11 a.m. Friday and demanded money, according to police.One of the suspects, a man in his twenties, had a short beard, weighed about 130 pounds and was 5-foot-3, according to police. Another was in his thirties, about 5-foot-7 and wearing a blue hooded sweatshirt. The third was tall and..
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  • Lexington Priest Gives $6K To Starbucks Employees, Muslim ...

    Lexington Priest Gives $6K To Starbucks Employees, Muslim ...
    LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - In about three hours Monday, Dec. 19, the Rev. Jim Sichko paid out about $6,000 in holiday good will - to a Starbucks counter crew, a Muslim refugee family, a Hispanic family with a desperately ill father and an LGBT man who needed help with groceries for himself and his mother.    That was a lot of money, but Sichko was on a mission, literally: His job title is papal missionary of mercy and diocesan priest. Over the holidays, he wanted to offer help to people who had been ..
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  • Horse-country hideaway

    Horse-country hideaway
    The postcard-worthy views from Eric and Susan Mobley’s Bethel Road home are like “a little slice of heaven,” said Eric. The couple’s recently finished, two-bedroom weekend home sits on 13 acres surrounded by horse farms and the Mobley’s own small vineyard of chambourcin grapes. The Mobleys, who live full time in Senoia, Georgia, a quaint Southern town used as the filming site for The Walking Dead, built the home as a getaway so that their one-year-old daughter, Grace, could experience Kentucky..
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  • Dog Dies In Fire At Lexington Apartment Complex

    Dog Dies In Fire At Lexington Apartment Complex
    Covering KentuckyMore>> Updated: Saturday, December 24 2016 11:57 PM EST2016-12-25 04:57:02 GMTLaurel Co. Sheriff's OfficeLAUREL COUNTY, Ky. (LEX 18) - Laurel County Police are searching for a missing trailer. The Gatormade 35 foot utility trailer has a five foot dove tailgate. Police say it was stolen overnight on Dec. 13  from a location off of East KY-80. The trailer appeared to be heading toward Clay County, according to investigators. If anyone has information on the trailer, you are ask..
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  • Air Defense Artillery chief followed unusual path for career

    Brig. Gen. Randy McIntire, commandant of the Air Defense Artillery (ADA) School and chief of the ADA branch, makes a powerful case for his branch, both to young soldiers thinking of it as a career and in terms of equipping it for the future.The chief of the Army's Air Defense Artillery branch took an unusual path to get where he is.He started his military career in the Illinois Army National Guard, according to The Lawton Constitution (http://bit.ly/1LD0zus ). His father, who flew search and re..
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  • Trump says he's closing foundation, but Democrats want more

    Trump says he's closing foundation, but Democrats want more
    President-elect Donald Trump says he will dissolve his charitable foundation before taking office to avoid conflicts of interest. The Democratic Party says that's not enough and is calling for the billionaire businessman to put his assets in a blind trust.The New York attorney general's office has been investigating the foundation following media reports that foundation spending went to benefit Trump's campaign. A spokeswoman says the foundation cannot close until the investigation is complete...
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  • New bridge between Indiana and Kentucky not on Apple Maps

    New bridge between Indiana and Kentucky not on Apple Maps
    A new bridge spanning the Ohio River between Indiana and Kentucky may be officially open, but does not appear on Apple Maps.The Courier-Journal of Louisville reports (http://cjky.it/2hmM0BT ) that drivers using the app could only see themselves floating over the river when they cross the new bridge, and that app kept rerouting them until they reach the other side.Apple Maps did not respond to the newspaper's request for comment about why the Lewis and Clark Bridge is not included. The span appe..
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  • Flint aid, Detroit schools bailout among top 10 laws of 2016

    Flint aid, Detroit schools bailout among top 10 laws of 2016
    It was an expensive 2016 for Gov. Rick Snyder and lawmakers who spent hundreds of millions of dollars to address Flint's water emergency and to rescue Detroit's school district from massive debt.Legislators also tackled higher speed limits, driverless cars, medical marijuana regulations and other issues. Snyder signed 340 laws through mid-December, with many more awaiting his signature after a final flurry of voting at the end of the two-year legislative term.The top 10 laws or soon-to-be-signe..
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