LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Krispy Kreme has stepped in to comfort Kentucky police officers mourning the loss of a doughnut truck that caught fire. The Lexington Herald-Leader reports the company and a police escort delivered dozens of doughnuts to the city police department Wednesday afternoon. Officer Kyle Mounce says no one was injured when a […]
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NCAA adopts college basketball reforms for agents, NBA draft
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The NCAA is taking steps to try to clean up college basketball, carving out a limited role for agents to work with players and changing pivotal parts of its rules-enforcement system as part of numerous reforms in the wake of a corruption scandal. The Indianapolis-based governing body for college sports announced […]
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Former Celtics standout Frank Ramsey dies at 86
MADISONVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Frank Ramsey, an All-American at Kentucky and member of seven NBA championship teams with the Boston Celtics, died Sunday. He was 86. Ramsey’s death was announced by Kentucky, where he was a part of the Wildcats’ 1951 national championship team and a three-time All-American. The school said he died of natural […]
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Remainder of giant bourbon warehouse collapses in Kentucky
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Whiskey barrels were piled in a mountainous heap Wednesday after the rest of a whiskey storage warehouse collapsed in Kentucky, nearly two weeks after part of the decades-old structure came crashing down. The remainder of the massive structure collapsed at the Barton 1792 Distillery in Bardstown, Nelson County Emergency Management spokesman Milt […]
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One dead, nine injured in Kentucky school shooting; suspect held
BENTON, Ky. (AP) — Someone with a gun opened fire inside a rural Kentucky high school Tuesday morning, killing one person and injuring nine others. Police said a suspect was apprehended and there is no reason to suspect anyone else in the first fatal school shooting of 2018. Nearly 100 students ran out of Marshall […]
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The Hot Corner: Sports administered differently — no better or worse — in Maine, Kentucky
Eighteen months since leaving the place where my love for high school sports was born and blossomed, then jumping into that scene in a different part of the country, I continue to be amazed at how differently student-athletics are managed outside my native Maine. I’m not saying that one way is always right or that […]
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Verso to close idled Kentucky paper mill
JAY — Verso Corp. announced Tuesday it is closing its paper mill in Kentucky by July 1. The last day for most workers is tentatively June 4, it said. Verso announced Aug. 20, 2015, that it planned to idle the Wickliffe, Ky., mill by the end of that year. The same day, Verso announced it […]
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Raoul G. Ouellette
1932 – 2016 LEXINGTON, Ky. — Raoul Guy Ouellette passed away peacefully with his family and loved ones at his side on Monday, March 14. He was born in Lewiston on March 7, 1932, and was preceded in death by his parents, Edouard and Emmeline Ouellette; and Aline Ouellette, his wife of 54 years. He […]
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Bertha F. Kosalka
1923 – 2015 SOUTH PARIS — Bertha “Bess” Francis (Alberi) Kosalka, 91, of South Paris died peacefully on Sunday, Sept. 27, at Market Square Health Care Center after suffering a massive stroke earlier in the week. She was born Nov. 21, 1923, in Breathitt County, Ky., to Ambrose and Eliza Francis. She and her siblings […]
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Yvonne Lois Church
1936 – 2015 WEST PARIS — Yvonne Lois Church, born July 26, 1936, in Hillsdale, Mich., died Friday, Sept. 18, in West Paris. She is survived by her husband of 63 years, Don Sr.; her four children, Don Leslie Church Jr. and his husband, Steve Myers, Yvette Diane Inman and her husband, Thayne, Benjamin Church, […]