Kentucky State

Abrumar, wearing the red cap with the white R for owner Ken Ramsey, went on to finish second in Ellis Park’s $250,000 Kentucky Downs Preview Nashville Derby. (Coady Media photo) Abrumar will run in Saturday’s $3.1 million DK Horse Nashville Derby. by Tim Wilkin. As he sat outside...

Saffie Joseph Well-represented at Kentucky Downs

Franklin, KY

FRANKLIN, Ky. — Trainer Richard Baltas took a quick peek at the past performances for Saturday’s Grade 2, $1.5 million Exacta Systems Ladies Turf Sprint. He didn’t need to see much. He’s only worried about one horse in the race. His own. Baltas has brought his...

Ag Bullet Brings Baltas Back to KY Downs

FRANKLIN, Ky.— Trainer Joe Sharp is off and running at Kentucky Downs. That is on – and off – the track in Franklin, Ky. Sharp, who makes Kentucky Downs a yearly bullseye, got off to a rousing start as he won a pair of races on Thursday, the first of seven days at the wildly anticipated meet. Sharp’s Flirting With Time (14-1) won the opener by 7 ¾ lengths for owner Stephen Herriage and jockey Brian Hernandez and then took the fourth with Lucky Speech (15-1) for owner Anthony Tate and jockey Edgar Morales.

Sharp Gives A Run For Your Money

Louisville, KY

FRANKLIN, Ky. — Though Thursday’s meet opener was the first time that Frankie Dettori had ever ridden at Kentucky Downs, the international superstar said he’d been following the all-turf track’s racing for several years. “I’ve been watching it the last three years, and I spoke to...

Detorri Does Ky. Downs

Saratoga Springs, NY

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – The New York Racing Association, Inc. (NYRA) today announced that one of the most celebrated trophies in sports, the National Hockey League’s Stanley Cup, will travel to Saratoga Race Course on Saturday, August 31. Fans of hockey and horse racing alike will have an...

Saratoga to Host Stanley Cup on Saturday

Los Angeles County, CA

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Herbie J Pilato

It's been two decades since beloved actor Brian Kelly died of pneumonia at 73 in 2005. Best known as Porter Ricks in the classic TV family show Flipper(NBC, 1964-1967), Kelly had once suffered a paralyzing motorcycle accident that ended his acting career. However, he rechanneld his creative talent and became a producer. This is his story.

The Paralyzing Accident & Tragic Death of TV's 'Flipper' Father Brian Kelly: Two Decades Later

Las Vegas, NV

NHC Las Vegas. (Photo courtesy of NHC) Equibase and NTRA Launch “Race to the National Horseplayers Championship” Exclusively for Race Lens Customers. LEXINGTON, Ky.—Equibase, the industry’s official database for racing, and the National Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA) today announced the “Race to the National Horseplayers Championship (NHC),” a series of 25 free handicapping contests exclusively for subscribers of Race Lens, Equibase’s interactive past performance product.

Race Lens Customers Get Edge

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Thursday’s card at Saratoga Race Course will be bolstered by a Pick 6 carryover of $85,836 after the multi-race wager went unsolved on Wednesday’s nine-race program. The $1 Pick 6 returned $28,612 to bettors who selected 5-of-6 winners correctly. Wednesday’s sequence began in...

Pick 6 Carryover of $85K Into Thursday’s Card at Saratoga

Washington, DC

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Alamogordo Conservative Daily

Command Sergeant Major Veronica E. Knapp was the command sergeant major of the Joint Task Force-National Capital Region and U.S. Army Military District of Washington (JTF-NCR/MDW) per her official biography. However effective Tuesday she was released from command.

Command Sergeant Major Veronica E. Knapp Released from Command in D.C.

Fort Lauderdale, FL

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In a significant move for the legal community in Fort Lauderdale, Conrad & Scherer LLP is set to relocate its offices to a new location south of the New River. This comes after a company affiliate, managed by John J. Scherer, purchased a prime property for $10.2 million.

Law Firm Set to Relocate After Buying New $10 Million Office Building in Florida

Montana State

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Wyoming State

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To increase the genetic diversity of an island population of grizzly bears , Wyoming and Montana wildlife managers recently worked together to import fresh bloodlines into the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.

Two Montana grizzly bears trucked to Wyoming to bolster genetic diversity, help states’ delisting case

Campbell County, KY

Fort Mitchell, KY

After a week of heat advisories and limited practice, Beechwood pulled out a 42-20 win over Campbell County Friday night to start off 2-0 for a fourth straight season. “I think we just started out slow you know, it was a weird week for us as a team,” Beechwood head coach Jay Volker said. “Changing practices, not being able to practice outside, you know we didn’t really have a normal day until Thursday..”

Second half pushes Beechwood past Campbell County

In the 1960s and 1970s, comedian Totie Fields was one of the most popular and first female comedians. Unfortunately, her mix of diabetes and plastic surgery led to her untimely and tragic death at only 48 years old. This is her story.

A Look Back at the Troubled Life of Comedian Totie Fields: Five Decades After Her Tragic Death

Kansas City, MO

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A well-liked Kansas City chef in the Brookside area was killed near his restaurant. Two suspects were arrested. The chef was 44-year-old Shaun Brady. He was just taking out the trash. Several people were loitering in the back around parked cars.

Another senseless shooting ended the life of a well-liked Kansas City chef

Jacksonville, FL

Jacksonville Today

A historic marker could be erected to honor the victims of the racist mass shooting at the Dollar General store in Jacksonville’s New Town neighborhood nearly a year ago. If approved by the Jacksonville City Council, a marker would be installed at Kings Road and Canal Street on Aug. 25, a day before the first anniversary of the shooting, when a white gunman took the lives of three Black people.

Memorial considered to honor Dollar General victims

Cats of Kansas City

Could you and your family use an adorable companion that will bring you love and joy for years and years? These six cats are adoptable right now from local Kansas City shelters. Just click on the link provided with each to get in touch with their shelters.

Six wonderful cats to adopt this Labor Day weekend

Washington State

Timothy A Gruver

Small game hunters and trappers must submit the lower jaw of bobcats they kill as part of the mandatory pelt sealing process, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife announced on Friday.

Bobcat Jaw Submission Now Required for Pelt Sealing

Louisiana State

The Lens

During my childhood, when my family visited relatives “across the river,” in Bayou Plaquemine, Bayou Goula, Caddo, the Pointe, and White Castle, my siblings and I would sometimes race up and down the levees, some distance away from the cows grazing there. At the summit of the hill, you could see the Mississippi River waters through stands of trees and brush. It never occurred to me that our “playground” was the living testimony of Black men, prisoners of the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola whom the state of Louisiana had re-enslaved in the convict leasing system.

No longer ‘half slave, half free’

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McGaughey Comes Back For More at Ky. Downs

Cugino winning Churchill Downs’ Audubon. (Coady Media) “Loved the atmosphere, the people … the whole thing.” Wins are nice, too!. Trainer Shug McGaughey caught the Kentucky...

McGaughey Comes Back For More at Ky. Downs

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