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Catron. Samuel Wilson Catron (May 11, 1953 – April 13, 2002) was sheriff of Pulaski County, Kentucky.On the evening of April 13, 2002, Catron was assassinated by Danny Shelley after he finished a campaign speech at a fish fry and political rally being held at the Shopville-Stab, Kentucky Volunteer Fire Department in the small community of Stab, Kentucky.
Tommy Franklin Robinson (March 7, 1942 – July 10, 2024) was an American businessman, lobbyist, and politician who served as the U.S. representative for Arkansas's 2nd congressional district from 1985 to 1991.
Legacy.com is a United States–based website founded in 1998, [2] the world's largest commercial provider of online memorials. [3] The Web site hosts obituaries and memorials for more than 70 percent of all U.S. deaths. [4] Legacy.com hosts obituaries for more than three-quarters of the 100 largest newspapers in the U.S., by circulation. [5]
Barker won the Miss Pulaski County pageant, the Miss Virginia pageant in July 1978, and the Miss America 1979 pageant on 9 September 1978. [2] [5] Her talent performance at the Miss America pageant was gymnastics. [6] In 1986 the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported that Barker received pageant earnings of approximately $100,000. [7]
Robert B. Cohen, 86, American businessman, founder of Hudson News, progressive supranuclear palsy. [4] Herb Conn, 91, American climbing and caving pioneer. [5] Don Cornelius, 75, American television host and producer , suicide by gunshot. [6] Andrij Dobriansky, 81, Ukrainian-born American opera singer, diabetes and heart disease. [7]
Sometimes the prewritten obituary's subject outlives its author. One example is The New York Times' obituary of Taylor, written by the newspaper's theater critic Mel Gussow, who died in 2005. [7] The 2023 obituary of Henry Kissinger featured reporting by Michael T. Kaufman, who died almost 14 years earlier in 2010. [8]
The Commonwealth Journal is a six-day (Monday through Saturday) morning daily newspaper based in Somerset, Kentucky, and covering Pulaski County. It is owned by Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. The editorial staff are listed; Jeff Neal, editor; Steve Cornelius, sports editor; Chris Harris, Janie Slaven, Carla Slavey, Caleb Lowndes, and Bill ...
The Pulaski Citizen was founded in 1854 as a four page weekly. [1] It has been in continuous publication since 1866. [2]In the years after the Civil War, the paper's editor was L.W. McCord, whose brother Frank McCord was a founding member of the Ku Klux Klan. [3]