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Henry Earl, who has been arrested 969 times since 1992, mostly for alcohol intoxication, has become a cult hero on the internet, Fayette County Detention Center, Lexington, Ky., Tuesday, December ...
The Yellow Creek massacre was a killing of several [note 1] Mingo Indians by Virginian settlers on April 30, 1774. The massacre occurred across from the mouth of the Yellow Creek on the upper Ohio River in the Ohio Country, near the current site of the Mountaineer Casino, Racetrack and Resort.
Boone had started another paper in 1913, The Carolina Mountaineer. After purchasing the Courier at auction in 1917, Boone consolidated the two weeklies into The Carolina Mountaineer and Waynesville Courier. In 1925, Boone sold the now profitable paper to W.A. Band. Band changed the name to the Waynesville Mountaineer later that year.
Barry Chapman Bishop (January 13, 1932 – September 24, 1994 [1]) was an American mountaineer, scientist, photographer and scholar.With teammates Jim Whittaker, Lute Jerstad, Willi Unsoeld and Tom Hornbein, he was a member of the American Mount Everest Expedition led by Norman Dyhrenfurth, the first American team to summit Mount Everest on May 22, 1963.
William Johnston, U.S. Representative, D-Ohio from 1863 to 1865; Lovana Jones, Illinois State Representative; Winfield S. Kerr, U.S. Representative, R-Ohio from 1895 to 1901; B. F. Langworthy, Minnesota State Representative; Robert Byington Mitchell, Governor of the New Mexico Territory from 1866 to 1869; William Patterson, U.S. Representative ...
The Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course is located just outside Lexington in Troy Township. This venue hosted an annual round of the CART series from 1990 to 2003, has hosted the IndyCar Series since 2007, has hosted the NASCAR Xfinity Series since 2013, hosts Honda Super Bikes, and Vintage Bikes in addition to a few other annual high-profile events.
State representative, mayor of Lexington [33] Ben Revere: Major League Baseball player, Washington Nationals; played high school baseball in Lexington Sarah Rice: Singer, musician, actress and artist Kevin Richardson: Musician, Backstreet Boys Charles P. Roland: Historian Rubi Rose: Rapper Robbie Ross Jr. Major League Baseball player for the ...
The Huntington–Ashland metropolitan area is a metropolitan area in the Appalachian Plateau region of the United States.Referred to locally as the "Tri-State area," and colloquially as "Kyova" (Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia), the region spans seven counties in the three states of Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia. [5]