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A Kentucky judge whom authorities said was fatally shot by a sheriff last week was remembered Sunday as a pioneer who fought against opioid addiction and favored treatment over jail for low-level ...
Current member of the Kentucky State Senate, former member of the Kentucky House of Representatives, businessman [52] Born in Taylor County; resident of Lebanon in Marion County [52] Clayborne F. Jackson (1806–1862) 15th Governor of Missouri [53] Born in Fleming County [53] Richard M. Johnson (1780–1850) 9th Vice President of the United ...
Another execution of note in Kentucky was that of Rainey Bethea. Bethea was executed by hanging on 14 August 1936 for the rape of 70-year-old Lischia Edwards. He had also confessed to her murder by strangling but the Commonwealth indicted him only on the rape charge since that was the only capital crime for which the penalty was public hanging.
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
Hoda Kotb is having a very teary Christmas.. The TV personality became visibly emotional as the Today Show presenters exchanged Secret Santa gifts during the program's Christmas Day broadcast ...
“You can’t primary” every Republican who voted against the spending bill, Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., said after the vote. “I mean, you can,” Massie added. “You’ll weed out the weak.
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 MLB world lost its all-time leader in stolen bases on Saturday with the death of Rickey Henderson, who was among baseball's brightest stars of the 1980s and '90s. Henderson will always be ...