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Sham (April 9, 1970 – April 3, 1993) was an American thoroughbred race horse and leading three year-old in 1973, who was overshadowed by his more famous peer, Secretariat. Sham was dark bay, almost black in color. He raced in the green and yellow silks of his owners, Sigmund and Viola Sommer, with matching blinkers.
Sigmund Sommer (June 19, 1916 – April 30, 1979) was a Brooklyn, New York–based building contractor, philanthropist, and racehorse owner of Sham, the horse that placed second to Secretariat in two legs of the 1973 U.S. Triple Crown series. [1] At the time of Sommer's death at 62 in 1979, his estate was valued at almost $1 billion. [2]
Arkansas Christina Marie Riggs (September 2, 1971 – May 2, 2000) was convicted of the November 1997 murders of her two children, Justin Dalton Thomas (age 5) and Shelby Alexis Riggs (age 2). [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Riggs was a licensed practical nurse , and she planned to kill the children with injections of drugs she obtained from her hospital.
An Arkansas police officer has been fired after video shows him allegedly beating a man handcuffed in the back of a patrol car. In a statement posted to social media Aug. 9, the Jonesboro Police ...
A mother and her 2-month-old son were found dead near an Arkansas highway, and two people have been arrested, police said. Teangela Tate, 27, and her son Noel were found dead off the side of ...
An Arkansas police officer who was caught on video beating a handcuffed inmate in the back of a patrol car has been fired and his case has been referred to prosecutors, the police chief said.
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Arkansas since 1976, when the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in the United States. 31 people have been executed in Arkansas since 1976: 30 males and 1 female ( Christina Marie Riggs ).
An overnight car crash Saturday sent a woman to the hospital and killed a horse. It happened in the 1500 block of Wire Road in Bunnlevel. about 37 miles south of Raleigh. ABC11.