Results tagged “kentucky”

From far-distant Appalachia, a story of a census worker in Clay County "found hanging on a tree and the word 'Fed' was written on his chest." In a startlingly apt bit of government idiocy, a spokesman for the FBI said they were still trying to determine "if there was foul play involved" or if his employment had something to do with his death.

Senator Hillary Clinton won the Kentucky primary 2-to-1 over Senator Barack Obama, thanks to strong support from working class whites. According to Kentucky exit polls, seven in ten whites supported Clinton which, per the AP, included "about three quarters of those who have not completed college," resulting in her winning 65% to Obama's 30%.

Big Brown fulfilled his role as the favorite, winning yesterday's 134th Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs by four and three-quarters lengths. But the victory of Big Brown and jockey Kent Desormeaux was overshadowed by the death of the second place finisher, Eight Belles.

Three UPS employees and a fourth man were arrested earlier this week after police followed a package filled with heroin to a 29th St. address. The package had been identified as being filled with drugs at a UPS distribution hub in Kentucky.

A 7-year-old New York City boy has joined a growing number of children who’ve had the horrifying experience of getting their feet mangled by escalators while wearing popular plastic clogs made by Crocs. The boy’s mother says the accident happened in a Kentucky airport:

”All of a sudden I hear this excruciating screaming from Nicky and I turn around and his little foot is being sucked into the side of the escalator. It's just like chewing up his foot.”

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