Emeline Cave came home from school last May as a sixth-grader at College View Middle School. Waiting for her was her mother, Dawn, with some surprising news. “She came home from school and I said, ‘guess what?’ We’re going to push you down a hill,” Dawn Cave said. She had signed Emeline up to participate …
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Logan Baumann couldn’t remember exactly what led him onto the court to comfort Louisville guard Kevin Ware after he had just suffered a gruesome broken leg during last Sunday’s NCAA Tournament win over Duke. The Ohio County High School alum, now a freshman walk-on for the Cardinals basketball team, has pretty much hung in the …
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SPARTA, Ky. — As a ticket scalper made his way up Ky. 35 selling tickets to Saturday’s Quaker State 400, a man shouted, “I’ll buy those tickets if you can guarantee that I get to the race on time.” The race wouldn’t start for five more hours, and the track was just 3 miles away, …
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For years, Bill Olrich Jr. was a dominant marathon runner in his age division. Winning races came easy to him, and often. But when he runs in the Bluegrass 10,000 in Lexington on Monday, winning will be the last thing on his mind. After being diagnosed with leukemia in January of last year, he didn’t …
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Driving across the country is always a challenge. On foot, it’s even harder. But for 48-year-old conservationist John Davis, his journey, which will total 6,000 muscle-powered miles from Key Largo, Fla., to the Gaspe Peninsula in Quebec, Canada, became even tougher just after it started in February. Davis’ mother, Mary Byrd Davis, who lived in …
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John O’Shea said he showed up at Tolly-Ho on Thursday morning at 4 so he could be one of the first in line. Joe Walters and his son Jay made sure they were there as well to eat lunch at Lexington’s legendary 24/7 diner. They and many others were in line to experience the grand …
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Scores of students chanted “USA! USA!” from their dorm windows on Sunday night, while others shouted “America!” in response. Owensboro freshman Trip Carpenter and Mt. Washington freshman Cody Hutchins ran from Zacharias Hall up the Hill, then down past Hilligan’s waving an American flag — an act that was greeted with cheers from those they …
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Amy Eckhardt, director of Scholar Development for the Honors College, was fired April 1 after numerous complaints about her behavior in the office. In a letter obtained from WKU by the Herald via a Kentucky Open Records Act request, Honors College Executive Director Craig Cobane said the firing came after careful review of Eckhardt’s employment …
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When Dero Downing came to WKU as a freshman in the fall of 1939, he began a practice of sending his parents a steady stream of hand-written letters. By 1944, when Downing joined the Navy amidst World War II, his letter-writing had become a habit, and he wrote to his wife, Harriet Downing, every day …
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