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  • Five dead in Kentucky bank shooting

    Lexington Herald-Leader, Syndicated content|Updated Apr 10, 2023

    LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Five people are dead and eight more have been hospitalized after an active shooter opened fire in downtown Louisville, Ky., Monday morning, according to the Louisville Metro Police Department. LMPD has confirmed few details regarding the incident, but has confirmed the shooting occurred at Old National Bank in the 300 block of E. Main Street, which is near Louisville Slugger Field. The FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were both...

  • Commentary: College football should follow NFL example

    Lexington Herald-Leader, Syndicated content|Updated Jul 16, 2022

    LEXINGTON, Ky. — It was the late Art Modell who said of his fellow NFL owners, “We’re 32 Republicans who vote socialist.” The only thing that might save college football is socialism. We’re barely a week into the brave new world where USC and UCLA, a pair of schools in Los Angeles, California, are joining the Big Ten, a conference whose previous geographic footprint stretched from New Jersey only as far as Nebraska. The reason for this geographic craziness? Money, money and more money. With the Pac-12 having slipped i...

  • Another viewpoint: Biases blew Kentucky student's actions out of proportion

    Lexington Herald-Leader|Updated Jan 22, 2019

    It’s worth thinking about the rush to harshly condemn a Kentucky high school student on the basis of some cellphone images and his red MAGA hat. The episode, which has produced threats of violence, is both a sign — and a cause — of our country’s powder keg of political division. Even the American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky, which exists to protect the Bill of Rights, quickly tweeted out its disapproval. The ACLU assumed the students from Covington Catholic High School had committed “racial intimidation.” Yet, as the...