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Furthest Land In BC Dirt Mile Shocker

Published: Nov. 7, 2009 at 5:57 PM ARCADIA, Calif., Nov. 7 (UPI) -- Furthest Land, the furthest thing from many bettors' minds, rallied in the final yards to post a huge upset in Saturday's $1 million Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile....

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Kentucky Derby bid beckons for Vale of York (Reuters)

Jahmal Corner, Reuters November 8, 2009, 11:49 am ARCADIA, California, Nov 7 (Reuters) - Vale of York captured the $2 million Breeders' Cup Juvenile at Santa Anita on Saturday to set up a possible tilt at next year's Kentucky...

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Warren to get communications gear with grant

Nov 07, 2009 (The Daily News - A state Homeland Security grant awarded to Warren County is expected to lead to improved communications equipment for county emergency first responders and law enforcement. The $115,505 grant was...

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Cincinnati area airport fully opens security building

HEBRON, Ky. — The Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport has a new $23 million security checkpoint building, where airline passengers will be screened before heading off to catch their flights. The Kentucky Enquirer...

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Kentucky's modern-gun deer-hunting season opens Saturday

Modern-gun seasonfor deer set to open By Gary Garth • Special to The Courier-Journal • November 7, 2009 Deer season has been open since September, and archers, crossbow hunters, muzzleloader hunters and youngsters who...

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Leparoux conquers Dirt Mile aboard Furthest Land

The banner weekend for Kentucky based jockey Julien Leparoux continued as he rallied late aboard Furthest Land to spring the huge upset over fellow longshot Ready's Echo in the $1,000,000 Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile to give...

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Larry Jones has final race as a trainer

Payton d'Oro finished fifth for trainer Larry Jones in the $167,550 Chilukki at Churchill Downs on Saturday, in the Hopkinsville, Ky., native's final race. Jones, 53, is turning his 23-horse stable over to his wife, Cindy.

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Kentucky's troubled death-penalty system lets cases languish for decades

By R. G. Dunlop • rdunlop@courier-journal.com • November 7, 2009 Kentucky is spending millions of dollars each year on a capital-punishment system so ineffective that more death-row inmates are dying of natural causes than are...

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Jefferson, Bullitt plant a candidate for protection

By James Bruggers • jbruggers@courier-journal.com • November 7, 2009 The federal government has put a wildflower found only in Jefferson and Bullitt counties on track for designation as threatened or endangered. Just the act of...

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Killer's appeals drag on 29 years

The ramshackle country store is just a dim memory now, destroyed by fire a few years after Karu Gene White and two accomplices forced their way inside and bludgeoned three elderly people to death at dusk on Feb. 12, 1979.

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