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  • Las Vegas becomes Splashtown in the summer

    By Gary A. Warner

    I spent many a boyhood summer visiting my aunt in Las Vegas, so it's not just crazy gamblers (OK, mostly crazy gamblers) who venture to Sin City during its blazing-hottest midsummer ­madness. Just make sure you have a good dip on the Strip (or beyond).


COLUMNISTS
TIDBITS by Sharon Thompson

  • Screamin' Mimi's turns up the heat

    By Sharon Thompson

    For decades, Mimi Cox of Lexington made a hot sauce that received raves from friends and family. In 1992, her daughter Donna Madden and Donna’s husband, Bill, turned Cox’s recipe into a best-selling Kentucky Proud product.
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  • Commentary

    Mandela finally removed from U.S. list of terrorists

    Merlene Davis

    Dignitaries from several countries and entertainment stars from all genres gathered in London on June 27 to wish former South African President Nelson Mandela a happy 90th birthday.


Medicine

  • Drinking games prove deadly to students

    By Amy Forliti

    WINONA, Minn. — On the morning after the house party on Johnson Street, Jenna Foellmi and several other twenty-somethings lay sprawled on the beds and couches. When a friend reached over to wake her, Foellmi was cold to the touch.

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FOOD

  • Cobbled together

    By Sharon Thompson

    Before the late-summer heat takes its toll on the fruit crop, farms, stores and markets are full of the prettiest, most delicious berries, peaches and melons. They taste their best when eaten out of hand, but the next-best way to eat berries and peaches is when they're combined with flour and sugar and turned into old-fashioned desserts.

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HOME & GARDEN

  • GOOD GARDENS MAKE GOOD NEIGHBORS

    Hamilton Park residents have a garden culture

    Residents value their produce and one another

    By Beverly Fortune

    Either Hamilton Park attracts gardeners or gardening interests sprout once people move here. Which comes first is hard to say. But it’s easy to say this: Practically every house on the street has vegetables growing in the back yard or flowers in the front.
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FAITH & VALUES

  • Religion important to Kentuckians

    Report finds beliefs strong, church attendance high

    By Jim Niemi

    Charlie O'Hara attends Mass at Lexington's Cathedral of Christ the King ”every day, seven days a week.

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FREE TIME

  • Facts for the fourth

    On Friday, we'll celebrate the country's declaration of independence from Britain on July 4, 1776. Here are a few fun facts about the holiday and U.S. history to help you celebrate. Click here (PDF)
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COMMUNITIES

  • New to America

    Kentucky residents who have fled violence look forward to July Fourth

    By Jenisha Watts

    It's obvious that Frieda Nsabimana is shy. She puts her hands over her mouth when she giggles. Her words, coated with a French accent, are soft and jumpy.

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HEALTH & FAMILY

  • A medal-winning life: 50 years with diabetes

    By Mary Meehan

    Jennifer Justice is the kind of woman who drives a red Corvette, once ran for mayor of her hometown of Louisa because she thought she knew best, and tells her elementary school students that she is 174 years old.
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