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Charles Henry "Speedy" Atkins (1875–1928) was an American tobacco worker in Paducah, Kentucky.A pauper at his death, he drowned in the Ohio River.The city turned over his body for a pauper's burial to his friend A.Z. Hamock, the only African-American undertaker in town.
London has around 7,500 residents, according to U.S. Census data, and is home to one of the nation’s busiest north-south interstates. “There’s just great people here, and we see it in this ...
A Kentucky judge whom authorities said was fatally shot by a sheriff last week was remembered Sunday as a pioneer who fought against opioid addiction and favored treatment over jail for low-level ...
Randall was elected as a Union Democrat to the Thirty-eighth Congress and as an Unconditional Unionist to the Thirty-ninth Congress, serving from March 4, 1863, to March 4, 1867. He served as district judge of the fifteenth Kentucky district 1870–1880. He died in London, Kentucky, August 1, 1881.
Another execution of note in Kentucky was that of Rainey Bethea. Bethea was executed by hanging on 14 August 1936 for the rape of 70-year-old Lischia Edwards. He had also confessed to her murder by strangling but the Commonwealth indicted him only on the rape charge since that was the only capital crime for which the penalty was public hanging.
Rodes was a cousin of earlier Kentucky football player William "Red Doc" Rodes, often called William while Black Doc is called Doc. "Doc" also had two brothers play football at Kentucky: J. W. "Boots" Rodes and Pete Rodes. [5] Paul Hite: 1914: Parks 1911–1914: Abe Roth: 1912 Les Guyn: 1911 Jake Gaiser: 1910 Shelby Post: 1908 He also played ...
Randall Ladonald Cobb II (born August 22, 1990) is an American former professional football wide receiver who played 13 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Kentucky Wildcats, earning All-American honors in 2010. Cobb was selected by the Green Bay Packers in the second round of the 2011 NFL draft