Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Tennessee. Died. May 27, 1928. (1928-05-27) (aged 53) Paducah, Kentucky. 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.
Occupation. funeral director. Velma Louise Gaines Hamock (May 25, 1910 – October 3, 2000) was an American funeral home owner in Paducah, Kentucky. In 1949 she inherited the business, at one time the only African-American owned funeral home in the city, after the death of her husband A. Z. Hamock. She is noted for having kept the mummy of ...
Julian Morton Carroll (April 16, 1931 – December 10, 2023) was an American lawyer and politician from the state of Kentucky. A Democrat, he served as the 54th governor of Kentucky from 1974 to 1979, succeeding Wendell H. Ford, who resigned to accept a seat in the U.S. Senate. He was most recently a member of the Kentucky Senate, representing ...
But that hasn’t deterred locals from abandoning their homes to flee violence and death. “Here in the mountains, there are many communities displaced by organized crime,” said Azucena ...
3. Injured. 5. Perpetrator. Michael Carneal. Motive. Bullying and mental illness. The Heath High School shooting occurred at Heath High School in West Paducah, Kentucky, United States, on December 1, 1997. 14-year-old Michael Carneal opened fire on a group of students, killing three and injuring five.
Whitehaven (Paducah, Kentucky) / 37.05083°N 88.65278°W / 37.05083; -88.65278. Whitehaven (the Anderson-Smith House) is a historic plantation house in Paducah, Kentucky, in use since 1983 as the Kentucky welcome center on Interstate 24 (I-24) near the state border with Illinois. [2] It is the only historic house in the United States ...
Fierceness strode into the Kentucky Derby as the overwhelming favorite, but Mystik Dan took the roses in a three-horse photo finish, winning the 150th Kentucky Derby on Saturday in a stunning upset.
Paducah (/ p ə ˈ d uː k ə / pə-DOO-kə) is a home rule-class city in and the county seat of McCracken County, Kentucky, United States. The largest city in the Jackson Purchase region, it is located in the Southeastern United States at the confluence of the Tennessee and the Ohio rivers, halfway between St. Louis, Missouri, to the northwest and Nashville, Tennessee, to the southeast.