PRESS RELEASE: UK ATHLETICS BATON ROUGE, La. – Kentucky (0-4, 0-0 SEC) gymnastics is set to open Southeastern Conference action this weekend, traveling to Baton Rouge for Friday Night Heights action against No. 4 LSU (2-1-1, 0-1 SEC). Action from the Pete Maravich Assembly Center is set to kick off at 7:30 p.m. ET on Friday, January 23. The meet will be televised nationally on ESPN2 with John Roethlisberger, Samantha Peszek, Taylor Davis on the call. Kentucky heads south as the last team in the league to open conference play, closing up the non-conference slate against Arizona State in Lexington last […]

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PRESS RELEASE: UK ATHLETICS Kentucky football head coach Will Stein has announced the hiring of Parker Fleming as the program’s special teams coordinator and inside wide receivers coach. Fleming arrives in Lexington with more than a decade of experience coordinating and developing elite special teams units at the highest levels of college football. He spent last season at Oregon as the assistant quarterbacks coach, working closely in Stein’s offense, and brings a proven track record of excellence from one of the nation’s most successful programs. “I’m excited to bring Parker to Kentucky to lead our special teams and work with […]

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Organizers are working to bring new soccer opportunities to youth athletes across the mountains with the launch of the Bluegrass Futbol Academy. According to Kayla VanHoose, owner and founder of the newly established academy, the idea for Bluegrass Futbol Academy grew out of the continued success of Bluegrass Volleyball Academy, which was founded in 2018. VanHoose said the same mission that helped shape BVA now drives the creation of BFA, giving local athletes access to opportunities they may not otherwise have. “We feel like providing rural Kentuckians with the opportunity to extra training and play will not only grow the […]

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PIKEVILLE, Ky. — A Pike County woman’s trial on federal child porn charges has been postponed for a sixth time, after her attorney requested additional time to work out a plea agreement. Pamela Denise Sargent, 45, of Kimper, is charged with four counts of producing child pornography.The charges are punishable by 15-to-30 years in prison. The case began with a child porn investigation in Missouri, where a Park Hills man was arrested for possessing and promoting child porn and sexual exploitation of a minor. The man told police he had received sexually-explicit videos from a Kentucky woman and her daughter, […]

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NEW YORK — A structured financing and investment firm is seeking to freeze the assets of Addiction Recovery Care, claiming the company has defaulted on its obligations to turn over tax receivables, violating a temporary restraining order in attempts to keep the money. Angelica Capital Trust filed a petition with the Manhattan federal court Jan. 12, seeking to freeze ARC’s assets while arbitration over the disputed funds played out. In its petition, Angelica says it paid ARC $5.4 million to buy $8.1 million in receivables ARC anticipated receiving from the IRS for employee retention tax credits. Angelica says ARC was […]

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