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Ryle students to taste-test super-expensive coffee from beans previously consumed by animals

Submitted by Richard Todd, Reporter
Friday, March 30th, 2012, 1:49am
Ryle students to taste-test super-expensive coffee from beans previously consumed by animals

UNION, KY (FOX19) –Inspired by the movie Bucket List in which two terminally ill men escape from a cancer ward and head off on a road trip with a wish list of to-dos before they die, on Friday, March 30th Ryle High School students will embrace the once in a lifetime opportunity of tasting the world’s rarest and most exclusive coffee: Kopi Luwak, shipped directly from the highlands of Sumatra with a market price of around $1,000 per kilogram.

Students in Ms. Cher Caldwell’s AP English Language and Composition class were studying how to evaluate the credibility of claims and evidence used in everyday rhetoric, the art of speaking or writing effectively.

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Burglary suspect left wallet at scene, child porn on stolen computer

Submitted by Richard Todd, Reporter
Monday, January 30th, 2012, 3:58pm
Burglary suspect left wallet at scene, child porn on stolen computer

WALTON, KY (FOX19) – Florence Police say a suspect made it easy for them to track him down after a burglary a few days ago.

On Thursday, owners of an accounting firm located on Dixie Highway in Florence, saw the office had been broken into. As officers searched the area they discovered the suspect dropped his wallet at the scene before leaving with a computer and other items.

Florence detectives, with help from deputies from the Boone County Sheriff’s Department, went to the Walton address and found 25-year-old Derek C. McDine hiding in a closet where he was arrested without incident, just hours after the burglary was discovered.

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Hit and run Dodge Dakota structurally damages house, keeps on going

Submitted by Richard Todd, Reporter
Friday, January 13th, 2012, 5:30am
Hit and run Dodge Dakota structurally damages house, keeps on going

VERONA, KY (FOX19) - In a battle between a house and a pickup truck in Bonone County, the truck may have won.

On Thursday, January 12, 2012 at approximately 1:50 p.m. a single vehicle hit and run crash on Lebanon Crittenden Road in Verona, Kentucky caused structural damage to a house there. 

Witnesses reported the driver of a dark green Dodge Dakota pickup truck lost control in the curve, slid off the road, and struck the house located at 16100 Lebanon Crittenden Rd.  He fled the scene driving the truck with front end damage and a missing passenger mirror, headed toward Crittenden.  The driver is described as white male in his teens or early 20’s. 

Anyone with information as to the whereabouts of the truck and/or driver is asked to the contact the Boone County Sheriff’s Office at (859) 334-2175. 

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Tortilla machines were stuffed with cash

Submitted by Richard Todd, Reporter
Monday, August 15th, 2011, 3:43pm
Tortilla machines were stuffed with cash

HEBRON, KY (FOX19) - Someone in Columbia may be very anxious after ordering sixteen tortilla-rolling machines that have yet to arrive.

That would be because each of the machines was stuffed with nearly 40 thousand dollars in cash, and never made it past Cincinnati.

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky international Airport in conjunction with international air carrier DHL made a shocking discovery very early Saturday morning.  While examining two separate shipments, manifested as roller machines, officers found over $600,000 in U.S. currency hidden within tortilla press machines.

On August 13, CBP officers inspected two shipments containing a total of eight tortilla rollers from Mexico.  During an x-ray examination, a CBP officer noticed an anomaly and upon drilling through the rollers of the press found a green and white substance that was consistent with paper money.

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Spending Mega Millions prize may be no easy task

Submitted by Richard Todd, Reporter
Thursday, March 24th, 2011, 6:40pm
Spending Mega Millions prize may be no easy task

CINCINNATI (FOX19) - If you should happen to win the upcoming Mega Millions jackpot, and your goal is to use up all the money as fast as possible, you might want to move out of town.

If you are simply determined to dispose of the money, that's no problem.  You could donate it all to a leading university or hospital.  You could gamble it away around the world.  You could give it away a million at a time to people you met in bars.  If you asked a luxury shipbuilder to use it all on a yacht, they could oblige you.  You could buy the City of Cincinnati a streetcar system.

On the other hand, if you go shopping around the Tri-State at advertised prices, you might find that the money, which is an estimated $198.2 million if taken in cash, goes a long way.

We looked for a group of mostly Cincinnati-area items that a person could buy, and found it hard to use up the money.  For starters, we added up the price of the 50 most-expensive homes c

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Fairfield mom shaves head for Bieber tickets

Submitted by Eileen
Thursday, June 24th, 2010, 1:39pm

CINCINNATI, OH (FOX19) - A Fairfield Township mother has a new 'do after she shaved her head in order to get tickets for a Justin Bieber concert.

Angie Neal won a contest sponsored by Kiss 107 FM. As part of the contest, she had to shave her head in order to receive backstage passes, soundcheck passes, and tickets.

Justin Bieber is playing a sold out concert at U.S. Bank Arena on Saturday night.

As the razor removed Neal's chin-length blonde hair, she smiled and said she was nervous and couldn't believe she has won the contest.

"It's all for my daughter," she said.

Another part of the contest was that the person cutting her hair had to wear a beaver costume to symbolize the mis-pronunciation of Bieber's name.

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