(CNN) — When a New York couple was told their over 100-year-old home was built by a notorious bootlegger, they passed it off as small town legend. But during a recent home renovation, the couple discovered something that revealed the legend could be true. In early October, Nick Drummond and Patrick Bakker said they found […]
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An Oklahoma man and woman were arrested after a traffic stop of a stolen car revealed the two had a rattlesnake, radioactive uranium, a gun and an open bottle of Kentucky Deluxe whiskey.
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Two barrel houses at a Jim Beam aging facility in Kentucky went up in flames late Tuesday, destroying thousands of barrels of bourbon. NBC affiliate WLEX in Lexington reports the fire began in one rickhouse and quickly spread to a nearby structure. Crews were able to put out the fire in one of the structures, but […]
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A Florida man came up with an interesting defense when confronted by officers in Indiana River County. According to Treasure Coast Palm, Earle Stevens Jr., 69, is facing a DUI charge. Indian River County sheriff’s officials were called to a McDonald’s drive-thru on June 27 after a woman said a vehicle behind her kept hitting her […]
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As tit-for-tat tariffs take effect in major global markets, some companies are already raising prices or making business changes to cope with higher costs. In response to Trump administration tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, Canada, Mexico and the European Union have each retaliated with duties on U.S. goods. Mexico’s tariffs took effect June 5 on U.S. […]
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Thousands of bourbon barrels were piled in a massive heap Friday after a large section of a whiskey storage warehouse collapsed at a distillery in the heart of Kentucky bourbon country. About 9,000 barrels filled with aging bourbon were affected by the warehouse collapse at the Barton 1792 Distillery in Bardstown, said Nelson County Emergency […]
