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  • Mackey: 'I let them all down'

    FORMER SCOTT COUNTY BASKETBALL STAR REFLECTS ON FALL

    By Jillian Ogawa

    His run at the state basketball championship last year was described as catching lightning in a bottle. In front of a Rupp Arena crowd of 18,377, guard Jonathan "Bud" Mackey scored 20 points in the second half -- 11 in the nerve-wracking fourth quarter -- as Scott County captured the Sweet Sixteen championship. He was the tournament's most valuable player, headed to Indiana University.
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  • Former news exec, 35, is picked to lead NAACP

    By ERRIN HAINES and BEN NUCKOLS

    The NAACP chose 35-year-old activist and former news executive Ben Jealous as its president Saturday, making him the youngest leader in the 99-year history of the nation's largest civil rights organization.
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  • She was the queen of gospel music

    By Jennifer Hewlett

    She wrote songs with verses that would make Shakespeare smile, and when she was on a stage, she owned it, her friends said Monday.

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