News Headlines for Almo, Kentucky

Kentucky Speedway sale on track to be finished (Sports Illustrated)
CONCORD, N.C. (AP) -- The sale of Kentucky Speedway to Speedway Motorsports Inc. is on track to be completed this fall.

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Sale of Kentucky Speedway moving forward (Fox Sports)
The sale of Kentucky Speedway to Speedway Motorsports Inc. is on track to be completed this fall. SMI announced Thursday that it will proceed with its acquisition of the 1.5-mile tri-oval located in northern Kentucky about halfway between Louisville and Cincinnati. The two sides reached an agreement in May, and SMI completed a 90-day review earlier this month. The company expects the sale to be ...

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Streetcar to be exhibited at north Kentucky museum (Lexington Herald-Leader)
A museum in Covington is now showing a streetcar named Kentucky. Workers used tow trucks, a forklift, jacks, crowbars and a lot of care on Thursday to put the historic trolley on its undercarriage and squeeze it into its exhibit space at the Behringer-Crawford Museum. When a forklift slowly pushed the trolley into place, part of the undercarriage brushed against a wall's trim as it rolled. ...

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Speedway Motor's Kentucky track purchase revs up (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Speedway Motorsports Inc. said late Thursday it will continue with its planned acquisition of the Kentucky Speedway after reviewing the books of the company that owns the race car track.

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News briefs from around Kentucky at 5:58 a.m. EDT (Lexington Herald-Leader)
CINCINNATI (AP) - Dustin Grutza made Cincinnati's quarterback transition go smoothly Thursday night, throwing for three touchdowns and running for another in a 40-7 victory over Eastern Kentucky that eased the Bearcats' biggest concern - at least for now. They didn't miss Ben Mauk on this night. A few hours after Mauk appealed to an NCAA committee for another season of eligibility, his ...

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Proffitt talks transfer with Kentucky coaches (Lexington Herald-Leader)
Former South Laurel High School point guard Ty Proffitt met with UK coaches on Thursday and discussed a possible transfer to Kentucky. "It went well ...," Proffitt said in a telephone interview Thursday night. "We sat down and discussed the situation. There are a lot of places I want to go. I don't want to rush into anything." Proffitt, who received his release from Notre Dame on ...

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Sale Of Kentucky Speedway Moving Forward (News Channel 5 Nashville)
SMI announced Thursday that it will proceed with its acquisition of the 1.5-mile tri-oval located in northern Kentucky about halfway between Louisville and Cincinnati.

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Streetcar to be exhibited at north Kentucky museum (The Huntington Herald-Dispatch)
COVINGTON, Ky. (AP) — A museum in Covington is now showing a streetcar named Kentucky. Workers used tow trucks, a forklift, jacks, crowbars and a lot of care on Thursday to put the historic trolley on its undercarriage and squeeze it into its exhibit space at the Behringer-Crawford Museum.

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Smith's company gives green light to purchase of Kentucky track (That's Racin')
Speedway Motorsports will proceed with its purchase of Kentucky Speedway, the company announced Thursday. The agreement to purchase of the track near Sparta, Ky., was announced in May with a 90-day period to conduct due diligence on the deal. That deadline passed Aug. 18, but after Thursday's announcement the deal is expected to close in the fourth quarter of this year, subject to the ...

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Soccer scores three in two minutes to defeat Kentucky, 3-1 (Texas Longhorns)
LEXINGTON, Ky. - The University of Texas soccer team (2-0-0) scored three times in just two minutes in the second half to defeat the Kentucky Wildcats, 3-1, in Lexington.

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