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Louisville news: Vast conspiracy between Karen Sypher's brain and mouth lands her 87 months in the clink edition [News] [2]

Posted On: 21 Feb 2011 - 9:17am

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By Zach Everson [3]
  • "Calling her crime brazen and motivated by 'sheer greed,' a federal judge sentenced Karen Cunagin Sypher Friday to 7 years and 3 months in prison for trying to extort cash, cars and a house from University of Louisville men's basketball coach Rick Pitino." [Courier-Journal [4]]
  • "Last weekend I joined 19 other Kentuckians in a sit-in at the office of Gov. Steve Beshear. We were there to protest his support of mountaintop removal, a technique used by coal-mining companies that, as its name implies, involves blasting away the tops of mountains and hills to get at the coal seams beneath them." [Kentuckian Silas House in the New York Times [5]]
  • "After years of sharing a website, the Jeffersonville Evening News and the New Albany Tribune are merging." [WFPL [6]]
  • "Five decades of bartending — twenty-three at Equus Restaurant and Jack's Lounge in Louisville, Kentucky — gives a girl a certain perspective on the business, and Joy Perrine is not one to suffer fools lightly on either side of the bar." [Esquire [7] via Consuming Louisville [8]]

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  • Rick Pitino [9]
  • Karen Sypher [10]
  • Zach Everson [11]
  • Steve Beshear [12]
  • Jack's Lounge [13]
  • Jeffersonville Evening News [14]
  • New Albany Tribune [15]
  • Equus Restaurant [16]
  • Joy Perrine [17]

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[3] https://archive.louisville.com/users/zach-everson
[4] http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20110218/NEWS01/302180066/Karen-Sypher-s-sheer-greed-earns-her-87-months-prison-Rick-Pitino-extortion
[5] http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/20/opinion/20House.html
[6] http://wfpltheedit.wordpress.com/2011/02/18/two-southern-indiana-newspapers-to-merge/
[7] http://www.esquire.com/blogs/food-for-men/kentucky-bartender-joy-perrine-021011?click=main_sr
[8] http://consuminglouisville.com/2011/02/esquire-finds-bar-wisdom-in-louisville-joy-perrine.php
[9] https://archive.louisville.com/tags/rick-pitino
[10] https://archive.louisville.com/tags/karen-sypher
[11] https://archive.louisville.com/tags/zach-everson-1
[12] https://archive.louisville.com/tags/steve-beshear
[13] https://archive.louisville.com/tags/jacks-lounge
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[15] https://archive.louisville.com/tags/new-albany-tribune
[16] https://archive.louisville.com/tags/equus-restaurant
[17] https://archive.louisville.com/tags/joy-perrine