Air and Aviation Sports

If you follow me on Facebook or Twitter, you're probably really tired of hearing me talk about skydiving. That's cool. Stop reading. Go watch a movie or something. I recommend “Prometheus.” I always wanted to skydive, so when a Groupon came...

Ian Loughry didn’t mind extra work when he was helping Boyle County win state football championships from 2000-2003, and that can-do attitude continues to help him pursue a career in a sports-related public relations position. That’s why he&...

Jeff Hartwig is a two-time Olympian (1996 and 2008), four-time United States national outdoor champion and two-time national indoor champion in the pole vault who held the American record of 19 feet, 9 1/2 inches at one time. He won the Jim Thorpe Award...

Savanna Beauchamp Barnett - High School: Mercer County Senior High School - Achievements: Two-time state finalist with the MCSHS Marching Band, ranked No. 1 in the girls singles division of the Central Kentucky Tennis Series for two years, A and A-B...

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Emmaus High graduate Curt Bartholomew last week added another skydiving title to resume. Bartholomew, a 27-year-old Zionsville native who lives in Florida, won three medals, including a gold, at the U.S. Parachute Association National Skydiving...

The Social Security Disability Insurance system is supposed to provide a financial safety net for workers and their families in the event that a serious medical impairment prevents them from working ("Judges sue Social Security over 'quotas' on disability...

For Mother's Day four years ago, Santiago Rosell took his wife skydiving in DeLand. It was the first time for both. "It was on my bucket list, and he knew it," said Linda Ivey, 55, of Altamonte Springs. "I enjoyed it. It was kind of a thrill, but not...

MISSOURI BUDGET Mo. Senate panel backs funding for First Steps JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri Senate panel had endorsed a new funding source for a program that serves developmentally disabled children. A Senate health committee amended a...

They told him he was too old to start skydiving but that didn't stop Santiago Rosell from finding a way. The Altamonte Springs man wanted one more thrill to add to what had been an exhilarating life as a former fighter jet pilot, aviator for the...

>> 50 Years Ago — BRAWLEY — More than 200 dune buggies from 110 Southern California cities and Arizona competed in the sand buggy competition at Osborne Memorial Park off Glamis Road Sunday, which was combined with a parachute-jumping...

The two-day Lauderdale Air Show kicked off Saturday, drawing thousands of people who looked on as civilian daredevils twisted, dropped, turned and rolled their aircraft. It left the beach and nearby streets full of people with their eyes toward the sky....