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Yacht stolen from Mexico washes up on Florida coast
PENSACOLA, Fla.
Authorities are investigating who stole a 48-foot luxury yacht from a marina in Mexico and how it ended up on a Florida beach almost 500 miles away.
The yacht called “Makin’ Waves” was found beached with its engines running Wednesday near St. Petersburg.
Yacht owner Arturo Millet Reyes says he reported it stolen days earlier from a marina in Cancun.
A resident of the Florida beach says he saw the boat motoring toward the beach and got ready to swim out in case the driver was having a medical emergency.
Gene Borg says there was no one on board. There were no signs of a struggle, though the TVs were gone.
The U.S. Coast Guard searched by air and sea Wednesday for anyone who may have been on the abandoned yacht but suspended the search Thursday.
Kentucky champion ham fetches $1.6 million for charity
LOUISVILLE, Ky.
Start baking those biscuits and stirring that red-eye gravy. Two donors have pledged a record $1.6 million for Kentucky’s grand-champion country ham.
That works out to about $100,000 a pound for 16 pounds of Kentucky’s favorite cured meat.
The auction is the highlight of the Kentucky Farm Bureau’s annual Kentucky Country Ham Breakfast at the state fair in Louisville.
This year’s winning ham was produced by Broadbent B&B Foods of Kuttawa in western Kentucky.
Bernard Trager, chairman of Republic Bank and Trust, and Dr. Mark Lynn & Associates, owner of Dr. Bizer’s Vision World, contributed $800,000 each Thursday for the ham.
The money — and the meat — will go to local charities.
The previous record of $1.3 million was set last year.
Lambs on the lam: Sheep get loose on I-80 in NJ
KNOWLTON, N.J.
Traffic is flowing again on Interstate 80 in New Jersey after a truck carrying sheep overturned and set scores of them loose.
The sheep were on their way to a slaughterhouse when they were tossed out of the overturned tractor-trailer near the New Jersey-Pennsylvania line.
Truck driver Marvin Raber told the Pocono Record he was driving from Ohio to New York when he tried to change lanes and his truck flipped over.
It took about four hours before both eastbound lanes reopened through Knowlton.
Some sheep had to be euthanized after the crash.
Associated Press