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Kid Rock: Harley deal ‘just makes sense’

MADISON, Wis.

Kid Rock says his new partnership with Harley-Davidson is a dream deal, and as the owner of multiple Harley bikes, he didn’t feel that he was compromising his integrity or risking a backlash from fans.

The Milwaukee-based motorcycle maker is sponsoring Kid Rock’s upcoming tour, named for his most recent release, “Rebel Soul.”

Kid Rock said Tuesday the deal “just makes sense” because Harley is “something I’ve used that I’ve loved for a long time before this deal came about.”

The tour begins Friday in Kansas City and will end Aug. 31 at Harley’s 110th anniversary celebration in Milwaukee.

It comes to Youngstown’s Covelli Centre on March 25.

Wallenda crosses tightrope over road

SARASOTA, Fla.

Famed daredevil Nik Wallenda glided 500 feet across a wire suspended 200 feet above the ground Tuesday, wowing several thousand people below in his hometown of Sarasota.

Without a tether or safety net, Wallenda was the lone figure against a blue sky, aided only by a balancing pole.

He made the death-defying stunt look easy, but the performance was anything but simple: it took dozens of circus workers to pull and release the thick black cables that controlled Wallenda’s wire as he walked.

The morning was windier than expected, and at one point near the end, Wallenda dipped down to one knee on the wire, which led to loud gasps among the crowd.

Italians seek return of Salieri remains

MILAN

Residents of a city in northern Italy are seeking to reclaim the remains of its best-known son, composer Antonio Salieri.

Salieri left his birthplace of Legnago, south of Verona, as a teen in 1766 to pursue his musical ambitions in Vienna, where he mostly remained until his death in 1825. He was one of the Habsburg court’s favorite composers and perhaps is best remembered in popular culture as Mozart’s chief rival.

Rumors in his lifetime, dismissed by authoritative sources as slanderous, even claimed that Salieri poisoned Mozart.

A group of citizens under the banner ‘’Legnago for Salieri” is asking the city to activate diplomatic channels to recover the remains from Vienna’s largest and most important cemetery, Zentralfriedhof.

Vindicator wire services