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John Peterman topped himself on Wednesday.
Among his “unusual and unique and different-type stuff” on the jpeterman.com Web site was Macroneaux, a tiny (about 6 acres) country between France and Spain that was priced at $750,000.
Along with Macroneaux was a collection of truly rare items, like baseball glove leather pants for $479, Napoleon’s three-inch shoe lifts [...]

Richard Yamarone, the chief economist of Argus Research in New York, gave the keynote address at the 2009 Bluegrass Business Summit on Thursday.
He was introduced by Insight Communications’ John Dobken, who mentioned that Yamarone had been treated to his first Kentucky Hot Brown shortly after he arrived in the state.
Yamarone apparently wasn’t impressed with the [...]

Did you see a leprechaun on St. Patrick’s Day?
You know, short guy, bald head, biggish nose, broad smile and friendly eyes?
You did, you say — or was it maybe Jeff Bezos, founder and chief executive of Amazon.com?
Bezos, one of the world’s wealthiest entrepreneurs, happens to look a little like a friendly leprechaun.
He arrived unannounced in [...]

During her years in the restaurant business, Lucie Slone Meyers has been around a lot of really hot stoves.
But now there’s a stove that didn’t even make it to her kitchen before it became hot — in other words, stolen.
Hunting for a bargain, Slone Meyers paid about $1,200 for a used, dual-convection, six-burner stove that [...]

The proposed Farmers Market development plan for Lexington’s Cheapside Park would give John C. Breckinridge a new view of the world, so to speak.
A statue of Breckinridge, who served as vice president and U.S. senator before joining the Confederacy during the Civil War, has stood along Cheapside for about a century.
The statue faces the old [...]

Jim Sawyer was driving to his rural Fayette County home one evening after the recent ice storms when he saw some Kentucky Utilities workers using bucket trucks and flood lights to work on power lines damaged by the ice.
When he got home, he learned that the outside temperature was in single digits and the wind [...]

If Dairy Queen’s new Sweet Deals option turns out to be a roaring success, Warren Buffett will have Lexington to thank for it.
Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. investment firm owns International Dairy Queen and Buffett is a big fan of DQ food. He is often seen having lunch at a DQ near his office in Omaha, [...]

LeRoy Neiman couldn’t attend Tuesday’s unveiling of his official painting for the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games so he sent his “electrons,” as one speaker put it.
He sent a short video message that began: “I’m LeRoy Neiman and I’m a New York painter.”
That’s like saying “I’m Barack Obama and I’m an Illinois politician.”
At 87, Neiman [...]

“Iraq is open for business,” says Maurey Bond.
He should know. He’s been working in Baghdad since February.
The 31-year-old Lexington native and University of Kentucky graduate is general manager of the Iraqi Airways International Business Center near the Baghdad International Airport.
The center is in an economic zone that also has a convention center, a 100-room hotel, [...]

Lexington’s Big Ass Fans and the television show Extreme Makeover: Home Edition have teamed up to help a once-promising boxer pass along his talents to the next generation.
“Tim Hill was an aspiring boxer whose boxing dreams collapsed when he broke his back on a construction site,” Big Ass says. “But Hill found a way to [...]