Larry Smith
Evening News Anchor at WLEX-TV (Lexington, KY)
Evening news anchor at LEX18. Studio host @ WNBA on Ion. Emmy, Peabody, & Edward R. Murrow Award winner. Veteran of CNN/Turner/Washington/Atlanta.
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4 weeks ago |
lex18.com | Larry Smith
LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) — For a fleeting moment on Saturday, diehard and casual race fans had hopes that Sovereignty, who had won the Kentucky Derby just moments earlier, would make his way to Baltimore in two weeks to continue a quest for the Triple Crown at the 150th Preakness. But then, trainer Bill Mott said this: “I think we gotta talk about it. I mean, the pressure is on now to go.
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Jan 10, 2025 |
altaonline.com | Larry Smith
Back before there was the internet, podcasts, Spotify, and a masked DJ named Marshmello with 30 million Instagram followers, a four-year-old named Billy Goldsmith had a radio. For fun, the boy would practice taking the radio apart and reassembling it in his family’s living room in Paonia, Colorado, a tiny town in the western part of the state.
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Oct 26, 2024 |
lex18.com | Larry Smith
About 18 months ago, a local woman set out to make Kentucky’s gorgeous riverways and banks more pristine. And what she has accomplished has been simply amazing, getting an army of volunteers together to clean things up one bag at a time. “The more I show, the more they want to get involved. It’s amazing,” says Whitney Lewis, who we first met last year when she was on her way to collecting 10,000 bags of trash in just a few months. “Well, actually the first 5,000 bags I did by myself.
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Oct 22, 2024 |
lex18.com | Larry Smith
(LEX 18) — About 18 months ago, a local woman set out to make Kentucky’s gorgeous riverways and banks more pristine. And what she has accomplished has been simply amazing, getting an army of volunteers together to clean things up one bag at a time. “The more I show, the more they want to get involved. It’s amazing,” says Whitney Lewis, who we first met last year when she was on her way to collecting 10,000 bags of trash in just a few months. “Well, actually the first 5,000 bags I did by myself.
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Aug 6, 2024 |
lex18.com | Larry Smith
JAMESTOWN, Ky. (LEX 18) — Samantha Sinclair has always had a vision. “I want to be a 9-1-1 dispatcher”, Samantha says. “It runs in my family. We say it’s in my blood. But obviously there’s a lot of people who have hesitancies about it.”But that hasn’t happened yet. You see, Samantha has been vision-impaired for most of her life. “Some things were hard,” Samantha admits. There were some people who were not really crazy about me going to public school.
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