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Owensboro

American  
[oh-uhnz-bur-oh, -buhr-oh] / ˈoʊ ənzˌbɜr oʊ, -ˌbʌr oʊ /

noun

  1. a city in NW Kentucky, on the Ohio River.


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Schwartz was working as a welder in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, before his arrest in February 2021, but he considers his home to be in Owensboro, Kentucky, according to his attorneys.

From Washington Times • May 5, 2023

Gary Hagan Oelze was born in Owensboro, Ky., on Aug. 24, 1942.

From Washington Post • Jan. 24, 2023

“The Depression was the seminal time of their lives — the time that was about family and survival and making it through,” said Curry, now a 59-year-old Presbyterian pastor in Owensboro, Kentucky.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 13, 2022

Embassy in Kabul, lived for four months with his wife and seven children in an 1850s-era log cabin in the countryside in Owensboro, Ky. But the family is now settled in a three-bedroom house.

From New York Times • Aug. 12, 2022

Duffy of Owensboro, Ky., who was in Santa Rosa, was the only one out of several score to escape from the floor in which he was quartered in the St. Rose hotel at Santa Rosa.

From Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror by Linthicum, Richard

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