Boater Dave Fricke of Hamilton, Ohio, caught a five-bass limit weighing 11 pounds, 13 ounces, Saturday to win the Phoenix Bass Fishing League (BFL) Presented by T-H Marine on the Ohio River in Maysville Presented by Rabid Baits.

Two individuals, Jerrard McVey, 48, and Linda McVey, 42, both of Carlisle, Ky, were sentenced recently to 12 months and a day in federal prison, by U.S. District Judge Karen Caldwell, for conspiracy to knowingly sponsor and exhibit animals in an animal fighting venture, in connection with the Valley, a chicken pit on the border of Nicholas and Fleming counties.