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A Key West, Florida, man died Tuesday after an alleged attack in his home by his male stripper partner , according to  Florida Key News . He was allegedly stabbed in both eyes and had a piece of wood shoved down his throat. Mark Brann, 67, had to be airlifted to a Miami trauma center after the attack. He suffered severe head trauma . The partner, Justin Calhoun, 24, of Tampa, Florida, is being held without bail and is charged with second-degree murder after admitting to the attack, according to a police report. Calhoun is listed in police records as identifying female, being homeless and working as a stripper. The attack happened early Monday morning , with police and paramedics called to the home at 3:25 a.m. Calhoun reported to police that she and Brann were in a sexual relationship and got into an argument Monday , with Calhoun accusing Brann of being a cannibal. Brann got upset and he reached for a gun. Calhoun wrestled for the gun and Calhoun said the gun fired during the ski...

The ballad of Mary Bacon. On June 5th, 1969, at the age of 21, just 12 weeks after giving birth to her first child, she rode her first winner as a professional jockey at the Finger Lakes Race Track in upstate New York. No woman had ever won at the venue before. How could they have? Just three months had passed since the pioneering Diane Crump pushed open the door for female jockeys at a race in Florida. If Crump broke down the barrier, Bacon made an immediate mark too. “Why do you wear flowered underwear that everybody can see through your white riding pants ?” asked one journalist. “When I’m on the lead,” Bacon replied, “it gives the boys back there something to look at.” Competing like a woman determined to be more than a secondary footnote in the sport’s history, she became the first female to notch up 100 winners. On the way to that milestone, her legend quickly gathered pace . A five foot four, 94lbs waif, she was photogenic, quick-witted and fed reporters a steady supply of m...