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Reward In Kentucky Horse Killings Reaches $20,000 As Support Pours In, Sheriff Says

A reward for information about the killing of 14 horses in eastern Kentucky has now hit $20,000, according to Floyd County Sheriff John Hunt, whose department is trying to solve a shocking case of animal cruelty. The free-roaming horses are a favorite sighting for locals visiting the woodland southeast of Prestonburg – but someone recently began hunting them.

The horses were found dead from gunshot wounds in a wooded area around a rehabilitated strip mine earlier this week. Hunt's office had initially

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