BELLEVUE, KY (FOX19) - One of the coolest events in the Greater Cincinnati area, the Polar Plunge for Special Olympics, will have a new home in 2011, but it  will stay in the same neighborhood. This year’s Plunge will move just down the Ohio River to Joe’s Crab Shack in Bellevue when it takes place on Saturday, Feb. 5. Participants raise a minimum of $75 ($50 minimum for students 18 and under) and take the leap into a pool set up in the Joe’s Crab Shack parking lot.

The Polar Plunge features brave souls – many in crazy costumes – taking a dip into chilly winter waters to help support the Special Olympics mission of providing sports training and competition opportunities for children and adults with intellectual disabilities.

The actual Plunge is only part of the event.

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NEWPORT, KY (FOX19) - A "Pink Out" is planned Thursday night at the Newport Central Catholic boys' basketball game.

Several raffles will also be held to benefit the Terri Krebs Dream Foundation.

Terri Krebs was the mother of former University of Kentucky basketball player Mark Krebs. She died of breast cancer last summer.

Mark Krebs went on to write A book in her memory, entitled "Beyond A Dream."

Thursday's game between New Cath and Newport tips off at 7:30.

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FORT THOMAS, Ky. (AP) - Officials in the northern Kentucky city of Fort Thomas will study whether to end bow hunting for deer.

An ordinance allowing hunters to shoot deer with bow and arrow on parcels of at least three acres expires after Jan. 21.

The hunting season that just opened could be the last one within city limits. The current ordinance was passed in 2007 as a way to thin the deer population after complaints about the animals in roadways.

City Administrator Don Martin says the City Council will review reports of deer-vehicle collisions and the number of deer killed by hunters and decide in the spring whether to extend the ordinance. Proponents say the hunts help keep the number of deer in check.

Opponents say it isn't safe to hunt in the city.

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