Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An infamous chapter in Kentucky history will make its big screen debut at the renowned 2026 SXSW Film & TV Festival, held in ...

NELSON COUNTY, Ky. — John Robert “Johnny” Boone, sometimes referred to as the “Godfather of Grass,” died last week at 80. Boone – a former leader of Kentucky’s “Cornbread Mafia” – died Friday at a ...

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HOSPITAL, WHERE HE LATER DIED. THE KENTUCKY MAN, KNOWN AS THE GODFATHER OF GRASS HAS DIED. JOHNNY BOONE LED THE INFAMOUS CORNBREAD MAFIA AND WAS SENTENCED TO FIVE YEARS BACK IN 2018 FOR MARIJUANA ...

Add WDRB as a preferred source on Google to ensure that local news and weather from WDRB appears more often in Top Stories when relevant to your search. LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Johnny Boone -- the ...

Johnny Boone, the marijuana outlaw from central Kentucky who evaded a federal manhunt for eight years, died Friday night at the age of 80. Known as the “Godfather of Grass,” Boone was a leader of what ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A Kentucky company co-founded by the man who wrote the book on the Cornbread Mafia has reached a milestone. Author and journalist Jim Higdon told the story of a ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- As state and federal investigators came through the front door of a barn in Minnesota during a bust of the 'Cornbread Mafia' in October 1987, Les Berry Jr. went out the back ...

An infamous chapter in Kentucky history will make its big screen debut at the renowned 2026 SXSW Film & TV Festival, held in Austin, Texas in March. "This is a true Kentucky grown story and we are ...

LEBANON, Ky. (WAVE) - Johnny Boone, the man known as the ‘Godfather of Grass’ and as the leader of the marijuana syndicate called the Cornbread Mafia, has died. According to a Facebook post by the ...