LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- The man known for chronicling the war against marijuana in Kentucky now says he is getting into the hemp business. Author and journalist Jim Higdon told the story of a ...

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. (WHAS11) - The former leader of the Cornbread Mafia in Kentucky has been arrested in Canada after eight years on the run. Johnny Robert Boone was picked up by police Thursday in a ...

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 ...

John Robert “Johnny” Boone, who once ran a multi-state marijuana-growing operation known as the Cornbread Mafia, has died at age 80. Boone died Friday night, Joe Keith Bickett wrote in a Facebook post ...