FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Michiel Vaughn owes a lot to tobacco. The lucrative crop helped pay for his livelihood in the 1980s when he farmed it in western Kentucky. But a 100-year-old tobacco barn on his ...

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Mail Pouch Tobacco barns still pitch nostalgia on country roads in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio and other nearby states. They offer both beautiful American folk art and a haunting reminder of a ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Landmark Farm looks like any other well-tended homestead until you get a glimpse of llamas grazing in the field and see the century-old tobacco barn stripped with new wood. A closer ...

CALLOWAY COUNTY, Ky. (KFVS) - Crews are responding to a tobacco barn fire in Calloway County, Kentucky. According to Calloway ...

Jim Rumford knows the story by heart. He’s been hearing it since he was a boy—the one about the time his great grandpa, George Washington Kinney—Mr. Kinney, as Rumford calls him today—was awakened in ...

FRANKFORT, Ky. (LEX 18) — The hot topic Wednesday in Frankfort is vaping and tobacco as state lawmakers discuss a bill meant to reduce smoking rates in Kentucky. Essentially the proposed bill—Senate ...