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The ‘Father of Tourism’ in Southeast Kentucky died just before 1 p.m. on Tuesday at Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital in Somerset. Rick ‘Papa Smurff’ Egedi was 82. He started in the tourism business in 1978 at Rockcastle Adventures, in London, and eventually Renegade Rick’s...

A Corbin man was pronounced deceased after a single vehicle accident on KY 312 Thursday afternoon. Damon Longworth, 55, was driving a 1992 red Ford pickup traveling east on KY 312 when the vehicle traveled off the roadway and struck a tree, according to a press release from the...