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Forty-nine of the 50 people on board were killed (all 47 passengers and two of the three crew members). Most of the victims died instantly from the initial crash impact. [16] Comair released the passenger manifest on August 29, 2006. [17] Most of the passengers were American citizens from the Lexington area, ranging in age from 16 to 72.
Wilma Lee Leary (February 7, 1921 – September 13, 2011), known professionally as Wilma Lee Cooper, was an American country music entertainer. She was a guitarist, banjo player and vocalist, and was given the title of "First Lady of Bluegrass" by the Smithsonian Institution in 1974. [1]
Colonel Martha Layne Collins (née Hall; born December 7, 1936) is an American former businesswoman and politician from the Commonwealth of Kentucky; she served as the state's 56th governor from 1983 to 1987, the first woman to hold the office and the only one to date.
A former Kentucky Wildcat secured her third Bluegrass 10,000 women’s division win, while a current runner at the University of Dayton won the men’s and overall titles in Lexington’s annual ...
“Rocky Top” might have been his most popular tune, but he was still a proud Kentuckian.
Bluegrass legend Tony Rice, a virtuoso guitarist whose fluent flatpicking landed him in the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame, has died suddenly at age 69. Rice passed away Christmas Day at his home in ...
She released her first solo album, East Kentucky Morning, in 1997. The album was top ten on both the Bluegrass Unlimited chart and the Gavin Americana chart. [ 3 ] In early 2015, Bradley left her record label Compass Records for Pinecastle Records, with whom she recorded her first solo album. [ 6 ]
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