KFC's a meaningless acronym that renounces flightless birds, the Bluegrass State, and trans fat.

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That other team from the Bluegrass State won't even get a chance to defend its national title.

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In Kentucky, where the string of Democratic governors stretched back over three decades, the party was in trouble long before the president set foot in the Bluegrass State.

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The singer played high-school football, then went to East Tennessee State University, where he was a guitarist in the school bluegrass band.

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New Jersey is not known as a hot bed of bluegrass music, so the group Railroad Earth is sort of an oddity in the Garden State.

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