Country Singer Porter Wagoner Dead
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Porter Wagoner, the rhinestone-clad Grand Ole Opry star who helped launch the career of Dolly Parton by hiring her as his duet partner, died Sunday. He was 80.  Wagoner, who had survived an abdominal aneurysm in 2006, was hospitalized a...
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US pop star Laura Branigan, who had hits with Gloria and Self Control in the 1980s, dies unexpectedly in her sleep.
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LOS ANGELES  - Jimmy Griffin, an  Academy Award-winning songwriter and former guitarist for the  1970s pop group Bread, died Tuesday in Nashville of  complications from cancer. He was 61.
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E. Pierce Marshall, who feuded for years with former Playboy Playmate Anna Nicole Smith over his father&#039;s oil fortune, has died, his spokesman said Friday. He was 67.
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A military sharpshooter accused of killing his estranged wife as she sang at a bar died Tuesday night after being found with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest, police said.
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By Charles Griley 56 Of Apple Valley Griley and A Passenger In Cheng S Car Lucia Demeester 58 Of Poway Were Pronounced Dead At The Scene Of The Accident The Web Site Said, Desert Dispatch, Barstow, Calif.  Sep.
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Porter Wagoner has been hospitalized with an undisclosed ailment and is in serious condition, his publicist says.
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Former Villanova star Howard Porter was trying to trade money and crack cocaine for sex with a prostitute when he was beaten to death, according to murder charges filed Tuesday against a St. Paul man.
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Country music star Skeeter Davis dies of cancer aged 72. Plus more entertainment news in brief.
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NASHVILLE (Billboard) - The Grand Ole Opry lost one of its  most unique members with the Sept. 19 passing of Skeeter Davis.
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Veteran Dobro musician Burkett Howard Graves, known as country music's "Uncle Josh," has died at 79, his family said on Monday.
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Jerry Scoggins, who sang the theme tune to US TV show The Beverly Hillbillies, has died in Los Angeles at the age of 93.
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Veteran Dobro musician  Burkett Howard Graves, known as country music's "Uncle Josh,"  has died at 79, his family said on Monday.
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NASHVILLE, Tennessee  - Renowned saxophonist Boots Randolph died on Tuesday (July 3) after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage June 25, according to publicist and family friend Betty Hofer.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn.  - Country music singer Skeeter  Davis, a veteran of Nashville's Grand Ole Opry, died on Sunday,  according to a family friend.
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Carl Wayne, the lead singer of influential 1960s pop group the Move, dies at the age of 61 after battling cancer.
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Former priest James Porter, whose widespread molestation of dozens of children foreshadowed the clergy sex abuse scandal that swept the Roman Catholic church, died Friday.