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Loretta Lynn waves after performing the song ''Miss being Mrs.'' at the 39th annual Academy of Country Music Awards at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada

Country Singer Loretta Lynn in Hospital with Pneumonia

Country-music singer Loretta Lynn, who grew up poor in Kentucky's coal-mining region before rising to fame, has canceled two performances after being diagnosed with pneumonia, a statement on her Web site said Saturday.
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Herman Cain Immigration Plan Joke Isn't Funny

Herman Cain says he was just making a joke about deterring illegal immigrants from coming into America with electrocution at the border. His so-called joke, told to two crowds in Tennessee where the GOP presidential candidate was campaigning last week, went like this: It's giong to be 20 feet high, Cain said, according to The New York Times. It's going to have barbed wire at the top. It's going to be electrified. And there's going to be a sign on the other side saying, ...
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Charlie Daniels Band Member, Taz DiGregorio, Killed in Car Crash

Charlie Daniels Band long-time member Taz DiGregorio, 67, was killed in a car crash Wednesday. The keyboardist and vocalist was an original member of the CDB. DiGregorio had been a part of the band for over 40 years, writing two of the band's hit songs, Devil Went Down to Georgia and The Legend of Wooley Swamp.
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Gibson Guitar CEO Slams U.S. Raids as 'Overreach'

Gibson Guitar Corp.'s chief slammed the U.S. government on Wednesday for sending armed agents to raid two Tennessee factories under a law aimed at curbing the illegal harvest of tropical hardwoods.
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Gaile Owens, Former Death Row Inmate, Released Friday

Gaile Owens, a 58 year-old Memphis woman, was released Friday from the Tennessee Prison for Women after spending 26 years on death row, whose release was just two months shy of being executed by lethal injection.

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