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What word or phrase comes to mind when you think of black lung disease?

Bobby Osborne, one half of the famed bluegrass duo 'The Osborne Brothers' who helped popularize the song 'Rocky Top,' has died. He was 91 years old.

Bobby Osborne, one half of the famed bluegrass duo 'The Osborne Brothers' who helped popularize the song 'Rocky Top,' has died. He was 91 years old.

Waynestock is named after a former music journalist in Knoxville who lost two sons. One of them, Rylan Bledsoe, died during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Democrats and Republicans see Black male voters as key in tight races. Most support Democrats, but some see Republicans as offering a better shot at upward mobility.

Lynn was a trailblazer for other women performers. She broke the glass ceiling and was the first woman to win the CMA's Entertainer of the Year award in 1972.

The disc jockey was born in January 1935 when Martin Block, a $20-a-week announcer employed by New York’s WNEW 1130-AM, began playing records between updates on the trial of Bruno Hauptmann, accused of kidnapping and murdering the infant son of aviator Charles Lindbergh and his wife, Anne.

Stained Glass, Chalk Boards and Cash Registers of Fort Smith, by Wayne Bledsoe, John Lehnen and Jim Kreuz, is a tribute to 129 buildings in Fort Smith.

Copy shortlink: The man killed when he was caught up in a violent crash involving a Minneapolis police squad car pursuing a robbery suspect was the uncle of Darnella Frazier, who filmed the death of George Floyd. Frazier said in a Facebook post Tuesday evening that Leneal Lamont Frazier — who was not involved in the chase — died when his vehicle was struck by the squad as it pursued another vehicle. She questioned why police were involved in a high-speed chase on a r...

No Pearl Harbor moment this time Steve Brawner In the years before World War II, Americans were aware of the conflicts that were happening overseas, but they were determined to stay out of them. George Washington had urged the nation to avoid taking sides in international affairs, and that sentiment had endured. The country’s involvement in World War I, known then as the “Great War,” had not accomplished much besides getting a lot of people killed. The Great Depression had only recently e...