Kenneth Partridge

August isn't shaping up to be the best month for Randy Travis. Early Saturday morning (Aug. 25) -- a day after he was cited for assault in a church parking lot and several weeks after his highly publicized DWI arrest -- police in Frisco, Texas, discovered a truck belonging to the country icon abandoned and smashed to bits in a field behind a Walmart, WOIA reports...

Barack Obama won Iowa in 2008, but given the local response to what Hank Williams Jr. said Friday at the Iowa State Fair, he might be in trouble this November. "We've got a Muslim president who hates farming, hates the military, hates the U...

Wynonna Judd's husband, Michael Scott "Cactus" Moser, was seriously injured last night near Hill City, S.D., when the motorcycle he was driving collided with a car, the Rapid City Journal reports. According to Lt. David Berkley of the South Dakota Highway Patrol, Moser's Harley-Davidson drifted across the center divide on U...

The JaneDear girls have reportedly called it quits. Tennessee's Herald Chronicle broke the news Monday (Aug. 13), reporting that organizers of the 8th International Dogwood Festival had tapped Steel Magnolia to replace the duo following its unexpected dissolution...

Tennessee songwriter Bobby Carmichael and Louisiana fiddler Britton Curry have filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against country singer Justin Moore and his record company, Big Machine Label Group, the Tennessean reports. The suit centers on Justin's hit "Backwoods," which Carmichael and Curry claim sounds strikingly similar to a song they wrote back in 2003...

Darius Rucker always seems like a pretty even-keel guy, but at the moment, he's steaming mad. The reason, he tells CBS Local: He missed a recent deadline to release "True Believers," the first single form his forthcoming country album, due out this fall, and now fans will have to wait a little longer for the song...

Dental drama forced LeAnn Rimes to cancel a string of tour dates last week, Contact Music reports, and after undergoing an emergency root canal on Thursday, the country star is facing some rather unpleasant surgery to fix an ailing tooth...

Rascal Flatts member Jay DeMarcus and his wife, Allison, are celebrating the birth of their second child, People reports. Dylan Jay DeMarcus was born yesterday afternoon (July 20) in Nashville, and both the 7lb., 11 oz. tyke and his mother said to be "doing well in a local hospital...

One way or another, Kenny Chesney was going to spend his summers in ballparks. The lifelong baseball fan played second base throughout high school, and while his stats weren't good enough to land him on a college team, his summer tours now hit stadiums around the country...

Frederick Breedon, Getty Images for ACM There's no shortage of TV shows about wannabe singers, so credit the CW with finding a new angle. Next month, the network premieres "The Next: Fame Is at Your Doorstep," a reality series that finds four musical stars, one being country singer John Rich, moving in with up-and-coming musicians and mentoring them over 72-hour periods...