ALAN JACKSON

Ray Charles and The Judds joined the Country Music Hall of Fame on Sunday, just a day after Naomi Judd died unexpectedly.

JACKSON, MI – Phil Vassar and Sister Hazel are bringing their holiday music show to downtown Jackson this season. Country music’s Phil Vassar will hit the stage at 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 16 at the Michigan Theatre of Jackson, 124 N. Mechanic St. Alternative rock band Sister Hazel is also performing as part of their joint tour, “Jingle Jam Live!”“We’re excited and it’ll be a lot of fun,” Vassar said. Back in 2009, the country singer performed alongside of Little Big Town at the Jackson County Fair. Related: Little Big Town and Phil Vassar play to adoring fans at the Jackson County Fair“It’s been a few years,” Vassal said.

Chris Stapleton won the most trophies, but Luke Combs won the biggest one at the Country Music Association Awards.

Country legend Alan Jackson revealed Tuesday that he has a degenerative nerve condition that is impacting his ability to perform on stage. “I have this neuropathy and neurological disease,” Jackson said. “It’s genetic that I inherited from my daddy... There’s no cure for it, but it’s been affecting me for years. “The severity of symptoms can vary greatly from person to person, even among family members,” the story notes. “But it’s related (to) muscular dystrophy and Parkinson’s disease.”Jackson said this does not necessarily mean the end of his time on stage.

"I know I'm stumbling around on stage," the country music star told NBC. "And now I'm having a little trouble balancing, even in front of the microphone, and so I just feel very uncomfortable."

Country superstar Alan Jackson revealed in an interview that he has a degenerative nerve condition that has affected his balance.

Dan + Shay, Luke Combs, Rascal Flatts and more country artists celebrated alongside prominent songwriters, producers and industry leaders at the Academy of Country Music Honors awards show.

IndyCar is ready for its debut race through Nashville's city streets.

When Vanessa Williams hosts this year’s televised Capitol Fourth celebration, she will not only honor the nation’s traditional independence day, but also the country’s newly designated holiday — Juneteenth.

In a story June 30, 2021, about a billionaire Republican donor who is paying $1 million to help defray the cost of deploying the South Dakota National Guard to the U.S.-Mexico border, The Associated Press erroneously reported the name of the spokesman for South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem.

This week’s new entertainment releases include documentaries about celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck and another on a landmark 1969 Harlem concert series known as “Black Woodstock” that featured Nina Simone, Stevie Wonder, Sly and the Family Stone.

This week’s new entertainment releases include the return of Angelina Jolie in the thriller “Those Who Wish Me Dead” as a Montana smoke jumper who comes across a 12-year-old boy in need of help.

Carrie Underwood brought the Academy of Country Music Awards to church.

Keith Urban and Mickey Guyton will have a small audience at this year's Academy of Country Music Awards show on Sunday of vaccinated medical workers.

This 2018 illustration provided by William Hartmann and Michael Belton shows a depiction of the Oumuamua interstellar object as a pancake-shaped disk. A study published in March 2021 says the mystery object is likely a remnant of a Pluto-like world and shaped like a cookie. A new study says the mystery object is likely a remnant of a Pluto-like world and shaped like a cookie. Those are the rough proportions of one wafer of an Oreo cookie, Desch noted. By the time the object starts leaving our solar system around 2040, the width-to-thickness ratio will have dropped to 10-to-1, according to Desch.

Glenn died on March 15 and his funeral is in limbo because of coronavirus restrictions. Many directors refused to hold funeral services in chapels or offered to only do small graveside burials limited to 10 people. This is a whole new terrain, said Amy Cunningham, a Brooklyn-based funeral director who runs Fitting Tribute Funeral Services. The CDC advised funeral directors and those who touch the bodies of people who died from the coronavirus to wear protective equipment, including disposable gloves. Glenn Wilson of Marysville, Wash., died on March 15, but his funeral was in limbo because of restrictions to combat the coronavirus.

LOS ANGELES, CA Los Angeles prosecutors have rejected a sexual battery case against Kevin Spacey because the accuser has died. The Los Angeles County District Attorney's office announced the decision Tuesday. The case stemmed from a masseur's allegations that Spacey inappropriately touched him during a massage session at a home in Malibu, California, in October 2016. In that case, Spacey's accuser invoked his Fifth Amendment right not to testify about text messages from the night of the alleged groping that the defense claimed were deleted. Police in London are also investigating allegations of sexual misconduct by Spacey, but there's been no public update on that inquiry.

Spacey's defense lawyer Alan Jackson on Monday seized on the accuser's Fifth Amendment claim to demand that the case be tossed out by Nantucket District Court Judge Thomas Barrett. He then refused to testify further, citing the Fifth Amendment. The Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution protects people from having to incriminate themselves. Still, if the accuser decides to continue to invoke his Fifth Amendment rights, there are other ways for the prosecution to proceed with the case. While being granted immunity would allow the accuser to testify, his testimony could be seriously undercut by cross-examination by Spacey's lawyer.

Actor Kevin Spacey attends his arraignment for sexual assault charges at Nantucket District Court on Jan. 7, 2019, in Nantucket, Mass. But after he stepped down, the accuser asserted his Fifth Amendment rights, meaning his testimony would be stricken from the record. It wasn't immediately clear what the accuser's intentions were in invoking the Fifth Amendment. The father told Jackson he felt his questions went "way too far," prompting the judge to threaten to hold the father in contempt. Unruh, a former Boston news anchor, also took the stand Monday, waiving her Fifth Amendment rights.

Kevin Spacey attends the Build Series to discuss his new play 'Clarence Darrow' at Build Studio on May 24, 2017 in New York City. Additionally, Spacey's defense attorney, Alan Jackson, said that the accuser's mother, Heather Unruh, may have been watching live coverage of her son's testimony on TV. The video had been filmed more than a year after the alleged incident with Spacey, she said. The civil suit against the 59-year-old Spacey was filed on June 26 in Nantucket Superior Court. The accuser's suit sought unspecified damages for "severe and permanent mental distress and emotional injuries."

Country superstar Alan Jackson has sold more than 60 million albums, and his latest, "Angels and Alcohol," comes a quarter-century after he first topped the charts. Correspondent Lee Cowan pays a visit to the always-entertaining singer, and learns Jackson still isn't comfortable with performing before a crowd.