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In this March 5, 2009 file photo, Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y.,right, asks President Barack Obama a question at the White House Forum on Health Reform in the East Room of the White House in Washington.

A new study given to lawmakers shows that Montana's workers' compensation costs are among the most expensive in the country.

Louis. The nine-time Grammy winner is to perform at an All-Star charity concert this weekend with Elvis Costello, with Major League Baseball donating $1 million to Stand Up To Cancer.

Like the Beatles in rock, Randy Travis marks a generational shift in country music.

The 2009 Craven Country Jamboree kicks off Thursday night and runs through to Sunday night, finishing with a performance by headliner George Strait.

With the debut single racing up the charts, the release date of Twang has been moved up to August 11, 2009.

INDONESIAN President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono looked today to have been handed a huge mandate to fight corruption and poverty in the world's third-largest democracy after an apparent landslide election win.

Rumors that Kenny Chesney is working on a 3-D movie of his concerts spread quickly on the Internet yesterday, but there's nothing concrete to report.

Formed in 1989 as a Western-themed bluegrass band, the Dixie Chicks later became one of the most popular acts in contemporary country music, as well as the highest-selling female group of all time.

Out of all the new country singers to emerge in the early '80s, George Strait stayed the closest to traditional country.

Brad Paisley tears it up on with amazing versions of "Mud On The Tires" and "Little Moments," a great cover of "Layla," and new tunes "Alcohol" and "When I Get Where I'm Going."... Brad Paisley - Play All Biography Contemporary country singer/songwriter Brad Paisley was born October 28, 1972, in Glen Dale, WV; given his first guitar at age eight, ...

Toby Keith spent the '90s as a solid, workmanlike country star who met with considerable chart success, yet never quite broke free of the neo-traditionalist pack to become a household name like Garth Brooks or Alan Jackson.

Hank Williams is the father of contemporary country music. He was a superstar by the age of 25; he was dead at the age of 29.

If you want to buy Alan Jackson's home, you'll need to cough up big bucks. And, keep coughing.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The Honky Tonk Tailgate Party, headed up by Mark Wills, is coming to McSwain Theatre July 25.

Billy Currington, Keith Follese and Jason Sellers Join Host Bob DiPiero for Signature Series.

Though their name might lead you to believe that Lonestar was formed in Texas, the quintet actually hails from Tennessee.

As Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee presented the first General Budget under UPA Governments second inning, various opposition parties opted to highlight its loopholes in their own way.

CLOSE Music News By Andy Argyrakis CRABB GOES SOLO On his solo debut, Jason Crabb is a little bit country, a little bit rock 'n' roll and bits of blue-eyed soul.

A spokesman for country star Ferlin Husky says the hospitalized singer is improving and has been moved from critical care in Nashville.