MOUNT VERNON, Mo. (AP) - Joyce "Dottie" Rambo, an influential gospel singer and songwriter, died early Sunday when her tour bus ran off the highway and struck an embankment. She was 74.

Seven other people on the bus were injured in the wreck about two miles east of Mount Vernon on Interstate 44, the Missouri Highway Patrol ...

NEW YORK (AP) - Less is more for Tan Dun's "The First Emperor."

When the ambitious opera was given its world premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in December 2006, there were many interesting elements, both musically and theatrically. But overall, it was a mixed night, done in by tedious pacing, especially in the fir...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Carrie Underwood is the newest member of the Grand Ole Opry. The singer joined the cast of the long-running country music show Saturday. Garth Brooks handled her formal induction and Vince Gill sang a duet with her.

"This really seems like a great family to be part of," Underwood said, as she fought...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - With his 93rd birthday a month away, David "Honeyboy" Edwards admits it's getting hard to walk long distances.

Fortunately for the man believed to be the oldest surviving Delta bluesman, fans and admirers never let him walk more than a few feet at a time. Every few steps, someone wants to shake his ...

CHICAGO (AP) - On the first day of his child pornography trial in Chicago, a suit-clad R. Kelly faced nearly 150 Cook County residents, bowed his head slightly, smiled and said, "Hello."

It probably behooved the R&B superstar to make as good a first impression as possible with these particular men and women: A doz...

PHOENIX (AP) - DMX was arrested on drug and animal-cruelty charges following an overnight raid on the rapper's house Friday, authorities said. The 37-year-old rapper, whose given name is Earl Simmons, initially tried to barricade himself in his bedroom but emerged when a SWAT team entered his north Phoenix home du...

LAS VEGAS (AP) - Toni Braxton's return to the stage on the Las Vegas strip has been pushed back for at least another month.

A spokeswoman for Harrah's Entertainment says the target date to resume "Toni Braxton: Revealed" at the Flamingo Las Vegas hotel is now June 6th.

Braxton's show has been dark since the singer w...

YONKERS, N.Y. (AP) - The queen of hip-hop soul is establishing a foundation to help women develop careers and gain self-confidence.

Mary J. Blige and Steve Stoute, who founded a youth-oriented brand consulting firm, say they're setting up the Foundation for the Advancement of Women Now.

The foundation will concentrate f...

NEW YORK (AP) - Rapper Foxy Brown has pleaded guilty to menacing a neighbor with her cell phone last year. She avoided jail based on time already served.

Brown and neighbor Arlene Raymond got into a fight last July over Brown blasting her car stereo outside their Brooklyn apartment building.

As part of the plea dea...

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - In a May 5 story about a violin accidentally left in a taxi, The Associated Press misstated the date of violinist Philippe Quint's next New York performance. It is May 19 with the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players, not his Sept. 23 concert at Carnegie Hall.

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