Charlie Daniels

Charlie Daniels suffered a stroke last Friday. He's 73 and was snowmobiling in Colorado. Luckily, he's ok, and was actually in good spirits.

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Billy Ray Cyrus

Billy Ray Cyrus talks about preparing his whole life to play the role of Daniel Burton in the Hallmark Channel movie "Christmas in Canaan." It aired all last month on the Hallmark Channel.

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ELVIS!

Thousands of fans celebrated what would've been Elvis' 75th birthday at Graceland on Jan. 8, 2010!

Carrie Underwood gets engaged!

I walked into work one Monday last month with a well laid out plan for the day. However, everything changed when I got a tip that Carrie Underwood was engaged. A quick reply from her publicist was all I needed to crank out a quick NewsNow story for our national wire. It just so happened that about a month earlier during rehearsals for the CMA Awards, I asked Carrie what her family thought of her then-boyfriend. Perfect time to use those quotes and put them in my video package!

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Loretta Lynn recovers from flu

Reports began circulating the Web late last month that Loretta Lynn was on her death bed. Not so, I found out from her daughter.

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Siblings' Shopping Day!

Metta, Connor and I did a little Christmas shopping today. And then we celebrated our success.

Jimmy Wayne!

I met up with Jimmy Wayne on the set of his new music video for "Sara Smile." It's an old Hall & Oates song that got him a record deal in 2002. And in fact, Hall & Oates just got nominated for a Grammy for that song off their "Live at the Troubadour" album. Jimmy shot the video at the old train depot in Columbia, Tenn. His new album came out at the end of November. I was so mad at myself when I left the interview, because I had my digital camera with me but forgot to take a picture with him! So a stock photo will have to do. :) Text: Jimmy Wayne's Big Break Came From A Bargain Box

Hockey time

My mom, little sister Metta, and I went to Detroit to watch my brother, Connor, play in a hockey tournament for Buffalo State. Here's a short video of our adventure and Connor's action-packed, goal-scoring weekend. He ended up with two goals and two assists during the two games his team played, and the next week he was named Athlete of the Week at Buffalo State!

Christmas spirit!

I had the opportunity to see up and coming country group Carter's Chord perform live on Wednesday night. These three sisters are absolutely adorable on stage. They definitely helped to put me in the Christmas spirit with their rendition of "O Come O Come Emmanuel."

Here's a video of them performing it.

Little Richard

Did you know that Little Richard lives in Nashville?! He just had hip surgery at Vanderbilt Hospital and gave a statement exclusively to the AP when he was released today.

The short article is here.