Nominations are out for the 2024 CMA Awards, and competition for one of the most coveted prizes of the night — Entertainer of the Year — is especially fierce. Lainey Wilson won CMA EOTY in 2023, and it was well-deserved given her massive year. She's up for it again in 2024, the lone woman in a category that also includes Luke Combs, Jelly Roll, Chris Stapleton and Morgan Wallen.

The Country Music Association doubled down on its commitment to traditional-leaning, and blazingly popular, country music in its nominees list for the 2024 CMA Awards. The most feted artist headed into Country Music's Biggest Night is Morgan Wallen, who leads the way with seven nominations. But none of his nods are for a solo song.

Carrie Underwood is back for year for another year of Sunday Night Football!. The country singer busts out the electric guitar for this 2024 performance. The video opens with the "Hate My Heart" singer arriving at the stadium with her band to rev up the crowd before the game. Underwood...

The week of September 15 through September 21, 2024, is National Child Passenger Safety Week. If you have young children and they ride in a vehicle with you, they must be properly buckled into their own child safety seat. In Texas, it's the law. Unfortunately, half of all car seats...

It's a question you may have wondered about at some point in your life: Can our Longview and Tyler, Texas Police Officers legally search your vehicle without a warrant in Texas?. Thankfully, I've never had this experience myself. But I know some dear people who have, at some point, found...

Jason Aldean might be selling out amphitheaters across the country on his 2024 Highway Desperado Tour, but to his young children Memphis and Navy, that's nothing special. The singer's family -- also including his wife Brittany -- frequently join him on the road, and they've seen enough shows to not get too excited about all the bright lights and cheering fans. In fact, during Aldean's most recent concert, Memphis wasn't paying attention to the music at all -- even though he was sitting sidestage.

Could Rascal Flatts finally be putting that long-awaited farewell tour on the books?. Some fans certainly think so, after a couple of eye-catching changes to the trio's social media. It's not exactly clear what's brewing -- it could be a tour, a full-blown reunion or even just a one-off project -- but it certainly seems likely that the group is working on something.

Kendrick Lamar has been tapped to perform as the headliner of the 2025 Apple Music Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show in New Orleans in February. K-Dot to Be Headlining Performer at 2025 Super Bowl Halftime Show. Kendrick Lamar will perform as the headliner of the Apple Music Super Bowl LIX...

Did you know that some people rinse their ground beef after cooking it? Others say doing this ruins the taste. I've personally never rinsed my ground beef after cooking it. However, I've had dinner at homes in the Tyler and Dallas, Texas areas where it seems part of their normal routine.

Mark Moffatt, a mainstay Nashville producer and guitarist, died on Friday (Sept. 6) after a year-plus-long battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 74 years old. According to a statement from his team, Moffatt contributed more tracks to the Australian Performing Right Assocation (APRA)'s Top 30 Songs of All Time list than any other one producer.

Surprise! American Idol champ Laine Hardy is starting a family. The singer announced on Saturday (Sept. 7) that he's engaged to Jordan Gautreau, a cheerleader for the New Orleans Saints and former NBA dancer for the New Orleans Pelicans. But that's not all: The couple are currently expecting their first...

It's not easy being a rescuer, or so one police officer with The Colony Police Department found out not too long ago. In the early hours of July 19, a car exiting the Sam Rayburn toll road "hit a barricade, flipped, and was wedged between walls separating northbound and southbound traffic" as reported by WFAA.

Two weeks ago, the name Tren De Aragua was completely foreign to most Americans. Today, the name of the violent Venezuelan gang is now known nationwide due to their recent takeover of an apartment complex in Aurora, Colorado. And terrifyingly enough, officials say that they have seen large groups of Tren de Aragua making entry into the state of Texas via the corridor in El Paso.

It is a wonder how country stars stay in shape on the road, much less how they stay so ripped. Heck, it's hard for most people to stay in shape off the road. Here are the workout secrets of the fittest stars in country music. We can't make a list...

If you left college without earning a degree, it's not too late. Texas universities will probably let you pick up where you left off. Family matters, funding, a forced relocation ... things happen. If you decide to go back within a short time, it's usually not a problem to finish what you started. What about students that decide to return years, decades or multiple decades later? Can they still use past credits earned to bring it home? In Texas, yes. Maybe.

Be patient Texas. It's going to be a couple of more years before it opens but there IS a Universal theme park coming to the lone star state. The new resort will occupy 97 acres, about 1/4 the size of Universal's Orlando, Florida park. Attendance figures are expected to be about 7,000 visitors a day during the week and twice that, 14K, on weekends.

Some of the biggest stars in country music sure know how to kick back and take it easy in their off hours. Luke Bryan, Jason Aldean, Alan Jackson, Shania Twain and more have owned stunning waterfront properties, where they can get away from all of their cares. Bryan and Aldean...

A lot has changed since I moved to East Texas more than 25 years ago. After putting down some roots in Tyler and meeting new people and going out, I would often meet up with friends at Chili's, On The Border, or TGI Friday's for drinks or head on over to Rick's, Sharkey's or Clicks, but in order to do that you had to be a 'member of the club' (restaurant) or carry a Texas issued Unicard to get a drink.

The older we get, the more we seem to want to attach ourselves to our childhood and the nostalgia that those memories bring us. In this day and age, where things move so fast, your favorite food or drink from your childhood could very well be discontinued, and you have no way of getting it unless you want it expired from Ebay.

On Friday the 13th, 1980, one of the most horrific murders in Texas occurred in the tiny town of Wylie, just outside of Dallas. Candy Montgomery killed her best friend, Betty Gore, with an axe. Both women were married with children and were members of the same church, where they met in 1977.