In the world of country music, there are many disparate regional influences — think Red Dirt in Oklahoma, and of course, the Nashville sound — that influence the genre. But few have had the outsized ...

LOS ANGELES − Former NFL star Mel Owens set the wrong kind of Bachelor Nation record by stepping into "Golden Bachelor" controversy three months before the senior edition of ABC's reality dating show ...

TOKYO (AP) — The pet of choice in Japan, as much as cuddly kitties and playful puppies, is the humble bug. The bug has been a key part of Japanese culture from the Heian era classic “The Tale of Genji ...

After being cast as the new lead on ABC's "The Golden Bachelor," Mel Owens had a lot to look forward to. However, things took a dark turn when the retired NFL linebacker admitted his plans to ...

Rudy Parris spent a decade of his career on stage at one of country music’s most iconic venues. He played in the house band at Buck Owens’ Crystal Palace in Bakersfield from the time it opened in 1996 ...

Around a quarter of people are scared of insects and/or spiders. This phobia is quite strange, really, as deep down, we know that most of these tiny creatures can’t hurt us, and yet we still can’t ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) – Kern County’s most popular tourist attraction, the Crystal Palace, has closed. After more than a year on the market, the Buck Owens family has opted to shutter the famous ...

TOKYO (AP) -- The pet of choice in Japan, as much as cuddly kitties and playful puppies, is the humble bug. The bug has been a key part of Japanese culture from the Heian era classic "The Tale of ...

A 75-year-old man in China took “love in the digital age” a little too literally. Jiang, as he’s been identified, fell head over heels — not for a person — but for a pixelated AI woman online. Her ...

TOKYO — The pet of choice in Japan, as much as cuddly kitties and playful puppies, is the humble bug. The bug has been a key part of Japanese culture from the Heian era classic “The Tale of Genji” to ...