HENDERSONVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – Police are investigating exactly what led to two people being killed and one man stabbed at the home of the late Country Music Hall of Fame artist Jean Shepard.

The husband of late country music star Jean Shepard acted in self-defense when he shot and killed a man inside his Hendersonville home following a fatal stabbing Saturday, according to police. After ...

Benny Birchfield, the husband of the late Country Music Hall of Fame singer Jean Shepard, was stabbed and his granddaughter killed Saturday. Birchfield was found outside of his home by police, injured ...

This Sunday, classic country singer Jean Shepard passed away in Nashville at the age of 82. Some six decades ago, she was a rising star on the Ozark Jubiliee, the 1950s TV program produced by KY3 and ...

Shepard passed away on Sunday morning after an extended illness. By Chuck Dauphin, Billboard Country Music has lost one of its’ colorful characters — and beloved performers — with the passing of Grand ...

Jean Shepard, who died Sunday in Nashville, was a masterful country singer who perfected a plain, hard style that dramatized her tales of loss, betrayal and ecstasy without calling attention to her ...

In the 1950s, self-supporting female country artists were rare. Women who rose to stardom on the West Coast rather than through the Grand Ole Opry were rarer still, as were women who adopted a ...