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Jul 8, 1991
Donald Croyle, of Niles, Ohio, writes a letter threatening to destroy Randy Travis' career by making damaging information public unless Travis pays him $25,000. Croyle is later charged with extortion
Jul 19, 1991
The brakes fail on Dottie West's car on the way to the Grand Ole Opry. She loses control and hits a wall but sustains only minor injuries
Aug 8, 1991
Billy Preston is charged with exhibiting pornography to a minor. The keyboard legend plays three years later on "Rhythm Country & Blues," nominated by the Country Music Association for Album of the Year
Aug 30, 1991
When her Chrysler breaks down, Dottie West hitches a ride to the Grand Ole Opry from passing driver George Thackston. He has an accident on the Opry's exit ramp, and West is hospitalized with a lacerated liver. She dies five days later
Sep 26, 1991
Following a Lynyrd Skynyrd show in Nashville, vocalist Johnny Van Zant breaks his back on the way down a staircase. Four years later, he's on the country charts with the Van Zant hit "Help Somebody"
Nov 16, 1991
Shenandoah drummer Mike McGuire undergoes emergency eye surgery in Austin, Texas, after a bottle of soda shatters and cuts his face
Nov 29, 1991
Hank Snow is injured in a two-car accident on his way to the Grand Ole Opry. Snow is out of the Opry lineup for several months while recovering from the partial removal of a kneecap in surgery
Dec 23, 1991
Tammy Wynette's cellular phone is stolen from her purse while shopping at Nashville's Bellevue Mall. Wynette doesn't report the theft until January 31
Dec 24, 1991
Willie Nelson Jr.--better known as "Billy"--dies from an apparent suicide, hanging himself with a cord in a cabin on the family's property in Ridgetop, Tennessee
Feb 27, 1992
"Spill a cup of coffee make a million dollars": An Albuquerque woman is singed by McDonald's coffee, requiring skin grafts. She wins $600,000 in court and gets referenced in Toby Keith's "American Ride"
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