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Nov 13, 1995
Jimmy Dean and Charley Pride testify on behalf of fiddler Tommy Williams in a Virginia court as the "Hee Haw" musician's $20-million lawsuit against the Republican party over a disabling 1992 campaign accident opens. The two sides settle that same night for $725,000
Jan 16, 1996
Jimmy Buffett makes an emergency landing in his sea plane when Jamaican police open fire, believing the aircraft is carrying drugs. Instead, the plane is carrying Buffett and his guest, Bono, of U2
Feb 8, 1996
President Bill Clinton signs the Telecommunications Act, de-regulating the broadcast industry and setting off a flurry of purchases that results in the consolidation of the radio industry. The result: fewer people decide what country songs become hits
Feb 14, 1996
Kristi Lockwood, an aspiring country singer, walks down Music Row in Nashville wearing only a cowboy hat and boots. "I didn't know what else to do, and I really wanted to get some exposure," she later says. She's arrested for indecent exposure
Feb 14, 1996
Conway Twitty's widow, Dee Jenkins, petitions a Nashville court to have Twitty's remains exhumed and cremated, so she can have her husband with her when she leaves town. Though a gag order is placed on the motion, it creates a public spat
Feb 28, 1996
Dee Henry Jenkins withdraws her Nashville petition to exhume the body of her late husband, Conway Twitty, and have it cremated, lamenting that the matter has evolved into a "media circus"
Mar 5, 1996
Bounty hunters arrest Huey Meaux in Juarez, Mexico, and return him to Houston, where he's to stand trial on charges of sexual assault, child pornography and cocaine possession. Meaux produced Freddy Fender's "Before The Next Teardrop Falls"
Mar 14, 1996
The Tennessean reports Crystal Gayle spent the week in court, where she was summoned for jury duty. The defendant in the trial is charged with drug possession, weapon possession, aggravated assault and resisting arrest
Mar 27, 1996
A federal appeals court rules the pilot was the only person responsible for the accident that took the lives of nine Reba McEntire associates in March 1991. Among them: singer/songwriter Chris Austin, who wrote Ricky Skaggs' "Same Ol' Love"
Mar 31, 1996
Con Hunley is stopped for running a red light in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, and is charged with DUI. He is later convicted for the offense
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