Dec 4, 2002

Richard D'Antonio pleads not guilty in Nashville for the 1989 murder of Cash Box chart manager Kevin Hughes on Music Row

Jan 31, 2003

LeAnn Rimes is bruised when a drunk driver plows into her silver Jaguar in Los Angeles. The accident occurs after Rimes finished taping her part, as Connie Francis, for the NBC-TV show "American Dreams"

Feb 3, 2003

Pop record producer Phil Spector is booked on suspicion of murder when a woman is found shot in his home in Alhambra, California. Spector wrote "To Know Him Is To Love Him," a 1987 country hit for Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris

Feb 20, 2003

Alabama guitarist Jeff Cook sits in the courtroom in Fort Payne, Alabama, as his former accountant is found guilty of embezzling $40,000 from his businesses

Apr 5, 2003

Doug Supernaw is arrested at the Dallas Fort Worth Airport after returning from Cozumel. He's charged with jumping bail for being out of the country when he was scheduled to appear in court twice in January

Jun 3, 2003

Former Allman Brother Dickey Betts, who played guitar on numerous Hank Williams Jr. recordings, is arrested in Osprey, Florida, after threatening his wife with a knife, trashing the living room and slipping out of their home

Jul 29, 2003

A Louisiana songwriter sends a note to a George Strait associate, saying he might "go Rambo" if Strait doesn't cut one of his songs, adding that he "won't be the lone gunman." He's later indicted for extortion

Aug 25, 2003

Sofia Lazarides, the daughter of "Blame It On Your Heart" songwriter Kostas, is abducted in Tennessee. More than five years later, his ex-wife, Hope Lazarides, is charged with the crime

Sep 25, 2003

Fourteen years after Cash Box country chart manager Kevin Hughes was killed on Music Row in Nashville, a former fellow employee, Richard D'Antonio, is convicted of the murder. Hughes had declined to participate in a chart kickback scandal and threatened to take it public

Oct 3, 2003

After serving seven months in jail, country TV personality Charlie Chase's son, David Bernard, is sentenced to 90 more days in jail and seven years and four months probation for breaking into an elderly couple's home the previous year