...named best group or duo. The quartet Alabama tearfully accepted an award for charity work named after the late comedian Minnie Pearl. Kenny Rogers, who recently scored comeback hits with ''The Greatest'' and ''Buy Me a Rose,'' won a career...

...Jackson, who in 1991 was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry. The Ryman played host to Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, Minnie Pearl and other country music pioneers from 1943 to 1974, before the show moved to the Opry House at Opryland USA. The Opry...

...sister, Violet Funk, Front Royal, Va. A son, Clarence "Gene;" two stepsons, Amos and Paul; a stepdaughter, Minnie Pearl Widder; a grandchild; and a great-grandchild died earlier. Graveside services will be 10 a.m. Saturday at Mountview...