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NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - Hank Cochran, who wrote a cascade of country music hits, died on Thursday at his home near Nashville, according to his family. He was 74.

An Australian mining company that lost its entire board in a plane crash in Congo's thick jungle said Wednesday it was still working to cut free bodies that are jammed in the wreckage.

Rescuers have found the wreckage of a crashed plane carrying an Australian mining tycoon and other executives, with ten bodies found so far, Cameroonian and Congolese officials said.

Cameroon gov't says wreckage of missing plane carrying Australian mine execs has been found. Recovery teams including French military personnel will hack a path through dense jungle to reach the site of a plane crash site in the Republic of Congo that killed 11 people including the entire board of an Australian mining company, officials said.

Rescuers found on Monday the wreckage of a crashed plane carrying an Australian mining tycoon and other executives, with ten bodies found so far, Cameroonian and Congolese officials said.

Rescuers found Monday the wreckage of a crashed plane carrying an Australian mining tycoon and 10 other foreigners, a Cameroonian minister said, with hopes slim for finding any survivors.

Rescuers on Monday found the wreckage of a crashed plane carrying an Australian mining tycoon and 10 other foreigners but there were no survivors, Cameroon's communications minister said Monday.

The French military Monday joined the search in jungle on the Cameroon-Congo border for a plane carrying one of Australia's richest men and 10 other mining executives that is feared to have crashed.

Australia vowed to leave "no stone unturned" Monday after a plane carrying Sundance Resources' entire board, including one of the country's richest men, went missing over thick jungle in western Africa.

One British passenger and a British pilot were on board a plane which went missing over dense jungle in western Africa, it emerged on Monday.

Australia vowed to leave "no stone unturned" Monday after a plane carrying Sundance Resources' entire board, including one of the country's richest men, went missing over thick jungle in western Africa.

Kris Kristofferson to celebrate 50th anniversary of Tootsie's, landmark Nashville honky tonk. Kris Kristofferson will help celebrate the 50th anniversary of Tootsie's Orchid Lounge, a landmark Nashville honky tonk.

A man convicted of shooting a young man during a carjacking 17 years ago was executed in Texas late Wednesday, the 12th convict to be lethally injected this year in the most active US execution state.

Dallas man convicted of killing hospital worker in '93 carjacking executed in Texas. A man convicted of fatally shooting a Dallas hospital worker during a carjacking more than 17 years ago was executed Wednesday night in Texas, marking the 12th lethal injection this year in the nation's busiest execution state.

Ferlin Husky, Billy Sherrill inducted into Country Music Hall of Fame. Two men who often felt like outsiders in Nashville, even as they took country music to new heights, were inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.

Reprinted from late editions of yesterday's Globe. Elvis Costello is a reminder that classic country music isn't about nationality or accent or era. Costello, a British rock musician whose roots reach back to the late 1970s, understands that country isn't a genre so much as a feeling, namely longing. At the Orpheum Theatre Tuesday night, the chameleonic Costello tried on his latest guise, that of a credible country crooner backed by some of Nashville's most distinguished pickers. Anyone expecting to pump it up with a rock show must have been surprised to see an upright bass instead of a drum kit and Costello, in a suit and tie, wearing a cross between a fedora and a straw hat. Old country music suits Costello, who first plumbed his love of it on 1981's ``Almost Blue,'' featuring covers of songs by the likes of Hank Williams, Merle Haggard, and George Jones. At the Orpheum, he dusted off a few of them, including moving renditions of Haggard's ``Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down'' and Jones

Elvis Costello is a reminder that classic country music isn't about nationality or accent or era. Costello, a British rock musician whose roots reach back to the late 1970s, understands that country isn't a genre so much as a feeling, namely longing. At the Orpheum Theatre last night, the chameleonic Costello tried on his latest guise, that of a credible country crooner backed by some of Nashville's most distinguished pickers. Anyone expecting to pump it up with a rock show must have been surprised to see an upright bass instead of a drum kit and Costello, in a suit and tie, wearing a cross between a fedora and a straw hat. Old country music suits Costello, who first plumbed his love of it on 1981's ``Almost Blue,'' featuring covers of songs by the likes of Hank Williams, Merle Haggard, and George Jones. At the Orpheum, he dusted off a few of them, including moving renditions of Haggard's ``Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down'' and Jones's ``Color of the Blues.'' The set list, in fact, was

Country music icon Hank Williams receives Pulitzer Prize special citation. Hank Williams, the country pioneer who is among the most influential singer-songwriters in music, was given a special Pulitzer Prize citation.

Montana musician rescued from car stuck 4 days in snowbank; wrote goodbye letter before rescue. A 67-year-old country musician from Montana who spent four days in his car stuck on a remote mountain road was weak and losing hope when an Idaho couple out for a drive in their four-wheel-drive vehicle came upon his car.

Alabama governor wages one-man crusade against bingo machines; raids stir racial tensions. The governor of this Bible Belt state is waging a one-man crusade against gambling ? and stirring racial tensions in the process ? by sending state troopers on late-night raids to shut down electronic bingo parlors.