Marion "Suge" Knight, the former music mogul who created one of hip-hop's leading labels and became the impresario of gangster rap, was arrested early Friday on suspicion of hitting and killing a man with his truck and then fleeing the crash near Los Angeles.

Miranda Lambert is continuing her reign as contemporary country queen with eight nominations at this year's Academy of Country Music Awards.

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Rod McKuen, the husky-voiced "King of Kitsch" whose avalanche of music, verse and spoken-word recordings in the 1960s and '70s overwhelmed critical mockery and made him an Oscar-nominated songwriter and one of the best-selling poets in history, has died. He was 81.

A look at Death Row Records founder Marion "Suge" Knight's troubles over the past 20 years:

Broadway artists will be joining the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra for two concerts in Sioux Falls.

Organizers of a Swiss music festival say Israeli conductor Israel Yinon collapsed during a performance and died.

With deadline for possible prisoner swap past, Islamic State group silent, families in limbo

Bethanie Mattek-Sands had relatives in about five U.S. states wide awake watching as she and Lucie Safarova won the women's doubles title at the Australian Open on Friday.

The sounds of the flute will resound in the Mall of America this weekend.

University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has named a new band director after the previous director was removed during a public dispute over the band's changing role.

Missy Elliott is going to "Work It" at the Super Bowl with Katy Perry.

Katy Perry says her Super Bowl halftime performance will make you "Roar" — with animals.

Rod McKuen, the husky-voiced "King of Kitsch" whose avalanche of music, verse and spoken-word recordings in the 1960s and '70s overwhelmed critical mockery and made him an Oscar-nominated songwriter and one of the best-selling poets in history, has died. He was 81.

Stars who play at least four nights in Atlantic City would be freed from having to pay state income taxes on all shows in the state that year under the latest proposal to revive the struggling seaside resort.