NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Country giant Merle Haggard, who celebrated outlaws, underdogs and an abiding sense of national pride in such hits as "Okie From Muskogee" and "Sing Me Back Home," died ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Country giant Merle Haggard, who rose from poverty and prison to international fame though his songs about outlaws, underdogs and an abiding sense of national pride in such ...

Oops: Original hed had a typo in the age. Country music great Merle Haggard died today of undisclosed causes at his home near Redding, about 450 miles north of ...

A photo of Merle Haggard from the commemorative plaque outside the Haggard House at the Kern County Museum. (Rebekah Kearn/Courthouse News) BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (CN) — When I read that the late country ...

Merle Haggard, the working man’s poet, an architect of the Bakersfield Sound, and an artist who influenced country music like few others, died Wednesday in California. He had just turned 79 years old, ...

DALLAS (CBSDFW/AP) - Country music legend Merle Haggard has died in Palo Cedro, California at age 79. The news of his death was confirmed by Haggard's manager, Frank Mull, who said the country icon ...