Dolly Parton, who often refers to her Smoky Mountains upbringing, will serve as the ambassador for the 75th anniversary of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

By Trevor Chesterfield If he were alive today, John Arlott would have smiled at the irony of it all. So would have the parents of Basil Lewis D’Oliveira. You could place major wager on it as well that if he were also alive, John Vorster,...

For thousands in South Texas, Hurricane Dolly could turn out to be the worst sort of storm _ strong enough to rip away their roofs and flood their homes, but not devastating enough to draw an immediate aid offer of federal...

Forecasters say Dolly has weakened to a tropical depression with 35 mph winds as it moves north over Texas.Dolly was expected to break up by Friday, and was centered about 35 miles south of Eagle Pass at 5 p.m. EDT.Residents across south Texas...

Hurricane Dolly probably doomed South Texas’s cotton and sorghum crops already damaged by heavy rains earlier in the summer. But analysts said the loss, while devastating for local producers, will have only a short-term effect on...

Forecasters say Dolly has weakened to a tropical storm.At 11 p.m. EDT Wednesday, the center of the storm was about 55 miles northwest of Brownsville, Texas. The storm is moving west near 7 miles per hour.Forecasters at the National Hurricane...

Forecasters say Dolly has become a hurricane and is heading toward southern Texas and northeastern Mexico.Dolly was upgraded from a tropical storm to a Category 1 hurricane Tuesday afternoon and some strengthening is forecast before landfall...

High gas prices have driven a Warren County farmer and his sons to hitch a tractor rake to a pair of mules to gather hay from their fields. T.R. Raymond bought Dolly and Molly at the Dixon mule sale last year. Son Danny Raymond trained them and...

Dolly Parton visited the woods overlooking Douglas Lake near the Great Smoky Mountains in designer buckskins and 4-inch heels. But she knew she wasn’t the star of this show. It was a young American bald eagle.The eagle was blown from its nest...

Dolly Parton knows a good investment when she sees one, and these days she sees one in the mirror.Parton, whose business portfolio includes a theme park and an entertainment production company, says she’s spending a lot of her own money...