The spectacle of Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer’s speech and the glee Democrats displayed over having a real, live over-the-top, walking (wildly inaccurate) stereotype of “regula Midwest folk” ...

SAGERTON – Fifty years is a long time to be telling the same jokes. OK, that’s not true. But does Larry LeFevre prefer groans or laughs when he’s writing the script for the Sagerton Hee Haw each year?

Ronald W. Erdrich/Reporter-News Leon Stegemoeller sings as Dickie Greenwood accompanies him on guitar during a musical interlude at Friday night's Sagerton Hee Haw, April 1, 2016. The homespun variety ...

Frank Peppiatt, the co-creator of “Hee Haw,” a landmark variety show mixing country music with “corny” humor that became one of TV’s most unlikely and longest-running hits, has died. He was 85.

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