CUMBERLAND — A book on the life of country music star Joe Maphis, nine years in the making, was released last week and is now available on all publishing platforms. Written by Gregory H. Larry, “The ...

Nestled off a side road in Shenandoah County, sits the John Miley Maphis House, a historic frame farmhouse built in 1856 ...

She and her husband, Joe (“Mr. and Mrs. Country Music”), helped give birth to a West Coast music scene later associated with Buck Owens and Merle Haggard. By Bill Friskics-Warren NASHVILLE — Rose Lee ...

CUMBERLAND, Md. — Greg Larry grew up in hearing the tales from his great-uncle Lou Kerns about his friend, Joe Maphis, who left the hills of Cumberland to make a name for himself in California as an ...

Coila Joy Maphis has moved on to a better place where there is only love and peace. She was one of a kind, a real “Treasure” to her family, a special lady, a unique combination of intelligence, ...

Carolyn Louise Maphis, 67, of Hagerstown, MD, passed away on Sunday, September 24, 2023, at Doey’s House. Born September 30, 1955 in Hagerstown, MD, she was the daughter of the late Ernest Lee and ...

Phyllis A. Maphis VIRGINIA BEACH – Phyllis A. Maphis, a resident of Virginia Beach since 1987, died of complications from cancer July 29, 2009, at her son’s home in Virginia Beach. Mrs. Maphis was ...

Bill Maphis planted his first Christmas trees in 1995. "We started selling in 1998 or '99 and we've been selling Christmas trees ever since then," Maphis said. 2018 marks a special year for Maphis ...

I just wanted to take a minute and applaud authorities in Jackson County, Wis., who this week charged a local man for his role in an unintentional child shooting that happened last month. (Thanks to ...

A Santa Barbara man who believed he was Jesus Christ and had been found guilty by reason of insanity for nonfatally slashing the throat of a woman at his uncle’s dinner party six years ago moved one ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Rose Lee Maphis, a singer and guitarist who, with her husband, Joe, was a mainstay of the early years of live country music television, died Tuesday at her home. She was 98. Her son ...