“The Amazing Race” has had twists that sent teams home before leaving Los Angeles, but no Racer has ever gone less distance than William “Bopper” Minton. Sunday (February 23) night's “Amazing Race: ...

How close were you to Art and JJ? Bopper: I don't know, but looking at the shadow on the mat, we'd come in pretty late after them. We were three hours behind from the beginning. We did our best, but I ...

METAIRIE, La. (WVUE/Gray News) - As the country grapples with the ongoing threat of school shootings, a man in Louisiana believes his invention could provide a non-lethal solution to save lives and ...

How do you say goodbye if you never got to say hello? Jay Richardson was born almost three months after his father J.P. Richardson — better known as the Big Bopper — died in a violent Iowa plane crash ...

In 1959, George Jones notched his first ever Number One single with the rambunctious ode to moonshine, “White Lightning.” But the then 27-year-old singer, who would go on to be heralded as the ...

CLEAR LAKE, IOWA - The plane crash that took the lives of J.P. "Big Bopper" Richardson, Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens is one of rock music's pivotal moments, more significant than an electrified ...

BEAUMONT — Rock ‘n’ roll’s most macabre historical artifact will go on the block when the family of the late 1950s pop star J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson auctions his casket on eBay sometime in the ...

Rumors of the Big Bopper's casket being placed on eBay may have been greatly exaggerated. Or maybe not. News that the son of J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson was considering selling his father's ...

Mark: We knew no matter what, we gotta try. The Fast Forward was good. It was the only lifeline we had and we went for it. ... We didn't know for sure we would be eliminated, but we thought we might.