(AP) Forty years after Virginia-born country singer Patsy Cline died in a plane crash near the marshy banks of the Tennessee River, fans leave plastic flowers and written messages at the crash site.

Singer Patsy Cline died in 1963 in a plane crash along with fellow country musicians Cowboy Copas and Hawkshaw Hawkins; she was only 30. A decade later, Cline became the first solo female artist ...

The death of Patsy Cline marked one of the darkest days in the history of country music — and, years later, witnesses ...

Since Cline’s death in 1963, Fudge has been the authority on all things Patsy, even though she was only 4 when her mother died. “The advantage I’ve had is the blessing of audio/visual and the stories ...