Trisha Yearwood (AP file)

Grammy-winning country music star and best-selling cookbook author Trisha Yearwood has signed a deal to star in a six-episode daytime cooking show for the Food Network, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The show is now in production in Nashville and set to debut in April.

In the as-yet-untitled series, the Owasso resident will share food traditions and display her Southern hospitality, sharing recipes with friends and family and preparing Sunday dinners to planning family reunion barbecues. Each of the six themed episodes will invite viewers into …

Premiere Networks, the leading audio network in the U.S., and Oklahoma country music star Garth Brooks, one of the best-selling solo artists in history with worldwide album sales exceeding 90 million, have announced they have joined efforts to create a first-ever national radio promotion for the country super star, who is currently performing at the Wynn Las Vegas.

According to a news release, “Garth Brooks Wynn at Las Vegas Sweepstakes” is running across Premiere’s syndicated country programs — “After MidNite with Blair Garner,” “The Big D & Bubba Show” and …

Garth Brooks holds his cellular phone in the air for fans to yell "Hi Trisha" to his wife Trisha Yearwood, who called him back after he won his breach-of-contract trial, at the Rogers County Courthouse, in Claremore, Okla, on Tuesday. Jurors on Tuesday evening ruled that the hospital must return Brooks' $500,000 donation plus pay him $500,000 in punitive damages. The decision came in Brooks' breach-of-contract lawsuit against Integris Canadian Valley Regional Hospital in Yukon. Brooks said he thought he'd reached a deal in 2005 with the hospital's president, James

Garth Brooks and family friend Shirley Gilliam arrive at the Rogers County Courthouse in Claremore on Monday, January 23, 2012. Matt Barnard/Tulsa World

The Associated Press just moved this story; the jury has ruled in favor of Oklahoma country music star Garth Brooks in his lawsuit against Integris’ Yukon hospital:

CLAREMORE – An Oklahoma jury has ruled that a hospital in Garth Brooks’ hometown must return $500,000 to the country singer because it didn’t build a women’s center to honor his late mother.

Jurors sided with Brooks on Tuesday in …

Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood (right) greet fans before a civil trial at the Rogers County Courthouse in Claremore, Okla. on Friday, January 20, 2012. Photo by Matt Barnard/Tulsa World

CLAREMORE – Country music superstar Garth Brooks tearfully told jurors Friday (today) that he believed he had a “done deal” to honor his late mother with a women’s health center in his Oklahoma hometown, according to the Associated Press.

Brooks said he still doesn’t understand how he received nothing for his $500,000 gift to the Yukon hospital.

Born in Tulsa, …

Country music stars Garth Brooks, right, and and his wife Trisha Yearwood leave the courtroom at Rogers County Courthouse, in Claremore, Okla., on Tuesday. Brooks is suing Integris Canadian Valley Hospital for the return of a donation he made in 2005. (AP Photo/Tulsa World, Cory Young)

CLAREMORE – Jurors began hearing testimony this (Wednesday) afternoon in country music star Garth Brooks’ civil suit against Integris Canadian Valley Regional Hospital in his hometown of Yukon, according to the Associated Press.

Brooks’ lawyers told jurors today that a hospital’s internal documents support …

Oklahoma country music star Garth Brooks performs onstage at the 42nd Annual Songwriters Hall of Fame Awards in New York on Thursday, June 16, 2011. Brooks was inducted into the songwriters hall at the event (AP Photo)

CLAREMORE – Country music superstar Garth Brooks’ lawsuit against Integris Canadian Valley Regional Hospital in Yukon goes to trial today in Rogers County, reports the Tulsa World’s Rhett Morgan.

The Owasso resident sued the Yukon hospital in 2009. He alleges that he gave $500,000 in exchange for the hospital’s promise to name a …

Oklahoma country music superstar Garth Brooks is celebrating his second anniversary of playing Vegas, having performed to sold-out crowds and rave reviews inside the intimate Encore Theater at Wynn Las Vegas since December 2009.

The Owasso resident recently talked with Robin Leach, formerly of TV’s “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous,” about his two-year Wynn residency, his Dec. 10 six-year wedding anniversary with Trisha Yearwood and his musical plans after his younger graduates high school in 2014. To read the interview, click here.

Tickets for the next series of Brooks’ …

Oklahoma country music star Garth Brooks wipes away a tear as he is inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame on Sunday in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photos)

Oklahoma music megastar Garth Brooks was inducted Sunday into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.

The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame Foundation ushered Brooks and fellow country music superstar Alan Jackson into the hall’s songwriter/artist category. Hit writers John Bettis, Thom Schuyler and Allen Shamblin were inducted in the songwriter division.

Alan Jackson speaks as he is inducted into the Nashville Songwriters

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Garth Brooks (AP file)

Oklahoma music megastar Garth Brooks has performed to sold-out crowds and rave reviews inside the intimate Encore Theater at Wynn Las Vegas since December 2009. New dates through February 2012 have been released for the highly anticipated concerts, and tickets will go on sale at 10 a.m. Pacific/noon Central Saturday. Tickets are $225 plus tax and service charge and are available exclusively at www.Ticketmaster.com or by calling (877) 65-GARTH. For more information, go to www.wynnlasvegas.com.

Certified by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) as the …