Las Vegas Sun

May 7, 2024

FILE - In this Nov. 6, 2006 file photo, Grand Ole Opry star Little Jimmy Dickens arrives at the 40th Annual CMA Awards in Nashville, Tenn. Dickens has been hospitalized with an undisclosed illness. Jessie Schmidt, a publicist for the Opry, said in a news release Sunday, Dec. 28, 2014, that Dickens was admitted to a Nashville-area hospital on Dec. 25 and that he's in "critical care."

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FILE - In this Nov. 6, 2006 file photo, Grand Ole Opry star Little Jimmy Dickens arrives at the 40th Annual CMA Awards in Nashville, Tenn. Dickens has been hospitalized with an undisclosed illness. Jessie Schmidt, a publicist for the Opry, said in a news release Sunday, Dec. 28, 2014, that Dickens was admitted to a Nashville-area hospital on Dec. 25 and that he's in "critical care."