Today in Music History for Dec. 21: In 1672, Benjamin Schmolck, German Lutheran clergyman and prolific hymn writer, was born. Though a busy pastor, he found time to pen 900 hymns, the best remembered ...

Country singer-songwriter Helen Cornelius, best known as one-half of a duo with Jim Ed Brown, was born on Dec. 6, 1941.

The recipient of this week's Ben's Bell is Tiana Ronstadt, who runs a financial advising company and uses her skills to help disadvantaged women get ahead in life. Ronstadt was nominated by her ...