BEAUMONT, Texas -- 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 ...

BEAUMONT, Texas (AP) — Perhaps 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 ...

Beaumont, TX -- The rumors that The Big Bopper survived the plane crash and was trying to get help when he died have no scientific evidence to back them up. An expert forensic anthropologist has ...

It drew the first tears of rock 'n' roll, a culture so young death was new. Fifty years ago this morning, Buddy Holly, J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson and Ritchie Valens died when the tiny plane they ...