'Hee Haw' co-creator and producer Sam Lovullo dies at age 88 - WSMV Channel 4 'Hee Haw' co-creator and producer Sam Lovullo dies at age 88 wnRenderDate('Thursday, January 5, 2017 11:09 PM EST', '', false); wnRenderDate('Friday, January 6, 2017 12:00 AM EST', '', false); By ANDREW DALTONAssociated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) - Sam Lovullo, who as producer and co-creator of "Hee Haw" brought country music and homestyle humor to millions of American homes, has died at age 88, his publicists said Thursday. Lovullo died peacefully at his home in the Encino neighborhood of Los Angeles on Thursday, publicists the Brokaw Company said. No immediate cause of death was given, but Lovullo had been suffering from heart disease. Lovullo worked on TV's "The Jonathan Winters Show" from 1967 and 1969. He and two writers from the show noticed that it enjoyed a ratings spike when country music guests were on. They conceived of "Hee Haw," the variety show that ran for two years on CBS starting in 1969 and went on to a 21-year run in syndication.

Lovullo was producer for all but the last five years. The show affectionately made light of rural culture, featuring country bumpkins and scantily clad farmer's daughters, but was actually produced in Nashville and featured music from country legends like Johnny Cash and Loretta Lynn, who usually donned the same overalls as the cast and got in on the jokes. Its hosts, Buck Owens and Roy Clark, were themselves country music luminaries before the show began. He was an Italian-American native of Los Angeles, but "Hee Haw" made Lovullo a beloved hometown figure in Nashville. In 1974 the Academy of Country Music gave him its Jim Reeves Memorial Award, for people who contribute to the acceptance of country music. Lovullo would write a memoir about his time on the show, "Life in the Kornfield My 25 Years at Hee Haw," which takes its name from the show's fictitious home Kornfield Kounty. He is survived by his wife and four children. His son Torey Lovullo is a former Major League Baseball player who was recently named manager of the Arizona Diamondbacks.

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A Clarksville woman is charged with driving under the influence and reckless endangerment after crashing her car with her child in the vehicle. Clarksville Police are investigating two separate shots fired incidents Saturday night that left five vehicles and a house with damage. Clarksville Police are investigating two separate shots fired incidents Saturday night that left five vehicles and a house with damage.The Trigg County Sheriff’s Office was called out to Lake Barkley State Resort Park early Sunday morning after drugs, alcohol and guns led to a man getting shot in the leg. The Trigg County Sheriff’s Office was called out to Lake Barkley State Resort Park early Sunday morning after drugs, alcohol and guns led to a man getting shot in the leg.An Army soldier was arrested Saturday for punching a police officer and assaulting another man in downtown Nashville.  An Army soldier was arrested Saturday for punching a police officer and assaulting another man in downtown Nashville. 

Police are searching for two men in connection with a shooting at the Shell gas station on Charlotte Pike Saturday night. Police are searching for two men in connection with a shooting at the Shell gas station on Charlotte Pike Saturday night.Police have one suspect in custody and are searching for a second in an attempted carjacking that took place Saturday afternoon in the Percy Priest area.A Crossville man has been charged in the shooting death of a woman in his home early Saturday morning. A Crossville man has been charged in the shooting death of a woman in his home early Saturday morning.Anger over being kicked out of a UC Merced study group drove an 18-year-old computer science student to make a precise plan to kill “a lot of people,” according to a two-page, hand-written manifesto found during his autopsy, authorities said Thursday.Faisal Mohammad, a slender freshman in glasses, entered his Wednesday morning class with a 10-inch knife, a backpack filled with zip-tie handcuffs

, duct tape and, in his pocket, a point-by-point script for vengeance, Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke told reporters: “He had a pretty elaborate idea of what he wanted to do.”“We had an upset teenager that was upset over being kicked out of a study group” for being disruptive, the sheriff said. “He was a teenager, he got mad and took it out this way. “We don’t know what’s going to trigger and we don’t have a crystal ball ... The human person is a very unpredictable being.”Mohammad rolled out his plan, attacking and wounding one student as the professor and others in the room screamed. Then, something happened that interrupted his script, Warnke said. A nearby construction worker heard the screams and burst in. The 31-year-old Merced man tangled with the teen, who slashed him with the knife and then fled the room. Mohammad would stab and wound two other people before he was chased down by campus police and shot to death.“The fortunate part is,” Warnke said, “his plans went haywire because people fought back ... a very brave construction worker who stopped this from going on.

It took his script away from him.”The discovery of the script, with some 24 precise steps and, like a computer software code, instructions to repeat, answered the question of what motivated the quiet teen from Santa Clara to launch the most brazen act of violence to occur on the young UC campus, set in a rural landscape before the Sierra Nevada mountains.While armchair observers on social media were quick to point to Mohammad’s mere name as evidence of terrorism, Warnke said that was not the case.Wearing his signature cowboy hat, the sheriff told a crowd of reporters Thursday “there is nothing to indicate this was anything other than a teenage boy who got upset with fellow classmates.”Asked if the manifesto made any references to Allah, Warnke said there were, but dismissed any suggestion that Mohammad was motivated by religion.“His belief was through the Muslim faith, but there’s nothing to indicate anything other than that,” Warnke said. “It’d be like a Christian referring to the Lord Jesus.”“

You’ve got to remember there are a lot of Muslim-faith (people) that are very kind, gentle, loving people and to have one person do this, you can’t group that whole section of folks into that. It’s just not right,” Warnke said. The note recovered from his body named three students Mohammad planned to kill, names Warnke declined to release. The plan said Mohammed intended to force a student to help him handcuff others in the class. He intended to move to other locations on campus, to fake a call for help in order to ambush a police officer, then take the officer’s gun and go on to kill people at a dormitory.But, Warnke said, Mohammad’s plans were clearly those of a teenager. His backpack contained bags of petroleum jelly that, like a scene from a slapstick movie, he planned to squirt onto floors as a slippery obstacle.“I don’t think he had any actual capability of carrying this out,” Warnke said. “I think he had illusions of grandeur.”Few seem to have known the student, who spend most of his time alone, according to students.