Sad news for George Strait -- his father, John Strait, died yesterday after being hospitalized for nearly a month.

George released the following statement: “We are grateful for the time over the last few weeks we were able to spend with Daddy before he passed away. I want to thank everyone for their prayers and support during this difficult time as we mourn our family’s loss.”

Mr. Strait, who was 91, was a junior high school mathematics teacher, as well as a rancher on his property outside of Big Wells, Texas. The family worked at the ranch on the weekends and in the summers. 

“It’s a long story,” he explained, “but when she was conceived, there was a song playing. It’s one of my first, a song off my first record, called That Would Be Her, and the first line of the song is ‘Have You Ever Seen a River,’  so we named her Dylan River.”

A cassette tape of REBA MCENTIRE'S 1987 album "The Last One to Know" has survived the tornado in Moore, Oklahoma.  A cleanup volunteer found the cassette and Reba posted a photoof it.

She wrote, "May 30, 2013.  Talk about full circle!  A tornado cleanup volunteer found a Reba tape in the midst of the wreckage."

The Internet is obsessed with cats and stupid self-portraits . . . so it's about time someone combined them.  The latest stupid online photo trend is called CAT BEARDING.

To take one, hold your cat up while he's looking straight up, and so his face is covering the bottom of YOUR face.  It makes it look like the cat's mouth is your mouth . . . and the rest of the cat is your beard.