Jerry Reed — songwriter for the likes of Elvis Presley, singer and busy actor in the ’70s and ’80s — died Monday at the age of 71. Best known to movie fans as the truck-driving, hound dog-loving ...

Jerry Reed, a singer who became a good ol’ boy actor in car chase movies like “Smokey and the Bandit,” has died of complications from emphysema at 71.His longtime booking agent, Carrie Moore-Reed, no ...