Labor Day weekend will be very different. There will still be a Muscular Dystrophy Association Labor Day Telethon, but Jerry Lewis won’t be hosting. After 44 years as host, he’s retiring, but will ...

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A young country singer named Randy Traywick struggled for years to find success in Nashville but came up empty-handed. Then, after catching the right ears, he was convinced to go by the stage name ...

In this Sept. 7, 1998, file photo, Jerry Lewis stands in front of a countdown board after announcing a record $51.5 million in pledges and contributions for the fight against neuromuscular diseases ...

The Greater North Dakota Muscular Dystrophy Association raised a record $202,575 during this year's Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon. The donations top last year's record by "a few hundred dollars," ...

Each September, the Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Association Labor Day Telethon brings top names from the entertainment world to tens of millions of viewers. The initial show, which was first ...

Why former telethon participants are protesting the return of the Muscular Dystrophy Association’s most famous fundraising effort. Jerry Lewis makes his opening remarks at the 25th Anniversary of the ...

The annual Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon is to raise funds and awareness for fighting Muscular Dystrophy, but four new artists got the chance to raise their profiles during the annual Labor Day weekend ...

Jerry Lewis’s annual Labor Day telethon for the Muscular Dystrophy Association raised more money than ever this year, $63.7-million, according to the charity. But the actor and the event continue to ...

Year after year, Susan Scribner, a Long Beach, Calif., fund-raising consultant, sits through all 21 hours of actor Jerry Lewis’s annual telethon to raise money to fight muscular dystrophy — even ...