 01/26/10 The Dave Matthews Band will perform this Sunday at the Grammy Awards ceremony, where they're nominated for "Album of the Year" and "Best Rock Album" for 2009's Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King . But the performance will be just a warm-up: the South Africa-born singer/songwriter and Co. have announced a massive summer tour of North America, kicking off May 28 in Hartford, CT. For the 49-date ...
 01/25/10 Pacific Coast League: The city of Portland (OR) has reached a final agreement to renovate PGE Park, which has been home to the Portland Beavers of the Triple-A PCL, and turn it into a soccer-specific stadium for a Major League Soccer (MLS) franchise that will start play in 2011. The Beavers' owner, who also owns the MLS franchise, was reportedly still looking for funding and a proposed ballpark ...
 01/24/10 James McMurtry fans can now stay up to date with concert information, photos, videos, music and blog posts while they are on the go with the his new official iPhone application.
 01/23/10 Champions Tour player Jim Thorpe has been sentenced to a year in prison for failing to pay more than $2 million in income taxes.
 01/22/10 Roy Sheppard Scudday, 88, of Fort Davis, born July 8, 1921, in Sweetwater, the son of Roy C. Scudday and Viva Sheppard Scudday, died at his home in Fort Davis Jan. 6, 2010.
 01/22/10 A disturbing discovery in Brewster County after Sheriff's officials stumble upon what appears to be a murder-suicide.
 01/22/10 Trainer who says he gave McGwire performance-enhancing drugs and also supplied steroids to Jose Canseco casts doubt on McGwire's contention that he took them for health and not for strength.
 01/18/10 Whenever we talk of home, we think of a place where we can rest after a long hectic and perturbing d...
 01/10/10 Gary HerronObserver staff writer The first mayor of Rio Rancho, William D. Howden, was charged with molesting his own granddaughter in Bernalillo County last Thursday.
 01/06/10 Cardinals will pay the outfielder $120 million in the biggest deal of baseball's off-season. Matt Holliday is staying with the St. Louis Cardinals, agreeing Tuesday to a seven-year, $120-million contract that is baseball's richest deal of the off-season.
 01/06/10 After 34 years of holding a community steak bake, the Bucks Cove Rod and Gun Club say their tradition may have to come to a close. The permit cost for holding it is just too great. Though never charged in past, the club was hit with a $2,788.60 permit fee from Texas Township, to hold the event September 20, 2009.
 01/05/10 On this day in 1998, Sonny Bono, the 1960's pop star-turned-politician, was killed at age 62 when he struck a tree while skiing.
 01/05/10 Layoffs and closures littered the path of an ailing economy as it limped toward recovery in 2009. In November, Cascade Steel Rolling Mills in McMinnville announced the fourth round of layoffs in 12 months.
 01/04/10 With a decision fast approaching on whether to add onto the fire-gutted Texas Governor's Mansion as part of its restoration, a growing chorus of state historical officials has joined opposition to the plan.
 12/31/09 Lighting design firm earns award Robert Singer and Kim Quint of Basalt-based lighting design firm Robert Singer & Associates, Inc. recently received an Award of Merit in the 2009 IES Illumination Awards. read more
 12/29/09 NEW YORK - Jon Gosselin's apartment was ransacked by someone who slashed furniture, stole his TV and left a note pinned to his dresser with a butcher knife while he visited his children for Christmas, his lawyer said Sunday.
12/29/09 Brewster County is now under a burn ban after a big blaze. NewsWest 9 has learned Deputies across the County are now enforcing it.
 12/29/09 The Capital Regional District Board in an in-camera meeting on Wednesday, Jan. 7 voted to appeal the BC Supreme Court ruling on CRD local area planning bylaws in the Juan de Fuca Electoral Area. The vote was in response to a report on the court judgement brought forward by CRD lawyers.
 12/21/09 Dec. 21 (Bloomberg) -- New York Liberty Development Corp., a state arm created to finance loans for rebuilding in lower Manhattan, seeks to meet a year-end deadline this week to sell tax-exempt bonds for three World Trade Center skyscrapers.
12/20/09 Over five-hundred dedicated volunteers from all over the region have gathered to build a new worship hall here in Amarillo. The Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses, this brand new worship hall will serve 3 different congregations here in town.
 12/20/09 LEHI -- Early Saturday was a usual quiet weekend sunrise for the Lehi community, until sirens began screaming and vehicle lights started flashing. | 
