The character-driven Tumbleweed Connection doesn't sound anything like the sleek soundtrack work that Elton John devolved into by the '90s. It hardly sounds like his peak '70s stuff, either. This Old ...

A large Russian thistle plant is shown growing along a fenceline. The USDA proposes to biologically control Russian thistle with a mite. (Courtesy Forest and Kim Starr/Star Environmental) The USDA ...

At the height of his career, Slim Whitman proudly bore the title “America’s Favorite Folk Artist.” Ironically, his career seemed to do much better overseas in the U.K. Whitman’s “countrypolitan” blend ...

Whitman was at one point known as "America's Favorite Folksinger," but he was far more popular overseas. His music saved the Earth from aliens in... Country Singer Slim Whitman, Known For His Yodel, ...

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - Strong winds will sweep across West Texas and eastern New Mexico today with even stronger winds Friday. In addition to stampeding tumbleweeds, blowing dust may result in poor ...

Seventy years ago this month, "Ellis" Presley performed at the Overton Park Shell. That's what it said in that day's edition of the Memphis Press-Scimitar, the city's daily evening newspaper. "In ...

Fire Chief Nickolus Thomas’ specially-trained firefighters at the Hanford site in southeast Washington burned 30,000 cubic feet of tumbleweeds in just one spot earlier this year. Out here, he says a ...

A Los Angeles superior court judge sentenced a man to 32 years in prison for killing rapper Slim 400. Born Vincent Cohran Jr., Slim 400 was 33 years old when he was fatally shot outside his Inglewood ...

Whatever moved Eminem to actually finish and release his new album, it couldn’t have been the money. It wasn’t to add to his fame, which is already secure. It’s not because he had anything to say, any ...

“You created me to say everything you didn’t have the balls to say,” raps Eminem, or, more technically, his alter ego Slim Shady on “Guilty Conscience 2,” a cut off the emcee’s 12th album “The Death ...

In New Orleans last November, between two new apartment buildings where the Magnolia public housing development once stood, paradegoers lined up to take photos with a life-size cutout of the rapper ...

The rapper recently ran a faux obituary for his alter ego in a newspaper, ahead of his upcoming album release Kate Hogan was Director of Digital Specials and Features at PEOPLE. She started at PEOPLE ...