The chair of Travis Perkins is to step down at the end of next month, the builders merchant announced on Tuesday, just a month after the resignation of its chief executive.
In 2013 country singer Randy Travis suffered a massive stroke, which paralyzed his right side and damaged an area of his brain that controls speech and language. He has not quite recovered the ability to sing, but working with singer James DuPre and a computer program that creates an AI-generated version of his voice, Travis and his longtime producer Kyle Lehning have created a new song, "Where That Came From," that captures Randy's country heart. Lee Cowan reports.
By Jerrie Whiteley Herald Democrat Two men are still vying for the Republican nomination to the Precinct 1 seat on the Grayson County Commissioner’s Court. The runoff election between Scott Renfro and Josh Marr will take place on May 28. Early voting is May 20-24. The winner of this contest will face Democrat Andre Luper in the fall. Renfro and Marr were recently asked to answer three questions for the Herald Democrat. Renfro’s answers are below. Q. What is your vision for the future of Grayson...
Randy Travis has returned to the spotlight with a brand-new song, marking his first release since 2013, when a severe stroke nearly took his life. The announcement of his latest single, “Where That Came From,” comes after a long journey of recovery from aphasia, a condition that impaired his ability to speak and sing following […]
Residents and businesses in the City of Scott are subject to restrictions on their water usage beginning today, May 1.
FORT SCOTT, Kan. — Communities across the four states affected by the deluge of rain this weekend are in clean-up mode. Among them is Fort Scott. Getting rid of the remnants of weekend flooding is what many businesses were doing on Tuesday, among them, the staff of Pete's Convenience Store in the northern part of []
Scott McLaughlin of New Zealand capped off a dominant week for Team Penske by winning from the pole at the Children's of Alabama Indy Grand Prix on Sunday in Birmingham, Ala. It marked McLaughlin's second straight win in Alabama. He beat teammate Will Power of Australia by 1.3194 seconds after leading 58 of 90 laps around Barber Motorsports Park. Their 1-2 showing came after Team Penske received sanctions for illegal use of the push-to-pass system in the season opener at St. Petersburg. Josef...
On the heels of releasing her new album, “The Tortured Poets Department,” America’s most famous woman visited Carmel. See where she was spotted.
Australian tech billionaire Scott Farquhar has announced he will step down as head of Atlassian, 23 years after he founded the software start-up alongside university classmate Mike Cannon-Brookes. Mr Cannon-Brookes will continue as the company’s sole chief executive, Atlassian announced in a letter to shareholders early on Friday morning AEST. Mr Farquhar will take up […]
Even if you're not into country, you can't help but bathe in the baritone that is Randy Travis. His voice goes down like whisky – always has, ever since his first album, "Storms of Life," in 1986. "I thought if we sold 40,000 copies they might let us make a second record." said producer Kyle Lehning.They ended up selling four million. "So, I'm a genius!" Lehning laughed. Randy Travis and that voice helped build Warner Music Nashville into what it is today. "How do you describe the thing that...
Taylor Swift might have to get back to work, but her BF Travis Kelce is still in vacay mode, and his personal party train's pulled into Louisville for the Kentucky Derby. The NFL's newly minted highest-paid tight end was in KY Friday night chilling…
Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson, Reba McEntire, Vince Gill, and Travis Tritt are all country music superstars for their own reasons, but in 1992, they shared more in common than you may think. A Look Back at The 27th Annual ACM Awards In the legendary country scene of 1992, a stellar group of artists lit up […]