J.J. Johnson

The ’70s was the era of the Big Family Band. Joe Cocker’s Mad Dogs and Englishmen toured with more than 30 musicians. The Grateful Dead, the Allman Brothers, Delaney and Bonnie and Friends (with Eric Clapton), Santana, the Mothers of...

The George Rogers Clark boys soccer team scored a season-high nine goals in a shutout of Fleming County Saturday night at the Cardinal Soccer Complex. The win was the third of the year for the Cardinals, who have posted shutouts in two of those contests....

The George Rogers Clark cross country teams opened the season Saturday, with the girls and boys teams placing second in the 18th annual Beast in the East Invitational at Owsley County. Grayson Brookshire led the Cardinals in the 11-team meet. Brookshire,...

If you didn’t know better, you’d think Lady Gaga was in the house and the kids were piling in to catch a glance.     But these kids are different. Sure, they’ve got guitars strapped over their shoulders and anticipation in their eyes....

Bob Brookmeyer, a jazz trombonist, composer, arranger and educator whose multifaceted career reached from cutting-edge performances with Gerry Mulligan and Stan Getz to innovative big band compositions and highly regarded classes at the New England...

GERONIMO, Okla. -- A woman found beaten to death in a motor home recently sought a protective order against her estranged husband, an ex-convict who was charged Tuesday with killing her and kidnapping her 7-year-old daughter. Comanche County...

The actors who portray passengers on board "United 93" encountered loved ones of their real-life counterparts for the first time Tuesday night as the controversial movie kicked off the Tribeca Film Festival at the Ziegfeld Theatre. Cheyenne Jackson...

Thinking of getting a CD-ROM encyclopedia for your computer? Don't do it. Not if you already have an Internet connection. The two most popular encyclopedia CD-ROMs -- Encarta Encyclopedia Deluxe 2001, which sells for about $45, and the venerable...

This was the Dan Marino we were told so loudly in recent weeks did not exist anymore, could not exist, never would exist again in a Dolphins uniform. The game was against him. The game plan was against him. The score, the noise, the third down, the...

Year, Player, Pick, Pos., College 2004 -- NO PICK 2003 -- Eddie Moore (49), LB, Tennessee 2002 -- NO PICK 2001 -- *Chris Chambers (52), WR, Wisconsin 2000 -- *Todd Wade (53), T, Mississippi 1999 -- J.J. Johnson (39), RB, Mississippi St.; *Rob Konrad...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - The killing of Odai and Qusai Hussein has led to a surge of tips to occupying authorities, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said yesterday amid reports that an early morning raid by U.S. troops in Tikrit missed seizing Saddam...

TIKRIT, Iraq - U.S. soldiers intensified their search for Saddam Hussein yesterday, launching dozens of raids and detaining more than 175 suspected loyalists to the deposed Iraqi leader. With the raids unfolding here, an Arabic-language television...