Carrie Underwood's Blown Away continues to be Billboard's best-selling album for the second week, topping both the country and all-genres chart.

With summer almost here and the mercury rising, let's dip into a freshly-filled pool of country albums. They're always good for some much-needed relief.

A.J. Ellis drew a four-pitch, bases-loaded walk in the ninth inning Friday to give the Los Angeles Dodgers a 6-5 win over St. Louis. St. Louis tied the game in the top of the ninth on a two-out homer by Lance Berkman, but wildness by Fernando Salas in the bottom half of the inning led [...]

Miguel Montero came through with a tiebreaking, two-run double in the eighth inning Friday that boosted Arizona to a 6-4 decision over Kansas City. Kansas City let an early 3-1 lead slip away, then came back to tie it in the seventh before the Diamondbacks produced three straight hits to open the eighth. Willie Bloomquist [...]

The USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has lifted the quarantines on two Central California dairies associated with that BSE-positive cow found April 24th at a rendering plant. APHIS says tests performed by World Organization for Animal Health labs in Canada and England confirmed the cow had atypical BSE, a rare, spontaneous form of [...]

It’s one of the earliest springs anyone can remember.   Steve Johnsen, an agronomist for Monsanto in southeast Nebraska, says when he ran the numbers this week on heat unit accumulation for a plot near Bruning, they were about double the 30-year average. “From the planting date to until the 17th of May, we were sitting at 316 [...]