Trampled by Turtles event planned at Arrowwood BAXTER - Trampled by Turtles is celebrating 10 years with a May show at the Arrowwood Lodge at Brainerd Lakes in Baxter. The event is 8 p.m. May 9. Tickets for the event went on sale Friday.

Brad Keselowski got the party started Nov. 18 minutes after he won the Sprint Cup Series championship at the Homestead-Miami Speedway and it's become a bender that continues to gain speed. Keselowski finally got to Las Vegas Tuesday ready to accept the bounty of outrunning and outlasting the challenges of 11 other drivers in the Chase for the Championship.

? Call for poets Crossings is organizing an April 2013 exhibit: Poet Artist Collaboration XII. The deadline to enter is Feb. 8. Artwork delivery deadline is March 30.

Opens Tuesday, Dec 4, 2012 Synopsis: Filmmakers Biagio Messina and Joke Fincioen chronicle 35-year-old stand-up comic Steve Mazan's quest to appear on The Late Show with David Letterman after being diagnosed with cancer, and told that he may only have a few years left to live. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi Cast: Steve Mazan Movie Details Play Trailer Movie Review

WASHINGTON - As the GOP candidates have been thrashing it out in debates that seem to occur every couple of hours or so, one almost misses the iconic wink that enraged or beguiled the nation a political season ago. Admit it. You miss Sarah Palin just a little: The wink, the red shoes, the pointing finger, the heck-with-ya attitude and, given the performance of some of her Republican colleagues, her Taser-like intelligence. Yes, it has come to this.

RADNOR, Pa. (AP) - William Shatner says his grief over the death of his third wife last year inspired him to write "Star Trek Preserver," the best-selling novel released in July.

HOLLYWOOD - In his nine years at "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," Jim Brogan helped craft a few thousand monologues and probably helped oversee as many as 45,000 jokes - work that earned him the job title of "vice president in charge of monologues."

NEW YORK - Jeff Gordon is the champion of stock car racing, and for the first time in nearly a year, everything finally seems to make sense in the sport.

If TV is that vast wasteland, there are a lot of people out there.

The unknowing instigator behind a Brainerd Dispatch police item being read on the "Late Show with David Letterman" Monday night may be Brainerd resident Dinah VanWyngeeren. Photos During "Small Town News" Letterman read from the Dispatch's...