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What a trip it’s been for the Telluride Bluegrass Festival as it celebrates its 50th anniversary starting Thursday.

Tickets are available for the benefit concert at the Lyric Theatre.

After lighting it up for three years at Illinois State, Antonio Reeves his great aspirations for his "last year" of college hoops.

There was only one prize-winning teenager carrying stones big enough to say thanks, but no thanks to Roy Acuff. Only one son of Kentucky finding a light of inspiration from Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys and catching a fire from Bob Marley and The Wailers. Only one progressive hippie allying with like-minded conspirators, rolling out the New Grass revolution, and then leaving the genre's torch-bearing band behind as it reached its commercial peak.

The Laramie County Sheriff's Office has partnered with Othram -- the first private laboratory built to apply the power of modern parallel sequencing to forensic evidence -- in hopes of identifying a homicide victim known for 33 years as "Baby John Doe." "We're hoping to raise a total of $5,000 for the laboratory to do their examination of the evidence that's been submitted," said Deputy Jeff Barnes. "We're kind of hoping this will give us some additional leads to go on and open this cold case." In February of 1988, a couple that had gone out for a walk discovered the body of a newborn baby bo...