WELLINGTON , New Zealand - A New Zealand farm lobby group says sheep shearing has the potential to become an Olympic demonstration sport. Just don't count on seeing it at London next summer or Rio ...

Shearing often joked about the success of "Lullaby of Birdland." At his 80th-birthday celebration at Carnegie Hall in 1999, he introduced the song by saying, "I have been credited with writing 300 ...

Pianist and composer Sir George Shearing has died, at age 91. Born blind, Shearing was a self-taught musician, the youngest of nine children of a London coal man. In a career spent almost entirely ...

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JAMESTOWN, R.I. -- People looking to enjoy a spring day headed to Conanicut Island and one of its pastoral attractions to witness an annual farm ritual — sheep shearing at the Watson Farm.

There is the 11th Annual Sheep Shearing Festival, which will be back, or perhaps "baa-ck" is more accurate, at the Highland Springs Ranch & Inn-based farm over a few March and April weekends.