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A founding member of long-running Virginia jam band the Dave Matthews Band has passed away, a rep for the band has revealed in a statement released to Access Hollywood. He was 46 years old. “LeRoi Moore, saxophonist and founding member of Dave Matthews Band, died unexpectedly Tuesday afternoon, August 19, 2008, at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Los Angeles from sudden complications stemming from his June ATV accident on his farm near Charlottesville, Virginia,” the rep stated. “Moore had recently returned to his Los Angeles home to begin an intensive physical rehabilitation program.” Moore, who played flute and pennywhistle in...

LeRoi Moore was injured today in an ATV accident on his farm outside Charlottesville, Virginia. LeRoi was immediately transported to the University of Virginia Health System for treatment where he remains in serious condition. Please join us all in wishing LeRoi a speedy and complete recovery. Beginning tomorrow in Charlotte, NC, Béla Fleck and the Flecktones saxophonist, Jeff Coffin, will be sitting in with Dave Matthews Band while LeRoi recovers. **Update** An Update on LeRoi 07/01/2008 LeRoi’s condition has been upgraded from serious to fair. We would like to thank everyone for the generous outpouring of well wishes and support...

The state's largest newspaper announced last week it will stop transporting its publication to the Oregon Coast south of Coos Bay, including all of Curry County. The Oregonian cited rising transportation and distribution costs in a typed letter sent to current subscribers. According to the letter, obtained by the Curry Coastal Pilot, the affected coastline and and rural parts of "far Eastern Oregon" make up less than 3 percent of the paper's total circulation of 318,286 daily and 380,939 on Sunday. The two areas will stop receiving the paper Jan. 1, 2007, the letter stated. Kevin Denney, director of circulation...

We had an extended debate at the office today....what was the best "MTv Unplugged" performance? Me? Hands down....Alice in Chains! Before any reasons are discussed ..... I was curious as to anyone else's opinions or preferences on the topic?

OUR OPINION: AN OCCASION TO REAFFIRM COMMITMENT TO THE COMMUNITY The Miami Herald enters a new era today. The McClatchy Co. will assume ownership and corporate stewardship of this newspaper and its century-old tradition of quality journalism and dedication to the prosperity and well-being of the communities it serves. The sale of this newspaper is an occasion to reaffirm our commitment to those principles and to welcome a corporate parent with its own history of success and devotion to those same ideas. Second largest chain James McClatchy, the progenitor of McClatchy Co., was an Irish immigrant who would well have...

Edited By Jonathan Cohen. August 31, 2005, 3:20 PM ET DMB Show To Benefit Katrina Victims By Ray Waddell, Nashville Dave Matthews Band is the first act to come forward with a benefit show for Hurricane Katrina victims, Billboard.com has learned. It is expected to be announced tomorrow (Sept. 1) that DMB will add a fourth date to its Sept. 9-11 sellouts at Red Rocks near Denver, with proceeds from the Sept. 12 show to benefit Katrina victims. Tickets will go on sale next week. Meanwhile, Katrina is making its presence felt in the touring industry. Among the large venues...

Ben & Jerry's recently unveiled its spring line of flavors, and the makers of Chunky Monkey and Cherry Garcia have introduced a new taste that's likely to be a hit -- except perhaps in Chicago. Dave Matthews Band Magic Brownies. For those who recall the incident of last August, you have to think that everyone involved -- ice cream maker and band members alike -- could have picked a less-disquieting flavor. It was Aug. 8 when a bus driver, transporting the members of the band, dumped the bus' septic tank while driving across the Kinzie Street Bridge, dousing a tour...

CHICAGO (AP) A bus driver for the Dave Matthews Band pleaded guilty Wednesday to dumping 800 pounds of human waste from the vehicle's septic tank onto a sightseeing boat on the Chicago River last summer. The driver, Stefan Wohl, was sentenced to 18 months probation, 150 hours of community service and the maximum $10,000 fine, which will be paid to Friends of the Chicago River, said Tom Stanton, a spokesman for the Cook County State's Attorney's office. Wohl, 42, of Selma, Texas, pleaded guilty to the original charges filed against him in January, reckless conduct and discharging contaminates to cause...

Owners of the Chicago's Little Lady tour boat are the latest to file a civil lawsuit against the Dave Matthews Band, claiming human waste from the rock band's tour bus was emptied from a downtown bridge into the Chicago River --right in the path of the watercraft. Children, senior citizens, persons with disabilities and a pregnant woman were drenched by the "foul-smelling, brownish-yellow liquid" in the Aug. 8 incident, according to a suit filed by the vessel's owner Wednesday in Cook County Circuit Court. Mercury Skyline Yacht Charters Inc. is seeking compensatory damages in excess of $50,000 and punitive damages...

CHICAGO (CBS/AP) The tour bus driver for the Dave Matthews Band was formally charged Wednesday with dumping human waste on passengers of a sightseeing boat. The alleged driver, Stefan A. Wohl, surrendered to police Wednesday. He faces two misdemeanor charges of reckless conduct and contaminating the Chicago River. Whol, 42, was released on $1,000 bond. Wohl now faces up to one year in prison and a $10,000 fine. In August, passengers were hit with 80 to 100 gallons of waste as they cruised under the Kinzie Street bridge. Investigators said the dumping could not have been an accident. Cook County...

CHICAGO -- Another personal injury lawsuit was filed Monday against the Dave Matthews Band connected to an incident last summer where a tour bus believed to belong to the band dumped human waste onto a boat of architectural sightseers. The latest lawsuit was filed in Cook County Circuit Court by attorneys for Michael Scarpelli, Denise Scarpelli, Anthony Scarpelli, Lisa Panaro, and Larry Panaro, against the Dave Matthews Band and the alleged driver of the bus, Stefan A. Wohl. The suit claimed that at about 1 p.m. on Aug. 8, Wohl was driving a Dave Matthews Band bus to a hotel...

CHICAGO (AP) The Dave Matthews Band said Friday it wants to make amends after one of its tour bus drivers was accused of dumping human waste on sightseers on the Chicago River, but it stopped short of accepting responsibility for the incident. The Illinois Attorney General's office sued the band and the driver after the Aug. 8 incident, alleging that the driver emptied the vehicle's septic tank while crossing a bridge over the river, dousing more than 100 tour boat passengers with raw sewage. The band said it had contacted the boat owner and tour operator to try to identify...

As part of an effort to inspire people to vote for change this November, the coalition of artists who are participating in this Fall’s 36 city, 12 state Vote For Change tour will come together for a grand finale performance in Washington, DC on October 11 at the MCI Center. This, as with all Vote For Change shows, is presented by MoveOn PAC to benefit America Coming Together (ACT). (I edited out the stuff on where to buy tickets and the phone number to call, in keeping with FR rules against selling stuff from the site...click on the link to...

The Dave Matthews Band, which is raising money to defeat President Bush by touring the country with his concerts, will appear at Bryce Jordan Center at the public Penn State University in State College, Pa. early next month. WPHT 1210 am radio host Dom Giordano, who brought up the information, on Friday said he does not think Penn State would be a proper place for such a polarizing political rally considering that the school is partly taxpayer funded. The president of the University said he feels there is nothing wrong with Matthews' anti-Bush concert. Concerts that raise voter awareness are...

To the people of Chicago and our fans: Given comments being made in some of the emails we have received from fans and the comments we have seen in some of the media, we believe it is important to clarify where we stand regarding the bus dumping incident in Chicago. Hopefully this will resolve any misunderstandings because we want everyone to know that we care deeply about what happened to the people on the boat that day, which was terrible, and the damage that occurred to Chicago's environment. We are not attempting to avoid any responsibility we may have for...

CHICAGO (CBS 2) Rock star Dave Matthews and his tour bus driver are facing a filthy lawsuit. The Illinois Attorney General's office says they're responsible for dumping up to 100-gallons of raw human waste from a tour bus onto the Kinzie Street Bridge earlier this month. The nasty mess rained down on passengers aboard a sightseeing boat two weeks ago. The suit charges both the band and the bus driver with violating state water pollution laws, as well as common law public nuisance laws. A spokesman for the band says all of its tour buses were parked at the time...

Dave Matthews in town for shows, but buses `parked'. The bus driver for rock star Dave Matthews called from the road Monday to say his luxury coach was not the one responsible for dousing passengers on a Chicago River tour boat with foul-smelling muck over the weekend. Witnesses on the architectural sightseeing cruise told police they saw a long black tour bus dump liquid waste Sunday afternoon as their boat crossed under the Kinzie Street bridge. About two-thirds of the passengers seated on the upper deck of Chicago's Little Lady were soaked with the "brownish-yellow" substance. One witness gave Chicago...