Randy Travis

Country singer Randy Travis was resting at home Monday after passing out on stage during a benefit concert in front of a roomful of doctors. The 52-year-old performer fainted in mid-song Sunday during an annual benefit for the Huguley Memorial Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas. The doctors who treated him at the scene said Monday that Travis was struggling with laryngitis because of chronic allergies and had taken several over-the-counter medications. —Associated Press New 'Red Dawn' to invade at last A remake of the 1984 invasion movie "Red Dawn" — with its villains now digitally modified from Chinese to North Korean — will finally hit American shores next year.

Randy Travis pleaded guilty to drunk driving Thursday and as a result will be avoiding jail time in a case that began last summer when he crashed his car and was found naked at the scene. The country singer was given a 180-day suspended jail sentence, must pay a $2,000 fine and spend two years on probation, according to the Associated Press. His probation order includes completing 100 hours of community service, spending a minimum of 30 days in an alcohol treatment facility and having an ignition interlock device present on any car he drives.

Country singer Randy Travis' recent arrest in Texas is the latest in the downward spiral for the singer, who led a return to traditional country styles in the 1980s and early '90s. Travis, 53, was arrested last week and booked on a misdemeanor charge of driving while intoxicated;  subsequently, a felony charge was added because officers said he threatened to shoot and kill them while in custody after his Aug. 7 arrest outside Tioga, Texas, which is about 60 miles north of Dallas.

Randy Travis said he didn't do it - the country star on Friday pleaded not guilty to a simple assault charge stemming from an August dust-up in a church parking lot. Travis, appearing in a Plano, Texas, courtroom, requested a jury trial in the matter. He was cited in late August after he allegedly got involved in an argument between his girlfriend and her estranged husband. A court date's been set for March 11. Travis' attorney, Larry Friedman, tells the story a little differently than it appeared in media reports at the time.

Randy Travis pleaded guilty to drunk driving Thursday and as a result will be avoiding jail time in a case that began last summer when he crashed his car and was found naked at the scene. The country singer was given a 180-day suspended jail sentence, must pay a $2,000 fine and spend two years on probation, according to the Associated Press. His probation order includes completing 100 hours of community service, spending a minimum of 30 days in an alcohol treatment facility and having an ignition interlock device present on any car he drives.

Police have reportedly confiscated convenience-store surveillance footage of singer Randy Travis, who allegedly walked naked into a Tiger Mart in north Texas on Tuesday night, demanded cigarettes and then left in frustration shortly before he was arrested on the side of the road on suspicion of DWI. After presenting a search warrant Friday, law enforcement took the entire video system, the store manager told TMZ , because nobody could figure...

Randy Travis said he didn't do it - the country star on Friday pleaded not guilty to a simple assault charge stemming from an August dust-up in a church parking lot. Travis, appearing in a Plano, Texas, courtroom, requested a jury trial in the matter. He was cited in late August after he allegedly got involved in an argument between his girlfriend and her estranged husband. A court date's been set for March 11. Travis' attorney, Larry Friedman, tells the story a little differently than it appeared in media reports at the time.

Randy Travis was arrested Tuesday night on suspicion of driving while intoxicated on the streets of Texas, under “The Honky Tonk Moon.” (We couldn't resist.) The country singer, 53, crashed his car just before midnight, TMZ reported, and was booked on a “retaliation and obstruction charge" after refusing a Breathalyzer test. He was “buck naked,” according to the website's sources, and beyond a couple cuts and bruises, uninjured. This isn't his first alcohol-related mishap.

Randy Travis has tangled with the law yet again - in a way that certainly seems less dramatic than his previous run-ins. After allegedly getting involved in a dispute between an estranged husband and wife, Travis was cited Thursday night for Class C simple assault, Plano police spokesman David Tilley told the Dallas Morning News . The offense was described to People as "similar to a traffic ticket. " The woman involved was Travis' fiancee, the country star's lawyer told TMZ , while Tilley told other sources she was Travis' girlfriend.

The 911 caller didn't know he was describing Randy Travis. “I just found a guy lying in the road,” he told a dispatcher just after 11 p.m. Tuesday, adding that the country singer was crumpled on a highway 60 miles north of Dallas. “I'm kinda spooked out," the caller said. When authorities arrived, the scene grew stranger: 53-year-old Travis was naked, bruised, reeking of alcohol. He'd apparently run his Pontiac Trans Am off the road and into construction barricades, scattering the cones.

Randy Travis has tangled with the law yet again - in a way that certainly seems less dramatic than his previous run-ins. After allegedly getting involved in a dispute between an estranged husband and wife, Travis was cited Thursday night for Class C simple assault, Plano police spokesman David Tilley told the Dallas Morning News . The offense was described to People as "similar to a traffic ticket. " The woman involved was Travis' fiancee, the country star's lawyer told TMZ , while Tilley told other sources she was Travis' girlfriend.

Country singer Randy Travis' recent arrest in Texas is the latest in the downward spiral for the singer, who led a return to traditional country styles in the 1980s and early '90s. Travis, 53, was arrested last week and booked on a misdemeanor charge of driving while intoxicated;  subsequently, a felony charge was added because officers said he threatened to shoot and kill them while in custody after his Aug. 7 arrest outside Tioga, Texas, which is about 60 miles north of Dallas.

Police have reportedly confiscated convenience-store surveillance footage of singer Randy Travis, who allegedly walked naked into a Tiger Mart in north Texas on Tuesday night, demanded cigarettes and then left in frustration shortly before he was arrested on the side of the road on suspicion of DWI. After presenting a search warrant Friday, law enforcement took the entire video system, the store manager told TMZ , because nobody could figure...

The 911 caller didn't know he was describing Randy Travis. “I just found a guy lying in the road,” he told a dispatcher just after 11 p.m. Tuesday, adding that the country singer was crumpled on a highway 60 miles north of Dallas. “I'm kinda spooked out," the caller said. When authorities arrived, the scene grew stranger: 53-year-old Travis was naked, bruised, reeking of alcohol. He'd apparently run his Pontiac Trans Am off the road and into construction barricades, scattering the cones.

Randy Travis was arrested Tuesday night on suspicion of driving while intoxicated on the streets of Texas, under “The Honky Tonk Moon.” (We couldn't resist.) The country singer, 53, crashed his car just before midnight, TMZ reported, and was booked on a “retaliation and obstruction charge" after refusing a Breathalyzer test. He was “buck naked,” according to the website's sources, and beyond a couple cuts and bruises, uninjured. This isn't his first alcohol-related mishap.

Country singer Randy Travis was resting at home Monday after passing out on stage during a benefit concert in front of a roomful of doctors. The 52-year-old performer fainted in mid-song Sunday during an annual benefit for the Huguley Memorial Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas. The doctors who treated him at the scene said Monday that Travis was struggling with laryngitis because of chronic allergies and had taken several over-the-counter medications. —Associated Press New 'Red Dawn' to invade at last A remake of the 1984 invasion movie "Red Dawn" — with its villains now digitally modified from Chinese to North Korean — will finally hit American shores next year.

Never mind the other woman, the bottle, the open road. . . . The most treacherous temptation facing country singers today is to act in a movie. Randy Travis gives it a go in "Wind in the Wire," an hourlong comedy-drama airing at 10 tonight on ABC (Channels 7, 3, 10, 42), and if he ever writes a song about it, it should be a certified weeper. The story concerns the making of a Western in which Travis is the star.

"Where Could I Go but to the Lord" is the title of an old country-gospel standard, and though it's not on country singer Randy Travis' new album, "Inspirational Journey," it sums up the path that led to his first gospel recording. Travis had spent most of the second half of the 1980s at the pinnacle of country stardom, his "Storms of Life" album being the first by a country singer to be certified quadruple platinum, for shipments of more than 4 million copies.

The Hold Steady "Stay Positive" (Vagrant) * * * 1/2 The Hold Steady is back with its fourth album, and that means another visit to America's psychic outskirts. Like a Northern counterpart to the Drive-By Truckers (whose Patterson Hood guests on the album), the Brooklyn band has made a mission of depicting the disenfranchised -- small-town kids and small-time drifters who float around the margins, spooked by all the dead ends and tipping into desperation and violence.

Country singer Randy Travis has written and recorded a new patriotic single, "America Will Always Stand," in response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on New York and the Pentagon. The single is scheduled to be released next week, and proceeds will be donated to the American Red Cross. The song, which Travis wrote with four collaborators two days after the disaster and recorded this week in Nashville, also is being added to his concert repertoire, his publicist said Tuesday.