Don Cornelius, creator of the long-running TV dance show "Soul Train," shot himself to death Wednesday morning at his Los Angeles home, police said. He was 75.Click to Continue »

Petite with perfectly coiffed hair and finely manicured nails, Angie Littlejohn certainly doesn't look like she belongs on the sidelines of college football games. But that's exactly where the 28-year-old…Click to Continue »

Actor James Farentino, who appeared in dozens of movies and television shows, died Tuesday in a Los Angeles hospital, according to a family spokesman. He was 73.Click to Continue »

Republican presidential candidates spent $13.2 million on TV ads in South Carolina — money that did not translate into votes for the top spenders.Click to Continue »

Former SC First Lady Jenny Sanford is not Newt Gingrich fan. In a TV interview, Sanford said some voters might be swayed by a TV interview with Gingrich’s second wife.Click to Continue »

A board member at a Bamberg County animal shelter says several dogs have been stolen from an animal shelter and she worries the animals might be used in fights.WIS-TV reported (http://bit.ly/wOmlo7) four dogs have been taken from the Mary Ann Morris Animal Society, a no-kill shelter in Bamberg.Two of the stolen dogs are pit bulls and one is a pit bull mix.Board member Ruthie Rish says she worries ...

A North Carolina man has been arrested after he was stabbed in an argument in South Carolina about a football game.The Herald of Rock Hill reported (http://bit.ly/AwjmK8) 44-year-old Derek Gene Woodrow of Charlotte, N.C., has been charged with assault and battery.York County sheriff's deputies say they were called to a Rock Hill home early Monday. A 34-year-old man at the home said he and Woodrow ...

Shrugging off a disappointing showing in Iowa's caucuses, Rick Perry said Tuesday he would compete in South Carolina regardless of the final tallies here and bought television time to back it up.Perry encouraged supporters to keep the faith in his national aspirations as his advisers cast the coming contest in South Carolina as the first real test of his presidential campaign. Before Iowans met at...

A Columbia veterinarian is caring for a hound dog whose owner found him with an arrow in his side.WLTX-TV reports http://on.wltx.com/rC40j7) that Dr. Terrence Hunter at Cheatham Animal Clinic received a phone call Wednesday from a distraught dog owner.The owner's dog Roland had been missing for about a week, and was found injured. He signed ownership of Roland over to Hunter because he didn't have...

A Medical University of South Carolina professor is named in an indictment that has put a Brownsville, Texas, man in federal custody facing charges of misrepresenting himself as a doctor and researcher to run an illegal stem cell mail business.The FBI arrested 52-year-old Francisco Morales in Brownsville last week. A magistrate ordered him held without bond and be transferred to Houston for arraig...

A Colorado man who found $10,000 before boarding a flight in Las Vegas says he returned the money to the owner because he wanted to show his children it was "the right thing to do."Greenwood Village resident Mitch Gilbert told KUSA-TV he found two unmarked Caesar's Palace envelopes at the airport and realized there was money inside when he arrived home. The television station reported Monday ( htt...

Mitt Romney's wife gushes about his silly side and devotion to their five sons and 16 grandchildren. Rick Santorum's college-age daughter opines online about missing the campus coffee shop and chats with friends about their Friday night plans. Jon Huntsman's daughters generate much-needed buzz for him with a joint Twitter account and online videos, including at least one that went viral.Days away ...

Three Rock Hill women have been arrested in connection with a home invasion earlier this year.The Herald of Rock Hill reported (http://bit.ly/v2pIoU) the women were arrested earlier this week in a May 23 attack in which a woman was raped and a man was assaulted. Police say the thieves took money, two flat-screen televisions and two cell phones.Twenty-one-year-old Kearanee Chadron Brewton, 21-year-...

The body of North Korea's long-time ruler Kim Jong Il was laid out in a glass coffin Tuesday as weeping mourners filled public plazas and state media fed a budding personality cult around his third son, hailing him as "born of heaven."North Korea's official television showed still photos of Kim in the coffin surrounded by wreaths, his body covered with a red blanket and his head on a white pillow....

Kim Jong Il, North Korea's mercurial and enigmatic leader, has died. He was 69.Kim's death was announced Monday by state television from the North Korean capital, Pyongyang.Kim is believed to have suffered a stroke in 2008 but appeared relatively vigorous in photos and video from recent trips to China and Russia and in numerous trips around the country carefully documented by state media.The leade...

WASHINGTON — With Dakota Meyer standing at attention in his dress uniform, sweat glistening on his forehead under the television lights, President Barack Obama extolled the former Marine corporal for the “extraordinary actions” that had earned him the Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest award for valor.Obama told the audience in the White House East Room on Sept. 15 that Meye...

A Clemson official said the team expects star freshman receiver Sammy Watkins to be eligible for the Jan. 4 Orange Bowl. Watkins’ name appeared on a Christmas party flier for a Florida restaurant, a violation of NCAA rules.Watkins and three other college players are listed "hosts" on an ad for the "Naughty or Nice X-Mas Party," scheduled for Dec. 23 at The Firepit Grill in Fort Myers, Fla., W...

Home improvement chain Lowe's plans to stick by its decision to yank its ads from a reality TV show about American Muslims amid growing debate over the move.California Sen. Ted Lieu said Sunday that he is considering calling for a boycott of Lowe's Cos., sparking criticism of the chain from both inside and outside of the Muslim community.On social media web site Twitter, actor Kal Penn began direc...

Surveillance videos publicly aired for the first time Thursday show Dominique Strauss-Kahn leisurely checking out of a New York hotel where he was accused of committing sexual assault and show his accuser appearing to act out the alleged attack.It was not immediately clear how France's BFM television acquired the minutes-long segments. The clips were the basis of recent news reports suggesting Str...

Tehran's capture of a largely intact, top secret U.S. drone, which it displayed on state television, not only lays bare America's surveillance program over Iran, but it also puts sensitive, advanced technology in hostile hands.A former U.S. official confirmed to The Associated Press that the beige-colored drone featured in the more than two-minute video aired Thursday was indeed an RQ-170 Sentinel...

Virginia Tech officials said a police officer and another person were shot and killed on the school's campus Thursday and the university locked down the campus, where 33 people died in 2007 in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.The gunman remained on the loose. A news release from the school said the police officer had pulled someone over for a traffic stop and was shot and killed....

Watch video snippet of Harry Morgan as Col. Sherman Potter in at bottom of pageEmmy Award-winning actor Harry Morgan, who played the crusty yet sympathetic Col. Sherman T. Potter in the sitcom "MASH" and the hard-nosed LAPD Officer Bill Gannon in the television drama "Dragnet," died Wednesday. He was 96. Morgan died at his home in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles after a bout with pn...

A Greenwood County woman has been charged with neglect after school officials noticed bruises on her sons' legs.Thirty-one-one-year-old Amy Elizabeth Rion-Wilson was arrested after the principal at Springfield Elementary School said she was concerned about a 7-year-old boy and an 11-year-old boy.A sheriff's report says the boys told deputies their mother had whipped them because they were not work...

To hear Netflix CEO Reed Hastings tell it, the bone-headed decisions that have dragged down the Internet's leading video subscription service during the past five months eventually will be forgotten like a bad movie made by a great film director.Shaking off the stigma of a massive flop won't be easy, a challenge Hastings acknowledged late Tuesday when he spoke at a UBS investor conference in New Y...

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney says he will not participate in a debate being hosted this month by real estate mogul and TV personality Donald Trump.Romney told Fox News on Tuesday that he called Trump and told him he would not attend.Several prominent Republicans have urged candidates to skip the Trump debate. They predict it will be a media circus and a distraction from important ...

Rod Blagojevich's days of reckoning arrive Tuesday when a federal judge opens a sentencing hearing for the disgraced former Illinois governor on 18 corruption counts, including trying to auction off President Barack Obama's old Senate seat.The impeached state executive-turned-reality TV star has good reason to feel anxious and afraid at the two-day hearing in Chicago. He faces the prospect of 10 o...

Doctors say they're encouraged by the Rev. Billy Graham's improvement as he recovers from pneumonia but haven't set a date for his discharge from a North Carolina hospital.Officials at Mission Hospital in Asheville say Graham also is progressing in his program of physical therapy and is walking more in the private corridor outside his room.Graham was admitted Wednesday night after suffering from c...

The Rev. Billy Graham was admitted to a hospital Wednesday near his home in western North Carolina to be tested for pneumonia after suffering from congestion, a cough and a slight fever, his spokesman said.The 93-year-old evangelist was taken to Mission Hospital in Asheville, spokesman A. Larry Ross said. His personal physician, Dr. Lucian Rice, said he was in stable condition.A news release issue...

Authorities say a departing light plane carrying two people crashed and struck an unoccupied aircraft at Seattle's Boeing Field, but there were no reports of serious injury.Airport spokeswoman Rochelle Ogershok said both planes caught fire in the crash Wednesday night.She says the departing plane veered to the right and crashed, striking a parked aircraft that belonged to a package delivery servic...

Authorities say a Norway teen who had been drinking wine for several hours was too drunk to notice he'd been shot in the leg.WIS-TV reports (http://bit.ly/u313HK) deputies were called to Bamberg County Hospital around 8 p.m. Friday after a 19-year-old was dropped off there.The teen told deputies he had been at a party that afternoon and heard more than a dozen gunshots but didn't see who was firin...