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...

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...

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...

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....

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 ...

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...

A former Penn State football assistant coach has denied allegations that he sexually abused eight boys and told a television interviewer that he was not a pedophile. Meanwhile, his attorney said he expects some alleged victims to come forward to deny that they were abused.Jerry Sandusky, 67, said on NBC News' "Rock Center" Monday night that there was no abuse and that any activities in a campus sh...

Gov. Tom Corbett asked Penn State students on Thursday to refrain from the violence that wracked their college town after famed football coach Joe Paterno was fired, saying the nation is watching their behavior.At a news conference in State College, Corbett also expressed disappointment in Paterno and university President Graham Spanier, who were fired by university trustees the night before for t...

WIS TV is reporting this morning that a second child in a car involved in a two-vehicle wreck Friday evening has died from her injuries.The 10-year-old girl, identified by the news report as the sister of a 7-year-old boy who died at the scene of the wreck, was taken to Lexington Medical Center but later died.The boy, Cameron L. Upchurch, his sister and a 9-year-old passenger were in a Chevrolet L...

A video showing a toddler being struck twice by vans and then ignored by passers-by is sparking outrage in China and prompting soul-searching over why people didn't help the child.The 2-year-old girl, identified as Wang Yue, is in a coma in critical condition in the Guangzhou Military District General Hospital following Thursday's accident, state media reported Tuesday. The Guangzhou Daily quoted ...

One-time Columbia television reporter and current MSNBC anchor Craig Melvin is delivering a lecture at the University of South Carolina on how technology is changing broadcast news.Melvin's talk Wednesday evening is free and open to the public. The speech is sponsored by the Buchheit Family Endowment, which provides scholarships and fellowships to students in the university's School of Journalism ...

Anchorage, Alaska, police have located the mother of a toddler found wandering alone near a busy street.Police spokesman Lt. David Parker tells the Anchorage Daily News (http://bit.ly/rhU0jq) that the woman was sleeping after taking medication when "the little guy was able to unlock the door" and leave their home.Parker says the mother, Genesis Senquiz, was arrested on an unrelated warrant. Court ...

A bankruptcy trustees for an attorney well known for his television commercials and highway billboards will ask a court to convert the case to a straight liquidation, saying the lawyer is unlikely to be able to repay his creditors.The Sun News of Myrtle Beach reported (http://bit.ly/nVuZaS) that trustee Robert Anderson says he'll ask a judge to convert the case of Harry Pavilack from a Chapter 11 ...

Chinese basketball fans slammed a military team Friday for their part in an on-court brawl with visiting American players during a match that was supposed to promote goodwill during U.S. Vice President Joe Biden's visit.Video footage of the fighting between the Georgetown University men's basketball team and the Bayi Rockets, the army's Chinese Basketball Association team, on Thursday night in Bei...

Craig Melvin continues to climb the broadcast journalism ranks. On Wednesday morning, it was announced that he will be joining MSNBC.Melvin, a former WIS-10 anchor, left the local station in 2008 for WRC-TV in Washington, D.C. Like the cable network MSNBC, WRC is owned by NBC.In a June interview, Melvin, who has anchored the weekend edition of the “Today Show” and filled in on MSNBC,...

ABC News says a reporter trying to question GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann was pushed and shoved by members of her camp after a campaign event in South Carolina.Network news senior vice president Jeffrey Schneider said reporter Brian Ross was shoved Tuesday as security tried to block him from the Minnesota congresswoman while he asked whether she had to miss votes because of migraines...

Rupert Murdoch accepted the resignations of The Wall Street Journal's publisher and the chief of his British operations on Friday as the once-defiant media mogul struggled to control an escalating phone hacking scandal, offering apologies to the public and the family of a murdered schoolgirl.The scandal has knocked billions off the value of Murdoch's News Corp., scuttled his ambitions to take cont...

Appearing on a national TV panel this morning, Gov. Nikki Haley predicted it will take “deep spending cuts and spending caps going forward” for the GOP-controlled U.S. House of Representatives and the Democratic-controlled U.S. Senate and President Barack Obama, a Democrat, to reach an agreement to raise the federal debt limit.Haley appeared on a town hall meeting as part of CBS News ...

The WIS-10 evening anchor has been off the air for a few weeks and viewers have been inquiring about her absence. On Wednesday, Gatson and her husband Dwayne announced on WIS that they have adopted a baby boy. Aidan Kash Gatson is four months old. The Gatsons got the news about Aidan on March 21, which happened to also be Gatson’s birthday. That night, she danced on stage with Prince. Accordi...

An experienced broadcast executive who used to play football for the University of South Carolina has been named the new president and general manager of WYFF-TV in Greenville.Hearst Television Inc. announced John R. Soapes' new job Wednesday. He takes over for Michael J. Hayes, who was recently named president and general manager of WTAE-TV in Pittsburgh.Soapes spent the past 10 years as the gene...

Celebrity chef Giada De Laurentiis is scheduled to spotlight a Rock Hill schools program that gets food to hungry children on the “Today” show this week, according to the district.The segment, which focuses on the “Back the Pack” program, is expected to air between 7 and 9 a.m. Thursday on NBC.“As of this moment, it's scheduled,” Rock Hill schools spokesw...

David Broder, one of the nation's premier political reporters for decades, was a curious mix of old and new.He combined unglamorous shoe-leather reporting with a knack for detecting trends ahead of his competitors. A rumpled dresser with thick glasses and a shirt pocket full of pens and pencils, he was constantly in demand by good-looking TV news hosts who craved the insights and knowledge he had ...

The siblings sat huddled together Wednesday on sodden grass, staring at smoldering remains of the office tower that collapsed with their mother inside when a powerful earthquake tore apart one of New Zealand's largest cities.There had been no word from Donna Manning since her workplace came crumbling down Tuesday during a magnitude-6.3 quake that has killed at least 75 people and left some 300 mis...

State investigators are looking into a fatal shooting Monday involving a Lancaster County Sheriff’s deputy.Authorities confirmed one person was shot and killed just after 7 p.m. Monday at the New Look Car Care car wash on Old Lynwood Drive south of Lancaster.WSOC TV of Charlotte, a (Rock Hill) Herald news partner, reported late Monday that the State Law Enforcement Division is investigating, ...

Opposition figure Mohammed ElBaradei emerged from house arrest late Sunday to join protesters in central Cairo, echoing their demand that U.S.-allied President Hosni Mubarak resign and establishing himself as the face of Egypt's six-day pro-democracy uprising. The dramatic nighttime appearance by ElBaradei - the Nobel Peace Prize winner who returned to Egypt last week after the protests began ...

Witnesses say they saw a woman throw herself from the 23rd story of a Buenos Aires hotel Monday and survive.The woman landed in a sitting position on the roof of a taxi whose driver got out just before the impact deeply dented his roof and shattered the windshield.The woman, a 30-year-old Argentine, was rushed to the nearby Hospital Argerich, where she was being operated on for injuries including ...

When Nikki Haley takes the oath of office next week as the first Indian-American governor of South Carolina, the ceremony at the State House will resonate not only across South Carolina but in her parents’ native India.Haley, a child of Sikh parents who emigrated from India and built a successful clothing company, earns a place in state history as the first minority governor and its first fem...

South Carolina Electric & Gas Co. will be testing the siren warning system at its nuclear power plant in Fairfield County.The company said in a news release that it will test the 106 sirens within a 10-mile radius of V.C. Summer Nuclear Station about 1 p.m. Tuesday.The company says the sirens are sounded for one minute as part of the plant's quarterly testing program. If there were an emergency at...

Time Warner Cable Inc. said Thursday that its customers will still be able to view major programming from ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox even if it can't reach a deal with broadcaster Sinclair before their contract expires Friday at midnight.About four million Time Warner Cable customers from Portland, Maine, to Pensacola, Fla., are caught in the middle of the New York company's dust-up over the fees it pa...

A video segment about missing Columbia woman Dail Dinwiddie has been posted on a CNN blog.The family of Dail Dinwiddie traveled to New York earlier this month to tape an interview for the parker|spitzer television show. Their segment never aired on the national political talk show featuring former Columbia resident and Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper columnist Kathleen Parker. Dinwiddie sat for P...