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...

The producers of ABC TV’s “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” are looking for a deserving South Carolina family whose home deserves a major revitalization because it affects the family’s quality of life on a daily basis and the family doesn’t have the resources, ability or time to fix it. Email nominations by Friday to castingsouthcarolina@emhe.tv. Nominations must ...

On the eve of NASA's historic, wheel-stopping end to the shuttle program, the four astronauts making the final journey said Wednesday they're starting to feel a rush of emotions."You know what? I really do feel like it's coming near the end," said the commander of the homeward-bound space shuttle Atlantis, Christopher Ferguson."It's going to be tough," Ferguson said in a series of TV interviews 24...

As crestfallen followers of a California preacher who foresaw the world's end strained to find meaning in their lives, Harold Camping revised his apocalyptic prophecy Monday, saying he was off by five months and the Earth actually will be obliterated on Oct. 21.Camping, who predicted that 200 million Christians would be taken to heaven Saturday before global cataclysm struck the planet, said he fe...

Movie stars and athletes will participate in a charity basketball game Saturday afternoon at Lower Richland High School. Tipoff for the game between The Harlem Legends vs. The Celebrity All-Stars is at 2 p.m. Participants include Darrin Henson, an actor and choreographer; Isaiah Mustafa, also know as the Old Spice Man; Lamman Rucker from “Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married;” and Ro...

Pulitzer Prize-winning "Lonesome Dove" author Larry McMurtry will receive the University of South Carolina's Cooper Medal.McMurtry and his frequent collaborator Diana Ossana will attend a fund-raising dinner for the Thomas Cooper Society on Thursday. The two won Golden Globe and Academy Award honors for their screenplay adaptation of "Brokeback Mountain."McMurtry also will meet with students durin...

A second security breach at Charlotte/Douglas International Airport - this one reportedly involving an undercover sting - has cost a JetBlue ticket agent his job.In a Nov. 19 test of aviation security, an undercover inspector for the Transportation Security Administration told the ticket agent that he needed to get a package to Boston that day - and handed the employee a $100 bill, according to a ...

Iran began the process of loading 163 fuel rods into the reactor core of its first nuclear power plant on Tuesday, celebrating the achievement as proof that Tehran can outmaneuver international sanctions.The plant, built with Russian help in the southern port city of Bushehr, is not among the aspects of Iran's nuclear program that are of top concern to the international community and is not direct...

Democrats question U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson's description of "dodging mortar attacks" in a new campaign ad.The ad that began airing throughout Wilson's 2nd District this weekend is a third attempt by Wilson to defend international travel that his Democratic opponent Rob Miller calls junkets.It's a new episode as the South Carolina congressman who made himself famous by shouting "You lie!" at President...