Krista Klumpp moved to Columbia in June after she took a job as a pharmaceutical representative. Two months later, the Alabama native had to ask for a leave of absence. She kept her reasons vague, but that’s what one has to do to keep their appearance on a reality gameshow secret.On Wednesday night, Klumpp was one of 18 contestants who started matching wits on “Survivor: Redemption Islan...

Army patrols and tanks locked down the capital of this tiny Gulf kingdom after riot police swinging clubs and firing tear gas smashed into demonstrators, many of them sleeping, in a pre-dawn assault Thursday that uprooted their protest camp demanding political change. Medical officials said four people were killed.Hours after the attack on Manama's main Pearl Square, the military announced on stat...

Egypt's powerful military backed President Hosni Mubarak's plan to stay in office until September elections, enraging hundreds of thousands of protesters who deluged squares in at least three major cities Friday, marched on presidential palaces and broke through army barricades at the state TV building - key symbols of the authoritarian regime.The army's show of solidarity with the president was a...

A hostage hiding in a North Carolina bank secretly helped police during a standoff with a teenager who was shot dead after slowly emerging from the building holding a gun to the head of one of his captives, authorities said.The gruesome final scene after three tense hours in the quiet suburban town played out live on television Thursday during the dinner hour. None of the hostages nor any of the o...

CAIRO -President Hosni Mubarak refused to step down Thursday, saying in a televised speech that he would remain Egypt's head of state until elections in the fall but had delegated powers to his vice president. Anticipation turned to rage in Cairo's main square, where hundreds of thousands of Egyptians had gathered in hopes of witnessing history: a 17-day popular rebellion ending 30 years of U....

A Mauldin woman has been arrested and accused of allowing a man to have sex with her 16-year-old daughter in order to obtain illegal drugs.WYFF-TV reported that 39-year-old Kathleen Dawn Bunnell was arrested Thursday and charged with promoting prostitution of a minor, contributing to the delinquency of a minor and illegal neglect of a child.The arrest warrant says Bunnell allowed a drug dealer to ...

Hundreds of pro-government supporters attacked protesters Wednesday in Cairo's central square, where thousands were pushing ahead with demonstrations demanding the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak.Mubarak supporters were out in the streets for the first time Wednesday in large numbers, with thousands demanding an end to the anti-government movement a day after the president went on national telev...

President Barack Obama on Tuesday challenged Egypt's embattled autocratic ruler, a staunch U.S. ally, to immediately begin the process of transitioning the country to new leadership, a signal that there should be no drawn-out goodbye.Earlier, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak had announced he would not seek another term in office but also would not yield to growing demands to step down now. After a...

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, ...

More than 200,000 people flooded into the heart of Cairo Tuesday, filling the city's main square as a call for a million protesters was answered by the largest demonstration in a week of unceasing demands for President Hosni Mubarak to leave after nearly 30 years in power.Protesters streamed into Tahrir, or Liberation, Square, among them people defying a government transportation shutdown to make ...

WENDELL, N.C. -- In 15 years as a repo man, Ron Shirley has survived a broken bottle to the head, a baseball bat to the legs, a shot-up tow truck and the sight of a naked man sprinting out of his house at midnight, screaming for his reclaimed coupe.Ask Shirley how he survives this world of ax swingers and shotgun shooters - besides standing 6-foot-1 and weighing 300 pounds - and he explains that h...

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 ...

There she sat, in her new black suit, in the first lady's box at the State of the Union address. So it shouldn't have been a surprise when President Barack Obama started talking about Kathy Proctor, the 55-year-old student retraining for a biotechnology career at Forsyth Technical Community College.But when Proctor heard her name and all the network and cable TV cameras zoomed in, her amazement wa...

U.S. singer Jimmy Buffett left hospital on Thursday, a day after he fell off a stage at the end of a Sydney concert and was knocked unconscious, Australian television reported.Buffett departed St. Vincent's Hospital in inner Sydney via a back entrance to avoid the media after doctors gave him the all-clear on Thursday morning, Ten Network television reported.Medical staff said the singer had suffe...

Pleading for unity in a newly divided government, President Barack Obama implored Democratic and Republican lawmakers to rally behind his vision of economic revival for an anxious nation, declaring in his State of the Union address Tuesday night: “We will move forward together or not at all.” To a television audience in the millions, Obama addressed a Congress sobered by the assassinati...

Addressing a demand for economic answers, President Barack Obama will try to convince the American people and a divided Congress that he has a vision for speeding up job creation, promoting spending on the core of his agenda but promising to rein in a growing, staggering debt. His State of the Union address will reflect reality: The economy trumps all.To a nationwide television audience Tuesday ni...

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 ...

The latest battle lines in the South Carolina General Assembly don't seem to be Republican vs. Democrat, but rather the school kids against The Balloon Council.The Post and Courier of Charleston reports the council is a group of balloon companies fighting proposed restrictions on the release of gas-filled latex balloons.The Junior Wildlife Protectors in the fifth grade at Belton Elementary School ...

Jack LaLanne was prodding Americans to get off their couches and into the gym decades before it was cool. And he was still pumping iron and pushing fruits and vegetables decades past most Americans' retirement age.The fitness fanatic ate well and exercised - and made it his mission to make sure everyone did the same - right up to the end at age 96, friends and family said.LaLanne died Sunday at hi...

Scroll to bottom for video from the sceneShortly after 1 p.m. Tuesday, when many residents at the Briarcliffe RV Resort were watching TV or cleaning up, their day was upended by a loud roar, a series of explosions and a fire ball as a small plane crashed into one of the trailers.The plane’s pilot and a woman in a trailer were killed in the crash, according to officials. The plane hit a tree b...

Academy Award hosts Anne Hathaway and James Franco are unlikely to be seeking tips from Ricky Gervais.The British comedian was brash, profane and cruelly funny at Sunday's Golden Globes, delivering his trademark humor as promised for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in his second go-round as host of the ceremony that has "butt-talking" appearances by Jim Carrey and Jack Nicholson in its his...

Tunisians couldn't stand her even more than they couldn't stand him.The end of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's iron-fisted, 23-year rule brought joy to many ordinary people in this North African nation - and they were especially elated at the prospect of life without his wife and her rapacious family.The clan of former first lady Leila Trabelsi, a one-time hairdresser who rose to become Tunisi...

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 ...

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...

Producers of ABC's "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" rallied hundreds of supporters Tuesday night, asking for help as the reality TV show prepares to shoot in Beaufort County next week."This is a lot like the barn-raising in the 1900s where really, the entire community has to come together to make it happen," said Milan Vasic, a senior producer with the show.Families, children and contractors packe...

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...

Get a new flat-screen TV for Christmas and wondering what to do with the old console? Finally replacing that turntable with an MP3 player? Just upgrading your Mac? Whatever it is, you'd better check your state's books before heading to the landfill.As the new year begins, Vermont is joining New York, Pennsylvania and South Carolina in instituting laws banning electronic waste from landfills, bring...

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...

Time Warner Cable Inc. customers from Portland, Maine, to Pensacola, Fla., could lose access to one of their network TV stations because of a contract dispute with Sinclair Broadcast Group.The dust-up between Sinclair and Time Warner is one of a growing number of disputes over the fees that cable providers pay broadcast stations to include their signals in channel lineups. The last high-profile di...

Authorities say a couple has safely escaped from a Spartanburg County house fire that may have been caused by candles.WYFF-TV reports that fire department officials say the fire started at around 1 a.m. Monday at a home in the Drayton community.Witnesses say the home suffered major damage but was still standing when the fire was put out.Authorities are still investigating the fire, but the Drayton...