The Countess is Count-less. Countess LuAnn de Lesseps, one of the society ladies on Bravo's "The Real Housewives of New York," has separated from Count de Lesseps after 16 years of marriage. Her husband is a Frenchman whose ancestor presented the Statue of Liberty to the United States. ...more

March 31, 2009

and confidence in a full recovery. ...more

March 17, 2009

"Sopranos" star James Gandolfini married former model Deborah Lin on Saturday in her hometown of Honolulu, People magazine reports. ...more

September 1, 2008

The exact cause of death couldn't be determined, but there was no sign of "surgical or anesthetic misadventure" in the death of Donda West, Kanye West's mother, a coroner's report said Thursday. ...more

January 11, 2008

Now that we've built the world's largest machine, the Internet, and have amazing tools to instantly search it from top to bottom, what we most tried to find out about over the past 12 months says a lot about what tops our minds. ...more

December 29, 2007

Here's a puzzle for those devoted fans known as "Wheel Watchers": Clue: It's a song title. ...more

November 15, 2007

LAKE PLACID — At 8 a.m. last Thursday, paramedic John Dyess and EMT Todd Kreulen parked a Highlands County EMS ambulance at the Tomoka Heights station, unlocked the door and staffed this station for the first time since mid-April. That put county EMS back to its full daily staffing level of eight ambulances, including two in the Lake Placid area. About four hours later, Dyess and Kreulen responded to their first 911 call from the Tomoka station, a former model home just north of Florida Hospital on U.S. 27 South. They reached a patient in respiratory distress in less than five minutes, well within EMS's goal of a six-minute average response time. Steve Coltharp, acting EMS director, said reopening the Tomoka station improves response times not only in the Lake Placid area but also throughout the county. The county's recent hiring of two paramedics and three EMTs solved a manpower shortage that forced EMS to reduce its ambulance crews from eight to seven. ...more

November 13, 2007

With all the fashion makeover shows on TV right now, one can only wonder: Are there really that many women with wretched wardrobes in desperate need of a do-over? ...more

September 4, 2007