Even before Oprah Winfrey adopts her familiar pose - microphone in hand - in the unfamiliar venue of the presidential campaign, Barack Obama is already reaping the benefits of her high-wattage celebrity backing. ...more

December 8, 2007

Once seen as a silent cry of rebellion, tattoos now possess a status so firmly mainstream that advertisers are using them to market tires, shoes and wine. ...more

November 30, 2007

What does Angelina Jolie have in common with Joseph Stalin and Thomas Edison as well as two out of every five Americans between the ages of 26 and 40? ...more

November 30, 2007

More U.S. adults are getting physical - or at least that's what they're telling researchers. ...more

November 23, 2007

Visitors to Winterthur sometimes experience a "Wow!" moment when touring the museum's permanent and traveling collections, but the newest exhibit offers a bit of a twist. ...more

November 11, 2007

Fallon Sposato awoke to a blaring alarm and smoke seeping into the first-floor bedroom of the beach house where she and 12 friends had been partying just hours earlier. With her lungs and eyes burning, she ran with her boyfriend through the smoke-filled house, assuming her friends were already outside. ...more

October 31, 2007

An intense fire ravaged a beach house packed with college students early Sunday, killing seven and leaving little left of the structure but its charred frame and the stilts on which it stood. ...more

October 29, 2007

Columbia, prepare to have a good laugh. The public is invited Sunday to the University of South Carolina Horseshoe, where Mayor Bob Coble will present Stephen Colbert - political satirist, presidential hopeful and Charleston, S.C., native - a key to the city and a proclamation that Colbert is truly 'South Carolina's Favorite Son.' ...more

October 28, 2007

It's tough enough to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Forget about timing it to honor your favorite driver and planting a NASCAR flag at the top. ...more

October 14, 2007

A 59-year-old man's arm was bitten off by an alligator as he snorkeled in a South Carolina lake, and doctors were unable to reattach it. ...more

September 18, 2007