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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bipartisan proposal to expand background checks for gun buyers appeared on Tuesday to be short of th...
Billy Joel is considering retiring from performing if concerts later this year fail to inspire him.The "Piano Man" ...
Singer Morrissey cancelled a Tuesday appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live to avoid other guests that night that he says "amou...
KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - A potent winter storm bore down on the southern U.S. Plains on Monday, dumping more than a ...
(Reuters) - For the first time in decades, the United States is making steady gains in the number of high school students ear...
(Reuters) - U.S. power company Entergy Corp said Friday it has traced the cause of Sunday's Super Bowl power outage to an...
Jennifer Hudson will sing with students from the tragedy-stricken Sandy Hook Elementary School at America's Super Bowl on...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Space shuttle Columbia's flying days came to an abrupt and tragic end on February 1, ...
MIAMI (Reuters) - A newly married South Florida man who opted to take his wife's last name is fighting the state's De...
At the conclusion of the 2012-13 NBA season, the New Orleans Hornets will become the New Orleans Pelicans, the team announced...
(Reuters) - The percentage of workers belonging to unions tumbled to 11.3 percent in 2012, the lowest percentage in 76 years,...
Alicia Keys will share the spotlight with her pal Beyonce at the Super Bowl next month - she has been chosen to belt out Amer...
(Reuters) - Effective teachers can be identified by observing them at work, measuring their students' progress on standar...
MOBILE, Alabama (Reuters) - A major winter storm system swept through the southern United States on Tuesday, spawning tornado...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The first major winter storm of the year hit the U.S. Midwest on Thursday, bringing a blizzard to the Pla...
(Reuters) - New York state and New Jersey need at least $71.3 billion to recover from the devastation wrought by Supersto...
Leonardo DiCaprio has reportedly split from model Erin Heatherton after less than a year of dating.The "Titanic" hu...
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - Blake Shelton dominated the Country Music Association awards on Thursday, taking home three ...
Trace Adkins was unfazed as winds and torrential rain lashed New York on Monday, because he regularly faced down storms when ...
Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong has hinted that it was the stress leading up to his 40th birthday in February that ma...
Movie hunk Channing Tatum has declared it's opening time for his New Orleans, Louisiana bar Saints & Sinners.The actor...
(Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday is set to hear arguments on whether colleges and universities can continue to...
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - A New Orleans city attorney was arrested for possession of marijuana and suspended from his job after...
LITTLETON, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Two pistols found on the bodies of famed Depression-era outlaws Bonnie Parker and Clyde ...
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, California (Reuters) - The space shuttle Endeavour, carried piggyback atop a jumbo jet, landed at Edw...
Country singer Hunter Hayes is returning to his hometown in Louisiana on Friday to play a benefit concert for the victims of ...
BOSTON (Reuters) - For all women in need of more than just a girls' night out, Cheapflights have some suggestions for how...
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Tropical storm Isaac is expected to weaken further as it heads north on Thursday, after causing signi...
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Hurricane Isaac lashed southern Louisiana with high winds and heavy rains on Wednesday and was set fo...
TAMPA, Florida (Reuters) - Presidential candidate Mitt Romney flies to Tampa on Tuesday to join fellow Republicans seeking to...
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Isaac had nearly reached hurricane strength as it bore down on the U.S. Gulf Coast on ...
MIAMI (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Isaac swirled into the Gulf of Mexico on Monday, threatening to disrupt U.S. offshore oil an...
TAMPA (Reuters) - Republicans will delay the start of business at their national convention in Tampa, Florida by one day due ...
DALLAS (Reuters) - The number of West Nile virus infections in the United States has jumped more than 60 percent in the past ...
(Reuters) - When Wendy Kopp, just out of Princeton, founded Teach for America in 1989, she dreamed of recruiting 500 elite co...
CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - For much of the United States barbecue means grilling outdoors, but in the South the t...
Country singer Martina McBride is leaving her family home in Nashville, Tennessee and moving to Los Angeles so her teenage da...
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Governor Rick Perry said on Monday Texas will not implement an expansion of the Medicaid program or...
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Debby meandered slowly to the Florida coast on Sunday, bringing strong winds and waves tha...
By Leslie SnadowskyNEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - A jury ruled on Thursday in favor of actor Kevin Costner in a lawsuit in which fel...
Rocker Eddie Van Halen has broken his silence about Van Halen's postponed summer tour dates, insisting he and his bandmat...
Eddie Van Halen and his bassist son Wolfgang have bonded on the road over their shared pre-show anxiety.The legendary guitari...
After a weekend that included navigating streets in kayaks and canoes, residents in parts of the U.S. Gulf Coast sought alter...
Pop star Rihanna put family first on Saturday after jetting into New York to visit her beloved grandmother in hospital.The &q...
(Reuters) - The unconscious pilot of a small private plane flew in circles over the Gulf of Mexico for hours on Thursday, sha...
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - A six-foot alligator which showed up at the front door of a Baton Rouge-area motel on Wednesday might...
Rapper Juvenile has offered to take a paternity test to prove his ex-girlfriend's child is not his.Juvenile, real name Te...
(Reuters) - Actress Amanda Bynes was arrested early Friday morning in the Los Angeles-area community of West Hollywood on sus...
DALLAS (Reuters) - Up to a dozen tornadoes skipped through the densely populated Dallas-Fort Worth area in Texas on Tuesday, ...
Ellen returns to The JCPenney in Louisiana where she had her first job. Watch to see her interact with customers and help pic...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Republican Mitt Romney cruised to an easy victory over top rival Rick Santorum in Illinois on Tuesday, mo...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney may be headed for an important victory in Illinois on Tuesda...
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - Republican Rick Santorum won a pair of crucial Deep South primaries on Tuesday, taking contro...
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - Republicans Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich face off in a pair of high-stakes pr...
STARKVILLE, Mississippi (Reuters) - The last three inmates still in prison who had been pardoned by former Mississippi Govern...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mitt Romney's presidential campaign would like to be focusing its attacks on Democratic President ...
Zac Efron was delighted to land a role playing Nicole Kidman's onscreen lover in "The Paperboy" and has called ...
Jon Bon Jovi has hit his 50s - the rock superstar is celebrating his half century on Friday.Born John Francis Bongiovi, Jr. i...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The city where gangster Al Capone once kept the mayor on his payroll ranked first in public corruption co...
Britney Spears' little sister Jamie Lynn fell pregnant aged 16 because she was "really scared" to discuss birth...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Got 48 hours in Los Angeles? Reuters correspondents with local knowledge help visitors make the most ...
(Reuters) - The actress who played tomboy Elly May Clampett on 1960s television show "The Beverly Hillbillies" has ...
By Keith CoffmanDENVER (Reuters) - Snowfall in the Rockies and soaking rain in the South brought delays for holiday travelers...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actress Lindsay Lohan, who is on probation for drunk driving and theft convictions, pleased a judge f...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The problem of poverty became more acute in many U.S. neighborhoods in the Midwest and South over the ...
(Reuters) - Country music singer Loretta Lynn, who grew up poor in Kentucky's coal-mining country before rising to fame, has ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The ranks of the poor rose in almost all U.S. states and cities in 2010, despite the end of the longes...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Johnny Depp apologized on Wednesday for comparing photo shoots to being raped.The "Pirates of th...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Pornographic magazine publisher Larry Flynt offered $1 million on Thursday to anyone with proof...
Country star Martina McBride will journey across America on a new whistle-stop train tour to promote the launch of her upcomi...
Katy Perry was forced to cancel a concert in Michigan on Sunday after finally succumbing to the illness that has dogged her f...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two Reuters reporters traveled with George W. Bush on September 11, 2001 on what began as a feel-good ...
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - After testing New Orleans' flood defenses over the weekend, Tropical Storm Lee moved northeast on Mon...
MOBILE, Ala (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Lee spawned tornado sightings and alerts from the Louisiana Gulf Coast to the Florida ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Wednesday agreed to unveil new jobs proposals in an address to Congress on S...
KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - A band of showers has offered some relief to parched areas from Kansas to Mississippi, but ...
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - A Louisiana man decapitated his disabled 7-year-old son and placed the boy's head near the street so ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Six U.S. states that reduced incarceration rates by focusing on parole or probation instead of prison ti...
