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The driver of a Miley Cyrus tour bus was killed Friday when the bus overturned, but the 16-year-old "Hannah Montana" star wasn't on board, Virginia State Police said. More>>
A bus carrying crew members of pop star Miley Cyrus' tour overturned this morning, killing one person and closing Interstate 85 at mile marker 55 for several hours. More>>
The movement of a mound of dirt has become the iconic symbol of a shift in South Carolina's economic and business landscape for generations to come. BONUS CONTENT: Slideshow of the ceremony.
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Cloud Peak Energy shares are falling in their first day of trading Friday after the U.S. coal producer's initial public offering priced below expectations. More>>
Mackenzie Phillips has played many roles in her life from an actress, to a member of the Mamas and the Papas. Now, she's the survivor of incest. She says for the last 30 years she's tried to forget the sexual abuse she endured by her own father. More>>
A group of volunteer Santa Claus "elves" in Alaska's frigid interior is determined to save a popular holiday letter service featuring the North Pole's most beloved icon. More>>
A suspected bank robber was arrested by Jackson police after using a taxi for his getaway vehicle. More>>
A website run by the federal government claims almost 41 million dollars in stimulus money has gone to 7 congressional districts in our state that are not real. More>>
The South Carolina House will formally receive an impeachment resolution on Gov. Mark Sanford. It's the first bill that will be pre-filed Tuesday as the House opens the door to new legislation ahead of its January session beginning. More>>
The Colorado parents of three children could wind up in jail after admitting in court they fabricated a story about their son in a runaway balloon to gain publicity for a possible reality TV show. More>>
A government program that gives free cell phone service to low-income families is funded by hidden fees collected by cell phone companies. More>>
For three years, the federal agency in charge of preventing Medicare fraud repeatedly ignored internal watchdog warnings about swindlers stealing millions of dollars by scamming several programs, documents show. More>>
Evangelist Tony Alamo used his stature as a self-proclaimed prophet to force underage girls into sham marriages with him, controlling his followers with their fears of eternal suffering. More>>
A North Carolina man has admitted to kidnapping a 5-year-old girl, authorities said Friday, but investigators still have not found the child more than three days after she disappeared from a mobile home park. More>>
The House Financial Services Committee voted Wednesday to give federal regulators more power and money to police major players in the stock market, four months after Bernard Madoff was sentenced for the biggest investment... More>>
An animal research technician charged with killing a Yale graduate student raised suspicions when he began scrubbing floors after the crime and tried to move a box of bloody wipes from the view of an investigator, according... More>>
Self-proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other Guantanamo Bay detainees will be brought to trial in a civilian federal courthouse in New York, near the site of the devastating 2001 terror attacks.... More>>
A Somali man arrested in the Netherlands and accused of financing Islamic terrorists was not an extremist and was so poor he couldn't afford to bring his new wife from Somalia to the U.S., according to two of his brothers... More>>
The Army psychiatrist accused in the fatal shootings at Fort Hood may be paralyzed from the waist down after being shot multiple times during the attack, his attorney told The Associated Press on Friday. More>>
Virginia State Police say they believe a Virginia Tech student missing for nearly a month was hitchhiking after she left a Metallica concert. More>>
The Obama administration has alerted domestic agencies to plan for a freeze or even a 5 percent cut in their budgets, part of an election-year push to rein in record deficits that threaten the economy and Democrats'... More>>
Text of President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's remarks at a news conference on Friday in Tokyo, as transcribed by the White House. More>>
Sarah Palin's new memoir describes heart-wrenching anguish about her teen daughter's pregnancy playing out before a national audience. But the 413-page tome doesn't contain a single reference to the father of her grandson,... More>>
Military divers have found the body of a U.S. paratrooper who disappeared last week along with another soldier as the two tried to retrieve airdropped supplies from a river in western Afghanistan, NATO said Wednesday. More>>
A mother of seven is accused of running a house of horrors for pets at her suburban Long Island home, forcing her children to help torture them and burying at least 20 dogs in her backyard - animals neighbors now fear were... More>>
One of the D.C. sniper's ex-wives said Thursday that she has fully healed from the abusive marriage she endured with him, and is helping her children cope with knowing their dad won't be a part of their lives. More>>
South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford filed a trademark for her name days after her husband admitted an extramarital affair, a search of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office website shows. More>>
The discovery of 11 victims of an alleged serial killer, most of them poor, drug-addicted black women, has prompted calls for Cleveland police to respond faster and devote more resources to missing-persons cases. More>>
A United Airlines pilot who failed a breath test shortly before he was due to take off has been charged with having too much alcohol in his system, British police said. More>>
The Army psychiatrist accused in the Fort Hood shootings was charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder in the military's legal system, making him eligible for the death penalty if convicted, officials said Thursday. More>>
President Barack Obama declared Saturday that an era of American disengagement in the globe's fastest-growing region is over and warned that the U.S. and its Asian partners "will not be cowed" by North Korea's continued... More>>
The White House's top lawyer is returning to private practice and being replaced by a longtime adviser to Barack Obama. More>>
Defense Secretary Robert Gates says armored transport trucks that protect soldiers from roadside bombs are worth every dime spent on them. More>>
On a cold, rain-soaked Veterans Day, President Barack Obama walked slowly through the white, stone markers at the section of Arlington National Cemetery reserved for troops killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, the two wars he... More>>
The Arkansas Farm Bureau says the price of a Thanksgiving dinner dipped slightly this year, thanks to a drop in dairy prices. More>>
A law enforcement official says a terrorism task force did not refer early information about the Fort Hood shooting suspect to superiors because they concluded he wasn't linked to terrorism. More>>
Police in Los Angeles are seeking a man they say tortured, raped and poured battery acid on his girlfriend during a Halloween attack. More>>
A young Cincinnati Bengals fan has been penalized for clipping. Dustin Reader got the NFL team's stripes and "B'' insignia cut into his hair as a tribute to the team's good season. When he showed up to school in the... More>>
Canadian military officials in Afghanistan said detainees are being offered swine flu vaccinations - a decision the federal health minister on Tuesday denounced as "outrageous" at a time there is a shortage of the vaccine in... More>>
The driver of a Boston subway train that stopped just inches short of a woman who had fallen onto the tracks says she expected the worst. More>>
Michael Jackson's father does not stand to inherit any of his son's assets and cannot challenge the appointment of the executors chosen by the singer to handle his will, a judge said Tuesday. More>>
The mystery over whether the military knew Fort Hood shooting suspect Nidal Hasan was communicating with a radical Muslim imam lapsed into finger-pointing ahead of congressional investigations looking into the Army... More>>
Three years ago, Rose Loving got the visit every GI's family fears. More>>
A woman was killed and two of her co-workers were injured when the woman's estranged husband opened fire Tuesday at a drug-testing laboratory in suburban Portland before turning the gun on himself, police said. More>>
Millions of American women will face tough choices about abortion coverage if restrictions in the House health care bill become law, both sides in the abortion debate agree. More>>
The star attraction at New York's Rockefeller Center this Christmas will be a 76-foot Norway spruce from Connecticut. More>>
A New Jersey judge says a quadriplegic blocked from buying a gun to go hunting has the right to bear arms even though he will have to use a wheelchair mount to use the firearm. More>>
Upset by the treatment of U.S. military personnel, a 42-year-old father of an Army veteran sneaked a disassembled shotgun into a middle school just after classes began Tuesday, put it together in a bathroom, then held the... More>>
After just three months as head of embattled insurer American International Group, Robert Benmosche has threatened to leave his post as he struggles to deal with heavy government oversight and restrictions on what the... More>>
Republican Chris Christie elected governor of New Jersey. More>>
Arizona authorities say a truck rolled over on a dirt road while trying to elude U.S. Border Patrol agents, killing two men and badly injuring three others. More>>
On Nov. 11, 2009, former Vice President Al Gore's photo was listed on J. Reuben Long Detention Center's bookings and releases. More>>
A real estate group says home prices fell in eight out of every 10 U.S. cities in the third quarter of this year as heavily discounted distressed sales made up 30 percent of all deals. More>>
Sister Catherine Bitzer slowly opened a file box and carefully removed a brittle page, scarred by years of neglectful storage, mold and insects. At 415 years old, the marriage record written by a Roman Catholic priest is... More>>
Republican leaders in Charleston County have censured South Carolina U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham for working with Democrats on a climate bill and other legislation. More>>
South Carolina's jilted first lady is endorsing a candidate to succeed her husband when the term-limited politician leaves office. More>>
A new poll shows Southerners are fretting about job loss and the economy and don't think the federal government is doing enough to help. More>>
An accident-plagued stretch of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge saw its first fatality Monday when the driver of a speeding big rig lost control and the truck plummeted 200 feet from the span, authorities said. More>>
Former President Bill Clinton urged Senate Democrats on Tuesday to pass health care legislation by year's end, pointedly telling skittish lawmakers that an imperfect bill is preferable to another failure like the one he and... More>>
Sniper John Allen Muhammad refused to utter any last words as he was executed, taking to the grave answers about why and how he plotted the killings of 10 people in the Washington, D.C. area.
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Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is promising to visit more cities than a conventional book tour when her memoir "Going Rogue" is published later this month. More>>
Don't look for the Senate to quickly follow the House on health care overhaul. More>>
With the technology industry looking on, the Supreme Court on Monday will explore what types of inventions should be eligible for a patent in a pivotal case that could undermine such legal protections for software. More>>
Hurricane Ida, the first Atlantic hurricane to target the United States this year, plodded early Monday toward the Gulf Coast with 105 mph winds, bringing the threat of flooding and storm surges. More>>
The family of the alleged Fort Hood shooter held his mother's funeral at the same Virginia mosque that two Sept. 11 hijackers attended in 2001, at a time when a radical imam preached there. More>>
Just when it was beginning to look a little better, the economy relapsed Friday with a return to double-digit unemployment for only the second time since World War II and warnings that next year will be even worse than... More>>
The bill that was the focus of the state legislature's special session this week has been signed into law by Gov. Mark Sanford. Senate bill 374, which extends benefits to the unemployed under the stimulus act. More>>
It hurts more to be unemployed now than the last time the jobless rate hit 10 percent. More>>
WASHINGTON (CBS/WCSC) - After months of consultations and strategy sessions with the country's top military advisers, President Barack Obama now has a new plan for Afghanistan that will mean a long-term More>>
On Saturday, close to 100 World War II veterans from the Lowcountry flew to Washington, DC to see the WW2 memorial. More>>
Democrats just don't get the election message from voters and arepushing a liberal, big government agenda at their party's peril, Republican officials said Sunday as they predicted a political price after the majority's... More>>
He was by turns caring and contentious, a man quick to say "I am blessed" in casual greeting yet one who seemed to stew in discontent that he could not always keep to himself. More>>
An Army spokeswoman says the suspect in the Fort Hood shootings had been scheduled to deploy to Afghanistan to counsel soldiers suffering from combat stress. More>>
The man accused of opening fire today at the engineering firm where he once worked in Orlando, Florida, was reportedly upset about jobless benefits. More>>
Investigators spent five days searching a rural area of dense vines and marshes for a missing infant, only to find her lying quietly in a 2-foot by 3-foot cedar box that had been shoved under her baby sitter's bed. Clothing... More>>
Sheriff: Fla. baby missing for 5 days found alive under baby sitter's bed; 3 people detained. More>>
A 23-year-old Egyptian man acquitted of terrorism-related charges won't face deportation. More>>
Dozens of lawmakers have drawn scrutiny from their ethics monitor this year for everything from financial dealings to travel and campaign donations, according to a leaked account showing an active House panel secretly at... More>>
Authorities in Orlando, Fla. say a gunman opened fire today in the offices of an engineering firm where he was let go more than two years ago. More>>
President Barack Obama trumpeted two major endorsements for his health overhaul push Thursday as House Democratic leaders pushed toward a vote Saturday on the far-reaching legislation remaking the U.S. health care system. More>>
President Barack Obama on Thursday called a mass shooting at a Texas Army base "a horrific outburst of violence." More>>
Democrats are still struggling to find a strategy that will let them push a health care overhaul through the Senate and fulfill President Barack Obama's goal of signing a bill this year. More>>
Jim Stevens said he's not particularly religious and is clueless about why an image resembling Jesus Christ keeps appearing on his pickup. Stevens, of Jonesborough, said nearly every morning, an image that looks to him like... More>>
South Carolina's Supreme Court says the ethics investigation into Gov. Mark Sanford's travel can't be kept secret. More>>
Anna Nicole Smith's doctor was feeding her addiction to prescription medications by excessively prescribing opiates, including a drug nicknamed "hospital heroin," a pain management expert testified Tuesday. More>>
The parents of a 20-year-old Virginia Tech student who disappeared outside a Metallica concert say they fear their daughter is the victim of foul play but hope for her return. More>>
The Wall Street Journal says its new San Francisco Bay Area edition will launch Thursday, with a weekly section devoted to local news. More>>
A former Iowa man accused of killing his infant son four years ago will go on trial in 2010. More>>
It is about to become official: The U.S. recession is over - but not the pain. More>>
Despite Republican pressure to act quickly, President Barack Obama says he won't rush his decision about whether to send more troops to Afghanistan where 14 Americans died in the deadliest day for U.S. forces in more than... More>>
CHARLOTTE, NC (WBTV) - In December of 2008, twenty Charlotte gang members were sentenced in federal prison. That has been a headline for months. What you haven't heard is how it happened. WBTV researched the real story on how the FBI, CMPD and the U.S. Attorney's office crippled Charlotte's most dangerous homegrown gang, and sent a message to other gangbangers. More>>
If Congress can't stop itself from spending the nation into everlasting debt, give the controls to somebody else. More>>
The White House has nominated two North Carolina judges to fill seats on the nation's most conservative federal appeals court. More>>
It's been 80 years since the stock market experienced a one-day slide of $14 billion. Find out what's changed -- and what hasn't. More>>
Thursday at 11:00pm we aired a story about cell phone stalking -- a crime most people haven't heard of yet, but law enforcement and private investigators tell us it's being used more and more. Now, we have a list of things you can do to protect yourself -- and your phone -- from being a target. More>>
Flanked by state and local elected officials and economic developers Friday, Gov. Mark Sanford signed H.3130, an economic incentives bill that helped pave the way for Boeing Company's Oct. 28 announcement. More>>
North Charleston can now call itself home to a new Boeing 787 Dreamliner assembly plant, victor of a year-long contest that put the city and the state in the cockpit of the airline engineering industry. More>>
President Barack Obama declared the swine flu outbreak a national emergency, giving his health chief the power to let hospitals move emergency rooms offsite to speed treatment and protect noninfected patients. More>>
Speaker Bobby Harrell rejected a resolution to impeach embattled Republican governor Mark Sanford, calling the measure "out of order." More>>
A bill that would ban foreign nuclear waste from entering the U.S. is taking a small but significant step toward getting a U.S. House committee vote for the first time. More>>
As of Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009, at least 806 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The... More>>
Seven more violent criminals in North Carolina prisons have been added to the list of 20 murderers and rapists serving life sentences who could be released early. The office of North Carolina Governor Bev Perdue says this changes nothing. More>>
Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore said Wednesday that cooperation between China and the U.S., the world's two biggest emitters of greenhouse gases, is crucial to tackling the climate change crisis. More>>
Fighting off a Helena Senators' fifth-inning rally, pitcher Brandon Patch checked the runner on first base. The 18-year-old Miles City Mavericks' southpaw then went into his windup, delivering what looked sure to be another... More>>
Federal regulators are expected to take a step forward Thursday on rules that would prohibit broadband providers from favoring or discriminating against Internet traffic. More>>
Two new government studies indicate about 1 in 100 children have autism disorders - higher than a previous U.S. estimate of 1 in 150. More>>
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