The booming 23-year-old R&B vocalist from St. Helena Island, S.C., won the Fox singing competition after auditioning a trio of times and making it to the

Joyce Brothers, the pop psychologist who pioneered the television advice show in the 1950s and enjoyed a long and prolific career as a syndicated columnist,

Jeanne Cooper, the enduring soap opera star who played grande dame Katherine Chancellor for nearly four decades on "The Young and the Restless," has died. She

Jonathan Winters, the cherub-faced comedian whose breakneck improvisations and misfit characters inspired the likes of Robin Williams and Jim Carrey, has died.

A look through the life of a pop culture icon.

Annette Funicello, the most popular Mouseketeer on "The Mickey Mouse Club," died Monday, The Walt Disney Co. said. She was 70.

IRONDALE, Ala. (AP) — A global broadcasting operation based in Alabama is offering a different kind of news coverage of the election of a new pope.

NEW YORK (AP) — What do you do after winning viewers' hearts as "The Bachelor"? If you're Sean Lowe, you put on your dancing shoes.

CINCINNATI (AP) — Daytime television host and former Cincinnati mayor Jerry Springer doesn't see himself getting back into elective politics.

NEW YORK (AP) — White smoke or black smoke? Maybe it's easier just to wait for a text message that a new pope has been elected.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The commissioner of the Missouri Valley Conference says he would rather have the tournament title game televised on the Food Network if CBS can't guarantee it

NEW YORK (AP) — A report says Matt Lauer was ready to take the fall last year for troubles on NBC's "Today" show.

NEW YORK (AP) — It's not uncommon for soap opera characters thought dead to spring back to life. Now, a pair of soap operas thought dead are being resurrected.