Though Lady Antebellum [ tickets ] is a chart-topping, award-winning Nashville trio now, just three years ago the story was entirely different. Lead singer Charles Kelley flipped houses with his brother, Dave Haywood sat behind a desk as an ...

1 Dec 2008

CHICAGO, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Census records show the woman who will soon become first lady of the United States is the great-great granddaughter of an illiterate South Carolina slave. Jim Robinson, who worked on the sprawling Friendfield rice plantation ...

1 Dec 2008

Hillary Rodham Clinton's nomination as secretary of state is another milestone for a former first lady who was the first to win elective office, the first to run for president herself and now the first to be chosen for a Cabinet position. Although ...

1 Dec 2008

CHICAGO (AP) -- President-elect Barack Obama announced Monday that Robert Gates would remain as defense secretary, making President Bush's Pentagon chief his own as he seeks to wind down the U.S. role in Iraq. Obama picked former campaign rival ...

1 Dec 2008

WASHINGTON (AP) _ Hillary Rodham Clinton 's nomination as secretary of state is another milestone for a former first lady who was the first to win elective office, the first to run for president herself and now the first to be chosen for a Cabinet ...

1 Dec 2008

PARIS (AP) - Carla Bruni-Sarkozy says she wants to divert media attention surrounding her marriage to French President Nicolas Sarkozy to a worthy cause _ by becoming a goodwill ambassador for the fight against AIDS. France's first lady says she will ...

1 Dec 2008