TENNESSEE

Leave your stress at home and ease your way into to the lazy splendor of Southern living on this ride from Charleston to Savannah through the balmy Lowcountry.

House Republicans Monday said a positive January jobs reporting showing 243,000 new jobs and a dip in the unemployment rate belied the number of discouraged job seekers who leave the workforce and underemployed Americans with college degrees.

Chinese energy firms are deeply involved in Syria – China National Petroleum Corp. and Sinochem have heavy investments in the country.

Cornelius Smith is being charged with aggravated burglary and vandalism stemming from an incident on November 18th. Smith, of Chattanooga, Tennessee, stole all of his ex-girlfriend's under garments, as well as her TV and DVD player.

Actor Ben Gazzara, known for his brooding tough-guy presence in dozens of films, television shows and stage productions over his long career, died of pancreatic cancer on Friday at a Manhattan hospital, his lawyer said. He was 81.

Among the slick, million-dollar ads airing during the Super Bowl this Sunday, viewers in New York and Boston will see a far more modest spot. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino will be sitting on a couch touting an issue most politicians avoid like the plague: gun control.

Ben Gazzara, who worked with several generations of major Hollywood directors, died at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan at the age of 81.

Actor Ben Gazzara, known for his brooding tough-guy presence in dozens of films, television shows, and stage productions over his long career, died of pancreatic cancer on Friday at a New York hospital, his lawyer said. He was 81.

An anti-NDAA law was introduced by five Washington state Republican lawmakers this week.

A Minnesota company has recalled cooked eggs in California and 33 other states after a possible risk of listeria contamination.

Punxsutawney Phil, the most famous and most reliable groundhog emerged from his tree stump today and saw his shadow, warning a crowd of around 18,000 that we have six more weeks of winter ahead of us. But did other groundhogs see their shadows?

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has linked Yum Brands Inc. Taco Bell to a salmonella outbreak that sickened 68 people in 10 states last October.

With Desperate Housewives winding to a close, Marc Cherry is tackling another group of dramatic women for ABC in a new project.

Yum Brand Inc's Taco Bell chain has been linked to a Salmonella outbreak that sickened 68 people in 10 states late last year.

The country's top football prospect, Dorial Green-Beckham, is taking his talents to the University of Missouri. The growing legacy of great quarterbacks from the University of Missouri makes top recruit Green-Beckham a perfect fit for the organization, which will be entering the Southeastern Conference (SEC) in the 2012-2013 season.

A captivating letter from a former slave to his old master has resurfaced online. The letter is a response from ex-slave, Jourdon Anderson, after his former owner, Colonel P.H. Anderson of Big Spring, Tenn., asked Jourdon to return to his farm to work after more than 30 years of servitude. The must-read letter's expression is cheeky, but clear.

Women who eat about three servings of fish per week have a somewhat lower chance of having polyps found during a routine colonoscopy than women who eat just one serving every two weeks, according to a new study.

The White Stripes frontman Jack White said on Monday that he will debut a solo album, Blunderbuss, on April 24, with entirely new songs written by him and embodying his own sense of self-expression.

The Burmese python is wrecking the Florida Everglades ecosystem and have devastated small mammal populations in the area, but its not the only species that is causing harm to the ecosystem.

It's true, fellow teenyboppers. JT is 31.

Allen Stanford, charged with a $7 billion Ponzi scheme, sought to have a Antiguan regulator with oversight of his offshore bank dismissed after she rejected a number of the Texas financier's overtures to work together, she testified on Monday.