Lance Armstrong says he will answer questions "directly, honestly and candidly" during an interview with Oprah Winfrey next week.

In the week since news surfaced that a Chicago man was poisoned to death before he was to collect a lottery payout, surprising details about his convoluted family saga have trickled out daily.

As if the nightmares, flashbacks and anxiety weren't enough, passengers who survived the terrifying capsizing of the Costa Concordia off Tuscany have come in for a rude shock as they mark the first anniversary of the disaster on Sunday: They've been told they aren't welcome at the weekend's commemorations.

President Barack Obama will take the oath of office for his second term with his hand placed on two Bibles -- one that belonged to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and one owned by Abraham Lincoln.

One student has been shot at a high school in Taft, Calif., a community in the southern San Joaquin Valley.

The Civil War saga "Lincoln" leads the Academy Awards with 12 nominations, including best picture, director for Steven Spielberg and acting honors for Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field and Tommy Lee Jones.

Roars of laughter can be heard in a Norfolk, Virginia neighborhood after residents thought they saw a lion, but it was actually a dog with a lion-like haircut.

A Vermont man charged with driving a tractor over seven police vehicles and crushing them has been found incompetent to stand trial.

America set an off-the-charts heat record in 2012.

An Eastern Carolina restaurant owner is ready for anything to happen...from hurricanes and tornadoes to attacks from EMPs. Yes, Derek Price has built a fortress that he says can withstand an attack from electromagnetic pulse radiation.

A North Carolina State University employee has been arrested and accused of taking weapons onto school property.

The Charlotte Observer reports 19-year-old William Hilton Paul was arrested Saturday morning at Charlotte Douglas International Airport and charged with alcohol-related offenses.

A photo of a teenage Diana Spencer that's marked "not to be published" will be featured in an auction this month in New Hampshire.

A spokeswoman for Lucasfilm Ltd. says the 68-year-old director is engaged to 43-year-old investment firm president Mellody Hobson.

Greenville Mayor Allen Thomas says a section of Highway 264 between Greenville and Wilson could become an interstate.

He says the plans include Giffords meeting at a private home with families of the 20 children and six school officials killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School last month.

A State Supreme Court decision upholding a ban on video sweepstakes machines took effect Thursday, but some internet sweepstakes owners say they are using software which makes their machines legal.

In a government study released Thursday, a little over 4 percent of U.S. adults said they fell asleep while driving at least once in the previous month.

It has happened, there are now more internet-connected gadgets than people in America.

Al-Jazeera, the Pan-Arab news channel that struggled to win space on American cable television, has acquired Current TV, according to co-founder Al Gore.

The 86-year-old Playboy magazine founder exchanged vows with 26-year-old Crystal Harris at a private Playboy Mansion ceremony on New Year's Eve.

A member of Asheville's city council is proposing a ban on holding gun shows at publicly owned buildings.

The horrific massacre of 26 children and staff at a Connecticut elementary school, along with other mass shootings, was the top news story of 2012, narrowly edging out the U.S. election, according to The Associated Press' annual poll of U.S. editors and news directors.

There's love and no marriage -- but soon Kanye West and Kim Kardashian will be pushing around the ol' baby carriage.

A Pennsylvania beauty queen who resigned after alleging that the Miss USA pageant had been fixed says she is stunned by an arbitrator's ruling that she must pay the pageant organization $5 million for defamation.