Richard Phillips

Still trying to regain her balance after stumbling over American customs, carefree ex-gymnast Nadia Comaneci is ready to tie the knot-but not to her married roofer friend. The real love...

Morton Downey Jr. has come upon more hard times. The onetime storm trooper of shock television filed a Chapter 11 bankruptcy petititon in Newark, N.J., claiming debts of $2.4 million,...

If one gains notoriety by finger-pointing, one should have clean fingernails. Hence the hand-wringing in Colorado, where the pure-as-the-driven-snow Sierra Club is in trouble for killing trees. Seems that the...

. . . or are men only jerks? Gee, if one can`t recognize the difference, a fellow could be seriously shortchanged. Enter Jesse Helms with the only answer-at least to...

''Mine own sweetheart, these shall be to advertise you of the great aloneness that I find here since your departing.'' Ah, such a valentine. And short-lived, too. It was written...

Sen. Strom Thurmond, the nation`s oldest member of Congress, refuses to call it quits. At 87, the South Carolina Republican has announced his candidacy for another six years in Washington....

The 12-year marriage of real-estate tycoon Donald Trump and his fashionable spouse Ivana apparently is over. Columnist Liz Smith of the New York Daily News says lawyers already are dividing...

If morning TV personality Kathleen Sullivan seems stressed, there`s good reason. Newly single again, Sullivan, 36, is hunting for a job too. She was dumped as host of ''CBS This...

Not far from Seattle, a northern fur seal sure created a flap among landlubbers. It paddled up the creek to Shelton, a Washington logging town, and started flip-flopping along the...

Another celebrity biker has hit the ground without a helmet. Rock star Billy Idol, 34, was listed in serious condition at L.A.`s Cedars Sinai hospital after crashing his motorcycle into...