
Paper wrap: 'The Office' ends its 8-year run
That's a wrap! Dunder Mifflin Paper Co. lives on, but "The Office" has closed shop. The NBC workplace comedy, set at the fictional company's Scranton, ...

Former Pakistani prime minister declares victory
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif declared victory following a historic election marred by violence Saturday, a remarkable comeback for a ...

Wash. State graduate wears wedding gown under robe
With friends and family already gathered for her graduation from Washington State University, Cassie Dotts thought it would be a good time for another ...

Trombone Shorty, Aaron Neville close Jazz Fest
For more than two decades, the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival has closed with a performance by the city's own Neville Brothers. On Sunday, ...

SAfrica: officials suspended over wedding scandal
Five South African officials, including police and military commanders, have been suspended after a chartered plane carrying about 200 guests from ...

Colorado ushers in new law with midnight unions
The first gay couple granted a civil union in Colorado said their vows before hundreds of people early Wednesday morning at a downtown Denver ...

Gypsies flock to bridal fair as parents negotiate
Donka Hristova lets her mother pull her skintight mini-dress a half-inch down her leg. Checking her makeup one last time, she joins her two younger ...

Shovels, skis or a wedding: tales from a snowstorm
From New Jersey to Maine, millions of people, many with Superstorm Sandy still fresh in their minds, dug out from underneath mounds of snow Saturday.
Mass. couple's wedding day is also town's ZIP code
Couples often hold weddings on significant dates, but a Massachusetts couple has come up with a new way of remembering their ceremony. Cheryl Bennett ...
Hot air balloon crashes San Diego backyard wedding
A sunset wedding ceremony aboard a hot air balloon got off to a bumpy start when a gust of wind forced the pilot to make a crash landing in the yard ...

Review: Clark's new mystery an irresistible read
"Footprints in the Sand" (William Morrow), by Mary Jane Clark Piper Donovan, the heroine of a mystery series by Mary Jane Clark, is fearless and ...

Many weddings as gay marriage becomes legal in Md.
Same-sex couples in Maryland were greeted with cheers and noisemakers held over from New Year's Eve parties, as gay marriage became legal in the first ...

Maine same-sex couples marry in first hours of law
Arriving in a limo, Donna Galluzzo and Lisa Gorney had all the trappings of a traditional wedding: Rings, flowers, wedding vows, an entourage and a ...

Maine greets gay marriage with midnight weddings
After waiting years and seeing marriage rights nearly awarded and then retracted, gay couples in Maine's largest city didn't have to wait a moment ...

Gay marriage law goes into effect in Maine
Chris Kast and Byron Bartlett already consider themselves married after a 2010 ceremony overlooking Portland Harbor, but now they're doing it all over ...

Richard Adams, early figure in gay marriage, dies
Richard Adams, who used both the altar and the courtroom to help begin the push for gay marriage four decades before it reached the center of the ...
So. Calif. couple unlawfully wedded for 48 years
After spending nearly a half-century as husband and wife, Bob and Norma Clark are finally married. The couple from Redlands, an inland California city ...
Popularity of Caribbean island soars after wedding
A speck of an island in the Dutch Caribbean has become increasingly popular with gay couples after legislators legalized same-sex marriages in a ...

Gimmicky date a boost for lovelorn Las Vegas
Las Vegas, land of the quickie wedding, is in the midst of a serious love recession, and chapels in the city accustomed to playing the numbers were ...

Minn. gay couple in '71 marriage case still united
When Jack Baker proposed to Michael McConnell that they join their lives together as a couple, in March 1967, McConnell accepted with a condition that ...

Gay couples in Wash. start taking wedding vows
Keith Bacon and Corianton Hale wore dress shirts as they recited their vows at Seattle City Hall, as the city hosted more than 100 weddings on the ...

Same-sex couples in Wash. state start wedding vows
Scores of same-sex couples crowded Seattle City Hall for a day of wedding ceremonies on Sunday, the first day they could marry after the state's ...

Same-sex weddings in Wash. to begin on Sunday
Two retired military women who fought for the rights of gays in the military were among the hundreds of couples who received their marriage licenses ...

Gay Washington state couples get marriage licenses
Hundreds of same-sex couples across Washington state started picking up marriage licenses Thursday as a voter-approved law legalizing gay marriage ...

Gregoire signs Wash. gay marriage law
Gov. Chris Gregoire has signed into law a measure that legalizes same-sex marriage in Washington state, which now joins several other states that ...