
7 hours ago - By Courtney Hazlett, msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com
Mariah Carey’s erratic behavior bar is set high. Topping her 2001 declaration on “Total Request Live” that she would like “one day off when I can go swimming and look at rainbows and, like, eat ice cream” would be difficult. However, her recent behavior is raising eyebrows. Complete Story...
21 hours ago - By Mike Celizic, msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com
When People magazine says that this is one of its hottest-selling editions of the year, you know they must be tackling a weighty issue. And that’s certainly the case with the magazine’s annual “Half Their Size” special, on newsstands now.

Jan 5 - By Linda Carroll, msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com
When Stacey Bartlett-Knettler decided to get pregnant at 38, she didn’t worry much about her age. She felt young and healthy, and ready to start a family. But by the time she was 42 and had given birth to her second baby, the Columbus, Ohio, executive was starting to worry about her own mortality.

Jan 4 - By Michael Inbar, msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com
Where Oprah led, Robyn Okrant followed. The 37-year-old Chicago-based yoga instructor devised a novel pop culture experiment: What if she stuck to the gospel according to Oprah Winfrey, chapter and verse, every day for a year?

Jan 3 - By Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com
The plane crash took three lives on Wisteria Lane, including that of Karl, Julie's father, Susan's ex-husband and Bree's lover. Susan imagines what her life would have been like had she given her cheating ex another chance, and her fantasy involves a frustrated and sad version of herself gaining weight and coming on to a very uninterested Mike. She then loses the weight, but Karl leaves her anyway, so putting Teri Hatcher in a fat suit (and of course, having her stuff down cookies and cookie dough while wearing badly fitting clothes) seemed weird and just mean.

Dec 21 - By James Eng, msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com
As founder of a successful Virginia plumbing and heating company, Wendell Presgrave counts himself among the fortunate — but it wasn’t always that way.

Dec 18 - By Diane Mapes, msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com
Some holiday gifts are forgotten even before the wrapping paper’s been recycled. Others, like the one Heather Ryan-Sigler received years ago, tend to stick in your craw.
Dec 17 - By Michael Inbar, msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com
Sarah Jessica Parker isn’t ashamed to admit there’s more than a bit of Carrie Bradshaw, her fashion-obsessed “Sex and the City” character, in her. She told Matt Lauer on TODAY Thursday that the untamed nails that her co-star Hugh Grant sported on set of their new comedy, “Did You Hear About the Morgans?”, disturbed her so much that she became his manicurist.

Dec 16 - By Ree Hines, msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com
Other women may have had a role in the between New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez and Hollywood gal pal Kate Hudson.

Dec 16 - By Courtney Hazlett, msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com
Tiger Woods’ “indiscretions” began with a pair of bad influences, claims one of his former mistresses.

Dec 16 - By Mike Celizic, msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com
If you called central casting and asked for the quintessential American grandmother, they’d send you 76-year-old Sandy Vinge. Glowing with life, she is sweeter than a Christmas cookie.

Dec 15 - By Courtney Hazlett, msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com
Pro golfer Tiger Woods and his wife, Elin Nordegren, are headed for an imminent split that will likely be permanent, according to sources who are familiar with the couple’s situation.
Dec 14 - By Mike Celizic, msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com
At first, it was just a fling with a famous man who said his marriage was falling apart. But by the time she finally broke off her affair with Tiger Woods, Cori Rist said she had come to feel remorse for the suffering she caused Woods’ wife, Elin Nordegren.

Dec 13 - By Courtney Hazlett, msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com
Jamie Jungers, one of the women who claimed to have a relationship with golfer Tiger Woods, has insisted to news outlets that she was in no way a paid escort. But according to onetime madam Michelle Braun, that’s not the case.
Dec 11 - By Michael Inbar, msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com
In an exclusive interview Friday, admitted Tiger Woods mistress Jamie Jungers, 26, denied rumors that she had received any money from the famous golfer, whose once squeaky-clean image has been tarnished by a succession of women stepping forward to say they have had affairs with him.
Dec 9 - By Michael Inbar, msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com
Nine years after she made headlines for surviving three days trapped in her car after it flipped off a highway some 45 feet into a swamp, the legend of Tillie Tooter only grows. Spry and straight-talking at 93, she still drives herself around, revels in the joys of being a new great-grandmother, and is a hit on the speaking circuit in Florida retirement communities.

Dec 2 - By Dirk Smillie, msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com
In an interview last winter, Lady Gaga recalled her anguish at being ignored as she performed at a bar filled with drunken NYU students. No one paid the slightest attention to her until, fed up, she decided to strip down to her lingerie. "I started playing in my underwear at the piano and I remember everyone was all of a sudden like 'Whoa!' And I said, 'Yeah, you're looking at me now, huh?' "
Dec 2 - By Michael Inbar, msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com
Hope Witsell was just beginning the journey from child to teen. The middle-school student had a tight-knit group of friends, the requisite poster of “Twilight” heartthrob Robert Pattinson and big plans to become a landscaper when she grew up.
Nov 29 - By Eve Tahmincioglu, Career and labor reporter
A group of workers at a Boston company going through staff cutbacks recently started gossiping about a male colleague who drank too much during a business dinner. Some suspected the muckraking was an attempt to get the guy at the top of the layoff list, and he ended up getting a pink slip.

Nov 24 - By Ree Hines, msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com
With her private life and public persona firmly back on track and a successful world tour still going strong after long eight months, pop princess Britney Spears is said to be happy, healthy and ready to take her next big step — a walk down the aisle with ever-present manager-boyfriend Jason Trawick.

Nov 23 - By Mike Celizic, msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com
A huge crowd stood in the New York morning chill, cell phones and camcorders held before misty eyes to record a simple woman dressed in simple clothes singing familiar songs in a voice that penetrated deep into the spirit.

Nov 19 - By Linda Holmes, msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com
At Thanksgiving, the Chief told Meredith that he doesn't consider himself an alcoholic, she agreed not to tell anyone she'd seen him drinking, and they began to bond. At Christmas, though, when Meredith saw her father, Thatcher told her there was no way the Chief could take back his alcoholism. By New Year's, though the Chief had told Meredith he was giving up drinking again, she was later called to the bar to collect him, because he was spectacularly drunk.

Nov 19 - By John Schoen
ELKHART, Ind. - At the edge of this town, at the end of a long driveway, lives Lawrie Covey, who's at the end of her rope.
Nov 18 - By Mark Whitaker, msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com
- Sarah Palin hardly needs defending.
Nov 18 - By Tina Brown, msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com
Now that Palin has stopped pretending to be a politician, she’s back to being, uh, whatever she was before.