Updated: 4:47 PM The Andy Griffith Show has been a favorite of East Tennesseans for decades. Alan Williams say down with three people who share their love for Griffith in a most unique way.

Updated: 3:28 PM It was all too easy to confuse Andy Griffith the actor with Sheriff Andy Taylor, his most famous character from "The Andy Griffith Show."

Posted: 6:17 AM Country star Brad Paisley will be joining the president and first lady in saluting the military on the Fourth of July at the White House.

Posted: 6:15 AM Miami rapper Pitbull might soon be chilling out in Alaska.

Posted: 3:13 PM "The fact is, I'm gay, always have been, always will be, and I couldn't be any more happy, comfortable with myself and proud," he wrote in the letter, published by Andrew Sullivan of the Daily Beast.

Posted: 10:27 AM The bear is "Ted," Mark Wahlberg and Seth MacFarlane's comedy for Universal Pictures about a talking teddy bear, which opened as the No. 1 movie with $54.1 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.

Posted: 10:10 AM With all the star power at the BET Awards — Kanye West, Jay-Z, Nicki Minaj, Beyonce and Samuel L. Jackson, to name a few — the most stirring moment came not from a superstar, but from the mother of one.

Posted: 3:08 PM Cruise, 49, wed the 33-year-old Holmes in 2006 in an Italian castle after publicly declaring his love on "The Oprah Winfrey Show," emphatically jumping on her couch.

Posted: 3:06 PM The superstar singer's representative confirmed Friday that the 24-year-old is expecting a child with boyfriend Simon Konecki.

Posted: 8:33 AM She told USA Today she would announce her departure Thursday, ending a week of awkward television as she continued working after word spread that NBC was looking to oust her.

Posted: 8:29 AM In Valiant Comics' upcoming "Archer & Armstrong," the One Percent a secretive and sinister cabal of money managers and financiers willing to sacrifice more than jobs for profit

Posted: 8:25 AM It's the first time in its 500-plus year history that the pope's personal choir will sing as a single chorus with another choir, let alone one from the breakaway Anglican church.

Posted: 12:11 PM The National Folk Festival will take a hiatus in 2012 after financial problems stemming from funding shortfalls at the 2011 event in Nashville.

Posted: 5:23 AM Since Oprah Winfrey packed up the couch that Tom Cruise jumped on and ended her daytime talk show last year, no one has truly filled her role as the top go-to person in television for major interviews.

Posted: 11:47 AM The Supreme Court unanimously threw out fines and sanctions Thursday against broadcasters who violated the Federal Communications Commission policy regulating curse words and nudity.

Posted: 5:41 AM After failing to stop the debut of ABC's "The Glass House," CBS is trying another tactic against its competitor: sarcasm.

Updated: 5:16 AM An exhibit about Taylor Swift's 2011-12 world tour is on display at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville.

Posted: 5:35 AM CBS is getting its chance to try to shatter rival ABC's plan for its new reality competition show "The Glass House" by focusing their arguments on one person — a federal judge.

Posted: 3:50 PM New York City police investigated a report Thursday of a bar brawl involving hip-hop stars Drake and Chris Brown and their entourages in which bottles flew and five people were injured.

Posted: 9:49 AM CNN said Wednesday that Wolf Blitzer's "Situation Room" would expand to three hours, and King will become the network's lead national campaign correspondent.

Posted: 9:47 AM Needing to boost his donor base, President Barack Obama is banking on elite entertainers for help so often they have essentially become a cast of characters in his campaign.

Posted: 9:37 AM A 20-year-old Briton suspected of links to the hacking group Lulz Security is accused of cracking into websites for a Fox reality TV show.

Posted: 8:15 AM If you are a high school student in grades 9-12, you might want to consider a volunteer position with the Tennessee Valley Fair.

Posted: 11:09 AM Frances Williams Preston, who worked with top songwriters in the country as president of Broadcast Music Inc., has died. She was 83.

Posted: 3:50 PM A pig-tailed girl whose favorite accessory is a pink stethoscope has become a symbol of pride and hope for black women in medicine and the daughters they want to inspire.