NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios on Monday said they will delay a fourth film in their billion dollar "Spider-Man" franchise by one year and return in 2012 with a new story, new director and new cast. The "new chapter" will tell of a high-school-age Peter Parker, the alter ego for comic book crime fighter Spider-Man who had ...

Tobey Maguire doesn't think "Spider-Man 4" has become a tangled mess. The 34-year-old star of the web-slinging superhero franchise said preproduction snags aren't dampening his mood about the fourth installment. The next "Spider-Man" film had been scheduled to swing into theaters May 6, 2011, but that ...

The original South Carolina militia-like so many of the nation's first military forces-was organized out of necessity. The year was 1670. Settlers had established Charles Towne, now Charleston, S.C. It was the first permanent English settlement south of the Virginia colony in what King Charles II named the Carolina territory. The region included what is today both of ...