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Singers from Carole King to Alison Krauss to Jose Feliciano will offer a salute to America's parks at a free event to be held in our city's most famous preserve.

Set up on a blind date by a co-worker at General Electric, Jusinta met Charles at a chain restaurant in Richmond, Va., in January 2002.

Chanelle Williams, 25, a junior recruiter, and Lawrence Lester Jr., 26, an admissions adviser, have known each other since eighth grade and started dating in 12th grade.

Nine years ago, Lakeya McCorkle was at a restaurant with a group of friends when she spotted Ricardo Michel across the room and thought he looked familiar. She approached him and asked, in earnest, if she knew him from someplace.

Karen Hambright, 37, principal of PS 243, and Barry Glover, 41, who works for the New York City Housing Authority, were childhood sweethearts, but it took a fateful reunion in 2005 to bring them together.

Peter Cook is too cruel for school. Christie Brinkley is hoping to take kids Sailor and Jack to see the Jonas Brothers perform next weekend at their posh Hamptons school. Problem is - that's Cook's visitation weekend.

In June 2002, Latoya Bellamy came home to Staten Island from Charlotte, N.C., to visit family and friends. Some of her friends knew James Jordan Lockhart 3rd, 25, a truck driver.

Be warned: The pair once voted Britain's "Most Annoying Couple" are moving to the U.S.

"Access Hollywood" kicks off its month-long "3,000 Episodes in 30 Days" celebration Monday night to mark the show's 12 seasons on the air, and as an anniversary gift, both co-host Nancy O'Dell and executive producer Rob Silverstein are asking for no more Paris Hilton.

Cherone Slater's best friend told her boyfriend's gregarious cousin, George Bartley, she had "someone to calm and quiet him down." In April 2003, the pair got in touch.

It was only on the 36th home pregnancy test that Halle Berry's dream came true: She is pregnant with her first baby.

Rush & Molloy: "Confessions of a Video Vixen" memoirist Karrine Steffans may be richer now, but she hasn't lost her appetite for famous men. Now she's back with "The Vixen Diaries."

Fridays and Mondays are the hardest days for him.. . Every Monday morning, when Terrence Grogan awakens in his Bayside home, he gets excited ...

The ESSENCE. com staff compiled a list of the top 10 songs that make the first dance at a wedding reception complete. See who made the cut (in no ...