Entertainment

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Studio estimates say “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” sliced off $65 million at the weekend box office. The Paramount comic-book adap...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Fahim Fazli’s screen career was beginning to take off, with roles in blockbusters like “Iron Man,” when the Afghan-born actor dec...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Organizers of the biggest comic-book convention in the nation sued their counterparts in Salt Lake City over the event’s name, s...

MIAMI (AP) — Henry Stone, a fixture on the R&B and disco scene who was instrumental in the careers of Ray Charles, James Brown and KC & the Sunshine B...

KANE — The Kane Players board of directors has announced the cast for its upcoming youth production of “Seussical Jr.” The musical is based on the wor...

ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina man celebrated out-eating some police officers, only to find out that he couldn’t outrun them. The Camden...

NEW YORK (AP) — Manjula Stokes has twice sworn off television, once throwing a set off her deck in a fit over an ex-husband’s sports obsession. Now sh...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Television’s Judge Judy and a Hartford personal injury lawyer she sued for allegedly using her image in ads without her permiss...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Smokey Bear is turning 70 on Saturday — but don’t bring any candles to the party, please. As the friendly, huggable bear with the b...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Richard Marowitz was just a day removed from witnessing the horrors of Dachau when he found a top hat on a shelf in a closet in Ad...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Two 20-something women with a gift for arts and crafts arrived at Miley Cyrus’ homecoming concert with identical bedazzled shi...

LONDON (AP) — George Clooney and his fiancee have posted a legal notice declaring their intention to marry in Italy. Clooney and Beirut-born London la...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — It has been known as the nation’s porn capital for years, but if recent film-permit records are to be believed, fewer than three ad...

LONDON (AP) — Prince William is taking a new job: Air ambulance pilot. Britain’s royal officials announced Thursday that starting September, the royal...

NEW YORK (AP) — Billy Joel, Maria Shriver and Samuel L. Jackson — baby boomers all — will be among those featured in an upcoming PBS documentary about...

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A new show wants to redefine the meaning of trashy television. “Human Resources,” which debuts Friday on the Pivot network, will f...

Julian and Bonnie George from Hendersonville, Tenn., will be in concert this Sunday night for the Church In The Park program. The duo will begin their...

TORONTO (AP) — The role of Rob Ford has been cast in upcoming new musical comedy about Toronto’s infamous mayor. “Rob Ford the Musical: Birth of A For...

NEW YORK (AP) — Broadway, prepare for the arrival of a queen — Helen Mirren is bringing “The Audience” to New York City. Producers of Peter Morgan’s p...

HOUSTON (AP) — Actress Marilyn Burns, perhaps best known as the heroine in the 1974 horror classic “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” has died at her Hous...