Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry has been taken to a hospital after he was forced to leave the stage while performing in New York City. Perry became ill around 9:30 p.m. Sunday while performing with Johnny Depp and Alice Cooper in his side band, the Hollywood Vampires, at Ford Amphitheater in… Read More

A busty mermaid sculpted from sand and placed outside a popular Cape Cod restaurant is raising eyebrows and triggering complaints. The town of Yarmouth, Massachusetts, and the local Chamber of Commerce say they fielded complaints from locals about the exaggerated proportions of the mermaid’s chest. Yarmouth’s police department took down… Read More

Pope Francis on Monday named a former Fox TV correspondent as his spokesman and tapped a Spanish woman to be the deputy, the first time a woman has held the post. Greg Burke, 56, takes over from the Rev. Federico Lombardi, 73, a Jesuit like Francis who has been Vatican… Read More

A Yemeni prisoner at Guantanamo Bay was released and sent to Italy after more than 14 years in custody, the Pentagon said Sunday. The release of Fayiz Ahmad Yahia Suleiman reduced the number of men held at the U.S. base in Cuba to 78. He was among about two dozen… Read More

Officers stared down hundreds protesting against police killings near a ramp leading to an interstate in Louisiana’s capital Sunday night before another squad in riot gear arrived and authorities took dozens into custody. Earlier Sunday, some 2,000 people rallied outside the Capitol building to protest police killings of black people,… Read More

A fast-moving black bear has evaded authorities after police say officers chased it through New Hampshire’s largest city. Police tell WMUR-TV the bear was first spotted on Interstate 93 in Manchester on Thursday. It then moved to another area and took off running when police arrived. A chase ensued and continued… Read More

Officials say a New Jersey woman found a winning lottery ticket worth more than $470,000 while preparing to file her taxes. The state lottery announced on Thursday that Yokasta Boyer, of Clifton, found the Jersey Cash 5 ticket from an April 2015 drawing and was able to file her claim… Read More

A feral cat nicknamed “Little Bear” has forged an unlikely friendship with an aging bear at a California zoo. The black cat with a clipped ear is rarely far from 18-year-old Sequoia, one of Folsom City Zoo Sanctuary’s largest black bears. Zookeepers tell the Sacramento Bee that Little Bear joins… Read More

John McMartin, the versatile, gentlemanly Tony Award-nominated actor who starred on Broadway in such shows as “Follies” and “Sweet Charity,” has died, according to his manager. McMartin was 86. McMartin’s manager, Tony Cloer, said Thursday the actor died of cancer in New York on Wednesday surrounded by his family and… Read More

The U.S. government on Thursday tentatively approved scheduled commercial airline service to Havana from 10 American cities, further bridging the gulf between countries as close as an hour flight but long kept at a greater distance by the Cold War. The decision is another long stride in President Barack Obama’s… Read More