A federal judge has dismissed a nude protester’s claim that police violated his rights by arresting him while he played violin stark-naked outside the federal courthouse in Portland. Matthew T. Mglej of Hillsboro, Oregon, sued the Portland police and the county last January, seeking $1.1 million in damages. The 26-year-old… Read More

The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus is ending its elephant acts a year and a half early, and will retire all of its touring elephants in May. The move comes amid increasing scrutiny of circus elephant acts with local governments passing “anti-circus” and “anti-elephant” ordinances in response to… Read More

A Vietnam War veteran literally went out with a bang on Saturday, the St. George Spectrum newspaper reports. The son of Walter “Jim” Hosey of LaVerkin, Utah, loaded a total of 50 shotgun shells with his father’s ashes and fired them off at the Southern Utah Shooting Sports Park in… Read More

A Pennsylvania couple is struggling to sell a house used as the home of psychotic killer Buffalo Bill in the 1991 film “The Silence of the Lambs.” Scott and Barbara Lloyd listed the house last summer, but they’ve dropped the asking price from $300,000 to $250,000. The three-story Victorian in… Read More

Welcome to the epic national championship club, Alabama and Clemson. Your game is a unanimous choice to join the short list of some of the most dramatic, exciting, fantastic finishes to a college football season. With one big play after another — by both teams — Alabama beat Clemson 45-40… Read More

The government is falling short in ensuring airline pilots keep up their flying skills and get full training on how to monitor sophisticated automated control systems in cockpits, according to the Transportation Department’s internal watchdog. Most airline flying today is done through automated systems that pilots closely monitor. Pilots typically… Read More

The Playboy Mansion is up for sale, but longtime resident Hugh Heffner wants to stay put. Playboy Enterprise announced the West Los Angeles estate, the backdrop of many film shoots and wild parties, was listed on Monday for $200 million. The 5-acre property features 29 rooms, a game house, home… Read More

Alejandro Inarritu’s “The Revenant” won awards in the drama category for best picture and best actor for star Leonardo DiCaprio, who seems to be on a path to an Oscar for his portrayal of the 1820s fur trapper Hugh Glass. Inarritu, whose “Birdman” swept the Oscars last year, also beat… Read More

David Bowie, the other-worldly musician who broke pop and rock boundaries with his creative musicianship, nonconformity, striking visuals and a genre-spanning persona he christened Ziggy Stardust, died of cancer Sunday. He was 69 and had just released a new album. Bowie, whose hits included “Fame,” ”Heroes” and “Let’s Dance,” died… Read More

“You got bigger problems than this.” That was the message District Judge Eugene Ricciardi had for a man as he dismissed his traffic ticket. The man was then charged with robbing a Pittsburgh bank, caught after he showed up to fight the aforementioned traffic ticket in court. KDKA-TV reports 23-year-old… Read More