A year after Alejandro Inarritu’s “Birdman” swept top honors at last year’s Academy Awards, Inarritu will again play a leading role at the Academy Awards with his 1820s revenge thriller “The Revenant,” which landed a leading 12 nominations Thursday. Other familiar faces are returning, as well, like last year’s best… Read More

The Boston Police Department’s SWAT team has been reunited with its beloved, unofficial mascot. The department posted on its website that SWAT Cat returned to the unit’s home base in the city’s Roxbury neighborhood Thursday morning. The female stray with white, black and light orange fur first started prowling around… Read More

The first-graders at Northpoint Elementary obediently sat cross-legged on the floor, eagerly awaiting the arrival of their newfound friend. Their eyes widened as Blair Walsh walked in, the Minnesota Vikings kicker to whom the kids sent letters and drawings this week to lift his spirits. The field goal he missed… Read More

Pittsburgh police are searching for two would-be carjackers who apparently can’t drive a stick-shift. Police have been looking for the pair since Tuesday night, when one of them tapped on a 28-year-old driver’s side window with a gun. The two ordered the man out of his car and demanded money…. Read More

British actor Alan Rickman, whose career ranged from Britain’s Royal Shakespeare Company to the “Harry Potter” films, has died. He was 69. Rickman’s family said Thursday that the actor had died after a battle with cancer. His breakout role was as the scheming Vicomte de Valmont in an acclaimed 1985… Read More

“Fifty Shades of Grey” is all tied up with “Pixels,” ”Jupiter Ascending” and “Paul Blart Mall Cop 2” for the most nominations at this year’s Golden Raspberry Awards celebrating the worst in cinema. The films led the Razzies lineup Wednesday with six nods each, including worst picture and worst actor… Read More

Bill Cosby’s lawyers want materials gathered in a civil defamation lawsuit filed by seven women who claim Cosby sexually assaulted them decades ago kept out of the public eye. A federal magistrate in Massachusetts will hear arguments Wednesday on a confidentiality agreement proposed by lawyers for Cosby, who denies the… Read More

Authorities in Florida say a suspected burglar was arrested after returning to a crash scene to retrieve a bottle of iced tea, fearing it would be used as evidence. Local news outlets report 23-year-old Bryan Lindon is charged with burglary of an unoccupied residence and grand theft. Authorities say Lindon… Read More

A man Ohio police say sent them a selfie because he didn’t like the mugshot they were using has been arrested in the Florida panhandle. Lima (LY’-muh), Ohio, police say Donald “Chip” Pugh was arrested Tuesday in Century, Florida, and is being held on another warrant out of Georgia. Police… Read More