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“I will cancel going to my friend’s weddings if the Patriots are in the playoffs. No offense to them,” she said laughing. The 33-year-old has been cheering for the team since she was a little girl, but now there’s been a change in possession: the Patriots are rooting for her after her recent breast cancer diagnosis. “I was having...

A family was devastated after their cat went missing three years ago.

Porch pirates have become a big problem in recent years, but when a woman saw a package being taken from her front step on a surveillance camera, she was surprised to see the culprit.

Sarah Palin’s husband, Todd, filed for divorce from the former vice presidential candidate and Alaska governor citing “incompatibility of temperament between the parties such that they find it impossible to live together as husband and wife.” Todd Palin, 55, asked to dissolve the couple’s 31-year marriage in a filing submitted Friday in the Anchorage Superior Court. The filing, first reported...

Dale Earnhardt Jr. is grateful to be back at Darlington Raceway preparing to drive two weeks after he and his family escaped a plane in flames following a crash in Tennessee. Earnhardt, set to drive the Xfinity Series event here Saturday, said he and his wife Amy are still processing the frightening events Aug. 15 at the airstrip in Elizabethton,...

Richard Williams, a Canadian-British animator whose work on the bouncing cartoon bunny in “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” helped blur the boundaries between the animated world and our own, has died. He was 86 years old. The Oscar-winning artist died from cancer at his home in Bristol, England, on Friday, his daughter Natasha Sutton Williams said Saturday. Williams’ career straddled the...

Officials in London are trying to determine if a stenciled mural that appeared at a base camp for climate protests was created by the street artist Banksy. The mural is on a wall at Marble Arch, where the group Extinction Rebellion had an encampment for 10 days until Thursday and disrupted transportation in the British capital with daily, targeted non-violent...

Footage shows towering flames in San Francisco as crews battle a fire caused by a gas explosion.

Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, has written personal messages to women being helped by a charity that seeks to help sex workers break free from prostitution. Prince Harry’s wife took the unusual step of writing the messages on the skins of bananas destined for the food parcels that would be handed out to the women Friday. Meghan wrote sentiments such...

The band plans to take the stage without fashion designer Victoria Beckham, who performed as “Posh Spice” during the group’s 1990s pop heyday.

Banksy posted a new video to his website Tuesday implying the partial shredding of his “Girl With Balloon” at a London auction was supposed to have been complete.

The winning bidder for a Banksy painting that self-destructed during an auction last week has decided to go through with the purchase, auctioneer Sotheby’s said Thursday.

Art prankster Banksy has struck again. A work by the elusive street artist self-destructed in front of startled auction-goers on Friday, moments after being sold for 1.04 million pounds ($1.4 million). In an Instagram post Saturday, Banksy claimed the dramatic artistic payoff had been years in the making. The spray-painted canvas “Girl With Balloon” went under the hammer at Sotheby’s...

City councilors in New Britain have voted to change the name of a street that honors the father of Paul Manafort.

Little Caesars will give away free pizza on Monday in honor of a historic bracket-busting upset during the NCAA March Madness tournament. Last month, the Detroit-based pizza chain announced if “crazy happened,” like a No. 16 seeded team beating a No. 1 seeded team in the tournament, Little Caesars would serve up free hot-and-ready lunch combos.

The billionaire owner of a New York-based payroll services company says he’s not paying his school taxes until local officials get rid of the geese at his lakefront home.

Members of a Rhode Island tribe have set up what they say is a “long-term encampment” on Brown University land, which the tribe says was illegally taken from them hundreds of years ago.

A 12-year-old girl died in a waterskiing accident on Newfound Lake in Hebron, New Hampshire, on Monday morning.

A woman who sent her boyfriend a barrage of text messages urging him to kill himself when they were both teenagers was convicted Friday of involuntary manslaughter in a trial that raised questions about whether words can kill.

A judge has thrown out the 2013 murder conviction of ex-NFL star Aaron Hernandez because he died before his appeal could be heard.