An Italian ex-boyfriend of actress Anne Hathaway is about to be released from a U.S. federal prison following a real-estate scam. Federal Bureau of Prisons spokesman Chris Burke says Raffaello Follieri is scheduled to be released Friday from a prison in Pennsylvania. Follieri pleaded guilty to cheating investors by falsely ...
His cash advantage threatened, President Barack Obama and his party are redoubling their fundraising efforts after robust hauls by Republican rival Mitt Romney and a slew of GOP-leaning super PACs that are raking in cash from the party faithful highly motivated to topple the Democrat. Obama still has a significant ...
Prosecutors finally have some momentum in their perjury case against Roger Clemens, even if it means dragging in former major leaguer David Segui, a witness who is apparently so reluctant to testify that the judge threatened from the bench: "If he doesn't show up, he'll be arrested like anyone else." ...
Late-night TV talk show host Conan O'Brien is coming home to Boston to discuss his life and work during a special forum at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library. O'Brien, a Brookline native and Harvard graduate, will also discuss the art of comedy with The Boston Globe's Pulitzer Prize-winning film ...
The Country Music Association's 46th annual awards show is scheduled for Nov. 1. The three-hour show moves to Thursday this year after a run of Wednesday nights. It will be broadcast live on ABC from Bridgestone Arena in Nashville. More than 16 million viewers tuned in to the CMAs last ...
Broadway producers scrambled Wednesday to fill Michael McKean's part in a revival of Gore Vidal's "The Best Man" as the actor recovers from a broken leg after being struck by a car. Producer Jeffrey Richards said that McKean's role will be played by James Lecesne from now on after Tuesday ...
A prominent British TV presenter said Wednesday that CNN talk show host Piers Morgan gave him a primer on phone hacking, a revelation that suggests he knew a fair amount about how the shady practice was carried out. BBC quiz show host and television news presenter Jeremy Paxman told a ...
The brother-in-law of "Cake Boss" television star Buddy Valastro has been sentenced to nine years in prison for sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl in New Jersey. Remigio "Remy" Gonzalez, of East Hanover, was sentenced Wednesday after a judge refused his request to withdraw the guilty pleas he made in June ...
Queens Park Rangers captain Joey Barton was banned for 12 matches by the English Football Association on Wednesday after being found guilty of repeated violent conduct in the last match of the Premier League season at Manchester City. The hot-headed midfielder was sent off for elbowing City's Carlos Tevez, and ...
President Barack Obama and his party are redoubling fundraising efforts as Republican rival Mitt Romney and Republican-leaning independent groups are raking in cash before the November election. Obama still has a significant edge, but it's shrinking rapidly. Gone is the 10-to-1 cash advantage that Obama held at the end of ...
The Freddy Awards are a little like "Glee," a little like the Tony Awards, and perhaps the hottest ticket in the Lehigh Valley, where it is celebrating its 10th year of honoring the best in high school musicals. The awards show, which will be broadcast live Thursday night from the ...
Royalty checks that start to arrive when a gas company drills on your property can make for some very profitable envelopes in the mailbox. But the low natural gas prices that have disrupted industry balance sheets in recent months could start to cut into those checks. Put it this way: ...
After moving across an ocean to rural England, Lisa Marie Presley found herself as close as she's ever been to her father, at least musically. The only child of Elvis and Priscilla Presley started writing music again after moving to Kent, southeast of London, several years ago. That led to ...
Los Angeles-based designer Claire Pettibone says Priscilla Chan was wearing one of her dresses when she married Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Pettibone wrote on her blog that she didn't know Chan was wearing one of her most popular creations until she saw one of the photos released from Saturday's surprise ...
Luke Donald was awarded honorary life membership of the European Tour on Wednesday, the latest of a string of accolades heading the way of the Englishman following his stellar 2011. There is still a gap on his mantlepiece for the biggest prize of all, however. "I'm not going to shy ...
After moving across an ocean to rural England, Lisa Marie Presley found herself as close as she's ever been to her father, at least musically. The only child of Elvis and Priscilla Presley started writing music again after moving to Kent, southeast of London, several years ago. That led to ...
Like his star sign, Jason Butler Harner is a Libra "of epic proportions." That means he always seems to be weighing things. "I'm a constant waffler," the actor says. "I've said to anyone I've ever dated, 'Asking me to choose a restaurant is going to be a conversation that's going ...
Tens of thousands of students marched through the streets of Montreal to mark 100 days since the movement against higher tuition fees began. Tuesday's protest came after Quebec's provincial government passed emergency legislation intended to end Canada's most sustained student demonstrations ever. The peaceful protest turned more violent in the ...
Retail sales fell sharply in Britain during the wettest April in a century, official data showed Wednesday, a piece of bad economic news which analysts say could help prod the Bank of England to approve more monetary stimulus. The Office for National Statistics said the volume of sales in April ...
Rhode Island College is holding a special reception for one of its graduates, Academy Award-nominated actress Viola Davis. The reception is scheduled for Wednesday afternoon at the president's house. The college says 10 students from its theater program and current and former faculty members are also attending the reception. Davis, ...