Entertainment

Billy Joel's bid to stable a dozen horses on his Long Island estate has some neighbors concerned about smelly manure, and the local government isn't horsing around as it weighs the issue.

Lynn Cohen, an actress best known for playing the plainspoken housekeeper and nanny Magda in “Sex and the City,” has died. She was 86.

J.D. Robb is a pen name used by Nora Roberts. Under that name, she has written 50 books in the "In Death" series. One journalist read them all in five months.

Harvey Weinstein considered himself such a big shot in Hollywood that he thought he could get away with treating aspiring actresses like "complete disposables," a prosecutor told a jury in closing arguments Friday at his New York City rape trial.

Harvey Weinstein’s lawyer told jurors Thursday that prosecutors in the rape case against him were acting like moviemakers, conjuring up a world "where women had no free will.”

Rewind five years, and Alexis Babini was a singer-songwriter who opened for acts from the Disney channel and teen pop star Aaron Carter.  His music never quite made the crowd go wild.  One day he decided to change it up.

A prosecutor in Atlanta will decide whether to open a formal investigation after meeting with a woman who says she has evidence legendary singer James Brown's death was caused by another person, his spokesman said.