According to Entertainment Weekly, Nolte will play Jack Reinhold, a stubborn single man living in Gracepoint for the last two decades. Nolte’s character “runs the kayak rental on the beach as well as the local wildlife observation program, where the murdered boy was one of his volunteers.”

The healthiest housing markets in October in the United States were clustered in California and the rest of the West, according to the newly released Zillow Market Health Index. The index on a scale from zero to 10 is a new measure designed to illustrate the current health of a region’s housing market relative to similar markets nationwide. It incorporates …

A Garden Grove man pleaded guilty Friday to a federal terrorism charge, admitting he intended to aid al-Qaida fighters by traveling to Pakistan, where he would provide weapons training. Sinh Vinh Ngo Nguyen, 24, who has also used the name Hasan Abu Omar Ghannoum, entered the plea in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles to one count of attempting to …

A simple Facebook question has created a social media frenzy over how body image should play a role in today’s toy industry. A picture posted by Plus Size Modeling last week has people talking. The group asked fans “Should toy companies start making plus-sized dolls” — and within hours — more than 40,000 people liked the post and thousands commented …

Police spent the night at a Scarborough apartment building after a woman was found dead in one of the units. Officers were called to Alton Towers Circle, near McCowan and Steeles avenues, at around 11:30 p.m. after receiving a 911 call.

Lionsgate and Italian film distributor BIM Distribuzine are doing damage control after a marketing campaign for the Italian release of 12 Years a Slave caused a fury among many in the blogosphere. The companies have apologized for omitting the film’s Black actors — including leading man Chiwetel Ejiofor — from the film’s posters, favoring Brad Pitt (who has only a …

Amber Rose is shocking fans with her latest Instagram post captioned “Before & After my baby boy Sebastian.” In the dramatic image, the 30-year-old flaunted her newly svelte physique just 10 months after giving birth to Sebastian, her first son with rapper Wiz Khalifa.

Former Patriots linebacker Jeff Tarpinian, now with the Houston Texans, had told only his family, close friends, and Patriots coach Bill Belichick, team owner Robert Kraft and select Pats personnel about his brain surgery and his subsequent recovery, before sharing his story with the Houston Chronicle this week.

Delivery drivers for UPS and FedEx scrambled to get late-arriving Christmas presents to their destinations Thursday after an embarrassing holiday delay. Seattle-based Amazon.com said it will offer $20 gift cards and shipping cost refunds for affected customers. Amazon would not reveal how many holiday shipments were delayed nor would the company consent to an interview.

Another shopper has come forward with claims of racial profiling at Macy’s. Halim Sharif alleges that after spending $2,400 on a Louis Vuitton bag, he was stopped by a loss prevention employee who asked to see his receipt, “apparently for no reason other than that he was black,” Jezebel reports. Sharif also claims that the employee then went through his …

Conrad Alvin Barrett, 27, has been charged with a federal hate crime related to a racially motivated assault of a 79-year-old African-American man, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson, along with Acting Assistant Attorney General Jocelyn Samuels of the Civil Rights Division and Special Agent in Charge Stephen L. Morris of the FBI. “Suspected crimes of this nature will simply …