Brittany Brown wouldn't miss the opening of the "Fifty Shades of Grey" movie for anything. She has read and re-read all three books, uses the app, follows FSOG role play on Twitter and set her DVR to record trailers for the highly anticipated Valentine's weekend release.

But ditching her boyfriend for her gal gang of superfans was problematic.

Rosie O'Donnell is leaving "The View" for a second time.

Her publicist, Cindi Berger, said Friday that the outspoken co-host of the ABC daytime chat show is exiting next week to focus on her five children after the breakup of her marriage.

Firefighters in Northern California rescued a horse that got stuck in an outdoor bathtub.

Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District Capt. Michelle Eidam says the horse was dancing around in her stall to protect the bathtub used as her food trough when she suddenly fell in Wednesday.

Authorities say a Michigan man confessed he was drunk and bored when he called 911 more than 100 times in the span of about a month.

The Traverse City Record-Eagle reports (http://bit.ly/1v5YhGA ) the 25-year-old from the Grand Traverse County community of Kingsley in northern Michigan was arrested Thursday evening at his mobile home. Sheriff's deputies say they found about a half-dozen phones used to call 911 since January and a hand-held police scanner.

A Lebanese professor at the University of South Carolina's school of public health was reportedly killed in an apparent murder-suicide on Thursday.

The deaths occurred at the university's school of public health.

Boston Mayor Marty Walsh made the case for the 2024 Olympics on Thursday night, saying the city has already benefited from the USOC decision to nominate it as the American host.

"It gives us the opportunity, whether or not we get the bid, for the next two years to go around the world and market our city to 110 different countries," Walsh told an overflow crowd at the first of nine public meetings he has scheduled. "The Olympic Games isn't going to take one bit of my energy away from improving the city of Boston."

The United States prospered on a day of upsets at the New Zealand Rugby Sevens on Friday, topping a pool for the first time in 15 years and for only the second time in the history of the World Series.

France upset World Series leaders South Africa and the day continued with a series of upsets which meant quarterfinal places were often decided by point differentials rather than win-loss records.

Cleveland pushed its winning streak to 12 games with an easy 105-94 win on Thursday over a Los Angeles Clippers team that lost both the game and its composure.

The Cavaliers took over the lead of the NBA Central Division, leapfrogging Chicago,

With riot police protecting the players from incensed rival fans and using tear gas to disperse troublemakers in the crowd, Ghana advanced to the African Cup of Nations final with a 3-0 win over host Equatorial Guinea on Thursday.

The semifinal descended into chaos after the third goal, and Gabonese referee Eric Otogo-Castane soon halted the match in the 82nd minute. It resumed after about a 40-minute delay, and finished soon after.

Iggy Azalea is nominated for four Grammy Awards, and the rapper wouldn't care if she won one for best accent or best hair color.

"I don't care if I get a Grammy for best album artwork. A Grammy is a Grammy, baby," she said in an interview Thursday. "Nobody says, 'Uh, what's your Grammy for? ... No, this Grammy doesn't count.' Any Grammy is equally as good. I'll take any Grammy for anything. Any Grammy you've got, send them my way. I will not complain."