BOSTON – A survivor of the Boston Marathon attacks has written an indignant open letter to the admitted bomber. Rebekah Gregory lost a leg in the 2013 bombings and wrote the letter to Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR’ tsahr-NEYE’-ehv) on her Facebook page after she testified in his federal death penalty trial …

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. – For the second consecutive winter, bitter weather threatens to turn the surface of the Great Lakes into a vast frozen plain. The federal Great Lakes research laboratory in Ann Arbor reports Friday that nearly 81 percent of the five lakes’ surface area is ice-covered. On Thursday, …

ST. LOUIS – An appeals court says porn publisher Larry Flynt can join a lawsuit seeking to force Missouri to disclose more details of its execution methods. A three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis issued the ruling Tuesday. It reverses a lower court …

Prince | Hamptons Rock | Prince Concert Prince: Much in Common With Lou Grant Quick: What do Prince, the diminutive fireball of funk, and Lou Grant, Mary Tyler Moore’s former fictitious boss, have in common? The answer: Neither of them likes guests to see them at their own parties. On …

If the publishing of naked pics of Vanessa Minnillo and Nick Lachey in Life & Style magazine last week wasn’t headache enough, it seems the PDA-prone couple is now set for a massive migraine. According to perezhilton.com, “What’s Left of” the lovebirds are some highly graphic, porno-like pics which have …

So Whoopi Goldberg had her first day on “The View,” otherwise known as The Knitting Circle in Hell. The first thing she did? Defend Michael Vick for dog fighting, saying it springs from his Southern upbringing. Her comments were denounced by the Humane Society, as well as the only living …

Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Arab Americans are blaming the uproar over an Arab company assuming control over U.S. ports not on security concerns, but on bigotry. Arab American Institute president James Zogby says, “I find some of the rhetoric being used against this deal shameful and …

Jacko Lawyer Quits | Whoopi’s Duet With Jimmy Fallon | Amnesia Movie Jacko Lawyer Mesereau Quits A year ago, Tom Mesereau was living large as Michael Jackson’s criminal defense attorney. As the prosecution offered witness after witness in the state of California’s child molestation case against Jackson, Mesereau won kudos …

Sienna Miller | Wyclef Jean | Soho House | Chris Rock Sienna Miller’s Missing Diamond Jude Law‘s fiancée, actress Sienna Miller, has a confession to make: She’s lost a tiny diamond from the setting of her beautiful engagement ring. “I think it came off in a mitten,” she told me …

Want Greta’s blog delivered directly to your e-mail box? Click here to sign up! As promised, more behind the scenes: I am in Birmingham, Alabama on the Natalee Holloway (search) story. Getting here was the usual airline challenge since it required three different flights for me on Sunday. As always, …