Boston Calling announces May 2016 lineup

Boston Calling announces May 2016 lineup

BOSTON – Sia, Disclosure, and Robyn will headline the seventh annual Boston Calling music festival, event organizers announced Thursday. It will take place Friday through Sunday, May 27-29, at Boston's City Hall Plaza. Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m.

The 23-act lineup includes an array of genres including pop, electronic, R&B and rock. The headliners come from around the globe, including Australian pop powerhouse Sia, Grammy-nominated English electronic brother duo Disclosure, and Swedish icon Robyn.

SWAT Cat, MIA for a month, saunters back
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SWAT Cat, MIA for a month, saunters back

Beth Treffeisen

BOSTON – Boston Police rejoiced Thursday as their "SWAT Cat," who had been missing for more than a month, sauntered back to the Roxbury station she left in November.

"The officers are just happy that she was safe all this time," the department said in a statement about its Special Weapons and Tactics Team. Their unofficial mascot showed up at their base on Warren Street at about 7 a.m. Thursday.

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