Deacon Jones of famed Fearsome Foursome dead at 74
David "Deacon" Jones, the original sackmaster, has died.
View ArticleChicago blues musician Piano C. Red dies
Chicago blues piano player Piano C. Red, who performed with Muddy Waters, B.B King, Fats Domino and Buddy Guy before being paralyzed in 2006, has died.
View ArticleGa. jazz musician Ben Tucker killed in car crash
Musician Ben Tucker performed with stars from Quincy Jones to Peggy Lee before he settled in the 1970s in Savannah, where the jazz bassist became one of the Georgia city's best-known working musicians.
View ArticleCivil rights leader Will Campbell dead at age 88
The Rev. Will Campbell, a white minister who drew acclaim for his involvement in the civil rights movement, has died at the age of 88.
View ArticleFormer CBS Middle East bureau chief Hotaling dies
A family member says Ed Hotaling, a network news journalist and author of several books including "They're Off! Horse Racing at Saratoga," has died.
View ArticleArab-American scholar Alixa Naff dies at 93
Alixa Naff, an early and pioneering historian who documented the lives of the first wave of Arab-American immigrants a century ago, has died after a brief illness. She was 93.
View ArticleComic novelist Tom Sharpe dies at 85
Tom Sharpe was aptly named, a writer who turned a razor-edged eye for absurdity on everything from the racism of apartheid to the squabbles of academia.
View ArticleWilliam Cartwright, rescuer of Watts Towers, dies
William T. Cartwright, an Emmy-winning filmmaker who helped save the landmark Watts Towers in Los Angeles, has died at age 92.
View ArticleTechnicolor star Esther Williams dies at age 91
Esther Williams, the swimming champion turned actress who starred in glittering and aquatic Technicolor musicals of the 1940s and 1950s, has died. She was 91.
View ArticleJefferson Airplane drummer Joey Covington dies
Former Jefferson Airplane drummer Joey Covington has died in a Palm Springs car crash.
View ArticleLongtime Miami (Ohio) basketball coach Coles dies
Longtime Miami (Ohio) basketball coach Charlie Coles, the school's all-time leader in victories, died Friday in Oxford, Ohio, the school said. He was 71.
View ArticleDoctor who OK'd 'Cuckoo's Nest' hospital use dies
The psychiatrist who opened the doors of the Oregon State Hospital to filming of the 1975 Academy Award-winning movie "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" has died.
View ArticleGabriel O’Reilly, Irish priest who founded St. David’s in...
Father Gabriel O’Reilly, the Irish founding priest of Davie’s St. David Parish, died Friday of pancreatic cancer.
View ArticleEsther Williams, athletic star of aquatic musicals, dies at 91
The water, Esther Williams once quipped, was her favorite co-star.
View ArticleEast German artist Willi Sitte dead at 92
Willi Sitte, one of East Germany's most eminent artists and a key representative of Communism's preferred socialist realism painting style, has died at 92.
View ArticleSouth Florida retirement planner killed in plane crash
A South Florida businessman and experienced pilot died over the weekend when his Cessna crashed in the Everglades.
View ArticleMelba Manero, six-term Surfside commissioner, dies
Melba Ines Manero served six terms as a Surfside commissioner, often running unopposed.
View ArticleRichard Ramirez, 'Night Stalker' serial killer, dies at 53
LOS ANGELES - Richard Ramirez, the serial killer known as the Night Stalker who terrorized Los Angeles County and was convicted in 1989 of 13 murders, died Friday morning, California corrections...
View ArticleItalian maestro Bruno Bartoletti dies in Florence
Bruno Bartoletti, an orchestra conductor who was associated with the Lyric Opera of Chicago for a half-century, and who championed modern opera as well as classic works, died on Sunday in his native...
View ArticleScottish fiction writer Iain Banks dies at 59
Scottish writer Iain Banks, who alternately wowed and disturbed readers with his dark jokes and narrative tricks, has died, his publisher said. He was 59.
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