Jazz drummer Chico Hamilton passes away at 92
Foreststorn "Chico" Hamilton, a distiguished jazz drummer, band leader and composer known for inspiring fellow and aspiring musicians, has died. He was 92.
View ArticlePa. news pioneer Florence Sando Manson dies in NYC
Florence Sando Manson, a pioneering newscaster in radio and the early years of television journalism, has died at age 95.
View ArticleRistvedt, "Larry" of KFGO radio show, dies at 71
Longtime KFGO/Fargo radio personality Larry Ristvedt has died from ALS at age 71.
View ArticleMyanmar's remaining independence fighter dies
The last member of the "Thirty Comrades," the legendary group that spearheaded Myanmar's struggle against British colonial rule, has died. He was 91.
View ArticleLast survivor of crew that rescued Kennedy dies
The last surviving member of the crew that rescued John F. Kennedy from an island in the Pacific Ocean during World War II has died.
View ArticleJane Kean, star of "Honeymooners" revival, dies
Jane Kean, a diverse performer who got her start in musical theater but was best known as Trixie alongside Jackie Gleason on a TV revival of "The Honeymooners," has died. She was 90.
View ArticleSouth African liberal politician dies
Colin Eglin, a retired South African politician who opposed apartheid and sought to promote liberal democratic values during white rule, has died at the age of 88.
View ArticleNJ canine crowned world's ugliest dog in 2007 dies
A New Jersey canine that was crowned the world's ugliest dog in 2007 and later became the topic of a children's book preaching acceptance has died. Elwood was 8.
View ArticleEx-New York Observer editor Kaplan dies at 59
Peter Kaplan, the former editor of The New York Observer who hired a then-unknown Candace Bushnell to write a column called "Sex and the City," has died. He was 59.
View ArticleGrandson: Televangelist Paul Crouch dies at 79
Paul Crouch, the televangelist who built what's been called the world's largest Christian broadcasting network, has died. He was 79.
View ArticleMary Brown, widow of Bengals' founder, dies at 84
Mary Brown, the widow of the late Cincinnati Bengals founder and coach Paul Brown, has died. She was 84.
View Article'Fast & Furious' star Paul Walker dies in crash
Paul Walker, the star of the "Fast & Furious" movie series, died Saturday in a car crash that killed one other person outside of Los Angeles. He was 40.
View ArticlePaul Walker, 'Fast & Furious' star, dies in crash
A fiery car crash north of Los Angeles has killed 40-year-old Paul Walker, the star of the "Fast & Furious" movie series, and one other person in the vehicle.
View ArticlePaul Crouch, founder of Trinity Broadcasting Network, dies at 79
In the mid-1970s a vision came to Paul Crouch, but it wasn't what a man of the cloth might have expected.
View ArticleSchiffrin, rebel of corporate publishing, dies
Andre Schiffrin, the literary editor who gave readers Art Spiegelman, Michel Foucault and Studs Terkel before he was forced out of commercial publishing in a defining battle between profits and...
View ArticleNazi murderer Heinrich Boere dies at 92
Heinrich Boere, who murdered Dutch civilians as part of a Nazi Waffen SS hit squad during World War II but avoided justice for six decades, died in a prison hospital while serving a life sentence,...
View ArticleOregon food safety official dies unexpectedly
Oregon's top food safety investigator, William Keene, died unexpectedly Sunday at the age of 56.
View ArticleReggae singer Junior Murvin dies in Jamaica
Reggae singer Junior Murvin, best known for the hit song "Police and Thieves," has died in Jamaica.
View ArticleFormer Mississippi Gov. Bill Allain dies at 85
Former Mississippi Gov. Bill Allain, a Democrat who appointed many women and minorities to government jobs and strengthened the executive branch by removing lawmakers from state boards, died Monday in...
View ArticleEgypt's top satirical poet dies at 84
Ahmed Fouad Negm, Egypt's "poet of the people" whose sharply political verses in colloquial Arabic skewered the country's leaders and inspired protesters from the 1970s through the current uprisings,...
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