'Designing Women' star Meshach Taylor dies at 67
Meshach Taylor, who played a lovable ex-convict surrounded by boisterous Southern belles on the sitcom "Designing Women" and appeared in numerous other TV and film roles, died of cancer at age 67, his...
View ArticleEx-Auburn football player killed in Georgia crash
Former Auburn tight end Philip Lutzenkirchen, a fan favorite who played on the 2010 national championship team, has died in a one-car crash in Georgia, state police said.
View ArticleSuperior who led Legion through abuse turmoil dies
The Rev. Alvaro Corcuera, who led the Legion of Christ religious order through the turmoil surrounding revelations that its founder was a pedophile and fraud, has died. He was 56.
View ArticleNigerian once drugged in crate at UK airport dies
His family says a Nigerian politician who made front-page news when he was discovered drugged in a crate at a British airport has died in London.
View ArticleOscar-nominated writer-director Mazursky dies
Paul Mazursky, the innovative and versatile director who showed the absurdity of modern life in such movies as "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice" and "An Unmarried Woman," has died. He was 84.
View ArticleMiami Herald columnist Fred Sherman, a champion of environmental...
Equally at home with blueprint or musical score, Frederic Sherman edits the the [Miami] Herald’s real estate section and also reviews modern jazz recordings in Sunday’s Fun in...
View Article'McHale's Navy' star Bob Hastings dies at age 89
An actor best known from the 1960s sitcom "McHale's Navy," has died. Bob Hastings was 89.
View ArticleStephen Gaskin dies; founded 'The Farm' commune
Stephen Gaskin, a counterculture visionary who led a caravan of hippies from California to establish one of the country's longest lasting communes in rural Middle Tennessee and later sought the Green...
View ArticleWalter Dean Myers, children's author, dies at 76
Walter Dean Myers, a best-selling and prolific children's author and tireless champion of literacy and education, has died. He was 76.
View ArticleCareer banking executive Bob Coords, who headed Coconut Grove Bank, dies at 71
Career banker Bob Coords had a way of defusing tense business meetings and lunches.
View ArticleWar hero Zamperini lived 'unimaginable drama'
Seventy years ago, the world was convinced that Louis Zamperini was dead. There had been no word of the track star and former Olympian since his World War II bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean. The...
View ArticleMaine country singer Betty Cody dies at 92
Country music singer and Maine Country Music Hall of Fame member Betty Cody has died.
View Article5 things to know about Louis Zamperini
Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner and World War II veteran who survived a bomber crash in the Pacific Ocean, weeks adrift and then years as a prisoner of war, died this week at age 97.
View ArticleFounder of Jewish Renewal movement dies at 89
Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, a founder of the Jewish Renewal movement and a widely influential figure in contemporary Jewish thought and practice, has died in his Boulder, Colorado, home. He was 89.
View ArticleGrammy-winning jazz flutist Paul Horn dies at 84
Paul Horn, the Grammy-winning jazz flutist and New Age music pioneer, has died at the age of 84.
View ArticleColumbus High School’s long-time administrative volunteer Pat Bixby...
In almost four decades at a thriving Catholic boys’ school, there are many graduations to coordinate, projects to monitor and problems to solve.
View ArticleBillionaire Richard Mellon Scaife dies at 82
Richard Mellon Scaife, the billionaire heir to the Mellon banking and oil fortune and a newspaper publisher who funded libertarian and conservative causes and various projects to discredit President...
View ArticlePriest convicted of killing nun dies in prison
A Catholic priest convicted of killing a nun inside a chapel a day before Easter 1980 died Friday at a Columbus prison hospice unit, a day after a federal judge refused his request to be released to...
View ArticleBroadway and TV casting director Barry Moss dies
Broadway and television casting director Barry Moss, who helped cast nearly 90 Broadway and touring productions, including the 1980 revival of "West Side Story," "Nine," "Torch Song Trilogy" and "The...
View ArticlePriest guilty of killing nun will get funeral Mass
A Roman Catholic priest convicted of stabbing and strangling a nun 34 years ago in a hospital chapel will receive a funeral Mass, a church official said Saturday.
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