'Up the Down Staircase' writer Kaufman dies at 103
Bel Kaufman, the witty and spirited fiction writer, educator and storyteller whose million-selling "Up the Down Staircase" captured the insanity and the humor, the pathos and the poetry of the American...
View ArticleFormer Seattle Mayor Paul Schell dies
Former Seattle Mayor Paul Schell, who led the city during the World Trade Organization protests in 1999, has died. He was 76.
View ArticleItalian tenor Bergonzi dies at age 90
Italian tenor Carlo Bergonzi, considered one of the most authoritative interpreters of Verdi's operas, has died at the age of 90.
View ArticleKentucky basketball legend Wah Wah Jones dies
Wallace "Wah Wah" Jones, a multi-sport star who helped Kentucky win the first two of its eight national titles and is considered the school's greatest all-around athlete, has died. He was 88.
View ArticleKentucky basketball legend Wah Wah Jones dies
Wallace "Wah Wah" Jones, a multi-sport star who helped Kentucky win the first two of its eight national titles and is considered the school's greatest all-around athlete, has died. He was 88.
View ArticleLast crew member of Enola Gay dies in Georgia
The last surviving member of the crew that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, hastening the end of World War II and forcing the world into the atomic age, has died in Georgia.
View ArticleJay Maeder, former Miami Herald People columnist, writer of ‘Little...
Jay Maeder gave Little Orphan Annie her voice when she nearly fell silent. He introduced South Florida readers to the Ronald Reagan Voodoo Doll, and emerged from the Everglades swamps as a zombie...
View ArticleLast crew member of Enola Gay dies in Georgia
The last surviving member of the crew that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima once said he thought the bombing was necessary because it shortened the war and eliminated the need for an Allied land...
View ArticleTheodore 'Dutch' Van Kirk, navigator aboard the B-29 Enola Gay, dies at 93
Theodore "Dutch" Van Kirk, a navigator who on Aug. 6, 1945, guided the Enola Gay over Hiroshima to drop the first nuclear bomb in the history of warfare, died Monday at an assisted living facility in...
View ArticleSouth Plantation teacher, avid photographer Brenton Wan dies at 60
Brenton Owen Wan married Yvonne June Dalley 35 years ago. She really was “the girl next door.”
View Article'Flower Drum Song' lead James Shigeta dies at 85
James Shigeta, who played the lead in the 1961 movie musical "Flower Drum Song" and had a small role in the first "Die Hard," has died. He was 85.
View ArticleCinema verite documentarian Robert Drew dies at 90
Filmmaker Robert Drew, a pioneer of the modern documentary who in "Primary" and other movies mastered the intimate, spontaneous style known as cinema verite and schooled a generation of influential...
View ArticleVeteran TV impresario Robert Halmi Sr. dies at 90
Prolific TV producer Robert Halmi, Sr., has died.
View Article'Godfather of Makeup' Dick Smith dead at 92
Dick Smith, the Oscar-winning "Godfather of Makeup" who amused, fascinated and terrified moviegoers by devising unforgettable transformations for Marlon Brando in "The Godfather" and Linda Blair in...
View ArticleCorrection: Obit-Robert Drew story
In a story July 30 about the death of filmmaker Robert Drew, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Drew was shot down in Germany during World War II. He was shot down in Italy.
View ArticleHotelier Saul Tamen, who brought kitchens to South Beach hotels, dies at 105
Saul Tamen was a brilliant hotelier.
View ArticleGuitarist, songwriter for Alice Cooper dies at 71
Dick Wagner, the skilled guitarist who worked with Alice Cooper, Lou Reed, Kiss and Aerosmith, and also co-wrote many of Cooper's hits, died of respiratory failure Wednesday, his personal manager and...
View ArticleManny Roth, founder of Café Wha?, dead at 94
Manny Roth, a colorful club owner in Greenwich Village whose Cafe Wha? and its basement level stage was a rite of passage in the 1960s for Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Bruce Springsteen and many others,...
View ArticleSouth Florida coral stone landscaper Benjamin Bistrong dies at 44
Miami native Benjamin Bistrong, a descendant on his mother’s side to a pioneering group of home-builders who emigrated from the Bahamas to Key West in the 1830s, worked to bring South...
View Article'American Idol' contestant Michael Johns dies
"American Idol" contestant Michael Johns, who appeared in season 7 of the hit Fox singing competition and was voted off in an eighth-round stunner, has died. He was 35.
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