Best-selling author Billie Letts dies in Oklahoma
Best-selling author Billie Letts has died at an Oklahoma hospital.
View ArticleJim Brady dies: Reagan aide, gun control advocate
A major trait that endeared Jim Brady to the Washington press corps was his sense of humor, especially when he made fun of his own boss.
View ArticleNancy Reagan's statement on James Brady's death
Former first lady Nancy Reagan issued a statement on Monday after the death of former press secretary James Brady, who was seriously wounded in the March 1981 assassination attempt on President Ronald...
View ArticleLongtime NY radio personality Steve Post dies
A beloved New York radio personality is gone.
View Article‘American Idol’ finalist Michael Johns dies at 35
Michael Johns, the hunky Aussie who tested American Idol’s age limit and whose premature dismissal during season seven led to the “Judge’s Save” in...
View ArticleEd Sprinkle, football's 'meanest man,' dies at 90
Ed Sprinkle, a star defensive end for the Chicago Bears in the 1940s and '50s who was called the "meanest man" in football, has died. He was 90.
View Article‘Mother of Masters Swimming’ June Krauser dies at 88
June Krauser came by her title, “The Mother of Masters Swimming,” one lap at a time, one record at a time, one accomplishment after another.
View ArticleGeneral killed in Afghan attack was engineer
Harold J. Greene, the two-star Army general who on Tuesday became the highest-ranking U.S. military officer to be killed in either of America's post-9/11 wars, was an engineer who rose through the...
View ArticleSurgeon general who fought tobacco dies at 87
Dr. Jesse Steinfeld, who became the first surgeon general ever forced out of office by the president after he campaigned hard against the dangers of smoking during the Richard Nixon era, died Tuesday....
View ArticleGeneral killed in Afghan attack was engineer
Harold J. Greene, the two-star Army general who became the highest-ranking U.S. military officer to be killed in either of America's post-9/11 wars, was an engineer who rose through the ranks as an...
View ArticleJames Brady, former Reagan spokesman and gun-control advocate, dies at 73
Jim Brady had been presidential press secretary for less than three months when a deranged would-be assassin fired a volley of shots at Ronald Reagan on the sidewalk outside a Washington, D.C., hotel.
View ArticleSurgeon general who fought tobacco dies at 87
Dr. Jesse Steinfeld, who became the first surgeon general ever forced out of office by the president after he campaigned hard against smoking during the Richard Nixon era, died Tuesday. He was 87.
View Article'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' actress Burns dies at 65
Actress Marilyn Burns, perhaps best known as the heroine in the 1974 horror classic "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre," has died at her Houston-area home. She was 65.
View ArticleYounger sister of Martha Stewart dies of aneurysm
Martha Stewart says her younger sister, Laura Kostyra Plimpton, has died in a Connecticut hospital of a brain aneurysm. She was 59.
View ArticleBroker, philanthropist, President Carter delegate Gerald Greene dies at 78.
“Love at first sight” sounds like such a movie cliche you can’t possibly imagine it happening for real.
View ArticleS. Korean who forced US to admit massacre has died
Chung Eun-yong, an ex-policeman whose half-century quest for justice for his two slain children led the U.S. Army in 2001 to acknowledge the Korean War refugee massacre at No Gun Ri, has died, the No...
View ArticleDorothy Salisbury Davis, author, dead at 98
Dorothy Salisbury Davis, a prize-winning mystery writer whose books include the best-selling "A Gentle Murderer" and numerous other works praised for their psychological suspense, has died. She was 98.
View ArticleMiami-Dade, Broward soccer coach, science teacher Fred Wilde dies at 83
Long before World Cup soccer had Floridians enthralled, Frederick Wilde believed.
View ArticleWWII veteran who found Hitler's top hat dies at 88
Richard Marowitz was just a day removed from witnessing the horrors of Dachau when he found a top hat on a shelf in a closet in Adolf Hitler's Munich apartment.
View ArticlePioneering community association law partner Gary Poliakoff dies at 69
Before Gary Poliakoff and law partner Alan Becker founded their Fort Lauderdale-based firm, Becker & Poliakoff, few tenants of condo associations knew how to navigate the tangled corridors that can...
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