Clarke Ash, 87, dies; edited opinion pages for The Miami News, The Palm Beach...
As the head of the Opinion sections for two different South Florida newspapers, Clarke B. Ash both witnessed and helped steer the changing face of South Florida.
View ArticleInmate given medical parole
Betsie Gallardo went home to Indiana to live out her final days among familiar sites and friendly faces -- far away from the Broward prison where she was serving a five-year sentence for battery on a...
View ArticleRetired Dade phys ed teacher inspired kids
Kathleen Casey Bossong was a fixture in her Coral Gables neighborhood and on the nearby golf courses.<p/> Thin from a lifetime of exercise, the retired Miami-Dade physical education teacher...
View ArticleWon Oscars for memorable scores
John Barry, a composer who earned five Academy Awards for films including Born Free, Out of Africa and Dances With Wolves and redefined the sound of action-adventure films with his pulsating scores for...
View ArticleWorld traveler settled in Homestead
After a lifetime of globetrotting with her diplomat husband, Barbara Curham Wien finally put down roots, spending her last 20 years in Homestead near her grandchildren.
View ArticleComic known for impressions of presidents
(AP) -- Comic David Frye, whose impressions of Presidents Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson and other prominent political figures vaulted him to popularity in the 1960s and 1970s, has died in Las Vegas,...
View ArticleTeacher owned A & F Electric
As a youngster in the 1930s and '40s, Richard Franklin Taylor was so fascinated by Miami's electric street cars, he became ``an unpaid apprentice of sorts'' at the train maintenance yard.
View ArticleTotico was a rumba legend
Eugenio Arango, better known as Totico, a Cuban-born percussionist and singer who was one of the most celebrated figures in the drumming, dancing and singing culture of New York rumba, died on Jan. 21...
View ArticleWhite House chef cooked fresh
Rene Verdon, a French-born chef who brought an air of continental sophistication to the White House under the Kennedys, and then left his post after a clash with the Johnson administration over frozen...
View Article`Last Tango' put actress in painful spotlight
Maria Schneider, the French actress whose sex scenes with Marlon Brando in ``Last Tango in Paris'' set a new standard for explicitness on screen, died on Thursday in Paris. She was 58.
View ArticleScholarship memorializes Miami Gay Men’s Chorus member Eric DeBusk
A <a href="http://www.miamigaychorus.org/" target="_blank">Miami Gay Men’s Chorus</a> memorial scholarship fund is being established in honor of member Eric DeBusk, who died in...
View ArticleSouth Beach hotel developer Don Glassie dies at 76
On a balmy April evening in 1985, Don Glassie and his business partner, John Taft, stopped for a drink at the Waldorf Towers on Ocean Drive.
View Article'Redwall' author Brian Jacques dies at 71
Brian Jacques, author of the best-selling "Redwall" adventures for children, has died. He was 71.
View Article'Candy Licker' singer Marvin Sease dead at 64
Marvin Sease, a blues and soul singer known for his 1980s hit "Candy Licker," has died after a lengthy illness. He was 64.
View ArticleHelped the mentally disabled
Living in developing countries in the 1950s and ’60s as the wife of a U.S. Foreign Service officer, Margaret Dwyer Rackham saw the terrible conditions in which mentally disabled adults were...
View ArticleLongtime Indy speedway voice Tom Carnegie dies
A.J. Foyt lost a friend Friday. The Indianapolis Motor Speedway lost an icon.
View ArticleBill Justice, Disney animator, dies at 97
Bill Justice, a former Walt Disney Studios animator who worked on such classics as "Fantasia," "Bambi" and "Alice in Wonderland," and later joined Walt Disney Imagineering where he helped program...
View ArticleFilm representative’s real role was as a WWII secret agent
Martin S. Quigley, an executive with movie-industry trade publications who used his ties to the film world as cover for espionage in Europe during World War II, died of a heart ailment Feb. 5 at his...
View ArticleFounded Jack’s hamburgers in Fort Lauderdale,
The founder of Jack’s Old Fashion Hamburger House, going strong after nearly 40 years, passed away at age 82.
View ArticleOne of Bascom Palmer’s first faculty, Dr. Joel S. Glaser, dies
Dr. Joel S. Glaser, one of the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute’s first neuro-ophthalmologists and an accomplished author and lecturer in the field, died Thursday. He was 72.
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