Ernest Borgnine, who won Oscar for 'Marty,' showed comic side in sitcom, dies...
Ernest Borgnine seemed born to play the heavy when he burst onto the Hollywood scene as "Fatso" Judson, a sadistic stockade sergeant who viciously beats a private to death in the 1953 movie "From Here...
View ArticleFormer Gophers, NFL lineman John Williams dead at 64
John Williams, a former Minnesota Gophers and NFL lineman who became a popular dentist and community leader in north Minneapolis after his football career, died Sunday while out for a walk, according...
View ArticleTreme Brass Band singer Lionel Batiste dead at 81
Lionel Batiste, the vocalist, bass drummer and assistant leader of the Treme Brass Band, has died. He was 81.
View ArticleDurable Borgnine's motto: 'You gotta go to work'
He was a tubby tough guy with a pug of a mug, as unlikely a big-screen star or a romantic lead as could be imagined.
View ArticleCanadian chef Anthony Sedlak dies at age 29
Canadian celebrity chef Anthony Sedlak has died at the age of 29.
View ArticleTony-winning costume designer Pakledinaz dies
Two-time Tony Award winner Martin Pakledinaz, who designed hundreds of costumes for stars such as Sutton Foster and Patti LuPone, has died, his agent said Monday. He was 58.
View ArticlePete Rustan, Acclaimed Scientist In a Top-Secret World
Pete Rustan once devised a way to keep Air Force planes from being damaged by lightning. He led a project to build a spacecraft that performed important scientific experiments on the moon. He earned a...
View ArticleFormer Stanford basketball captain dies at 35
Former teammates reacted with shock to news of the sudden death of Peter Sauer, captain of Stanford's 1998 Final Four basketball team.
View ArticleMediaNews co-founder Richard Scudder dead at 99
Richard B. Scudder, co-founder and former chairman of MediaNews Group Inc., the nation's second-largest newspaper company, who also helped invent a process allowing newsprint to be recycled, died...
View ArticlePhilip Fradkin, environmental writer who chronicled the West, dies at 77
Philip L. Fradkin, a native New Yorker whose fascination with the West turned him into an astute chronicler of the region's history and environmental legacy in books on such topics as the great San...
View ArticleHome cooking expert Marion Cunningham dies at 90
Marion Cunningham, the home-cooking champion whose legacy can be found in the food-spattered pages of "Fannie Farmer" cookbooks in kitchens across America, has died at age 90.
View ArticleJames McKinley, football coach and prominent businessman, dies at 68
James McKinley, college football coach turned prominent Fort Lauderdale businessman, died Friday. He was 68.
View ArticleMarion Cunningham, icon of American cooking, dies at 90
Marion Cunningham's crusade to preserve the nightly supper hour came of her concern that without it children would never learn table manners or the give and take of dinner conversation. Not only that,...
View ArticleBollywood strongman Dara Singh dies at 84
Bollywood action hero Dara Singh, best known for his TV portrayal of the Hindu monkey god Hanuman, died at his Mumbai home on Thursday, days after suffering a heart attack. He was 84.
View ArticleJack Baldwin, former Orange Bowl president, dies
Miami community leader Charles Jackson “Jack’’ Baldwin, the University of Miami’s first mascot and a former president of the Orange Bowl Committee, passed...
View ArticleWidow of Nat 'King' Cole dies of cancer at 89
Maria Hawkins Cole, widow of jazz crooner Nat "King" Cole and mother of singer Natalie Cole, has died in South Florida after a short battle with cancer. She was 89.
View ArticleFormer Maine congressman Peter Kyros dies at 86
Maine's former Democratic U.S. Rep. Peter Kyros has died at age 86.
View ArticleMaria Cole, singer who was widow of Nat King Cole, dies at 89
Maria Cole, the widow of music legend Nat King Cole and the mother of singer Natalie Cole whose own singing career included a stint as vocalist for Duke Ellington's orchestra in the mid-1940s, has...
View ArticleJoseph B. Platt, founding president of Harvey Mudd College, dies at 96
Launching a new college would "clearly be a great adventure but so is jumping off a bridge," physicist Joseph B. Platt wrote decades after accepting the challenge in 1956 to become the founding...
View ArticleRichard Zanuck, legendary film executive, dies at 77
Richard D. Zanuck, one of the most legendary and influential figures in the history of the movie business, died Friday morning at age 77.
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