Iron Butterfly bass player Lee Dorman dies
SANTA ANA, Calif. -- Lee Dorman, bass guitarist for the 1960s psychedelic rock band Iron Butterfly, died of natural causes in Southern California on Friday.
View ArticleElwood Jensen, cancer research pioneer, dies
CINCINNATI -- Elwood Jensen, an award-winning University of Cincinnati professor nominated for the Nobel Prize for medicine for work that opened the door to advances in fighting cancer, has died of...
View ArticleGay marriage pioneer Richard Adams dies
LOS ANGELES -- Richard Adams, who used both the altar and the courtroom to help begin the push for gay marriage four decades before it reached the center of the national consciousness, has died, his...
View ArticleDr. Jerome Feldstein, co-founder of 2 LI synagogues, dies
Dr. Jerome "Jerry" Feldstein, co-founder of two synagogues on Long Island, was known for his unassuming character, sense of humor, thirst for knowledge and photographic memory.
View ArticleRemembering character actors Durning, Klugman
What a couple of mugs, sporting less-than-perfect physiques in the bargain.
View ArticleAnthony Marini, owned sound company, dies at 80
As a boy growing up in the Bronx, Anthony Marini once talked his grandmother into buying a television to watch the opera -- then spent a day taking the machine apart.
View ArticleOscar-nomimated Charles Durning dead at 89
LOS ANGELES -- Charles Durning grew up in poverty, lost five of his nine siblings to disease, barely lived through D-Day and was taken prisoner at the Battle of the Bulge.
View ArticleGenevieve Scott, pioneering black manager at NYSE, dies
On her daughter's wedding day in 1994, Genevieve Scott wore a plum gown that sparkled with beads and had a deep plunge down the back. She beamed hearing the oohs and aahs as she walked down the aisle.
View ArticleDaniel J. D'Addario, LI aerospace industry pioneer, dies
Daniel J. D'Addario, who founded a Farmingdale company that built parts for the aerospace industry, died earlier this month of complications arising from a stroke and Parkinson's disease, his family...
View Article'Rescue Me' singer Fontella Bass dies
ST. LOUIS -- Fontella Bass, a St. Louis-born soul singer who hit the top of the R&B charts with "Rescue Me" in 1965, has died. She was 72.
View ArticleGerry Anderson, 'Thunderbirds' puppetry pioneer
LONDON -- Gerry Anderson, puppetry pioneer and British creator of the sci-fi hit "Thunderbirds" TV show, has died. He was 83.
View ArticleLongtime couple Walter and Gloria Quigley, of Patchogue, die
He grew up in Wisconsin. His father was a lawn mower salesman, his mother a civic organizer. She was born in Brooklyn, the daughter of Italian immigrants -- her father a taxi driver and her mother a...
View ArticleSandy aid bill up for final vote in Senate
The Senate will seek to hold a final vote Friday on the Democrats' $60.4 billion superstorm Sandy relief bill once lawmakers finish considering proposed amendments, including a Republican alternative...
View ArticleJane H. Dixon, groundbreaking Episcopal bishop, dies
WASHINGTON -- Jane Holmes Dixon, a stay-at-home Bethesda, Md., mom who became a priest in her 40s and later became the second female bishop in the Episcopal Church, died in her sleep early Christmas...
View ArticleJean Harris, 'Scarsdale Diet' doc killer, dies
Jean Harris, the exclusive girls' school headmistress who spent 12 years in prison for the 1980 killing of "Scarsdale Diet" doctor Herman Tarnower, died in an assisted-living facility in New Haven,...
View ArticleHector LoFaro, Farmingdale artist, dies
Hector LoFaro, a longtime Farmingdale resident and business owner who traveled the world and discovered his artistic passion in retirement, has died. He was 88.
View ArticleFamily, friends remember George Dagher III
George Dagher III seemed to know everyone in the communities where he lived and worked, from Bay Shore to Sayville, and at his funeral Mass last Saturday the large Catholic church in Sayville, St....
View ArticleHispanic nonprofit exec Nilda Alvarez dies
At age 11, a Brooklyn girl named Nilda found herself living in a group home. Her family had left her there soon after her mother's death from tuberculosis.
View ArticleBiologist Rita Levi-Montalcini dies at 103
Rita Levi-Montalcini, a biologist who conducted underground research in defiance of Fascist persecution and went on to win a Nobel Prize in medicine for helping unlock the mysteries of the cell, died...
View ArticleSlain upstate firefighter mourned
ROCHESTER -- Tomasz Kaczowka's father used to time how long it would take his volunteer firefighter son to get from his room to his car after hearing the sound of his pager, Kaczowka's brother recalled...
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