Alan Longmuir of the Bay City Rollers dies at 70
LONDON -- Alan Longmuir, a founding member of the Bay City Rollers who played multiple instruments, including bass guitar and keyboards, has died in Scotland. He was 70.
View ArticleBilly Kinard, former Ole Miss football coach, dies at 84
OXFORD, Miss. -- Former Mississippi head football coach Billy Kinard has died at the age of 84.
View ArticleRadio and television personality Ed Schultz dies at 64
FARGO, N.D. -- Veteran broadcasting personality Ed Schultz, whose career took him from quarterbacking at a Minnesota college to national radio and television, including hosting a show on MSNBC, died on...
View ArticleCharlie Bunger, 77, legendary Long Island surfboard maker
After Charlie Bunger made his first surfboard over half a century ago, he slapped his name on it. Unbeknownst to anyone at the time, that last-minute addition would become the stuff of surfing lore and...
View ArticleCardinal Tauran, who announced pope's 2013 election, dies at 75
VATICAN CITY -- Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, the Vatican diplomat and expert in interfaith relations who announced the election of Pope Francis to the world in 2013 with the famous phrase "habemus papam...
View ArticleNicholas Marshak dies; Merrick runner who had heatstroke in race was 30
The Stony Brook native died Sunday after collapsing during the Whiteface Sky Race in upstate Wilmington.
View ArticleCapital Gazette writer McNamara 'always fair in his writing'
COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- John McNamara loved sports. Most of all, he loved watching and writing about Maryland basketball.
View ArticlePeter Carington, last survivor of Churchill government, dies at 99
LONDON -- Peter Carington, a long-serving British politician who was the last survivor of Prime Minister Winston Churchill's government, has died, the government said Tuesday. He was 99.
View ArticleAlbert Vessa dies; composer and teacher who owned LI music school was 90
He ran the Al Vessa Music Center & Conservatory from 1965 to 1990.
View ArticleJohn N. Meisten III, LI native who oversaw Hinckley investigation, dies at 76
John Nicholas Meisten III oversaw the criminal investigation into John Hinckley Jr.'s attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan in 1981.
View ArticleChristine Noestlinger dead; Austrian children's book author was 81
BERLIN -- Christine Noestlinger, an Austrian author best known for her children's books such as "Fiery Frederica" and "Fly Away Home," has died at the age of 81.
View ArticleMaurine Tiivola Failey, East Northport's unofficial historian, dies at 99
Maurine Tiivola Failey, the unofficial historian of East Northport who lived her entire life in the house her grandfather built there in 1906, has died.
View ArticleHenry Morgenthau III dead; producer who helped shape public TVÂ was 101
Henry Morgenthau III, a TV producer and documentarian who helped shape public television in its early days and provided a forum for the nation's civil rights conversation in the 1960s, died July 11 at...
View ArticleJohn A. Stormer dead; popular right-wing author was 90
John A. Stormer, a religious leader and right-wing activist whose self-published Cold War tract "None Dare Call It Treason" became a grassroots sensation in 1964 and a rallying point for the emerging...
View ArticleMargalit Like dies; longtime environmental activist was 92
When longtime environmental activist Irving Like was crafting strategies to block construction of a highway on Fire Island and later the Shoreham nuclear plant, he turned to his wife, Margalit, for...
View ArticleGary Beach, who won Tony in 'The Producers,' dies at age 70
Gary Beach, a Broadway and TV veteran whose portrayal of a truly terrible theater director in Mel Brooks' monster hit "The Producers" won him a Tony Award in 2001, has died, according to his agent,...
View ArticleAirman who inspired 'Good Morning, Vietnam'Â film has died
NORFOLK, Va. -- Adrian Cronauer, the man whose military radio antics inspired a character played by Robin Williams in the film "Good Morning, Vietnam," has died. He was 79.
View ArticleRaymond Hunthausen, former archbishop of Seattle, dies at 96
SEATTLE -- Retired Seattle Archbishop Raymond G. Hunthausen, whose outspoken support for nuclear disarmament, gay rights and an expanded role for women in the church made him one of the most...
View ArticleErnie Palladino, sportswriter who covered Giants, dies at 63
Ernie Palladino, a sportswriter who covered the New York Giants for more than 20 years of a journalistic career that spanned almost four decades, has died. He was 63.
View ArticleFormer Suffolk District Attorney Patrick Henry dies at 88
Patrick Henry was a dominant figure in Suffolk's criminal justice system for three decades as the county's Republican district attorney, a state Supreme Court Justice and a mentor to a generation of...
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