Jack Ramsay, Hall of Fame basketball coach, dead at 89
Jack Ramsay served his country in World War II, coached Portland to the NBA title, was enshrined in the basketball Hall of Fame and became one of the game's most respected and revered broadcasters.
View ArticleThomas Stark, influential Suffolk judge, dies
Thomas Stark, the influential Suffolk judge who presided over cases as diverse as the "Amityville Horror" murders and a major property tax challenge by the former Long Island Lighting Co., died Sunday...
View ArticleJim Oberstar, longtime Minnesota congressman, dies at 79
Former U.S. Rep. Jim Oberstar, who represented northeastern Minnesota for 36 years and brought millions of dollars to the state as chairman of the powerful House Transportation Committee, died...
View ArticleElena Baltacha, former top-50 pro tennis player, dead at 30
Elena Baltacha, a former top-50 professional tennis player who had been fighting liver cancer since retiring from the game, died yesterday. She was 30.
View ArticleTrumpeter Henry S. Golis Sr. dies at 95
Henry S. Golis Sr., a classically trained trumpet player, performed at the famed Roseland Ballroom, the 1964 World's Fair and with pianist Van Cliburn, a Juilliard classmate.
View ArticleArthur Cromarty, State Supreme Court justice and war hero, dies at 94
Arthur Martin Cromarty, a former State Supreme Court justice, decorated World War II veteran and the man for whom the Suffolk County Court complex in Riverhead is named, died last Thursday from heart...
View ArticleWalter R. Walsh dead; G-man who chased gangsters in the 1930s was 106
Walter R. Walsh was so skilled with a pistol, it was said, that men trusted him to shoot cigarettes from their mouths.
View ArticleJohn Urevich, firefighter and strategist in combating wildfires, dies
John M. Urevich, a firefighter who helped develop strategies for preventing a recurrence of the devastating 1995 Sunrise wildfire, has died. He was 48.
View ArticleRobert Knight, 64, firefighters' champion and volunteer, dies
A longtime volunteer firefighter and legislative force for the fire service, Robert A. Knight was also the father of four and a devoted friend who possessed a gift for finding humor even at the hardest...
View ArticleThomas "Lem" Johns dead; secret service agent during President John F....
Thomas "Lem" Johns, a longtime secret service agent present during the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and swearing in of Lyndon Johnson, has died. He was 88.
View ArticleJoe Wilder, trumpeter and jazz master, dies at 92
Joe Wilder, a trumpeter of understated lyricism and breathtaking range who toured with some of the biggest names in jazz, helped integrate Broadway pit orchestras and enjoyed a late-career renaissance...
View ArticleBill Ash, World War II pilot known for many attempts to escape captivity,...
Bill Ash, a Texas-born fighter pilot with the Royal Canadian Air Force, who was shot down over France and made more than a dozen daring efforts to escape from German prisoner-of-war camps during World...
View ArticleRobert D. Stuart Jr., politically active Quaker Oats Co. heir, dead at 98
Robert D. Stuart Jr., the politically active heir to the Quaker Oats Co. who led the company for 15 years and, as a student at Yale Law School in 1940, ignited the America First movement against U.S....
View ArticleEugene Laikin, business owner formerly of Huntington Station, dies
Eugene Laikin, a former Long Island businessman and financial planner, died of congestive heart failure on Sunday at a hospital in Delray Beach, Fla. He was 84.
View ArticleWilliam Coughlin, editor who led expose that won Pulitzer Prize for newspaper...
William Coughlin, who traversed four continents as a foreign correspondent before guiding a 10,000-circulation North Carolina newspaper to a Pulitzer Prize for its investigation into cancer-causing...
View ArticleVeteran, writer, Hempstead pol William J. White dies
William "Bill" J. White, a decorated World War II and Korean War veteran Army officer who held many civilian jobs, was a published writer and was once president of the Hempstead school board, died...
View ArticleSoviet interpreter Viktor Sukhodrev dies at 81
The Soviet interpreter who for three decades brought the words of Kremlin leaders to the English-speaking world died in Moscow on Friday at the age of 81.
View ArticleNancy Malone, actress, director and producer, dies
Veteran actress, director and producer Nancy Malone has died at age 79 in Los Angeles.
View ArticleDon Meyer dead, coach among winningest in college basketball
Don Meyer, one of the winningest coaches in college basketball who came back from a near-fatal car accident and liver cancer before closing out his career, died Sunday in South Dakota. He was 69.
View ArticleForeign correspondent William Worthy dies at 92
William Worthy, a foreign correspondent who defied travel bans to Cold War adversaries of the United States, has died. He was 92.
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