Marie Lina Quantrell dead, former Newsday editor and lifeguard was 93
Marie Lina Quantrell, 93, of Southampton, a retired Newsday editor whose lifelong love of swimming led her to become a lifeguard and performer with the Jones Beach water ballet troupe, died last month...
View ArticleFormer Knicks guard Ernie Vandeweghe is dead at 86; father of Kiki Vandeweghe
Ernie Vandeweghe, a New York Knicks player in the post-World War II era who grew up on Long Island and is the father of former NBA star Kiki Vandeweghe and three other top athletes, has died. He was 86.
View ArticleFormer NJ Congresswoman Marge Roukema dies at 85
Marge Roukema, a New Jersey Republican who spent more than two decades in Congress sparring regularly with ideologues within her party, has died. She was 85.
View ArticleDorian Paskowitz dead; surfing icon was subject of 'Surfwise' film
Dorian Paskowitz, a Stanford University-educated physician who abandoned medicine to become an itinerant surfer, traveling the country with his wife and nine children in tow and promoting the euphoria...
View ArticleHarry Hall Pearson Jr. dead; founder of The Absolute Sound magazine, former...
Harry Hall Pearson Jr., a mythic figure to music lovers who prize high-end audio and whose magazine The Absolute Sound transformed how equipment was judged, has died.
View ArticleDaisy Denenberg dead, mother of Nassau Legis. David Denenberg was 77
Daisy Denenberg, mother of Nassau County Legis. David Denenberg, died Saturday after a short battle with multiple myeloma. She was 77.
View ArticlePeter Dalis dead at 76; athletic director when UCLA won 39 NCAA titles
LOS ANGELES -- Peter Dalis, who served as athletic director at UCLA during a 19-year stretch in which the school won 39 NCAA championships, died Saturday. He was 76.
View ArticleThomas A. Twomey Jr., leading East End environmental lawyer, dies at 68
Thomas A. Twomey Jr., a leading East End environmental lawyer who fought to preserve farmland and successfully battled both LILCO's Jamesport nuclear power plant and state plans to extend Sunrise...
View ArticleRabbi Mosheh Twersky with NYC ties killed in Jerusalem synagogue attack;...
Rabbi Mosheh Twersky stayed up past midnight Tuesday, as he did most days, studying the Torah, his nephew said. Hours later, he and three other rabbis were killed when Palestinian terrorists stormed a...
View ArticleWilhelm Burgdorfer dead, researcher isolated Lyme disease bacteria
HAMILTON, Mont. -- The Swiss-born researcher who gained international recognition for discovering the bacteria that causes Lyme disease has died in western Montana.
View ArticleCarl Sanders dead, governor led Georgia through turbulent '60s
Carl E. Sanders, a moderate Democratic governor of Georgia in the 1960s who banished "whites only" signs from the state Capitol and who promoted education and other advances that helped make Atlanta...
View ArticleHillary Clinton eulogizes lawyer Thomas A. Twomey Jr. in East Hampton
Hillary Rodham Clinton eulogized a prominent environmental lawyer at his funeral in East Hampton, recalling how he helped her connect with everyday Long Islanders and win her Senate seat from New York...
View ArticlePat Quinn dead, longtime NHL coach, executive was 71
Pat Quinn, a former defenseman and longtime NHL coach and executive who brought a gruff and passionate presence to hockey across the decades, has died at 71.
View ArticleAssociated Press journalist Juan Carlos Llorca dies at 40
Juan Carlos Llorca, a veteran Associated Press journalist who covered immigration and the drug war along the U.S.-Mexico border, and whose reporting on illegal international adoptions helped prompt...
View ArticleDr. Denham Harman, scientist behind 'free radical' aging theory, dies at 98
Dr. Denham Harman, a renowned scientist who developed a prominent theory on aging that's now used to study cancer, Alzheimer's disease and other illnesses, has died in Nebraska at age 98.
View ArticleDorothy 'Dodo' Cheney, tennis pioneer, dies at 98
The International Tennis Hall of Fame says Dorothy "Dodo" Cheney, a member of the Hall and the first American woman to win the tournament now known as the Australian Open, has died at age 98.
View ArticleRay DeForest, Northport teacher and jazz pianist, dies
Ray DeForest, a teacher who inspired his students to dream and in retirement played jazz classics for free nightly at a Northport cafe, died early on Thanksgiving Day.
View ArticleAnthony Pace dies, powerful Suffolk Republican leader was 87
Anthony Pace, a grandmaster of politics who became Suffolk's most powerful Republican leader, died, a day after fulfilling his wish to spend Thanksgiving with his family.
View ArticleStanley McDonald, founder of Princess Cruises, dies at 94
Stanley B. McDonald developed his business sense at a young age. He had a paper route at 12, started cleaning planes in exchange for rides in the aircraft at age 13, then started installing drapes for...
View ArticleBob Baker dies; puppeteer's work appeared in movies, commercials
For years, puppeteer Bob Baker's marionette theater hung on by a thread.
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