Holocaust survivorCordelia Edvardson dies
STOCKHOLM -- Cordelia Edvardson, a Holocaust survivor and award-winning Swedish journalist who reported on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for three decades, has died. She was 83.
View ArticleBetty Anne McCaskill, mother of Missouri senator
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Betty Anne Ward McCaskill, the mother of Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill and a political trailblazer in her own right, died Monday at her home in St. Louis after a long struggle...
View ArticleWilliam Sword Jr., investment back chief, dies
William Sword Jr., managing director of the Princeton, N.J.-based investment bank founded by his father, was struck and killed Monday by a tree toppled by the storm that swept across the Northeast. He...
View ArticleKennedy era's Letitia Baldrige dies
WASHINGTON -- Letitia Baldrige, who was social secretary to first lady Jacqueline Kennedy and became known as a "doyenne of decorum" and chief arbiter of good manners in modern America, died Oct. 29 at...
View ArticleLincoln scholar Richard Current dies
Richard Nelson Current, a prolific and award-winning Abraham Lincoln scholar who for decades was a leader in his field and helped shape a more realistic view of the iconic president, has died. He was 100.
View ArticleVietnam War reporter Edwin Q. White dies
HONOLULU -- One night in 1969, as a salvo of Viet Cong rockets exploded in the streets of Saigon, Edwin Q. White paused after typing a dateline on his typewriter to light his pipe and reflect on his...
View ArticleBaseball organist Ernie Hays dies at 77
Ernie Hays, an organist who was a fixture at St. Louis sporting events and provided the soundtrack of Cardinals baseball for four decades, has died, the team said Thursday.
View ArticleSuicide Silence frontman Mitchell Luker dies
HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. -- Mitchell Lucker, frontman for the death-metal band Suicide Silence, died Thursday of injuries in a Southern California motorcycle crash. He was 28.
View ArticleRoger Wood, NY Post editor for Murdoch, dies
Roger Wood, who became editor of the New York Post shortly after it was purchased by Rupert Murdoch and shaped the feisty tabloid it is today, has died. He was 87.
View Article'A Many-Splendored Thing' author Han Suyin dies
Han Suyin, a prolific Eurasian author who generated controversy with her hagiographic view of China's Cultural Revolution and who may be most remembered for her bestselling semi-autobiographical novel...
View ArticleArgentine actor Leandro Favio dies
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- Movie director, actor and singer Leandro Favio, one of Argentina's most important cultural figures, has died. He was 74.
View ArticleESPN radio announcer Jim Durham dies at 65
ESPN radio announcer Jim Durham, who called NBA games for the network, has died. He was 65.
View ArticleTeri Shields, Brooke's mom, dies at 79
Teri Shields raised eyebrows when she allowed her 11-year-old daughter, Brooke, to be cast as a prostitute in 1978's "Pretty Baby." A few years later, she permitted a teenage Brooke Shields to famously...
View ArticleNYS Supreme Court Judge Theodore Jones dies
ALBANY -- Judge Theodore T. Jones Jr., one of seven jurists on New York's top court, has died at age 68.
View ArticleEducator Norma Goldberg dies at 74
Norma Goldberg, who helped educate schoolchildren for years both as a teacher and an advocate for educational television, died Oct. 21 of complications of ovarian cancer.
View ArticleE. Islip bowling coach Rick Papandrea dies
Rick Papandrea broke out into song, off-key and ad-libbing lyrics that didn't rhyme or even make much sense.
View ArticleNoted Southern author Ellen Douglas dies
JACKSON, Miss. -- Ellen Douglas, a Mississippi native whose novel "Apostles of Light" was a 1973 National Book Award nominee, died Wednesday in Jackson. She was 91.
View ArticleEx-boxing champ Carmen Basilio dies at 85
ROCHESTER -- Carmen Basilio, a genial onion farmer's son who wrested the world middleweight boxing crown from Sugar Ray Robinson in 1957 and lost an equally epic, razor-edge rematch six months later,...
View ArticleTuskegee Airman Herbert Carter dies at 95
TUSKEGEE, Ala. -- Retired Lt. Col. Herbert Eugene Carter, one of the original Tuskegee Airmen who broke color barriers during World War II, died Thursday. He was 95.
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